Civic Society to show new ‘Hull Through The Decades’ film
TRANSPORT: Trolleybuses travelling along Prospect Street and King Edward Street in the 1960s. Picture credit: Paul Moffitt
By Simon Bristow, Co-Editor
Hull Civic Society will be screening a new film highlighting key periods in the city’s history and development at two events next month.
Hull Through The Decades, made in collaboration with Chris Fenton from OctoVision Media, will be shown at St Matthew’s Church in Boulevard at 2pm on Friday, November 7. Admission is free.
As well as featuring exclusive drone footage of Hull as it is today, the film also includes scenes from the 1960s including trawlers at sea, St Andrew’s Dock, trolleybuses in action and rare film of the Hull to Hornsea Railway. Trolleybuses and the Hull to Hornsea Railway were both decommissioned in October 1964.
Other sections feature paddle steamers, a cruise up the River Hull, Queen Elizabeth II opening the Humber Bridge in 1981, changes to the city centre, and Hull’s year as UK City of Culture in 2017.
The second event, at Carnegie Heritage Centre in Anlaby Road, marks the 60th anniversary of the closure of the Beverley – Market Weighton – York railway line on November 30, 1965.
This event, from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, November 29, is an exhibition paying tribute to the line, including film and photographs.
The Minster Rail Campaign will also be attending and showing their plans to reopen the line.
Hull Model Engineers’ Society will be running live steam trains in nearby West Park, one of a number of other related societies also taking part.
The civic society will also have a stall showing its new film.
Admission costs £3.