Hull and Hereabouts

I posted the Guildhall on the Saturday Market before, here , but I don't think I came close to showing its full splendour. This stit...

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investiga...

Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost                                                  L. Cohen Close b...

  Ah so there's our old friend Mankind Under Threat squatting in the belated May sunshine all safe and sound now betwixt the City ...

If you feel a little cheated, let down perhaps, by all the build up of yesterday's post then the feeling is mutual. Saturday Marke...

Peer closely at the top of the Guildhall tower and you might just make out  a ball with pole sticking out of it. Yup not an impressiv...

Guildhall, Hull It's a little known fact the Hull was once a Swedish city and that there was much trade with that Baltic country in...

In days of yore when town councils could raise their own taxes without interference from a very fat man in Whitehall it was considered ...

This is an early example of developing a brown field site, re-using a former industrial area. In this case the Broadley Street gas works...

County Hall or Guildhall? Meh! It had got to be written down, it had got to be confessed. What he had suddenly seen in the lamplight wa...

I've never really looked at this entrance before. It's on Alfred Gelder Street and is part of the Guildhall. It's no longer ...

This is the chimney of the Guildhall's boiler house used to keep the Council Chambers warm. Nowadays the need for economies has led ...

So here's the Guildhall, on the right, stretching all the way down Alfred Gelder Street. It's a large piece of Edwardian civic p...

Around the corner from the Charterhouse is Bourne Street which has nothing much to boast about other than a view of  this alignment of co...

...or so it seems. I doubt any amount of elbow grease will polish up the image of this place.

The latest statue to appear in Hull is this larger-than-life-size imitation of  Chairman Mao, oops, sorry, no; that's Sir Leo Schultz. T...

The Guildhall and Law Courts reflected in the Transport Museum's specially darkened windows. One day I might actually go inside.

  When Hull became a city in 1897 obviously it would have a new town hall, so the old one was pulled down and this cathedral to municipal mi...