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Transport links also increased when the Selby to Hull railway passed nearby at Broomfleet from 1840.

The crews of several Lowestoft-registered trawlers take advantage of low water to carry out maintenance on the hulls of their vessels.

By 1887 sail was far from finished; the new Bessemer steel-making process opened a window of opportunity for merchant sailing ship owners with the construction of large steel-hulled full-rigged ships

During the holiday season, the town's population could easily double - Bridlington was within easy reach of trippers from Hull, Leeds, Beverley and York.

Once this lock on the Aire and Calder Navigation opened at 10am on 20 July 1826, trade boomed between the North Sea port of Hull and the West Yorkshire industrial heartland.

The hull was shaped to allow the boat to ride through the breakers to the shore; the crew then used the oars protruding from orruck holes to carry the boat up the beach.

waggons throughout Yorkshire and offered a freight forwarding service to anywhere within the UK, and Pearson & Co operated a comprehensive packet service on the Barnsley Canal to places such as Hull

In 1910 Mr Tod Hull was the oldest resident.

The small paddler nearest the camera is the 'Myleta', one of two steel-hulled single-deck sister ships built for the SER in 1891 by Samuda Bros, Poplar.

Nottingham was now less than a day's journey away from the port of Hull, which greatly increased its prosperity.

Resplendent in her Victorian livery of black hull, white upperworks, yellow ochre masts and funnel, she was built at Poplar in 1878, engined by Maudsley and purchased by the Admiralty for £240,000

operated waggons throughout Yorkshire and offered a freight forwarding service to anywhere within the UK, and Pearson & Co operated a comprehensive packet service on the Barnsley Canal to places such as Hull

A bridge, complete with a chantry chapel, has existed over the River Hull since the 13th century.

Demolition took place between March 1649 and August 1654; some material was salvaged for repairs to Hull Castle.

Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all

Fleetwood became England's principal fishing port on the west coast with a fleet to rival those of Hull and Grimsby.

of the local estate, Charlotte Bethell, the wife of the lord of the manor, financed this three-mile long canal, which opened in 1802. 90-ton keelboats brought coal to Leven and returned to the River Hull

Large mansions were built here for the wealthy merchants from the prosperous port of Hull.

Much of it was carried by wherries, clinker-hulled double-ended barges, that carried a single loose footed gaff sail of about 1200 sq ft.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

This was once a popular suburb for wealthy fishing boat owners from Hull.

Nobbies and nickies had the same basic hull shape, but were rigged differently, and the nickey was probably the better sailor of the two.

The hull was divided into 150 watertight compartments with a total of 208 watertight doors.