NEWS

Well everyone we have recently finished our 1st full year as a Bona fide Society and I think we can say it has been a very successful year.

We have grown our membership throughout and have had success in both raising sponsorship and promoting the Society in the Local and International Media (Leko).

We have good attendances at our social meets and have had great support from members on the society Memorabilia front.

We are also near to the completion and installation of the United Towing Company history, which will be put into the Hull History Centre for the public to view together with another copy for the archive.

The web site is also nearing completion and will, we hope, soon allow membership and purchases of memorabilia.

There will also be a members’ section, which will have additional information not viewable by the general public for more personal and relevant articles of more interest to members.

There was a recent trip to the History centre to look at how the centre works and the archive facility which, from the feedback I have received, was very interesting.

We have exhibitions arranged for this year starting with a two day event at the Veterans Weekend in East Park on the 30th and 31st of July which I think will be really good.

A further exhibition which will run for 4 months in the Maritime Museum, November and December 2016 and January and February 2017 Hull City of Culture year.

The above could not have been achieved without a tremendous amount of work from all Committee Members past and present.

We now have to continue our efforts to finalise our existing commitments and look for further ways to promote the society.

Regards

Mike Hussey

Chair.