STILL OCCUPIED

Peter Marshall

A view of Hull

Docks


32p16: Bulk storage tank, King George V Dock, 1982 - Docks

 
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Still Occupied

Images on this site are arranged into rough areas by location as in my book 'Still Occupied', available on Blurb. Eventually this site will contain all the images in that book and more.


The riverside path led from Alexandra Dock to King George V Dock alongside the Humber with much of the route running alongside a wooden fence which screened off the docks. On the Humber side were several wharves including one where ferries to the continent berthed.
 
Over the fence were a number of tanks or various sizes, including a large one with the name 'UNITED MOLASSES'. There web site says that their storage capacity for industrial and food products - molasses, vegetable oils and related products - here is now around 32.5 cubic metres, with tanks from 40 to 2,600 cubic metres.
 
The company was founded in 1911 and first registered as United Molasses in 1926. It built its first bulk tank in Hull at Victoria Dock in 1911, which received its first bulk shipment of 1,800 tonnes of molasses from the sailing barque Sunlight in 1912. The company was acquired by Tate & Lyle in 1964 and they sold it in 2010 and it is now the UM Group.

 

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