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(Kingston-upon-Hull) East Riding of Yorkshire Yorkshire & Humberside Old Town, various places |
Hull Fish TrailFish Pavement |
Gordon Young
1992 |
The Hull Fish Trail features mostly reliefs of fish made from traditional materials in the pavement. The artist Gordon Young created the trail of sculptures in 1992 - representing the actual size of fish with life size pieces, from a tiny anchovy to a 10ft ray. His sense of humour surfaces with the placing of a plaice in the market place, an electric eel outside the electricity sub station and a shark outside a bank... The trail starts at Hull City Hall and takes you around the marina, pier head and around the old town before returning to the start. The trail was laid out in 1992 and in July 2019 one of them was no longer present, and three (nos. 11-13) could not be seen because of reconstruction works.
The lead artist was Gordon Young; with assistance from Martin Bellwood, Russell Coleman, Ian Cooper and Brian Fell.
Walk Route: Queen Victoria Square > Princes Dock Street > Posterngate > North Church Side > Market Place > South Church Side > Fish Street > Castle Street > Humber Dock Street > Victoria Pier > Queen Street > High Street > Aldred Gelder Street > Whitefriargate.
NB. Since nos. 11, 12 and 13 are all on one block, and 15, 16 and 17 in one relief, there are only 37 stations.
| 1. Anchovy 36 chromed bronzes (King Edward Street, at SE corner of Town Hall) |
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| 2. Lobster 8 lobsters in cornish slate (Carr Lane at Whitefriargate) |
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| 3. Cod cast in bronze and chrome set in Carrara marble (Carr Lane at Whitefriargate) |
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| 4. X Ray Fish (etched in glass at the Beverley Gate, we didn't find them) |
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| 5. Flying Fish Two reliefs in York stone and two metal cut out fish (Princess Dock Yard 26) |
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| 6. Herring hundreds of bricks (south-side sidewalk of Posterngate) |
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| 7. Plaice four reliefs in York stone, we found only one (Trinity Square at King Street) |
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| 8. Mackerel (Market Place at North Church Side) |
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| 9. Dogfish 10. Catfish beaten lead etched in Elland Edge Flag rock (Castle Street / Dagger Lane) |
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| 11. Starfish 12. Mussel 13. Warty Doris |
not visible because of construction works, July 2019 |
| 14. Swordfish Cornish slate (Humber Dock Promenade) |
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| 15. Quid 16. Viviparous 17. Blenny and Yawling one stone (Hopton Wood Stone) with three fish (Henry Vernone Court / Minerva Terrace) |
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| 18. Haddock black Belgian marble (Minerva Terrace) |
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| 19. Umber several fish branded in the timbers (Victoria Pier) |
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| 20. Ray Staffordshire black bricks, 3 m wide (the largest of all reliefs) (Nelson Street) |
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| 21. Turbot granite (Nelson Street) |
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| 22. Naucrates Ductor Elland Edge Flag rock (Queen Street) |
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| 23. Garfish Cumbrian green slate (Queen Street) |
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| 24. Icefish Carrara marble (High Street at Blackfriargate) |
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| 25. Eel 14 cut steel eels in the timber of the river Hull boardwalk (between Church Lane Staith and Scale Lane Staith) |
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| 26. Salmon cut out steel fish on a corten steel base (East ramp of Scale Lane Bridge) |
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| 27. Crab moulded brick (High Street 157/159) |
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| 28. Shrimp polished slate (the smallest of all fish reliefs) (High Street 167) |
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| 29. Whitebait hundreds of imprinted Ketley bricks (south-side sidewalk of Gandhi Way) |
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| 30. Electric Eel Derbyshire grit stone (Gandhi Way / Alfred Gelder Street) |
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| 31. Sea Trout York stone (Alfred Gelder Street, 20 m east of Lowgate) |
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| 32. Lumpsucker York stone (Alfred Gelder Street / Lowgate) |
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| 33. John Dory black enamel in Orton scar stone (Lowgate, Under the tower of St. Mary the Virgin) |
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| 34. Brill York stone (Lowgate, 20 m north of Bishop Lane) |
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| 35. Gurnard or Sea Robin Lazenby red stone (Lowgate, in front of Exchange Court) |
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| 36. Squid cast iron (Exchange Court) |
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| 37. Oarfish red enamel in Hopton Wood stone (Exchange Court, under the gate at Bowlalley Lane) |
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| 38. Hake cut in steel (Bowlalley Lane, alley to Ye Olde White Harte) |
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| 39. Monkfish black Belgian marble (Whitefriargate 64-66) |
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| 40. Shark Cornish slate (Whitefriargate at Parliament Street) |
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| 41. Zander Cumbrian green slate (Whitefriargate) |
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N.B. The marker on the map of Hull indicates fish no. 1. On the map below are all fish marked.
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