This impressive terrace looks out over the beach and boating lake that I showed in the last two days.There are hotels at each end but the middle section is apartments
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
South Marine Drive, Bridlington
This impressive terrace looks out over the beach and boating lake that I showed in the last two days.There are hotels at each end but the middle section is apartments
Monday, 25 October 2010
End of Season Bridlington
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Progress from Albert Dock, Hull
Running along the Humber to the west of the River Hull is the Albert Dock. It was built between 1863 and 1869 and named after Prince Albert; Victoria Dock was built earlier on the east side of the Hull (sickening the sycophancy of our ancestors). It was extended in 1880 by the addition of the William Wright Dock (he was chairman of the Dock Company). It's the best part of a mile long. Surprisingly (well it's a surprise to me) the dock is still in use for general cargo and a few fishing boats. There's also a training place for the North Sea oil rigs. Far off in the background you can just make out the Humber Bridge.
Below is the view eastwards through the dock gates showing (just) the P&O ferry to Zeebrugge and Rotterdam in King George dock (another dock, another royal).
Finally here's the wide brown Humber that the dock leads into. The name Humber might come from an ancient , pre-celtic word meaning river, or it might be, as Geoffrey of Monmouth has it, named after Humber the Hun. Whatever the history, it's a wide old stream and now a very important waterway with the modern docks of Hull and North Lincolnshire being some of the busiest in Europe.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Tidal Barrier, Hull
The Tidal Barrier has recently been overhauled and improved so we should be safe from destruction by flood at least for the next couple of decades.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Heaven & Hell
Heaven and Hell on Anne Street is, you will be delighted to learn, available for hire. Entrance is free but you can never leave ....
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
'merican golf
A little splash of colour (should that be color?) on Castle Street. Those aren't parked cars just part of the continuous stream down this busy road.
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