It was also much more exciting, not just the ferry trip but getting on to the ferry at New Holland was like taking your car onto the big dipper at the fair.I jest not, it was truly heart stopping especially in frosty or snowy weather.At the Hull end on the north bank of the River Humber everything was conventional and made of metal and strong and short and everything like that!Back on the South bank it was as if you had gone back into the middle ages before anyone had heard of steel or strong structures. It was wooden and wobbly, with piles stuck into the mud attached to wooden crosspieces and lot and lots of planks that rattled along as you crossed them.There must have been a reason for it, I know the boats were further out into the river than at Hull, so it must have been shallow and inaccessible close in to the bank?Anyway, for a small boy it was like a trip to the fair….but using your own car on the rides!I think my mother just closed her eyes, I know she did not like this part of the journey one little bit.To start with, car owners wishing to access the ferry boats had to mount the railway platform at New Holland and then just continue on the extension of the platform that quickly became a wooden structure held up by what looked like telegraph poles.I think it is fair to say it was unique, there was nothing else quite like it and doubtless the health and safety mad world we live in now would have it condemned out of hand!Thank you for listening to our Buzzsprout audio stories.You can follow many of these with added film and photographs as videos and slide showson our YouTube Channel at "cracker books on youtube".WEB SITE CHANGE: New Web site at www.crackerbooks.frAt the same time, Cracker Books have produced 10 complete page turninge-books on their own Site.All the books are free to download to any device.Have a look at our bookcase and view all the book details. http://online.flipbuilder.com/crackerbooks/ Finally for lots of further information about what we publish and why have a look at our website at www.crackerbooks.fr

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