Hull's Railway Architecture: Victoria Dock Branch Line
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2023
- After my appearance on episode 10 of series 4 of the awesome TV series Architecture the Railways Built discussing the history of Paragon Station and the ferry station with the marvellous Tim Dunn, (which you can watch here: uktvplay.co.uk/shows/the-arch...) I've put together a sort of companion episode to show you some more of Hull's amazing railway architecture that their team didn't have the time to get around to!
If you're anything like me, viewing historical Ordnance Survey maps side by side with modern satellite views will certainly eat up far too much of your time!
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really brought some nice memories back, my gran lived literally across the road from Wilmington station, in a two up two down, one outside tap, and loo. I stood on that platform many a time with me gran, off to Hornsea, or Withernsea, and I have trend those wooden boards which ran along side of the swing bridge, use to pinch peanuts off the barges tied up, played on B O C M hill, we use to call it brickie hill, sorry to go on!, thankyou
Fredas mum was one of the Jeffersons. Fruit merchant family. Grandad barr a bit of a black sheep. Never met him. Gran lived down durham st. Eva Barr nee Jefferson
As a lad I used to stand on top of the foot bridge near Stepney Station. When a steam engine came underneath it was magic. The steam would come through the decking. It was scary! I think my Mam would take me to Withernsea from that station as we lived a few streets away. All Saints st.
Mr. Nerd, thank you once again. I remember, in the late 1940s and early 50s sitting on the number 19 bus on our way to Froghall Lane, waiting at Stepney level crossing for the gates to open. Oh, and greetings from Leipzig.
As a kid I remember the Stepney railway crossing.
The lines going across Beverley Road and the gates. The actual line been dug out long ago.
The same with most of the areas Beecham lines.
Spending my formative years on Greatfield.
I remember the most the old foot bridge that spanned the line behind what used to be Priestman's at the end of Falkland road/Hedon Road.
Endsleigh primary school on Inglemire Avenue was constructed of those same pale bricks used in Stepney station. I always thought they were curious and thought the building was a lovely design even as a child
Lovely channel! Interesting facts about the buildings we pass every day.
Just subscribed cos of your collaboration with Martin zero, I just love your lost rivers, streams have binged them, and thoroughly enjoyed your knowledge and presentation. Greetings from Wales 🏴
Welcome to the channel, glad you're enjoying it so far! Funnily enough, I've got a few videos coming up about some castles in North Wales! Bit of a departure from my usual fare!
Ready and waiting with a glass of wine
Always loved the Cafe and Stepney station funny how you remember them actually in use . Still can remember been on a steam train going over Park Rd crossing approaching Stepney station....ahhh the 60s...😃
I think I might have mentioned in a previous video, that as a child with my gran off to see relatives in Leads Road, walking under this bridge, as it was then, and being conscious of those white tiles from pavement to high above my head, and the Stygian gloom of the ironwork above as it stretched across the road. Funny the things one remembers...
Another nice one Jamie, always a pleasure....
Someone else commented on Facebook puzzled that their gran used to talk of the "big white tunnel on Stoneferry Road" and that now seeing this bridge on the map it made total sense!
@@hullhistorynerd Be a very common experience Jamie. Ironically, my gran was a "lady porter" on Wilmington Station back in the day...
I missed the yesterday channel about Paragon, but no doubt it will be repeated. Another interesting video. I can remember in the early 80s some of the old track remained behind Fairburn Electric on Springbank, The North side, near the junction with Newland Ave.
You can stream it any time from the UKTV website - link is in the video description!
When you look at Wilmington swing bridge, you can still see the supports for where the original bridge was. As for Stepney station, when they laid new concrete surface for the figures that was installed. You could still see the concrete conduiting behind the platform next the the retaining wall. Before the swing bridge just after where the twin bridges over the drain you could again see some of the concrete conduiting on the floor on the right as you headed towards the swing bridge. I can remember in my teens going on a bus under the massive bridge on Stoneferry Road and how the road used to dip so traffic could go under it. Where you were stood the road surface was about 3-5 foot lower.
