Big Bridge’s Little Brother

A stylish new city landmark is helping celebrate Hull’s rich maritime heritage - a £7m innovative footbridge that plays birdsong and even offers pedestrians a UK first-of-its-kind “bridge ride”.

A new “little brother” for Hull’s world-famous Humber Bridge, this one crosses the River Hull rather than the Humber estuary, and provides an attractive link that allows visitors and locals to walk to and from the east bank of the city and the award-winning The Deep visitor attraction to the popular Museums Quarter in Hull Old Town.

Unlike the towering Humber Bridge suspension bridge that spans the two banks of the estuary, this new footbridge might be small in size, but is big on fun!

The 15-metre long movable pedestrian bridge is unique to Hull, and is the first in the UK where users can take a ride as it swings open to allow boats to pass through.

And the bridge - located close to Hull’s last sidewinder trawler the Arctic Corsair, now a floating visitor attraction - offers some unique sounds too.

Pedestrians can hear bird song when the bridge stands still, but as it opens for shipping those sounds are replaced by the maritime tones of ships' bells chiming.

The bridge is only a few minutes walk from Hull’s award winning Museums Quarter in Old Town, where visitors can encounter sea monsters, Romans and even a life-sized woolly mammoth.

As well as those attractions to be found at the Hull and East Riding Museum of Archaeology, the Museums Quarter is also home to?the Streetlife Museum of Transport, the birthplace of anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce and the Arctic Corsair seep sea trawler.

Further tourist information can be found at visithullandeastyorkshire.com.