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The city’s fishing industry was founded by fishermen from Brixham (Devon) and Ramsgate (Kent) in mid-19th century. Initially, landing and marketing were confined to the pier, then a corner of Humber Dock, before moving again to the newly-opened Albert Dock in 1869. A significant boost came in 1883 when St Andrew’s Dock was opened solely for the fishing industry. The slump in the industry in the 1970s led to the closure of St Andrew’s Dock in 1975, when fishing vessels moved back to their old home in Albert Dock. In 2024, the future of the industry in the city is uncertain.

Further reading:
Arctic Corsair: Link
Cod Wars: Link
End of the line? Link
Fish Dock - The Story of St Andrew’s Dock Hull, by Michael Thompson, 1989, 118 pp.
Fishing News: Link
Hull Bullnose Heritage Group: Link
Hull Docklands, by Michael Thompson, 1990. St Andrew’s Dock is featured at pp 44 to 49.
Hull Maritime Museum: Link
Hull triple trawler tragedy: Link
Lillian Bilocca: Link
St Andrews Dock Heritage Park Action Group: Link
The last gasp: Hull life during the fishing industry’s death – in pictures: Link
The Uncertain Future of the Kirkella, the UK’s Largest Deep Sea Trawler: Link

The Coltman Street conservation area includes the whole of Coltman Street and a short section of Hessle Road. The street is named after a famous member of the wealthy landowning Coltman family, the Reverend Joseph Coltman (1775-1837), clergyman, public benefactor and at 37 stones the heaviest man in England at the time. Coltman Street began life in the 1840s as a select semi-rural area where trawler owners and other well-off members of the middle classes, wanting to quit the cramped, unhealthy centre of the town, built large villas big enough for their families and servants.

Conservation Area Character Appraisal: Link

Pickering and Ferens Homes is a registered social housing provider, a registered charity, and a member of the National Almshouse Association: Link Its registered office is at Silvester House, Silvester Street, Kingston upon Hull. The charity owns nearly 1,400 properties, located within the city and the East Riding. Its origins lay with the philanthropic activities of two prominent businessmen - Christopher Pickering: Link and Thomas Ferens: Link who each built almshouses in the early 1900s. The Trusts merged and in 1992 became ‘Pickering and Ferens Homes’ Almshouse Charity. It provides accommodation and services predominantly for residents aged over 60 years old with a particular social value emphasis on health and well-being in later life. It also provides housing for those 50 and over in some areas: Link