King Coal's GY fade-out
My late father only dabbled with photography, but I am keen to showcase what there is of his legacy. I remember the occasion he took this view of Grimsby Fish Docks. The date is Summer 1956, and there were centennial celebrations of the Docks at Grimsby. Prince Albert dug the first sod of what became the Royal Dock in 1854 and GY's docks opened for business some two years later. The Fish Docks were a later development, but by 1900 Grimsby and its great rival across the Humber - Hull - together mustered the largest distant-water fishing fleets in the world. It was all developed on an industrial scale, steam taking over from sail at an early date. I am unable to identify the GY registration of the trawler in this view, but she clearly is a coal-fired vessel. In the distance behind are the coal-hoists, a trio of rail-connected sentinel-landmarks at the New Clee end of the Fish Dock Estate. These coal hoists would soon become redundant as the GY trawler fleet was moving rapidly to oil or else investing in sleek new diesel motor vessels. The coal hoists were demolished in the early 1960s. They always reminded me of soldiers standing to attention.
King Coal's GY fade-out
My late father only dabbled with photography, but I am keen to showcase what there is of his legacy. I remember the occasion he took this view of Grimsby Fish Docks. The date is Summer 1956, and there were centennial celebrations of the Docks at Grimsby. Prince Albert dug the first sod of what became the Royal Dock in 1854 and GY's docks opened for business some two years later. The Fish Docks were a later development, but by 1900 Grimsby and its great rival across the Humber - Hull - together mustered the largest distant-water fishing fleets in the world. It was all developed on an industrial scale, steam taking over from sail at an early date. I am unable to identify the GY registration of the trawler in this view, but she clearly is a coal-fired vessel. In the distance behind are the coal-hoists, a trio of rail-connected sentinel-landmarks at the New Clee end of the Fish Dock Estate. These coal hoists would soon become redundant as the GY trawler fleet was moving rapidly to oil or else investing in sleek new diesel motor vessels. The coal hoists were demolished in the early 1960s. They always reminded me of soldiers standing to attention.