History of Hull: Bridges - Scott Street Bridge
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- The history of the recently dismantled Scott Street bridge and Hull's hydraulic power network - England's first municipal power service!
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Great info. My Great Grandfather was bridge master of Scott Street bridge. This was about 1900.
I remember walking to Spiders that way in the late 80’s. Happy days!
And so yet a another fantastic video. I remember crossing it in the 70 s. So much history. Thank you. Glen.. 👌👌👌👌
I am truly pleased I got to drive over it back in the 80s 90s, but also very sad to see yet another one of Hulls Historic Treasures going to the Tip. I often wondered about Old Monument Bridge too, I was Born1963 but vaguely remember some sort of bridge being there unlike how it is today. Looking at some of the Old Hull films & with Your History Videos really brings back the Old Hull Feeling of people & places no longer here; Places that we have known in Our lifetime have gone, I find sometimes I have to pinch myself to progress, its just I miss & Morn the Memories of Lost Hull Places I recognised, without being to melancholy I do Sometimes like to raise a glass of good wine to the Memory of what weight of history in Hulls growth those bridges could Tell. Again many Thanks for these wonderous but wonderful Videos, excellent to riminess too, Thank You.
When I lived (illegally) in The Grosvenor Mill next door, in the mid 190's the Scott Street bridge was our quick route to and from Spiders Nightclub on Cleveland St. I remember when they de-commissioned it, we were most upset as we had to walk a lot further to get to Spiders!
The next door building owned by artist Andy Hazell, had the pumping station to the bridge next door, on the opposite site of the building. The Grosvenor bridge was in between the bridge and the pumping station.
Every time the bridge was opening no matter wat time of the day, as the tides dictated that. The whole of Grosvenor Mill used to vibrate, as the building was stood on foundations of Oak piles that were wet with the river water and beneath the water table. We were woken up in the night on countless occasions when the 'Doris' tanker (a Panama registered ship with a Panamanian crew) sailed past our windows through the open bridge.
Andy Hazell has some great stories of the demise of the bridge. I will send you a message via Messenger, then you can include it in these comments if you wish. Lovin these videos by the way. :))
Glad you're enjoying them, and your description really adds some colour to the story of the bridge and the surrounding environment!
I used to frequent The Bay Horse and The Whalebone (i was underage though) back in 1985. I worked on Lincoln Street (VIP nuts and bolts) and i crossed Scott St bridge daily to catch the (no 9 or 29) bus from Dansom Lane back to Hall Road Orchard Park. I remember the bridge well. A chap would come out of the small building and just pull or push some sort of lever that stuck out of the ground. The bridge was quite fast at opening and closing too. The bridge was quite something. I did get to drive over it long before it closed, or rather opened for the final time. Shame it's gone.
Hello, I remember in the 1960 sliding off my motorcycle on the cobbles that surfaced the approach to the bridge. Happy days.
John.
Ouch, that sounds like it was painful!
Fantastic presentation as always.
Thank you. 🙂👌
Dad would frequently use the back streets to transit through the city and would often used Scott St bridge.
Aw that as a bit of a tear jerker that one , thanks Jamie. My late husband and I went to see the banksy , and we were so overawed at it that we forgot to take a photo 😬
It was odd being there filming it; last time I was up on that road, I was shooting footage of the river and the bridge (footage I didn't use) for my first Docks episode, I always thought it would just be there forever.
Mr. Nerd, greetings from Leipzig. Thank you for the post. The bridge I remember most vividly is the one on Sutton Road. 1947, recently moved into the prefabs in Froghall Lane, we woke up one morning to see the unbelievable sight of a trawler in the fields behind. That was when they were built in Beverley and towed down the rive to Stoneferry. Sutton Road bridge had to be raised to let them through and we kids used to race up the road see the bridge in action.
'City remodeling by herman goering'. Not heard it phrased like that before lol.
Lived in Machell Street for over 20 years so this was on my doorstep and a great backdrop for many a band foto including a few of my own. I left Hull before the bridge was removed so weird seeing it like this and great to learn a bit of its history thanks
Yeah, they moved faster than o thought they would when they took it down, but I'm so glad I at least got a few shots of it when I was filming other videos in the area.
@@hullhistorynerd Let's hope the Banksy ends up on public view rather than in some rich persons man-cave somewhere, I remember the night it went up seeing half a dozen people at the bridge with a camera and just figured it was another band doing fotos only to find out next day it was Banksy
I remember it well haveing worked cleveland st most my life Cheers Rob
Absolutely brilliant video yet again. I worked in an office block behind Napoleon's on Wincolmlee and Scott Street Bridge was a daily site for me especially as working in the shipping industry Inc on The River Hull. Good memories 👍
used to drive over that bridge in my ford Cortina in the 80s
Interesting video. Thanks. My ancestor, William McCollin was a partner of Fowler & McCollin, boilermakers down Scott Street in the mid to late 19th C.
Another superb episode
Interesting!
