Hull and Hereabouts

I mentioned in a post a while back that every year on Valentines Day the Tuesday Market in King's Lynn becomes fun fair for a fortni...

"The French Revolution caused great loss of life, liberty, fraternity, etc., and was, of course, a Good Thing, since the French wer...

Round and round it comes again the Autumnal forced fun fest. Hull Fair, centuries old, seemingly never changing and just as noisy, smel...

To entertain the young ones (or possibly their parents) during the long vacation a funfair of sorts has sprung up outside St Stephens. J...

I've just realised that the other day when I said they were making ready for the tourists to pour in that  in fact they were repairi...

As if the good folks of Hull haven't just had a whole week of fun fairs another mini-fair springs up on my favourite tree lined aven...

So, at long last, we reach Hull Fair which in one form or another has been going on for 720 or so years and is the largest travelling fa...

Before we get to the Fair we must pass the KC Stadium. Up close the stadium is an ugly brute reminiscent of an overgrown steel can...

So this is Hull Fair week, as I may have mentioned, and for a change I went via a new (to me) route across the rail tracks and scrub lan...

It's that time of year again, when Europe's largest travelling fair parks itself in west Hull for a week. It's as popular a...

The second week in October brings Hull Fair. One of the largest travelling fairs in Europe. It lasts a week and brings with it attendant pr...