Hull and Hereabouts

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investiga...

If you haven't been to Withernsea then all I can say is that you haven't lived. With its balmy sandy beaches and inviting blue w...

Here's the law courts building once again, this time from the top of the bus heading out to Holderness Road.

Quite right! Nothing like putting your feet up with a large G&T (a pint might be pushing it but who's gonna know?) and letting s...

Maritime buildings are on Alfred Gelder Street close by the Guildhall and were actually designed by our old friends Gelder & Kitche...

Alfred Gelder Street, Hull This colourful bicycle advert is for teacher training in Hull ( School Centred Initial Teacher Training !) a...

Guildhall, Hull It's a little known fact the Hull was once a Swedish city and that there was much trade with that Baltic country in...

I sometimes wonder if there was once a competition to see who could commission the most uninspiring buildings with the winners getting t...

In days of yore when town councils could raise their own taxes without interference from a very fat man in Whitehall it was considered ...

This is an early example of developing a brown field site, re-using a former industrial area. In this case the Broadley Street gas works...

Next door to Essex House is a completely different building, turn-of-the-century Queen Anne revivalish offices with art nouveau trimming...

Essex House is a late sixties/early seventies addition to Hull's eclectic architecture, a substantial office block squeezed into the...

I get you might want to make a buck or two out of the fortunate surroundings you find yourself in, and I'm not going to knock any ar...

I've never really looked at this entrance before. It's on Alfred Gelder Street and is part of the Guildhall. It's no longer ...

A sad little note in the window of the White Hart on Alfred Gelder Street informs the world that it is closed "due to the curren...

I got a bit of a shock when I saw this place closed. Surely, I thought, they can't have abolished Citizens Advice along with the res...

So here's the Guildhall, on the right, stretching all the way down Alfred Gelder Street. It's a large piece of Edwardian civic p...

High above the entrance to the old County Court sits this statue that I assume is meant to represent justice since it has a set of scales in...

  When Hull became a city in 1897 obviously it would have a new town hall, so the old one was pulled down and this cathedral to municipal mi...