I never knew it had been removed and didn't know about the hydrolic company connection.
I always imagined a steep Dukes of Hazard style jump across it, when it was up.
Beautiful video! I have a photo of me walking up that bridge, it really messed with perspective!
Ref your comment 'City remodeling by herman goering' I think he must still be around with some of the "improvements" that have been visited upon the city in recent years. Good to have you back in the saddle. We have missed your regular contributions to our education. Keep up the good work.
Lockdown did restrict my ability to get out and shoot footage, for sure. Glad to be able to get out and about a bit more now, and I'm looking forward to starting in on some of the BIG videos again, like the Docks series, and the Lost Railways of Yorkshire!
Excellent as always - I am now 88, Hull born and bred, and find all these videos so well-presented. Thank you. ROBERT WARDELL
So glad you're enjoying them, and there's plenty more to come, too!
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A major loss to the city. Thanks for casting some light on this piece of history.
When I worked as a marine engineer in the late 50s we visited two pubs called The Blue Heaven and the Red Hell . They may have been nick names.
Short but sweet. Really great video. I am so hungry for more my friend.
Looking forward to the next.
Thanks for another well presented video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember driving over the bridge that bend was tricky, shame it’s gone, not liking all the surrounding graffiti either, I photographed the area must be nearly ten years ago now, thanks for the videos very enjoyable
used to bike over the bridge every week in the 80s/ early 90's.. sad to see it gone
It really is. As long as it was there, I always entertained the notion that it might get repaired one day, if only as a pedestrian and cycle route.
Really interesting, I was down there a couple of weeks back photographing the wall murals and didn’t know any of this about the bridge.
I also remember Wilmington swing bridge when it still had railway lines! Actually, a video about it would be interesting.
You'll enjoy the next video that's coming on the 30th, then!
@@hullhistorynerd the bridge was known locally as 'Brickie Trod' as I recall. No idea why.
Another really interesting insight into the history of my home town. I'd no idea about the hydraulic power behind it!
My first job was at Maizecor (Paulls) and I used to go across Scott Street Bridge, it was lethal in the rain on a moped... a lot of the industry has gone in recent years ...
Another great video as per usual from a pensive & slightly emotional Hull History Nerd.... keep the videos coming Sir... Great stuff.
It genuinely did get to me when I was there filming, it was so weird to have it gone after all these years.
I used to walk over it to get to Spiders (and crawl back over it on the way home) back in the day.
Awesome as per usual, thank you 🙂
brilliant , well done and thank you for the knowledge . i like to watch your videos
I also remember the blue railings, and the bridge.. A weird thing, seeing the space where it was..
Yeah, it feels weird. Like when you're a kid and a tooth falls out and your mouth just feels all wrong. Apart from there's no new bridge going to grow and fill the gap, of course...
Another interesting video. Thankyou.
Hi new to your channel great video and footage big thumbs up from me and new subscriber here cheers
Great video.
Interesting stuff! I too was caught by your Herman Goering comment - and just finished reading the Wiki about the WWII bombing of Hull. I had no idea the city suffered as much as it did. Any expose' done on that era and it's effects to this day would be quite interesting to see. Thanks again!
Yeah, Hull definitely had it bad during the Blitz, that's for sure. I don't have much planned about it apart from a short episode on the Decoy Docks out near Paull, but who knows what the future will bring?
95% of all houses in Hull were either damaged or destroyed during the Blitz.
Great video something I didn't know about that bridge the story I been told years ago that the gears broken years ago before the war now I know is why is up thanks for the update
Enjoyed that. I wondered what that grey stone was at the far end so I googled and managed to find out its a Commemorative Stone for the bridge, you could have featured that in your video.
I did shoot some footage of it, but it looked terrible because of the fence bisecting it so it didn't make the cut, I'm afraid.
@@hullhistorynerd Ah yes stuff like that can ruin plans and no way around it. Look forward to your next video as Ive watched them all, well presented videos. Im in Hull for Easter.
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@@RHR-221b Hi, nice one.
The next bridge to go ? Chapman st bridge . Just you wait and see .
I'm hoping it gets the same treatment as the Wilmington bridge, which is far more likely as it hasn't been left for 25 years stuck open and unmaintained like Scott Street was. It's still a perfectly working bridge, it just needs to either have expensive repairs, or to be limited to foot and cycle traffic only which is a far cheaper option.
I've often wondered why its called Scott Street bridge when the survey maps indicate the bridge was part of Jenning Street
Looking at the old OS maps, I suspect it might be because the bridge started across the road from Scott Street and was a continuation of it, whereas Jenning Street had to be extended beyond its junction with Lime Street to meet the bridge.
@@hullhistorynerd Aye, that might be it... I have a hazy memory of being taken over the bridge in a car that my dad hired for the day (we didn't have a car at that point in the family) and being one of the last cars over.
