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Admin History:

The Drypool Engineering Company Limited of Hull were marine engineers. In the early years, they operated on two sites; The first, on the High Street, was used as their registered offices and a dry dock, whilst the other was a works on Church Street. However these premises had been established by former businesses

Samuel and Mary Walton ran a ship building business on the High Street site in the 1820s as did Spencer and Gardam in the 1860s. By 1899 the site was run as a dry dock by Henry Harper. Just prior to Drypool Engineering taking over the dock, it had been owned by the Hull Ship Repairing and Dry Dock Company. The Church Street works had been built over what had been William Street, which itself was later renamed Hodge Street. This had housed a seed crushing mill

Drypool Engineering first appears in the trade directories in 1916. In 1963 it employed 300 men. During the 1960s it expanded by taking over other business in Bridlington and Selby. By 1972 Drypool Engineering and Dry Dock Limited was a private company working in the field of ship repairs and shipbuilding with seven bases of operation. In Hull these were as follows: main offices and general repairs at 1, High Street; Humber Street, general repair work; engineering work at Church Street; machinery installation at William Wright Dock; general repair and electrical work at Union Dry Dock and in Selby, ship building and design work. The company went into receivership in 1976

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Deeds relating to property owned by the Drypool Engineering and Dry Dock