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12 Silk Handkerchiefs: Remembering Hull’s safety pioneers
30th May 2024
The Seafarer’s Charity hosted a stunning performance on 16 May of 12 Silk Handkerchiefs, a narrated and musical commemoration of the Triple Trawler Tragedy that rocked Hull in 1968. Held on the bank of the river Thames, the event followed…
Headscarf Revolutionaries statue planned
1st April 2022
The campaign for a statue to honour the Headscarf Revolutionaries – Hull’s trawler safety campaigners – has taken a step forward, reports Brian W Lavery. Earlier this month, an appeal went out to find a local sculptor to undertake the…