"Harry Cartlidge (1893-1987) took his first pictures at the age of 13 and for the next seventy years was never without a camera. For many years he was a clerk in the railway offices on the Hull Fish Dock which gave him a golden opportunity to capture the ships, men and vehicles of Britain's busiest fishing port. His roving eye, however, took in a much wider scene around the town and East Yorkshire as well as trips to London and the coast. From 1925 his pictures were in great demand for a variety of magazines, and with his work regularly appearing in the local and national newspapers, including his scoop-photographs of the Fish Dock fire, in 1929. Harry won many awards from the Amateur Photographer magazine and a gold medal at the Yorkshire Evening News Photographic Fair, Leeds, 1950. After retiring from the railways he acquired a Leica 35mm camera. Until then Harry had used a medium format camera, and won awards in 1960 in London and Berlin. This publication shows a sample of the many thousands of negatives preserved in the Hull Maritime Museum and is published as a tribute to the skill and enthusiasm of the Hull born photographer. It is appropriately issued in 1998, designated 'The Year of Photography'. The selection has been made by Arthur G. Credland, Keeper of Marine History, Hull Museums, who has sorted and catalogued the Cartlidge Collection."--Provided by the publisher