Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull

     
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
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  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - It all starts here, machines top and split the Herrings. Dated 22nd, Aug 1969
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - A typical west Hull scene off Hessle Road - terrace housing, small businesses on the street and a smoke house visible in the background. Late 60's, early 70's.
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - Mrs Lillian Stead at West Dock Street, dated June 27th, 1964
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - High speed precision, women workers cutting kippers into fillets in a Hull kipper factory, dated 22nd Aug, 1969.
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - She's been on tenterhooks for 30 years Mrs Doris Dinemack, a tenterer at Ross Fish Ltd, West Dock Street, Hull, putting kippers on hooks for curing. Dated 26th July, 1969.
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - Mrs Lillian Stead preparing kippers for smoking. Dated 27 June, 1964
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - After a 1 1/2 minute soak in brine solution the herrings are hung up ready for smoking. Dated 22nd Aug, 1969.
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - Mr J Bushman, the cutting manager and Miss M Norrie in the packing department at West Dock Street smoke house. Dated 27th June, 1964.
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - Late start, the first consignment of norwegian herring has arrived in Hull, but owing to the recent bad weather, the season has started four days later this year. Smiling Mrs Barbara Fisher is seen in the midst of the first day's rush at a Gipsyville curing house. Dated 25th Jan, 1957.
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - Rooms with a view of the smoke house. This was the outlook for people living in Park Avenue, off Flinton Street, Hessle Road in March, 1973.
  • Flashback - Fish Smoke Houses in Hull - 1990's - The listed chimneys of the fish smoke houses on Essex Street, West Hull.

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  • Profile image for lastinullin76

    by lastinullin76

    Friday, February 15 2013, 9:19AM

    “...........and that was only from the women that worked there !!!!!!”

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  • Profile image for dontwo

    by dontwo

    Thursday, February 14 2013, 9:11PM

    “Yeah, I remember these places. Well the stench, the smoke and the smog mostly......”

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