Straight after post the last blog this photo appeared on ‘Old Hull’ Facebook page submitted by Mike Hawkins, a regular contributor. It shows Queen’s Dock in 1930 just as the filling-in of it was beginning (s.p.b.). Now Queen’s Gardens, the surrounding buildings have all long gone except perhaps the taller building top right which was then a warehouse and now is offices. The channel bottom right then led under ‘Monument Bridge’ to connect with Princes Dock, one of three ‘Town Docks’ encircling the Old Town and linking the Humber Estuary with the River Hull. The photo was taken from high up on the Dock Offices, a building now the Maritime Museum and currently undergoing restoration.
It seems like the infilling began on the north side of the Dock roughly in the middle as here lorries of the day seem to be tipping soil. The infilling took four years to complete and Queens Gardens was laid out just before the outbreak of War. Currently Queens Gardens is also ‘off limits’ as it also is having an upgrade, work taking a long time as this is a very pleasant green area in the centre of town.