Hull and Hereabouts

If you wanted to take off all your clothes, paint yourself tourquoise and strut around Queen's Gardens in the name of 'culture...

“Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam”.                                                           Virgil The Greek myths tell of  gia...

I suppose I must mention that the Turner prize will be hosted by the Ferens in 2017. The announcement yesterday came with full reporting...

Well I don't know, the ceasefire was well known to be coming along , indeed by 5am that morning it had been signed, so just to keep ...

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 ...

The Punch was originally built in the 1840's ( see old photo here ) but was demolished and rebuilt in grand style in 1896. The exte...

Record crowds are flocking to the Ferens art gallery this year. First Warhol  now Leonardo da Vinci, from the ridiculous to the sublime ...

There's been an Andy Warhol exhibition at the Ferens art gallery most of this Summer. I went earlier in the year and was underwhelm...

The young woman in the fancy gown was in a bit of a hurry; the graduation ceremony for Hull University was about to begin. Various notables...