Hull and Hereabouts

Maritime Museum Right, so back in the city of culture a few buildings in the town appear to be illuminated in ever changing colours. Th...

Hull has its own sudden elegancies. Philip Larkin   The fiddling around by the Council with Queen's Gardens does mean that th...

The public works were due to be finished today but to no-one's great surprise some bits and bobs are running a tad late. So we'l...

Hull was and still is to some extent noted for its fine Victorian and Edwardian architecture, though many buildings were demolished in t...

The City of Culture thing is under way as I may have mentioned. The year is being financed by 'partners' or sponsors in common p...

Queen Victoria Square was veritable hive of activity as the finishing touches are applied to the multi-million pound make over. We are a...

Here's an advertisement for the effectiveness of bird protection measures; they work so well and the birds feel so protected they se...

This is not just any bus parked up outside City Hall, no this is a Beat the Street bus, a luxury coach for the entertainment industry co...

On Saturday in town there was a choice between evangelical rap (or was it hip-hop? my ignorance of pop genres is vast) renditions of bi...

The Christmas tree is deepest red Its plastic leaves will ne'er be shed. I hadn't been into town for over a month so I ...

They seemed to be packing a whole year's worth of 'culture' into one afternoon in Hull yesterday. The day started with the L...

Long, long ago Margot's parents came to Hull for her graduation ceremony in the City Hall. They stopped off for a meal in a Chinese ...

Here's the City Hall on a bright sunny day. The City Hall is not to be confused with the Guildhall which is the seat of local polit...

Quite why there is a fish tailed signpost for the national cycle network outside the City Hall I don't know. It was put there in ...

The newish Barclay's bank has wonderful blue reflective windows so I had to point the Fuji and click. That's the City Hall in the ba...

  English Heritage has a detailed record of this building; a sample of the lengths to which they go is as follows: "Above the dentill...