Curious side note:- As I understand it, the little stub of road left leading up to the west (and the correct!) side of the river has never been formally abandoned hence why its been resurfaced to modern standards despite the bollards
@@Trek001 it's a curious little stub of road. I kind of hope that they leave it there as a clue to people in the future that there was once a bridge here!
@@hullhistorynerd Should get its own blue plaque
It couldn’t have been kept as a footbridge?? Did it still need to open?
Yes, there is still traffic up and down the river, either pleasure craft or the odd small tanker.
Why can't they make this into a pedestrian and cycle bridge.. maybe a new crossing, money I guess .... Great, that side of hull, industrial history
As somebody who rarely visits Hull now (haven't been there for about 25 years - gulp) I worry how much of the old architecture will be preserved. I can understand that the bridge can be lost if it simply becomes dangerous, but will those railings be preserved? Indeed, that up-slope should be listed for no other reason than it is one of the only non-flat bits of Hull. And the Corporation should sort that bloody graffiti out (you can tell that I don't get there enough because I still call it 'the Corporation' because that is how my grandmother referred to the council).
When I look around Hull, especially the parts just East of the river which used to be residential, I still see such things as old Victorian lampposts nestled between the modern car retailers that the bombs and redevelopers didn't destroy, but I worry for their future.
I'm sure I must have crossed this bridge at some point in my childhood and it certainly would have been known to my father and grandparents. I dunno why, but as a child, I always thought that Hull always seemed to have the most exciting bridges (before the old road before the M62 was built had the most tortuous, but exciting (for a 7-year-old), approach to Hull over the Boothferry Bridge).
The graffiti is actually a sanctioned and coordinated effort called 'Bankside Gallery' aimed at bringing some life and colour into what was basically a decaying area full of empty, derelict Victorian and early 20th century industrial buildings, so I don't mind that so much!
Ah, but it doesn't disappear thanks to people like yourself, and long may you continue, the children will thank you one day!
Clearly a river under a troubled bridge.
With a little bit of tweaking that post could be make the beginnings of a great song.
Can you shed any light on Ravenser Auld/Odd ? sounds like a netflix special in waiting
It was a fully fledged port, that was also granted a borough charter - it was actually more important than Wyke on Hull as a port during the 13th century, but Edward still chose Wyke as his King's Town. According to the histories, Ravenser had about 100 houses and a busy market bu the end of the 13th century. By 1360 it was underwater after a series of floods, shifts in the Spurn sand banks, and one giant storm known as the Grote Mandrenke, a rare cyclone that caused a huge storm surge across the north sea, in 1362. Naturally, the idea of building again on such treacherous land was not considered by the ex inhabitants, who promptly moved what remained of their lives and businesses elsewhere!
@@hullhistorynerd magnificent , i am totally fascinated by this
there must be remains out in the humber/north sea . a town of pirates and vikings built on shifting sands lost to the wrath of the gods, a medieval divine comedy.
george rr martin come get some .
thanks HHN
It certainly sounds like a place full of rum coves, that's for sure; one of their main ways to get business was to row out to intercept ships headed for Hull or Grimsby and 'convince' them to trade at Ravenser instead. This convincing was sometimes quite forceful... It was such a notorious place that the chronicler at Meaux Abbey, when Ravenser was finally destroyed by the flood, said that God had punished them for their wickedness!
@@hullhistorynerd i want to holiday there
I believe it's currently under the north sea, I suspect the TripAdvisor reviews probably aren't great.
Hessle pls 😅
Certainly a subject on my list of things to do!
super as always mr nerd whats on the gender for the next one any teasers
Next episode will be on Pearson Park!
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Looking forward to that upcoming episode.
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All that graffiti in the bank side area pure vandalism . It’s not art it’s just a mess.
Well, to be fair, huge parts of the area looked like a decaying mess beforehand for the most part due to lots of empty buildings left to rot and collapse in on themselves, I'm not sure graffiti has made that any worse! And whilst I'm not a fan, I also don't mind the idea of a sanctioned area where people can do it.
another good video but it saddens me to see the legalised vandalism endorsed by Hull City Council who call it art . Looks like the project which included a mock replacement bridge has come to an halt , The graffiti is disgusting and a blight on the area
I would have to disagree about the graffiti, without it the whole area around Scott Street would be quite the decaying, abandoned early 20th century industrial eyesore, with crumbling buildings as far as the eye can see. If anywhere needs a bit of colour, it's the river Hull corridor area! And whilst not all of the art is my personal cup of tea, I do quite like the idea that young people are being given an area, a quiet, non-residential area at that, where they can hone their artistic skills without vandalising people's homes or businesses. I believe it's a good outlet for an urge that would otherwise lead to actual vandalism from some of the street artists. It's not as if that whole area is bustling with businesses like it was in the 1940s, so it's hardly as though it's ruining the area. If anything, it's sparked a lot of interest from people who make the time to go and walk around the area to look at the art and, in so doing, discover the fascinating post industrial landscape of the city!
Short and sad.