Photographer Alec Gill recalls the memories evoked by his pictures of St Andrew’s Fish Dock, taken around 50 years ago as its era was drawing to a close Hull’s St Andrew’s Fish Dock worked around the clock – 24 hours…
Photographer Alec Gill recalls his 1975 project documenting the breaking up of a deep-sea trawler as Hull’s distant-water heyday came to its end Nothing lasts forever – no matter how permanent it might seem. Hull once anointed itself ‘the greatest…
There’s just one week left for the Kickstarter campaign to produce a new photo book about Alec Gill’s documentary study of Hull’s Hessle Road fishing community. The Kickstarter is live until 7 October at 12 midday. “Having hitch-hiked abroad and photographed…
The ninth article in the series by Hull skipper William Oliver, first published in 1953/54. All photographs courtesy of Alec Gill After returning to civilian life after the war, I left St Andrew’s Dock as a skipper once again on…
The sixth article in the series by Hull skipper William Oliver, first published in 1953/4. All photographs courtesy of Alec Gill In 1910, the UK Admiralty established a minesweeping section of the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR). As fishermen were used…
