Bessey and Clarkson is a collborative ongoing project. The duo are currently researching the history of the PS Lincoln Castle : a coal-fired side-wheel paddle steamer, which ferried passengers across the Humber from the Second World War until 1978.
She was the last coal-fired paddle steamer still in regular services in the UK. Later, she served as a pub at Hessle, and then as a restaurant under permanent dock in Alexandra Dock Grimsby. The boat was demolished in October 2010.
The artists have subsequently shown their work which serves as a memorial to the boat as part of The All At Sea festival in Grimsby. This was then toured on to the Artworks4all exhibition at Grimsby library in April 2013.
Members of the public invited to submit their memories of the boat and broader ones of the sea via a slip into a ballot style box. Here are some of the responses:
'My grandad was called Garden Smith and he was a Scottish fisherman. My dad is now 76 and when he was 11, my grandad moved the family from Scotland to Grimsby and he then worked in the Grimsby fishing industry.' JB
'I have been there and done that.' J
'Every year my Grandad would take me across to Hull. Very fond memories of our trips. J