Licensed today: Queen's Gardens in Hull. When I took the shot, I confess I was unaware that this area was, until 1934, Queen's Dock: the largest dock of its kind in the country and a centre of the whaling trade. From 1770 whaling ships sailed in and out of the dock via the River Hull. By 1930, the emergence of larger docks like St Andrews, Alexandra, King George and Albert docks meant that Queen’s Dock was not worth maintaining. Hull Corporation purchased the dock from the London and North Eastern Railway Company for just over £100,000 in 1930. With 50 tons of material being tipped in each day, it took 4 years to fill the dock...
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