Plans for a bridge were originally drawn up in the 1930s, and were revised in 1955, but work did not begin until 1972. The bridge was finally opened officially by the Queen on 17 July 1981.

With a centre span of 1,410 metres (4,626 ft) and a total length of 2,220 metres (7,283 ft), the Humber Bridge was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world for 16 years.

Spurn Point by air from www.willouby.demon.co.uk/ramblersassociation

Spurn is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of Yorkshire reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is over 3 miles (5 km) long, almost half of the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (45 metres) wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and disused lighthouse. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Spurn, owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and covering 113 hectares (1.13 km²) above high water and 181 hectares (1.81 km²) of foreshore. It is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.

Lighthouses have been located on Spurn for over five hundred years. In 1852 the low lighthouse was built on the Humber foreshore (as shown in foreground in photos above). However as there was evidence that the foundations of this lighthouse were giving way the present lighthouse was erected in 1895 (as shown in background in photos above).

The low lighthouse then became unnecessary and it became a store for explosives and later was topped by a water storage tank. The high lighthouse shone out over Spurn (apart from during war-time) for 90 years, until in 1985 modern technology made it redundant.