It's about time I put another post up, I've been slacking lately through a combination of a great many things going on and when I do find myself with some 'spare' time I always seem to find something else to occupy myself with.
One from the tail end of last year, visited on the December weekend that ferocious storm battered the country, so it was very wet, very windy, and pretty grim. Despite that, Lord Line was somewhere I had always wanted to see - even if it's a shell - because it is one of those places that has been around on 'the scene' quite literally forever and everyone has to do it at some point. There is precious little reason for anyone to go to Hull really, it's not a 'go to' destination, but as we had sampled the delights of Grimsby and Cleethorpes that weekend already, we thought why not make it a trifecta of depressing towns in suitably depressing weather. That said, we did have a banging couple of burgers at a place in Cleethorpes the evening before, so it wasn't all bad.
The history has been done and then done again on here, so to summarise -
- Lord Line opened their trawler company headquarters in 1949 arranged around St. Andrew's Docks, a now filled in dock originally constructed in 1883 for the coal trade.
- During the 1960s into the 1970s the fishing industry declined largely due to conflicts with Iceland's industry.
- Lord Line ceased using the buildings in 1975, moving some operations to the nearby Albert Docks.
- By 1990 all of the former Lord Line buildings were derelict, and they have remained that way since.
The buildings are a Hull landmark and their potential demolition and site redevelopment has been bitterly opposed constantly, so nothing has ever been done.
As expected, even though it was a Sunday morning, the weather was so foul we basically had the whole place to ourselves apart from a couple of hardy fishermen fishing off the edge of the site, and a local walking his dog around, who was very pleasant when we bumped into him. The whole site is basically a walk in easy access nobody cares sort of place, it's just sat there for anyone to poke their noses in. We spent around an hour and a half exploring all the buildings, although the modernised ruined one close to the water's edge we pretty much only went to because of the view from the roof.
Wide view of the set of buildings as they stand, with the crappy modernised one behind the shot.
And we're in, and up to the top floor. The noise of the wind howling through the building up here was seriously impressive.
'The' shot that everyone gets.
Out and across into the hydraulic accumulator building and adjacent one.
To finish, the classic elevated view of the main Lord Line building, from the especially badly ruined more modernised building close to the dock wall. Crawling out onto the roof in the wind and rain was pretty fun.
Thanks for looking
One from the tail end of last year, visited on the December weekend that ferocious storm battered the country, so it was very wet, very windy, and pretty grim. Despite that, Lord Line was somewhere I had always wanted to see - even if it's a shell - because it is one of those places that has been around on 'the scene' quite literally forever and everyone has to do it at some point. There is precious little reason for anyone to go to Hull really, it's not a 'go to' destination, but as we had sampled the delights of Grimsby and Cleethorpes that weekend already, we thought why not make it a trifecta of depressing towns in suitably depressing weather. That said, we did have a banging couple of burgers at a place in Cleethorpes the evening before, so it wasn't all bad.
The history has been done and then done again on here, so to summarise -
- Lord Line opened their trawler company headquarters in 1949 arranged around St. Andrew's Docks, a now filled in dock originally constructed in 1883 for the coal trade.
- During the 1960s into the 1970s the fishing industry declined largely due to conflicts with Iceland's industry.
- Lord Line ceased using the buildings in 1975, moving some operations to the nearby Albert Docks.
- By 1990 all of the former Lord Line buildings were derelict, and they have remained that way since.
The buildings are a Hull landmark and their potential demolition and site redevelopment has been bitterly opposed constantly, so nothing has ever been done.
As expected, even though it was a Sunday morning, the weather was so foul we basically had the whole place to ourselves apart from a couple of hardy fishermen fishing off the edge of the site, and a local walking his dog around, who was very pleasant when we bumped into him. The whole site is basically a walk in easy access nobody cares sort of place, it's just sat there for anyone to poke their noses in. We spent around an hour and a half exploring all the buildings, although the modernised ruined one close to the water's edge we pretty much only went to because of the view from the roof.
Wide view of the set of buildings as they stand, with the crappy modernised one behind the shot.
And we're in, and up to the top floor. The noise of the wind howling through the building up here was seriously impressive.
'The' shot that everyone gets.
Out and across into the hydraulic accumulator building and adjacent one.
To finish, the classic elevated view of the main Lord Line building, from the especially badly ruined more modernised building close to the dock wall. Crawling out onto the roof in the wind and rain was pretty fun.
Thanks for looking
