3-034-723 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new dock offices, Hull, 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. W. J. Wellsted and Son. 'The new building stands on a site facing three ways - towards Junction-street, New Cross-street, and the Queen's Dock...The style of architecture is Italian, of the Venetian type. The three fronts are similar; each built of stone, having a range of coupled Ionic pilasters below and of Corinthian pilasters above. The pediment over the main entrance portico, in Junction-street, is adorned with sculptures representing the figures of Commerce and Prosperity and the river-god Humber, and the arms of the town, the Dock Company, and the Trinity House. The ground floor contains the wharfage offices...On the first floor is the proprietors' court-room...There are directors' rooms, secretary's rooms, resident engineer's, dockmaster's, and superintendent's, with other apartments. The architect is Mr. C. J. Wray; the building work has been done by the Hull Dock Company's own labourers, under the direction of Mr. R. A. Marillier, resident engineer. The collection under one roof of all the company's offices will be a great convenience. They had, before this, been scattered in different parts of the town'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.