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History of Hull: Docks, Episode Three: The Timber Dock

Hull History Nerd

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Continuing the story of Hull's many docks, this episode covers the history of the city's timber dock, Victoria Dock, and the flakiness of the Hull Dock Company in taking 20 years to get around to building it!

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20 Comments

@michelletaylor6488 2 years ago (edited)

What a great video. I'm researching the family tree and found a relative whose body was removed from the Old Harbour back in 1864 and his son's body removed from timber pond (east) 24 years later. This video has helped my research a massive amount and due to it being so interesting, both me and my hubby watched all the other dock videos too. Thanks again.

@kristianbarford 4 years ago

I have to say, and I don't know quite how I've found you, but I'm enthralled by your videos.

I am a Hull boy (well, born in Beverley in 1978, lived in North Ferriby for the most part of my life, moved to be with my then-wife in Holland, working for a Hull-based company on Prince Street), and the love and attachment I have to Hull is nuts. My now-girlfriend lives in Ferriby, and as a result I'm back more now than ever, and I actually walked from King George Dock to Trinity House (as that's where I was meeting her) on Saturday. I've never walked that way, along the riverside and via Victoria Dock, ever. And I learned so much about the area. Then I found you on YouTube, and I realise how little I know about the place I call 'home'.

So, essentially, thank you. I would dearly like to share a pint with you the next time I'm over (with my son, who considers himself from Hull, despite being born in Delft, and born to a Brit and a Russian, and who wants to live there). I'm back mid-July, and can literally be anywhere you can be.

@sandylaws8648 1 year ago (edited)

My great
grandfather was
a skipper on a

square rigged

sailing ship that
plied between Hull and Russia they brought pit props back. His name was William Filby.

@jonathanroy7940 2 years ago

Just gets better ! On to E4 now.

@lewis72 5 years ago

Loving your videos; I still have many to watch.
I'm in Norfolk and grew up here but my mum's from Hull and we used to trek up there twice a year in the '70s through to the early '90s to visit my grandparents on Wymersley Road (Ruurrd). I was always quite taken with Hull, from Boothferry Park, to the Humber bridge, Paragon station and white phone boxes. As a kid, I would see occasional sites indicating closed railways and former docks (I remember my grandma pointed at Princes Dock telling me they were going to build a massive centre on stilts, i didn't believe her).
So it's great to see and hear the story behind many of these sites that I only briefly glimpsed back in the '80s.

@HighlandMike325 5 years ago

Sat in the Scottish highlands, i'm from Barnsley, the missus is from Hessle. Her dad was cashier at a trawler firm. And she is watching in awe.

@Maliique 6 years ago

Thank you for teaching me about some city in England. I love history, regardless of nation.

@asc.445 5 years ago (edited)

You're standing infront of my old apartment.
Dam those were great times in the early 90's on Vicky Dock.

@garymrgarydry6991 3 years ago

had to watch again so good

@poshbird600 2 years ago

Great video. And fantastic memories... Thank you. Glen 😅😅😅😅

@bianchikat 4 years ago

really didn't think I would be binge watching your videos about the history of Hull but they are wonderful and fascinating and your presentation is brilliant, measured, with irony and humour and not patronising nor annoying as some others...despite being a train spotter in the 1960's I missed out on the Hull mpds. Would have loved to have seen Dairycoates, botanic Gardens etc. Only got as far as York, Tyneside and Leeds/Bradford, not bad for a London kid now living on Tyneside. thank you!

@bobc5432 4 years ago

My father was in the Merchant Navy and told me he brought timber into Victoria Dock. In the late 1970's I worked on the South Orbital Road project that filled in the main dock. This was carried out in two stages. Stage 1: The Dock was overfilled with crushed chalk together with a surcharge to allow for settlement then after it had settled we came back (18 months or so) and Stage 2: Built the road. I recall there was a lot of old surface artifacts, like horse drawn wagons, still around the place and just left abandoned. The road was at a higher elevation and the, now buried, Dock walls were left in place as far as I can remember