I have many happy memories of working around these areas over 40 years ago now.
Isn’t Stepney station a beautiful building, and such a lucky survivor
And that swing bridge - just wow
I use to go into the Wilmington cafe when I was doing a milk round in the area 30 years ago . Had a lovely cuppa o' tea and sausage sarnie there.
Another great video. Thank you Mr nerd.... I went across the bridge 2ice a day on the way to K. G. Hospital. For about 9 years.... Thank you... Glen... X
Another great video, thank you. Have just watched the programme on Yesterday too. From someone who really found history not very interesting when growing up, I want to thank you for bringing it to life by focussing on the areas where I've grown up. Its been wonderful learning all about it, and this channel is now one which I look forward to receiving notifications of new content!
Glad you're enjoying it! Luckily a lot of schools are also understanding that for history to be interesting to kids, you need to show them *their* history as well as the broader strokes. I've visited a couple of schools over the last few months who are incorporating local history modules into their year 7 plans!
Really amazing watch! I walked around a lot along areas near the tracks, I often walked under the tracks around Newland and along where the tracks used to be past the bridge back when I lived in Hull! I always thought about what they could be like when it was operational! Seeing trains go by there seemed so cool. Great to see places I used to see daily! Fascinating to learn about what it's for, thanks for a great video!
I'm the same, it always boggles my mind to think there were level crossing gates across Spring Bank!
@@hullhistorynerd oh wow yeah I never even thought about that!
another great video, very informative, I'm from Hull, born and dragged up in Williamson St, my family were the Midgleys, proper old fashioned rag and bone men, I left Hull when I was 15, and never went back, but I've learnt more about my home town from these videos than I ever did at school, keep up the excellent work.
Might seem a strange question but did your family own the midgleys scrap yard on reservoir road only ask because my dad was a driver there in the 70s
Hi, yes they did, my grandad Tommy started the biz with a horse n cart, my uncle Tommy, my mums brother, took over when, I used to go out with him most days from a very early age.
Possibly the many examples of fine brickwork you get in Hull (you know that you only have to take a stroll round The Avenues and the University Quarter to see some beautiful examples) owe something to the legacy of De La Pole, I mean imitation is the best form of flattery, and fancy brickwork has been a 'thing' in Hull for a very long time indeed.. I shall be checking out the Paragon Station film for sure! Thanks Jamie for another excellent film. 🌟👍
Another great video great spot about the chimney brickwork on Stepney Station. Keep up the great work and nice to see Mr Hudson still gets a mention 😉
Miss that BR-era office block right outside of Paragon Station..! Naburn swing-bridge is the same as Selby swing bridge as it was built on the same diversion. The route is three miles shorter than the original route (ironically now the only route) and was built as it saved three minutes on the journey time; all important, in the "Race to the North".
Funnily enough, I was planning an episode on Naburn Bridge at some point!
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I look forward to that! I still can't work-out which way it "swung"!
thanks again for another informative and very interesting film..
Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting and you are looking very dapper
Can't beat the charity shop chic!
An excellent presentation , thank you .
Saw you filming this episode in sculcoats near the Bridge wish I'd of stopped and said hello but was running late that day
Just seen HHN at the Rooted in hull event, absolutely gutted I didn’t have time to stop and see the legend 😢
This is fantastic! Didn't know about Selby.
Wonderful. I went to school in Park Street and cough the train from Keyinghan to Scotney and then Botanic Gardens. They should open these again. Holderness is nor a rich area. Many would use the trains as they always did pre Beeching.
JML
Agree with you 100% And while they're at it, reopen the Beverley to York line too. Huge growth in Market Weighton, Pocklington & Stamford Bridge yet everyone forced onto that God forsaken road the A1079 to York. Tens of billions for HS2 but the North sold short yet again.
Spot on HHN . Excellent again
As per usual, I hit like within the first 30 seconds. This is going to be good 👍
Excellent video, your presentation and knowledge is far better that Tim Dunns
I hugely disagree, I'm a big fan of his eloquence and enthusiasm; by comparison I'm a bumbling git!
