Hull and Hereabouts

Another one of those "been there for years" shops non è più . This one on Holderness Road. Never mind we can always order a ya...

Tell me the old, old story,   Of unseen things above, Of Jeremy and His glory,   Of Labour and Its love Tell me the story simply,   A...

Well that didn't last long, did it? A year ago I posted about it opening and now it's gone. Too wacky even for east Hull.

Have I mentioned before that I think crows are a bit special? This one simply would not budge until I took its picture, so what was I to...

I don't know about culture (that's probably not come out the way I meant it) but I do know there's a tidal wave of propagand...

If you want that slice of tomato off the pavement don't dawdle or big brother will pinch it from under your beak and leave you chas...

Had a little trip out to Holderness Road the other day and found that the once neglected and most despised of buildings that was the Ele...

The shop with a Lithuanian smile   for a name is now a mere AtCost, well at least it's still open ...

This is a new display on St Columba's on Holderness Road. Somehow I doubt any amount of new signage is going to get the punters into...

Less haste, less speed is the motto in these parts as you well know. A mere three years since I posted that there was to be redevelopme...

This is the Excellent Cafe on Holderness Road. If your nearest competitor is a branch of that ubiquitous purveyor of burnt cow meat call...

I posted about this house on Holderness Road some three years ago,( here ). It was once the home of J Arthur Rank, he of the films that ...

There is a little stretch of East Hull that is dedicated to the memory of scientists and engineers of by-gone eras. Near East Park we fi...

The Elephant and Castle on Holderness Road seems to have been for sale for years now. Anyhow it's boarded up, buddleia has taken ove...

The other day I went to East Park, a big mistake. Someone had turned it into a over sized playing field and filled it with thousands of ...

It may not come as a surprise to you to learn that there is little love lost between myself and the political powers that be in this are...

Upper Holderness Road; Lower Beverley Road I suspect that neither Mr Brando, Mr Pacino nor yet Mr Coppola are aware of these establishme...

I took this photo because I was intrigued by the overly large pots in the upstairs windows. This place is on Holderness Road and is, so ...

Mersey Street is just an ordinary East Hull street of neat two-up two-down terraced houses most with their little satellite dishes. It r...

I'm guessing this particular bank on Holderness Road didn't suffer too much in the recent financial crises. This old Hull Saving...