We have moved ...

...across the street. Unless you've been an eremite of the old persuasion you will be aware of certain recent failings in the 'banking system'. Here the Bradford & Bingley stands empty; its business taken over by Santander has been moved to the old Alliance & Leicester. All that remains is a ghostly stain ... a monument to greed and stupidity.

Alignment

Around the corner from the Charterhouse is Bourne Street which has nothing much to boast about other than a view of  this alignment of columns and towers. From left to right: the Wilberforce monument, the spire of St Mary, Lowgate, the old Records Office and finally the Guildhall.

Charterhouse Reflections

 

Surrounded by the decay and demise of Hull's riverside industries, is an oasis of calm and tranquillity. This is the Charterhouse built by Sir Michael de la Pole in 1384 to house "13 poor men and 13 poor women, feeble or old". The original house was knocked down during the war, not the last war, but the Civil War in 1643 or thereabouts. It was rebuilt, knocked down and rebuilt as you see it in 1780. It is still a home for elderly with 34 apartments.

The poet and MP for Hull, Andrew Marvell lived here as his dad was master of the Charterhouse from 1624 to1640.

Drink in Moderation ....

 or else feel ....

Two practically adjacent watering holes on Carr lane.

Too good to last

Toogood Street has no buildings now and serves little purpose as it runs along the side of  land drain. In fact so useless is it that ten years ago the council applied to have it stopped up on the ground that it is no longer necessary for public use! This seems a bit of a sad ending for such a wonderfully named street.

The strange looking device is connected with clearing out  the drain which enters the river Hull nearby. 

Salvage

This sign is on the doors of the old Trinity House Boathouse on Tower Street ( here ).

Margaret Moxon Way

Here is the crossing from the bus station to the shopping centre. Some of the good people of Hull like to play a game of chicken with the buses entering and leaving the station off to the right of this picture.
I post this because the other day I was idly browsing through Hull in the virtual world that is Google Earth when I came across Margaret Moxon Way. I'd never heard of it. Turns out when the new bus/rail station was built those who decide these things also changed the name of the road; they'd had a competition to come up with a suitable name and apparently Maggie Moxon got the nod. I had to use a well known search engine to find out just who this lady was; a missionary to Sierra Leone and New Zealand no less. So now you know more than the local paper as it still reports the frequent accidents at this crossing as happening on Collier Street.