32t43: Notice to fishing crews, St Andrew's Dock, 1982 - Docks
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Still Occupied
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This notice 'ALL CREWS TO BE DOWN BY 11AM FOR ORDERS OR SUBSTITUTES WILL BE FOUND' was in surprisingly good condition and suggests that this office in a building on St Andrew's Dock may still have been in use, despite the dock having closed almost 7 years earlier.
I cannot now recall exactly where this door was, but it must have been in a fairly dark area to have forced me to use flash to record it. Although I carried a small electronic flash unit in my camera bag, it was seldom used, not least because the results were not entirely predictable - and you only found out if they had been successful when the film was developed. Later I bought an expensive flash meter which removed most of the doubt.
British United Trawlers Ltd had led to move from St Andrews Dock, to accommodate its large freezer trawlers, but the move to William Wright Dock (the western end of Albert Dock, next to St Andrew's Dock) took place as the Cod Wars with Iceland's 200 mile limit and further restrictions from EU entry meant there was almost nowhere for Hull's fleet to fish. Two Hull family firms J Marr and Boyd Line survived in the later years. Boyd was taken over by the Icelandic company Eimskip in 2002 and Marr bought by Reykjavik based UK Fisheries, part of the Samherji group in 2006.
My flash technique was rudimentary in the extreme - the flash mounted on the hot shoe of the camera. This was probably taken with an Olympus OM2 which had one of the most advanced flash systems then available, the TTL OTF Auto Flash Exposure Control system which allowed the camera to meter flash, rather than relying on a photo-cell in the flash unit or, more often, a calculation using the flash guide number and the subject distance.
Peter Marshall
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