Decaying wooden barge

Week 50 River Hull

The River Hull commences near Driffield and via Beverley flows into the Humber at Hull. It is navigable from the Humber to within a few miles of Driffield, where the Driffield canal took over to bring vessels to Riverhead and the warehouses on the south side of the town. The canal has been overgrown and unused for a number of years, but there is a movement to re-open the canal. I heard that there were big moves to remove obstructions and dredge parts of the river Hull to allow pleasure crafts to get to Driffield. Whilst out walking at the side of the river Hull near Beverley, I came across this rotting wooden hulk, semi sunk and wondered if they had been unable to move it, on the grounds that it was probably by now home to a multitude of special flora and fauna.