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The Humberside Offshore Training Association (HOTA) operates from premises close to the entrance lock at the east end of Albert Dock in Hull. It was established in 1987 and as a Limited Company with Charity Status. HOTA provides Internationally Approved and Certified Training and an extensive portfolio of bespoke courses for the Renewables, Offshore, Maritime and Onshore Sectors. The tower to the right is for working at height training. In the background is the lifeboat experience with No.4 missing in action.

The River Hull tidal surge barrier was completed in 1980 as a response to serious flooding in the City of Kingston upon Hull in 1969. The barrier been closed over 30 times since opening. It is the second largest flood barrier in the United Kingdom after the Thames Barrier in London and was listed Grade II in 2017.

A view from Paull towards the storage tanks of the Saltend Chemical Park . BP Chemicals Ltd established Saltend Chemicals Park in 2009. Today a range of organisations operate on the 370-acre site, sharing an established infrastructure and extensive provision of services, feedstocks and utilities. In the background is the Salt End cogeneration plant which was commissioned in 2000 by Entergy an American power generator. It was later sold to Calpine Corporation, also an American power generator, in August 2001 for £562 million. In July 2005, Salt End was sold to International Power and Mitsui (70:30 share) for £500 million. It was later owned and operated by GDF SUEZ Energy UK-Turkey, and is now operated by Triton Power. Triton Power is part of the H2H (Hydrogen to Humber) decarbonisation project which in March 2021 won joint funding through ISCF (Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund) from Innovate UK to carry out FEED studies to convert the Saltend CHP to burn a 30% blend of Blue Hydrogen. Blue Hydrogen is hydrogen obtained through reforming natural gas with the CO2 captured and stored in subsea caverns. The site was built by Mitsubishi (MHI) and Raytheon. The station is run on gas using single shaft 3 x Mitsubishi 701F gas Turbines machines with Alstom 400 MWe generators. The station has a total output of 1200 MW; of that 100 MW is allocated to supply BP Chemicals. Each gas turbine has a Babcock Borsig Power (BBP) heat recovery steam generator, which all lead to one steam turbine per unit (single shaft machine means Gas turbine and Steam Turbine are on the same shaft). The waste steam at the rate of about 120 tonnes/hr is sold to BP Chemicals to use in their process. This makes Saltend one of the most efficient power stations in the UK.

Seen at its berth on the Humber at Hull, the MS Pride of Hull is a Bahamas registered passenger and cargo roll-on/roll-off cruiseferry in service with P&O North Sea Ferries on the Hull - Rotterdam route. The ship was launched on 11 April 2001 and entered service on 2 December 2001. Upon entering service she was the joint title holder of the World's Largest Cruiseferry with her sister, the Pride of Rotterdam.

The doorway mosaic at the Alexandra Hotel in Hull has seen a lot of wear and tear but continues to remind customers of where they are.

Opened on June 1, 1914, the Tower Cinema in Hull was designed by H. Percival Binks and seated 1,200 in the stalls and single balcony. This was later reduced to 750 by virtue of more space and individual seats replacing the wooden benches. It closed as a cinema in 1978 and is currently used as a nightclub and music venue. The facade is faced with faience tiles and contains an abundance of moulded swags and cartouches. At either end, are onion domes decorated with green and cream mosaics with bands of gold faced glass. These domes later became in a very poor condition and in October 2010 were restored by the Hull based Toffollo Company of mosaic specialists, under contract with Hull City Council. The building is Grade II Listed.

Gibraltar registered ship 'Soniland' has just completed unloading Baltic timber at Albert Dock, Hull. The unloading was undertaken with the Ruston Bucyrus 61-RB tracked SuperCrane belonging to RMS Ports.

P&O ferry 'Pride of Hull' sits on the berth in the Humber close to the entrance lock to the King George V Dock at Hull. Sadly this ship is now crewed with cheap foreign labour after the company sacked all the existing crew of its various ferries. This ship is registered at Nassau in the Bahamas. The ferry service from Hull sails to Rotterdam every night.

A view from Paull towards the storage tanks of the Saltend Chemical Park . BP Chemicals Ltd established Saltend Chemicals Park in 2009. Today a range of organisations operate on the 370 acre site, sharing an established infrastructure and extensive provision of services, feedstocks and utilities

The Isis Oil Mill was built in 1912 for historic Hull business Wray, Sanderson and Co. The site become the heart of Hull’s oil seed milling industry. The silo is listed Grade II but much of the surrounding refinery was demolished in 2019.

The original Clarence Mills alongside the River Hull were built in 1888. Badly damaged by bombing in WWII they were rebuilt and continued to mill flour until 2005. In 2015 the mills were demolished to make way for a 23 floor hotel and casino.

Terracotta panel on the Pacific Exchange building in Hull. The building accommodated brokers trading in oil seed because by the end of the 19th Century Hull had become the largest seed crushing area in the country. The architect for the building was B.S. Jacobs of Bowl Alley Lane, Hull. Above the lower left window is this shield with a date of 1899. However, the building was not open for trading until 1901. The 1899 could well be from when the Pacific Club was formed. I think the traders had to belong the club to make use of the trading floor. The Exchange was called the Pacific it seems purely because London had the Baltic and Liverpool had the Atlantic Exchanges! Millers, seed crushers, merchants and brokers packed the trading floor, up to a hundred at a time. Traders on the floor wore their hats and none traders had to remove them. When telephones were introduced offers would come from London to 15 trunk phone boxes on one wall along with two others for local calls.

The Waverley Hotel building in Hull has a wealth of terracotta decoration. It is now just a drinking establishment on the ground floor known as the Masters Bar.

The Masters Bar is situated in what was once the Waverley Hotel on the corner of South Street and Jameson Street in Hull. It is certainly a riot of terracotta ornamentation at ground floor level.

The Punch Hotel in Hull first appeared in 1846 and was subject to rebuilding with an ornate terracotta frontage in 1895-96.In January 1898, the new frontage was criticised for scaring horses riding into the city.

The Drypool bridge over the River Hull is a Scherzer lifting bridge and was designed by W. Morris, the Hull City Engineer. It was fabricated in Hull, being completed in March 1961.

A view from Paull towards the storage tanks of the Saltend Chemical Park . BP Chemicals Ltd established Saltend Chemicals Park in 2009. Today a range of organisations operate on the 370 acre site, sharing an established infrastructure and extensive provision of services, feedstocks and utilities

The Drypool bridge over the River Hull is a Scherzer lifting bridge and was designed by W. Morris, the Hull City Engineer. It was fabricated in Hull, being completed in March 1961. The flour mill in the background has since been demolished.