@@hullhistorynerd notat all your programmes are superior to any current mainstream railway programmes. A presenters job is to do just that , report not get excited. Your style reminds me of when documentaries were something you actually learned stuff from . Don't change!
@@maestromanification I get excited! Often it's that very passion that gets other people excited by something too, which is very important, and why I think what Tim does is wonderfully important! He's doing what I do, but with a better budget and a pro crew!
Another excellent film - thank you!
Never knew that Stepney Station had a goods spur and yard off to where Rialto/National and some dodgy bowling alley once stood. That's a new one...
Not sure if you've covered the National Picture Theatre Jamie, the one Herman Goering redesigned in 1941. Yes, I'm sure you have.
I'm in the midst of a multi-year off and on attempt at a crime novel which heavily features the National. I started with the premise that a particularly hideous crime had taken place in the ruins of the theatre one particular night, and went from there with zero idea about how to proceed, how to build and flesh out characters, plot lines, etc. No idea about anything much, whodunit, or if the plot was even believable etc.
I have no writing training at all, formal or otherwise, and benefited from something of an average education, but writing a novel of some kind scratches an itch and I've quite enjoyed the challenge...
Lovely video. So good to see Wilmington bridge looking to good. My walks over it in the late 70s it was very much a derelict former rail line, so it would not have surprised me for it to have disappeared altogether over 40 years. And Victoria dock itself : such an impressive acreage of abandoned dereliction.
I love these videos so much. Thank you for showing the lovely Stepney station.
Always a great day when the new videois up. Grew up in Hull now living in Australia find it all facinating. Thanks for your hard work
Your spot on Architecture the Railways Built, was absolutely as engaging and wonderful as I might have imagined.
I have no idea why one of these production companies wouldn't want to snap up such an excellent presenter.
Success comes to the successful, not the deserving.
Well, to be fair, Tim is an absolute professional, and he hit his takes effortlessly every time; it often takes me a bunch of retakes to come up with something that seems barely half as engaging, or which flows half as well, as his pieces!
Secondly, contrary to popular belief, presenting a TV programme on a channel like Yesterday isn't necessarily 'success' - Tim actually has a full time job working for The Trainline because despite fronting two of Yesterday's most popular series, it sadly isn't enough money to live off. He pretty much does it for the love of railways!
@@hullhistorynerd That's actually rather sad. It's not as if there's a 'higher level' in his niche to aim for. Well, not that I'm aware of.
@@kellypaws It's the sad reality of TV - unless you're lucky enough to get a job on an A-list documentary, like David Attenborough, you're probably going to get scraps from it.
nice one,keep up the great videos,,,,,,,,,,, brian d.
Amazing!
Thank you for this movie!
It is great to see how the trains rails went from and thank you for doing this schools should be doing this
Thank you, again, H H N, for this gem. Sorry, I have not responded for a while. My Daring Mary (Lady Mary of Willerby/Tranby Croft!) is presently incapacitated via badly degraded hips - now using a Zimmer-frame, until, I do hope, Mary agrees to medical intervention. I am my Darling's unpaid, in love forever, Soul Mate.
Wishing yours and you well. From me and mine.
Stay free. Rab 🕊👋
Thank you, H H N. To My/Our Dear Hull (as being an Auld Scotsman with indelible love for Hull).
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Superb finds. I thoroughly enjoyed this, thanks.
Fascinating to see the smoking chimneys on the skyline in that old photo of Wilmington bridge. Just an idea, but any chance of a feature on Hull's historic wealthy families and their out-of-town abodes?
I really enjoyed that. Thanks.
I saw you on Tim's programme, and I discovered your real name!
Another lovely very interesting video. Ist class work,explaining everything so simple to understand. I love Hull, it's like an Island of beauty.
