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SPRING 1998 HULL'S FISHING HERITAGE SUBJECTS ARTWORK - Images based upon archive material. For example, old-style clothing, houses, workplaces, trawlers, net-braiders, fish-factory workers, school pupils, and youngsters at the lock-gates waiting for dad to return from the Arctic waters. GEOGRAPHY - Locally this can focus on the western spread of Hull from the Old Town. Further afield, a study could be made of the deep-sea fishing grounds of the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, Russia, and the North Sea; as well as the rugged coast-lines of Yorkshire, Scotland, and Norway where numerous Hull trawlers were wrecked. ENGLISH - Creative writing of stories based upon historical material: the 1904 Russian Outrage; street-party celebrations after each World War; helping mother braid nets in the terrace; and the child's response to the 1968 triple trawler tragedy. CRAFTS - Woodwork models, embroidery based upon pre-WWI pictures showing street scenes, dock life, and trawling at sea. LOCAL HISTORY - The history of Hull is firmly linked with that of the trawling industry from the 1840s onwards. The changes around the Hessle Road area in West Hull provide a stimulating topic of local interest. Some of the many topics are: street names, trawlers firms, railways, fish dock activities, urban changes (growth and demolition), women in the community, crewmen between trips, backhanders, lost trawlers, etc. RELIGION - The different types of de-nominations in the fishing community, e.g., Anglican, Methodists, Primitives, Royal National Mission to Deep-sea Fishermen, the tiny Fishermen's Bethel, Sunday Schools, synagogues, social activities, superstitions, etc. READING - Short stories related to the trawling work and fishing community - life in the old days and the abstract notions of 'community spirit' (what does it mean?) HUMANITIES / SOCIAL STUDIES - A study of the community could highlight the functions of corner shops, pawnbrokers, wash-houses, slipper baths, schooldays in the 1950s, pubs, men out of a ship, trawling as an 'extreme occupation' with the dangerous conditions and high loss of life, family pressures, and widows in poverty. NATURE STUDY - Different studies of species of fish, migration of fish and birds, weather (storms), survival in blizzards, navigational aspects, Arctic conditions. URBAN GROWTH - The transition of Anglo-Saxon Myton (the pre-Hessle Road area) from a medieval sheep-grazing-meadow land (owned by the Monks of Meaux and, later, Lady Maud Camin) to a dairy-producing region, to an elegant 'posh' housing district, to the industrial changes and the need to housethe growing population. The Housing Acts of the 1850s in response to the dreadful 1849 Cholera epidemic.
PHOTOGRAPHY - Camera skills in documenting people in their own environment (e.g., Edwardian period of John Briggs ??). Plus studio photography and crewman along their trawlers. INTERVIEW SKILLS - Workshop sessions about obtaining information - oral history - especially from elderly people who experienced life in the 'Good Old Days'. |
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