I appreciate I'm a little late posting about the Lord Line Buildings in Hull but I'm catching up!
Sometimes in life you come across a location which you can't believe you never knew existed and scratch your head as to why you never photographed it. The Lord Line in Hull is one such place.
Being only a 60 mile drive away, we made our way over and parked up next to Mr. Chu's Chinese All You Can Eat Buffet Restaurant. The thinking was we wouldn't get a parking ticket but maybe get chased away by machete wielding triads!
The Lord Line buildings are arranged around an abandoned dock called St. Andrew's Dock. The dock is completely filled in with spoil and is overgrown. Water hasn't entered this dock in years by the looks of it.
A quick search on the interweb reveals that surprisingly, Lord Line was first established in 1949. (I would have expected this to be much earlier). The buildings were set up to accommodate Hull's fishing industry but eventually began to wind down in 1975 and completely closed in 1990.
A further research on the internet reveals that the buildings are revered in Hull by some and efforts to demolish the site have been met with resistance. I would expect that the area around the dock is prime real estate for very expensive apartments I will never be able to afford. Keeping the buildings doesn't seem like a realistic prospect to me.
This is set of our explore around the site not necessarily in chronological order:
Sometimes in life you come across a location which you can't believe you never knew existed and scratch your head as to why you never photographed it. The Lord Line in Hull is one such place.
Being only a 60 mile drive away, we made our way over and parked up next to Mr. Chu's Chinese All You Can Eat Buffet Restaurant. The thinking was we wouldn't get a parking ticket but maybe get chased away by machete wielding triads!
The Lord Line buildings are arranged around an abandoned dock called St. Andrew's Dock. The dock is completely filled in with spoil and is overgrown. Water hasn't entered this dock in years by the looks of it.
A quick search on the interweb reveals that surprisingly, Lord Line was first established in 1949. (I would have expected this to be much earlier). The buildings were set up to accommodate Hull's fishing industry but eventually began to wind down in 1975 and completely closed in 1990.
A further research on the internet reveals that the buildings are revered in Hull by some and efforts to demolish the site have been met with resistance. I would expect that the area around the dock is prime real estate for very expensive apartments I will never be able to afford. Keeping the buildings doesn't seem like a realistic prospect to me.
This is set of our explore around the site not necessarily in chronological order:
) back in the mid 90s, but in 'Ull probabkly not. Weird the exterior pics have a 50s maybe 60s feel but the interior shots are almost from 1930s
