STILL OCCUPIED

Peter Marshall

A view of Hull

Docks


32p53 - Telstar, Victoria Docks, 1982 - Docks

 
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Still Occupied

Images on this site are arranged into rough areas by location as in my book 'Still Occupied', available on Blurb. Eventually this site will contain all the images in that book and more.


Telstar was I think TELSTAR CARAVANS LIMITED, a company who made caravans and whose registered office had the address Victoria Dock, Hull and went into liquidation in 1978-80. I'm not sure of its exact location in the dock but think it must have been to the west of the Half-Tide basin which I photographed a few frames later, and is fairly close to the bank of the Humber, perhaps near the slipway in what was once the LNER dock yard.
 
Probably the company was named after the 1962 instrumental hit written and produced by Joe Meek for the Tornados, which got it's name from the first communications satellite to transmit TV across the Atlantic, Telstar 1, also launched in 1962.

 

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