Hull and Hereabouts

I've shown the Eagle on the corner of Coltman Street and Anlaby Road a couple of times before ( here and here ). The place has lo...

... since I posted anything. The new year sees Hull and all things Hully still much the same. Be assured you haven't missed anythin...

I've shown this former cinema before but so long ago that a revisit is almost obligatory. The place has had many uses it is now a n...

It seems Dope Burger have got a bigger van and it's hungry. Colourful though it may be it's parked on a double yellow on Anlaby...

This is all that remains of the Salvation Army Citadel on Anlaby Road, a crumbling door step. It stood next to the ill famed New York Ho...

Lillian "Big Lil" Bilocca The only memories that I have of Hull from my childhood back in the swinging sixties in the idylli...

Also while I was away the Council finally took a big deep breath and blew down the New York hotel , well maybe a JCB was involved, but a...

Parked up on Midland Street this decorated van belongs to a take away, or rather a fast food restaurant,  by the name of Dope Burger on...

Anlaby Road, Hull The Weekend in Black and White is here .

...and that makes three. Following fires at the Cornmill Hotel and then Lambert Street chapel it seemed only a matter of time before y...

Carr Lane I was in town this afternoon on a spot of business and ran into a classic Hull gridlock with buses backed up on Carr Lane, Fe...

Through the agency of time or, more likely thieving little hands, the Eagle on Anlaby Road has been transformed into the Fagle which, a...

...or yet another photo of Anlaby Road.  In the foreground is EYMS' Hull garage. EYMS quite rightly put up fares when the oil pric...

With the demolition the other week of Highcourt  this building, Hull Royal Infirmary, became Hull's tallest building. At 57m (187 ft...

For no particular reason here is the Anlaby Road end of Midland Street from the station car park. The place hasn't changed much,...

Singing too-ral-li, oo-ral-li, addity, Singing too-ral-li, oo-ral-li, ay, Singing too-ral-li, oo-ral-li, addity, And we're bound ...

I don't know what it is about this particular site on Anlaby Road but it attracts unusual adverts  and this, should the barriers I...

Well I came to see if was still here and indeed the former Alfred Percy's York Commercial and Temperance Hotel better known as the ...

I can't believe I haven't posted this former cinema before now. It stands on the corner of Ferensway and Anlaby Road. The Cecil ...

Here's the art deco-ish front of what was originally the Kinemacolour Picture Palace opened back in 1910, that title was clearly t...