Two leading figures from Hull’s fishing community have been given Lord Mayor’s Civic Crown awards for their contributions to the city’s heritage, economy and culture, reports Brian W Lavery. Ron Bateman, chairman of the British Fishermen’s Association (BFA), was given…
An artist has created a calendar to raise funds to help bring the world’s oldest remaining steam trawler Viola home to Hull, reports Brian W Lavery. The Viola Trust commissioned Holderness-based Larry Malkin to create the 2022 calendar. Called ‘Hull…
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 Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther has launched a new exhibition depicting the human stories underpinning Hull’s distant-water trawling industry, its demise and legacy. The exhibition, named ‘Loss + Resilience’, is a study in photography and film by award-winning independent…
In 1971, photographer Alec Gill began to document the life of Hull’s Hessle Road fishing community, building up a collection of over 6,600 black and white negatives. Here he shares some of the memories evoked by his pictures… Having hitch-hiked…
Highly automated processing and plate freezing machinery delivering optimum product quality The advanced and highly automated processing machinery installed on the factory deck of UK Fisheries’ new Hull-based distant-water freezer stern trawler Kirkella H 7 is reported to have performed…
Kirkella left Tilbury on Tuesday afternoon to head up the river Thames and pass through Tower Bridge, turning in the Pool of London before mooring off Greenwich, just a few hundred yards from the iconic tea clipper Cutty Sark, reports…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Kirkella H 7 LOA: 81.20m Built: Myklebust Verft AS Gursken Norway 2018 Type: Freezer stern trawler Home port: Hull We’ll be back next week with our latest…
Part 4 in the series A Trawlerman’s Reminiscences, written by Hull skipper William Oliver in 1953 (Photographs courtesy of Alec Gill) In March 1905, we sailed again in the Cecil Rhodes for Iceland. We had a terrible trip for weather,…
Highways England Section 56 Planning Act 2008 Regulation 9 of The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 Notice of Acceptance of an Application for a Development Consent Order A63 Castle Street Improvement, Hull Notice is hereby given…
