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Use of a wide angle lens makes both buildings' stability look suspect! The chimney is 137m (450') tall and was built in the early 1970s using the continuous concrete pouring method. At that time, it had the highest height to width ratio ratio for this type of chimney anywhere in the world!
©Andy Beecroft
Still operational swing bridge crossing the river Hull in the heart of the bankside industrial area. The bridge was used to allow trains to cross the river Hull and access the railway sheds behind the photographer.
©Mike Birkenshaw
Former British Extracting Building now standing derelict along the River Hull at high tide.
©Mike Birkenshaw
Alms Houses on Northumberland Avenue in Hull.
©Jonathan Fry
Wilmington Bridge was built for the North Eastern Railway and opened in 1907. The bridge is now a pedestrian and cycle way across the River Hull.
©Jonathan Fry
Air Street Burial Ground located at the junction of Bankside in Hull.
©Jonathan Fry
Road bridge across the Beverley & Barmston Drain at the eastern end of Stepney Lane, Hull. The bridge leads to builder's yards on the east side of the drain. Hull used to have a lot of open drains like this one, channelling waste water and sewage into the River Humber from the vast flood plain of the River Hull which stretches north as far as Kirkburn near Driffield. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/784479 In the late 1950s Hull's sewerage and pumping infrastructure was modernized and many open watercourses were filled in or replaced with sewer pipes in the name of child safety, but since these developments and further updating in the year 2000 the flood risk in Hull has risen quite dramatically and the city was badly hit by flooding in June 2007.
©Paul Glazzard
©Andy Beecroft
View of the Beverley & Barmston drain from the bridge of the Hull-Hornsea cycle lane. The Stepney Lane bridge can be seen in the background.
©Africa Gomez
From the cycle track and looking as far as Stepney LAne Bridge.
©Peter Church
The bridge crosses the Beverley and Barmston Drain.
©Peter Church
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking northeast from the railway embankment on the dismantled branch line east of Bridlington Avenue, across the allotments on the other side of the Beverley & Barmston Drain. Dominating the skyline are the 137 metre high chimney built for Reckitts in the 1970s http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627499 and the derelict British Extracting Company silos http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/275078 on the east bank of the River Hull. The high hedge in the middle distance hides some of the surrounding industrial landscape from the windows of Northumberland Court Flats. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627491
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.1km<br/>This was once part of the old Hull to Hornsea railway line, here shown beside the sports hall of Endeavour Comprehensive school.
©Peter Church
Dist:0.2km<br/>...even the ubiquitous shopping trolley's there!
©Andy Beecroft
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking north to the only remaining rail bridge carrying goods to the docks. This is a typical view of the industry in this area. The bridge is in the top NE corner of the grid square.
©Stephen Horncastle

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