Hull’s River Bridges:  Open Bridges The Day the City Split in Two We commisioned Humber Film Creative Community and Octovision Media to make the Open Bridges film. It was filmed by …

North Bridge 1870 The old North Bridge was given a nice send off in the Souvenir Programme of the new North Bridge on 10th August 1931, it read: “The existing North Bridge over the River Hull…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Keith and Trevor – Lightermen Keith and Trevor were Lightermen. They both joined the lighterage in Hull in 1960 and operated dumb barges (lighters), tha…

HHull’s River Bridges:  Angus Young – My Favourite BRIDge There’s something about a river and its bridges which fascinates me. Perhaps it’s because I grew up in Gateshead and would gaze…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Old Drypool 1889 There are a number of photographs of the original Drypool bridge, along with wonderful plans and description in the Engineer from 1890. However the ima…

Hull’s River Bridges: Drypool Bridge, The Engineer 1890 The original bridge linking west and east Hull at Drypool was also known as Salthouse Lane Bridge. The article below, along with t…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Peter Marshall – River Hull’s Bridges 1977 – 1988 We came across photographer Peter Marshall when starting the book A River Full of Stories and discover…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Painting the Bridges in 1966 by Fred Leason “I was a painter for Hull Corporation for about six years or so, in the sixties. I painted anything. Parks was a good j…

Hull’s River Bridges:  The Impounding of the River Hull – Lutyens & Abercrombie A Plan for the City and County of Kingston Upon Hull “The River Hull is just as important …

Hull’s River Bridges:  The New North Bridge 1931 North Bridge is a Scherzer rolling bascule bridge, designed by City Engineer, T Thomas in 1927, built by the Widnes Foundry (1925) Ltd., with …

Hull’s River Bridges:  Jonathan McDowell – Scale Lane Bridge, Design & Construction Some memories of the genesis of the distinctive form of Scale Lane Bridge, which won Mc…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Nye Parry and Madi Boyd Playing the Bridge was an inventive collaboration which transformed Hull’s Scale Lane Bridge into an interactive musical instrument as part…

Hull’s River Bridges:  The New North Bridge Monday 10th August, 1931 In 1926 Parliament gave the go-ahead for the construction of a new four track bridge to be built on the straight…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Between Bridges – Les Reid Les Reid runs Newark’s unique Heritage Barge ‘Leicester Trader’. It is the last Trent size cargo barge built to fit the old locks of th…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Millennium Swing Bridge Millennium Bridge is a bicycle and pedestrian single leaf, fan arranged cable-stayed, bascule bridge. (Source: Structurae) It is situa…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Scale Lane Swing Bridge A good introduction to the latest of Hull’s River Bridges, at Scale Lane Staithe, is from the City Council’s Tourism page: “Th…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Gary Saunt’s Dreamscapes Gary Saunt is a son of Grimsby, where in his youth he worked in the family smoke house business. He spent some of his free time in amateu…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Myton SWing Bridge 1980 Myton Bridge is a two-span single-pylon cable-stayed steel construction swing bridge designed by Freeman Fox and built by Redpath Dorm…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Engines and Insects – Richard Duffy-Howard Engines and Insects started life with the hydraulics in the spine of Scale Bridge in 2017. The idea is not ne…

Hull South Bridge Company 1886 South Bridge is somewhat of an enigma. It crossed the river roughly where the tidal barrier is, as can be traced through Victoria Dock’s South Bridge Road to li…

Hull’s River Bridges:  Sculcoates Bridge 1875 “In exercise of powers vested in them by the ‘Local Government Supplemental Act 1871 (No.4)’, the Board of Trade approve of the bridge which the …

Hull’s River Bridges:  Andy Hazell – Hull Fast Film 1992 and Grosvenor Mill “A long time ago I bought a four storey linseed crushing mill on the River Hull, Grosvenor Mill. It…

The 1905 Stoneferry Bridge in Hull. Source: OpenBridges website 2025 Bridgehunter Awards The next set of candidates in the 2025 Bridgehunter Awards are those in the category Best Bridge Tour Guide …

The 1905 Stoneferry Bridge in Hull. Source: OpenBridges website 2025 Bridgehunter Awards The next set of candidates in the 2025 Bridgehunter Awards are those in the category Best Bridge Tour Guide International. There we have candidates from Germany, Canada, Portugal, the UK and the Netherlands in the running. And while we have some well-known ones, like Amsterdam, Winnipeg, Porto and Frankfurt, we have some lesser known ones with a lot of structral diamonds, including Bayreuth, Hull, Bourton on Water, and even Chemnitz.