Hull and Hereabouts

... and also with the passing of the years there comes a dropping off, a lack of interest, a failure to be aroused, I suppose it was in...

This is Hull: Unique. Lively. Historical. Exciting. Friendly. Colourful. Cultural. Artistic. Limitless. And Sorry! Not in service. Th...

It seems that 1970s browned glass windows (some call it 'gold' but some is fools) that give photographers such nice reflections a...

You can if you like just look at the picture of the pretty lights on Ferensway and move on. I'm going to prattle on about the City ...

If you have a super-duper memory you will recall seeing the self-same store way back in 2012 . Back then the threat was of redevelopment...

I'd be a right old hypocrite if I could tell you anything about this play that was put on last year at the over endowed new Spring S...

A while ago the local School of Art and Design teamed up with a bus company "to transform two double-decker buses into modern mast...

You know how I like the Council and greatly admire the wisdom of  its ways. Well this week I learnt that in order to minimise disruption...

A bit of skyline on Ferensway with the St Stephens on the right, the arches of Paragon Station and the new coffee hut which, on closer in...

The rather silly Boer War memorial on Ferensway makes a nice perch for a sea gull. I think he improves it tremendously; I'm  thinkin...

Take the bus, they say, to ease traffic congestion ...

I last posted about the new "swanky" hotel on Ferensway back in April when it looked like this . Since then the rooms, which co...

If the C of C can spend a small fortune on silly Hull puns then I'm making no apologies for this. The design of this years display i...

The Royal Hotel on Ferensway has joined the jamboree with these pieces of pseudomarmoreal pulchritude. Nothing says 'culture' b...

You can't have a year long bean fest without some promotion and as with all advertising the less you mention the product the better....

I mentioned last year plans to build a new hotel on the site of a former dance hall/disco/nightclub/knocking shop on Ferensway. Well it...

The weekend in black and white is here .

This month's theme of 'abandoned' could have been designed for Hull. It's like shooting fish in a barrel (did anybody ev...

On this cleared site sometime in the late fifties or sixties was built the Mecca Ballroom known rather romantically as the Locarno, a pl...

Another sign on the via dolorosa that is the Larkin Trail , this on the doorway of the Royal Station Hotel .  You are dying to read...