Public Comments
| Name: | B Pearson |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | This it the best idea for this site of this old fish dock it will make a good memorial to all the lost fisherman. all it needs is the Arctic Corsair to be put there to make it complete |
| Name: | Gill |
| Concept: | Tide and Time |
| Opinion: | I think this is a great idea, the only thing I would suggest is adding an information board in front that shows how it works so that people can learn while the see something wonderful. |
| Name: | Gill |
| Concept: | Memorial |
| Opinion: | What a lovely idea. A beautiful place for people to go to remember the lost and celebrate the past. |
| Name: | Robert Medd |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | What a fantastic website. If this could become a reality I am sure it would be a great advert for the city as well as a wonderful memorial for our lost trawlermen. Hull city council would be very foolish not to buy this land, at two mllion pounds it's a snip. I would like to congratulate all who put this together, it's a marvellous piece of work. |
| Name: | Simon, North Cave |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | What Hull clearly needs to do is invest in education, as it is patent that there is a basic problem with literacy! Where in this article does it say that KUHCC has employed Inter Tech as a consultant? The way that I understand it is that Inter Tech have carried out this work at their own expense, for which I think they should be congratulated. Granted, the scheme may well never come to fruition, but the web site is a great broadside at KUHCC, and show what Hull as a city could achieve if they had a council who had some vision, and who stopped wasting money like it was going out of fashion!!! Well done Inter Tech, great entrepreneurial vision! |
| Name: | Dean, Hull |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | It looks fantastic! Bring it on. |
| Name: | MancunianHumbersider, Hedon & Bury |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | The number of negative comments on here provides us with precisely the reason why Hull is stagnating compared with Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle et al. Those with any nouse who grow up in Hull generally go elsewhere to cities where their ideas are more likely to be embraced rather than ridiculed. The fact that we have someone here who lives and works locally and who is prepared to put time, money and effort into an idea that is focused on their own city should be applauded. As Mr. Fenton has said, he has been spurred into action by the inaction of others. What would people prefer, to allow the remaining talent in Hull to be directed away from the city so that Liverpools and the Birminghams of this world are the beneficiaries (again), or would they not rather someone from Hull brought the ideas to the table so that their talents remain in Hull giving the city exactly the platform that is needed to develop and potentially puts the city in a position where it can realistically compete and be compared with these other great UK Cities? |
| Name: | nick, west hull |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | love the video , excellent ideas with the memorials to all those lost at sea , but like with most historical places situated in hull seem deemed for the history books because HCC only look for profit and that area would be primed for real estate just like the old fruit market area |
| Name: | brian bird |
| Concept: | Tide and Time |
| Opinion: | I think its a brilliant idea, futuristic and very eye catching. I am an 70 odd year old fisherman and would love to see this combined with more young peoples ideas . I would dearly love to see more about the unsung heroines of Hull such as the wives of all the seafarers of our city. Theres was the toughest job of all. |
| Name: | Samantha Noons |
| Concept: | Tide and Time |
| Opinion: | I think this is a brilliant idea. As well as it been an attraction for local people to come and see. It can also be used as an educational tool. Innovative design Inter Tech. |
| Name: | June Brown |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | What an excellent idea. This is a welcome design for the city. Instead of entering the city and looking at an eyesore, you could be entering the city looking at modern design. While it also been a memorial to all those lost at Sea. For me this deals with 2 major problems that Hull has a city. |
| Name: | Ernest Brown |
| Concept: | Angling Area |
| Opinion: | What a brillant idea for young people. People are always complaining about the youth of today. But no one comes up with any ideas, to resolve the problem. |
| Name: | Derek, Willerby |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | I like the idea of a heritage dock as I have long thought much more should be made of our marina area and waterfront. I have a few ideas which could easily be incorporated around either the Marina or a regenerated St Andrews Heritage Dock and may compliment your proposals. I’d like to see life size bronze statues placed around the dockside with information boards depicting scenes from our fishing heritage, trawler men, bobbers, filleters, women net braiding etc. My inspiration for this comes from the boat quay in Singapore where they have excellent statues telling the story of the colony through the various merchants and tradesmen going about their business. Dublin also uses a similar idea for its famine memorial. The quality of bronze statue needs to be equal to our existing emigrants statue near the new marina office blocks, which is duplicated on the Albert Dock in Liverpool, another model for what we can aspire to in Hull. We can also use my idea for an opportunity to finally replace the inadequate Mick Ronson tribute in Queens Gardens with a new performance stage on the heritage dock. I propose the famous lyric “sailors fighting in the dance hall” from David Bowie’s song Life On Mars which featured Hull’s own Mick Ronson be used for a themed scene next to a new quayside stage. This scene can combine the story of Hessle Roads returning trawlermen, flush with cash, as the hard living weekend millionaires they were with an often overlooked part a Hull lad played in our rock music heritage. The feature stage will allow live music to really bring the old dock back to life in the summer festival season. |