Did Wilmington have a Power Station, as when I worked on the railway at Carlton we used to send coal to Wilmington
Not Wilmington, but there was a power station at Sculcoates, and there was a gas works not too far from there at St Mark's Street. It could also have been for general industrial use - lots of factories and industry around Wilmington!
Many Thanks for your reply,probably right I know we used to send loads of them,also loads to Goole docks for export. The good old days.
Another fascinating video of Hulls history ! Looking forward to the next instalment of Hull history need !
Tonight's viewing sorted! 😁👍
Excellent 👍
Quality stuff again, thanks and very well done.
Another gem of a video , thank you for making it ,and good to see you are approaching 11K subscribers
I'm loving this video 😍
I'm liking the soundtrack at end credits
Another great video my friend good to see you in the telly on Tuesday learn something new every time I watch your videos going back to Tuesday I never knew that what is now the Tiger pub was once a station as they say every day's a school day
Quick question is there anywhere that I can get a map or something showing the old railway lines?, as I drive around for work I'm getting quite good at spotting old railway lines and station's thanks to your videos
Absolutely, go to the description for this video and there's a link to the National Library of Scotland website, where they've scanned in thousands of old Ordnance Survey maps dating back to the 1850s in some areas! All available with an easy to use map grid, so you can pick exactly where you want to look.
Enjoy your vlogs. Bei g from hull myself. Seems we are related. Jim Yates was my uncle. He was married to my Dads Sister Freda. If he was your Grandad, then we are cousins or something. Kind regards, Andy McCartney, East Hull
Looks like we are cousins! Freda was indeed my gran!
@@hullhistorynerd we all loved freda and jim very much. Jim was resident drummer at ambassador club when i was a little boy. We all lived down nornabell st. Our family name then was "Barr" that was dads name, Fred. Fredas little brother. Parents part and names change. My brother fred, gone now was named after fredas dad. Small world matey
I remember Uncle Freddie, he would pop round and visit my gran every so often! I remember Jim going to play at the Ambassador on the weekend, and also the Maybury from time to time as well. He was a really good drummer, by all accounts. Small world indeed!
@@hullhistorynerd yes, dad stayed in touch with uncle jim and auntie freda. Visited us a lot. Got their wedding photo from around 1950 i think. Could send you it if you like. Jim always reminded me of al capone lol. Lovely guy. Auntie eva was a midwife, my baby sister is too, but new zealand. Jim and freda lived on frome rd at one time.
Hi. Wanted to apologise for not replying via ancestry. I could not access my account until recently. So i have only just seen your message. Kind regards. Andrew
I've not been on Facebook much and had no idea this was coming!
Another fantastic video, on hearing that music, you know something of quality will follow.
Stepney station is beautiful, is it a private residence? I'd love to take a look inside the bridge, I must get over to Hull to look at these architectural survivors.
Thank you Nerd, Kate and Higgins, the holy trinity of quality TV.
another video! i hope you get chance to see my series on the driff to malton line to follow on from yours!
I only imagine what Hull would be of it still has its tram system, even if it was down the main roads say Beverly road, Holderness and Hessle road. I also wonder if the station was a follow through like Leeds station how it would have maybe helped the east coast even more. Probably imaging far too much probably
top dollar would like to see in side Stepney station to see what's survived
Sadly not much! I did get to film inside but other than a couple of possibly original fireplaces, the inside has been renovated quite a lot, so I ended up not using any of the footage!
@ 5:29. On the wall of the tiles. Would that pocked marking by shapnel marks from WW2?
Couldn't really say! More likely from the years it was derelict, though. Not every owner of the building has cared for the subway entrance the way the current ones do, sadly.
organic curved tiles ? Glazed Brick, it easy to clean
I was talking artistically, not literally! Glazed brick is certainly easier to clean, but there's no requirement to curve the corners so gracefully - that's a design feature of the era, and makes the walls flow in a less rigid, artifical way, and instead in a more, well, organic way.
fantastic as always
Is Stepney Station now a private residence?
No, it's a community education centre.
For illegal immigrants
@@tonywright8294 Shocking.