Hull and Hereabouts

So to the Westwood where there was still plenty of greenery about but quite few trees giving up on the year and getting ready for an ex...

I posted about this remnant of Beverley's town walls so many years ago there's no harm in going back again. Back then I told th...

This old tree, I think it's a lime tree, is huge, not tall particularly but wide; some of its branches must be forty or fifty foot l...

I made a brief sojourn to Beverley Westwood on a hazy June day. I don't think I've ever seen so many buttercups. The cattle that...

These old straw bales lie, or rather, lay since this was taken yonks ago, somewhere alongside the bridle path between Cottingham and Be...

And while I was on the Westwood I thought I may as well take some more Autumnal pictures. This Autumn has been a particularly colourful...

So, back to see that old tree  again and, well, as you can see the roadside is still one big car park . These are not day-trippers enjoy...

These pictures, taken on Friday, show the intense effort to get things ready for today's grand opening of the Flemingate complex, sh...

From the 12th century wool was being exported from Beverley and in return traders from Flanders set up home and shop in  the area to the...

Seems that sometime earlier this year (April or May, does it matter?) there was a cycle race held in these parts. Maybe it was a follow ...

Well hardly, this is the well grazed almost manicured common land that is Beverley Westwood and much of what you see here is a golf curs...

Continuing in the vein of stuff that somehow didn't get posted earlier here are two statues from Beverley Minster. On the left King Æ...

And how did you spend your Christmas morning? Why trying to identify this fungus since you ask. And did you succeed in your mycologica...

As vaguely promised a few weeks ago here is the font of Beverley Minster with its elaborate cover dangling above it. The font itself is ...

When I was posting about Beverley Minster a few months back I somehow forgot to show you the ceiling which, compared to Holy Trinity...

As you might guess I'm not big on competing and the whole business of finding the so-called best  by this distasteful method leaves ...

Fish, preferably haddock, covered in beer and flour batter and deep fried in beef dripping with a large portion of thick cut chips fried...

I suppose the price of indulgence rises just like any other commodity but this cake shop (Patisserie! hah!) on Beverley's Butcher Ro...

I sometimes wonder what happen to all those monks after the dissolution of the monasteries, did they find alternative employment elsewhe...

Here as promised is the West window of Beverley Minster. I'm told it depicts figures and events in early Christianity in Northumbri...