Maritime Musuem from Princes Quay

A different view of the museum I mentioned a few days ago. This is Princes Quay, an old dock that is now a shopping mall. The dock used to lead  past the Dock Offices to another, larger, dock that has now been filled in. Where the lamppost is in the middle there used to be large monument to William Wilberforce. 

Princes Quay and the Dock offices were painted in the 19th century by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

Choices, choices

Democracy in action, or should that be inaction?

Cornflower

Paragon Street, Hull

The domed building in the distance used to be the Dock Offices and is now a maritime museum complete with a mermaid.
I should mention that the swifts are here at last. "They’ve made it again/ Which means the globe’s still working . . ."

Trade: old and new

This is the entrance to what is now Hull's Marina but what used to be a busy trading dock. During the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of emigrants from Europe passed through this dock on their way to the train for Liverpool and the boats to America. The tide is out showing a gloriously muddy basin.

The glass construction is a World Trade Centre; a different sort of trading goes on in there.

Liminality

This welcoming sign is just across the street from my house. The city boundary is the middle of the road, literally. No-one is quite sure who runs what in this area, the City council or the neighbouring East Yorkshire County council. For example, the streetlight on the left is apparently the responsibility of neither council and both refuse to fix it when it fails.  

Mayday Bee