WASH AND GO !

This picture shows the washing facilities in an award-winning 'Loo of the Year' competition. It is part of the Victoria Pier GENTS ! The mystery deepens . . .

Q - In which railway station could buy a railway ticket and never see a train ?
A - Hull Victoria Pier railway station, which was the name given to the Ferry booking office on the waterside in Hull, by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. It was not a railway station at all, just a ticket office and waiting room for the Humber Ferry. The ferry sailed from the adjacent Victoria Pier.
Passengers would take a ride on a paddle steamer on the New Holland ferry service, across the Humber to New Holland
The station closed on 25 June 1981, with the withdrawal of the ferry service following the opening of the Humber Bridge.

One local account reads :
" . . . Growing up in Hull, we would go to the pier late on a Sunday afternoon for an ice cream. My Grandad, a rollup cupped in his hand, would walk along trailing sweetly pungent smoke while Grandma sat in the car watching the New Holland packet come in to dock.
Treading out over wooden decking with the water rolling below, we would look out over the mile wide river mouth towards the low shore of Lincolnshire, as seagulls swooped and bobbed, and barges made their slow procession up to Goole or down to Spurn . . ."