Post by HPLA - Humber Personnel Labour Agency

Philip Larkin - 1961 ' By the time Larkin arrived, ten years after the war had ended . . . Hull was dispirited and run down, several of the big docks in the city centre were empty or filled in and the commercial future was uncertain. Amongst the ruins, people had to be grateful for small mercies . . . Wandering along the wooden cobbles of the deserted high street in the Old Town, past the disintegrating warehouses and sunken boats rotting in inland docks, he felt he was in a place set on the edge of things. Isolated on the hook of land which forms the north shore of the Humber, on the way to nowhere except the North Sea. The changing face of Hull ports - Circa 1948. Now overtaken with new housing development's and large enterprise's. #hull #docks #philiplarkin #history #ports