| Name: | comment from Australia |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | Hi on surfing the web I found your website and was surprised but pleased to see an old photo of me as a 16 year old the one of me holding a large cod fish it was taken on the Bardia H302 I think 1951 or 52 many thanks for posting it I now live in South Australia and have done since 1971 Brian Calvert |
| Name: | Graham C. Marshall |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | Something like this has been needed for a long time. The concept is superb but there are a few hidden dangers in as much that so many changes are made to please everyone that you end up with a tacky theme park and not a living, breathing memorial. Having a berth set aside for visiting vessels of interest is a good one but I'm not convinced that 'Moby Dick' fits in anywhere but a theme park. We'll see. With more than a nod to my first paragraph perhaps the all important railway connection should be incorporated into the design. Rather than just have a brief glimpse of a fish train on a video lay a stretch of track and put an old locomotive and a rake of fish vans on them. The vans could be used to house displays of various aspects of the dock. How close to becoming a reality is this? |
| Name: | tony roberts |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | What can i say this plan is outstanding, if the Hull City Council want to improve our city and heritage then this is a fantastic way forward,what it needs is everyone in the City of Hull to start a petition to lobby the powers that be to get their heads out of the sand. |
| Name: | Laura |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | I have visited some of the heritage docks around the country (Portsmouth and Hartlepool) and this is the sort of visitor attraction that we need in Hull. It could perhaps display the Arctic Corsair and a Humber paddle steamer and would give this special place the countrywide acclaim that it deserves. My Great Grandad used to work on the ships that sailed out of this dock and people like him and the work they did should be remembered and commemorated. |
| Name: | John Killingbeck |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | What you have overlooked is that this dock has become a facinating natural area. We already have a marina and more than one retail park in Hull. How much more original it would be to retain this as a city centre nature reserve (in contrast to the manicured stricture of Queens gardens Queens Gardens) with the surroundings developed in a more vernacular relaxed style as a refuge from the bustle of the city. |
| Name: | tina |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | i think the plans hcc have are great,ive been tracing my dad and his family who where all from hull.he worked long and hard on the trawlers i think he whould be very inpressed with what is going on now,but we should not forget all those men who never came home. |
| Name: | James Henry Jessop |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | I am a 65 year old trawlerman from Hull and for the past 10 years I've been cruising the Arctic deep sea fishing grounds with my grandsons around Spitzbergen, Norway,Iceland,Greenland and Newfoundland. In these areas where trawlers have been lost, we pay tribute to the trawlermen who perished. All the Arctic ports have memorials to the hard lives of the trawlermen. It's about time Hull had its own memorial along the lines of the St.Andrew's Dock theme. This would be for the dock workers, the people and the trawlermen past and present who sacrificed so much for the town's fishing heritage. The only problem I foresee is opposition to the remembrance site due to it detracting from other regional tourist sites. |
| Name: | william wells |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | i am a retired fisherman and think this is an exellent idea, the arctic corsair could be back where it should be,and a good place for the fishermens memorial |
| Name: | Mark |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | I think this is a superb project that would bring back to life one of the most interesting areas of Hull's heritage. I think the video projects the scheme brilliantly and provides a great insight into how the area could be improved. Considering it’s a virtual creation, the footage captures the old and new perfectly and is very touching. Additionally, as the area forms a main visual entrance way to Hull, it would play a significant part in generating that all important first impression for people coming to the city. Let’s face it, the area is currently an eyesore at the moment, isn't it? Although, I'm always a little dubious without seeing the costs and some understanding of what reliance there would be on the public purse to support the scheme. Anyway, don’t let this hint of negativity take anything away from a fantastic vision of what can be done to this historic part of the city. I’ll have one please! |
| Name: | Speaker |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | Docks old buildings are falling into bits they should be demolished and rebuilt!!!!. |
| Name: | John Percival |
| Concept: | Heritage Dock |
| Opinion: | Fabulous idea, I have been saying this myself for years but did not know anyone was actually working on it. I had wrote to Alic Gill about this vey subject. My father was a trawlerman in the 50's and 60's, he described it as the hardest job in the world, and now in his 80's he still dreams of being at sea on a trawler. I was often on the dock as a child, and have returned several times as an adult to look at the derilict condition that was once so alive. Hull should be proud of its fishing heritage, these men helped feed a nation and make it great. They lived and died in ships, in seas far away from Hull. For good or bad Hull was a fishing town, and the dock would be a wonderfull place for a museum and heritage centre. The old Marr building should be restored, the last side winder trawler languishing in the River Hull brought into the dock, where it belongs, and other vessels too. What about one of the old Humber paddle wheelers, a light ship, and who knows what else. this is a great idea, and it must, not should, happen. I live abroad now, returning each year to my homeland. I am a proud Yorkshireman, born in Beverley, growing up in Brough, Son of a trawlerman. I fully support this. |