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. |