Hessle Road - Hull - with Keith Marsden

Subject: RE: Hessle Road - Hull - with Keith Marsden
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Apr 25 - 03:19 AM

yes a fine songwriter, here is another song that deals with that subject Farewell to the Humber and Dogger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peA18SO9afU

Subject: RE: Hessle Road - Hull - with Keith Marsden
From: r.padgett
Date: 21 Apr 25 - 03:50 AM

Yes Keith was a master song writer and the plight of UK fishing and the lives of fisher men is sad telling

In Grimsby they suffered similarly "The North Wall" written by Dave Evardson is another fine song regard the fishing demise

Ray

Subject: Hessle Road
From: GUEST,Bob Chance
Date: 20 Apr 25 - 04:35 PM

I had the privilege of going, one Sunday lunchtime, to Rayner's Bar on Hessle Road with Keith Marsden to research the demise of Hull's deep sea fishing industry and the demise of Hessle Road. This was for a set of programmes for Radio Humberside back around 1980.
Keith got talking to an old trawlerman, who agreed to walk round the docks with us and tell us about the final days of the fishing in Hull and the end of Hessle Road.
The song encapsulates what this guy told us as we saw the Dock basins full of laid-u trawlers, including the sister ship of the Gaul
(Remember that?).
Anyway, I sang Hessle Road on the radio show and have sung it since in Hull at the shanty festivals and seen the reaction of locals who remember those days.
Keith was a great songwriter and 9could capture the situation and the emotion. It's been a while, but I still miss him.