Hull and Hereabouts

This year's graduates are the usual noisy, raucous bunch, with no manners or respect for their elders. This one graduated with first cla...

Blogger allows you to make draft postings and somehow this picture has been hidden away in the "draft" for so long I've f...

Bridlington pier attracts all sorts who bring along all the right gear to catch either the light or the odd passing codling or flounder ....

We went to Bridlington the other day. It was closed. Hibernating until well into next year, waiting for those glorious post-Brexit days...

I was going to call this something like 'next stop Hamburg' since if you keep going East over that horizon you'll end up clo...

Serving battered fried fish and chips must be a lucrative business as Audrey's in Bridlington seems to have doubled in size since I ...

Well it's not quite a beautiful mosaic (not even close) but for a public convenience in Bridlington this brickwork doesn't loo...

A few yards further along from the Spa is this new-to-me lifeboat station which with its white curves and windows pays a passing homage ...

Though Pirates grow old And their beards go grey It's never too cold For a trip round the bay. OK I'll give up the d...

...In Rangoon the heat of noon Is just what the natives shun ... I write this as snow and hail are gently falling like a flensing kn...

By the harbour side and no doubt as part of some tourist trail or other these two figures appear demanding answers. I'll start with ...

I'm keeping out of the city of culture for a few days; they have taken to dancing in an old graveyard while stuffing their faces all...

Being too lazy to step back a bit in order to get the whole gateway in view I thought I'd just take half a dozen pictures and stitch...

I couldn't go to the seaside and not take a picture of seagulls, well actually Margot took this but that's just nit picking. T...

You can achieve wonders by upping the saturation and artfully cropping out unwanted chip shop chimneys to give an almost Mediterranean...

Bridlington's south beach has a wonderful view of a wind farm which I suppose is a step up from the view from the beach near where I...

You might think that having suffered two years of orange barriers in Hull you would be safe to take a day out and not come across any of...

Hard now to imagine the thousands who came to Bridlington for their annual holiday but the evidence of their visitations lies in these t...

In those optimistic years of 2007/08 a Ferris wheel stood large and proud on Bridlington's north shore fun fair. It styled itself as...