Paull, The Waterfront c.1955
Photo ref:
P185007
More about this scene
Seven miles to the east of Hull but totally isolated from urban ways, Paull has a history stretching back to the days of Charles I. When the King blockaded Hull in the Civil War, a military battery was built just to the south of this picture. This position was later used in the Napoleonic wars and finally in the 2nd World War as an anti-aircraft gunnery post. Now Fort Paull, restored in 2000, is an absorbing war museum. Anson Villas, centre and right, were built as billets for the battery troops. The Hull to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge ferries moor in the distance (far left). Paull's lighthouse, directly at the end of the path, was built in 1836 and is now a private house. The 74-gun wooden warship Anson was built here in 1816. Providing bearings for today's ships is the BBC local radio transmitter mast next to Fort Paull.
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