| Summary: | This chapter steps ashore into Hull’s fishing district of Hessle Road. Using concepts of place drawn from phenomenological geography, non-representational theory and Ingold’s notion of the taskscape, it provides a model for examining the port-city in transition. As a companion to Hugil’s Sailortown, Trawlertown is introduced as a space within yet separate to the wider city, created by the physical presence and daily interactions of Arctic trawling. Oral accounts explore the neighbourhood of Hessle Road and St Andrew’s Fish Dock in a 1950s and 1960s heyday, revealing the interdependency of dock and district. The chapter then considers the physical, social and cultural impact of post-war housing clearance and dispersal, which coincided with the collapse of trawling, just as the fleet itself was transferring to new modern facilities in Albert and William Wright Dock. As the interactions and spaces of the fishery declined, Trawlertown dissolved back into the city. However, physical traces remained that were vested with memory, meaning and a sense of legacy. In the years that followed, these remnant spaces were to become the focus of the fishing community’s struggle for remembrance, representation and heritage.
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