Hull and Hereabouts

The weekend in black and white is here .

Two score and seven years ago our fathers dragged us into a Continent, conceived in Error, and dedicated to the proposition that all men...

One of the first buildings I posted about was the Maritime Museum and over the years it has cropped up regularly (like a recurring toot...

Well now two days after the end of the world as we knew it and everything still seems to be going along just dandy. The markets fell the...

EU flags on Castle Street, Hull To assuage the snarling, swivel-eyed, hoopleheaded little englanders otherwise known as the Conservati...

This brought to mind memories of the physics lessons of my distant youth; the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection or so th...

At stations there are signs that politely inform the intending passenger that it is illegal to board a train without a ticket if you get...

A low pressure system over the North Sea was bringing down cloudy Polar Bear breath from Svarlbard or so it seemed on Saturday as I took...

" ... this most cultural-inimical sickness and unreasonableness that there is, nationalism, this névrose nationale with which Europ...

Seems to be the year for novel ways of  getting around the city and seeing the sights. I told you about the land train a few weeks bac...

I thought there would have been more of this football related nonsense about town given that the local club have reached the FA cup fina...

A rather tattered old rag hanging over the bankrupt Blockbuster video store on Newland Avenue. The news today that GDP will finally cree...

This is Castle Street which runs between the main shopping area on the left and the Marina on the right. It doesn't look it but this r...