Hull and Hereabouts

Those thoughtful people who gave us the generous expansive footpath that I posted the other day just can't seem to control their ur...

Not much chance of doing anything else on this footpath from Albert Dock .

The weekend in black and white is here

A veritable fleet of gas platform supply vessels was filling up the usually empty Albert Dock the other day. These belong to a company c...

I mentioned yesterday that they'd built a big bridge up the road from the ferry terminus, well 'up the road' is really five ...

Albert Dock at high tide As the horse goes clip-clopping down the street those who ought to have known better have come to the astonish...

Exceptional conditions show up the vulnerable spots in any defense. So it was earlier this month when the highest tide ever recorded br...

Here the high rise delights of Anlaby Road's hinterland punctuate the sky with a gentle toxic glow in the evening sunshine. From thi...

A nice bit of gloom over Albert Dock. Those with good vision will be able to pick out the Humber Bridge stretching away in the distanc...

Did you know that over a million passengers use the port of Hull every year? No, nor did I. P & O have ferries to Zeebrugge and Rot...

Wind! Hull is set on making a living out of wind power. The council earlier this week gave planning permission for a massive wind turbin...

Another view of the oilrig training facilty on Albert Dock.  

Here the business end of a dockside crane neatly frames the tower of Holy Trinity church.

Here's what is claimed to be the "finest dockside training facility in the UK" and who am I to argue? These colourful lifeboat...

There's been a path along the banks of the Humber for hundreds possibly thousands of years so when a warehouse was built on the foresho...

Here the Albert Dock stretches away towards the Humber Bridge.

 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 A...