Margaret Moxon Way

Here is the crossing from the bus station to the shopping centre. Some of the good people of Hull like to play a game of chicken with the buses entering and leaving the station off to the right of this picture.
I post this because the other day I was idly browsing through Hull in the virtual world that is Google Earth when I came across Margaret Moxon Way. I'd never heard of it. Turns out when the new bus/rail station was built those who decide these things also changed the name of the road; they'd had a competition to come up with a suitable name and apparently Maggie Moxon got the nod. I had to use a well known search engine to find out just who this lady was; a missionary to Sierra Leone and New Zealand no less. So now you know more than the local paper as it still reports the frequent accidents at this crossing as happening on Collier Street.

 

It's Somtimes Ever So Slightly Dull In Hull

Many years ago the council had a slogan to attract visitors and business; "It's never dull in Hull". I have to tell you they lied, they lied. Here a drilling rig has parked up on the Humber and there are some red lights in the foreground; even so it's all a bit dreary ....

No Left Turn?

Not until the next election perhaps.

The Half-Tide Basin

Some final shots showing the development around the Half-Tide basin. Below the outer half of the basin with its dredged channel still showing.

 More housing and below the view they get from their window.

Zen and the art of fishing

This is the Hartley Bridge over the exit from the Half-Tide Basin that led to the dock itself, it carried both road and rail traffic but now it's just decorative. I don't think these chaps caught anything apart from a cold.

Victoria Dock Village

Victoria dock was to the east of the river Hull and opened in 1850 closing in 1970. The dock itself was filled in and the land was sold for development and work started in 1987 to build the Victoria Dock Village. I haven't been round these parts for over twenty years (it's a bit out of the way!) when it was still being built and it was, frankly, a bit of a mess. Now it's done and beginning to mature though I wouldn't like to live there; it was eerily deserted when I was there.
This is part of the Half-Tide Basin which was added to the dock to allows ships to enter the dock on the half-tide thus extending the time the dock was open for business. In 1989 when the redevelopment took place this had to be dredged as it had silted up to the level of the dock walls!

Where there's brass there's muck ...

...or so it seems. I doubt any amount of elbow grease will polish up the image of this place.