Hull and Hereabouts

You know the story of King Canute (or Cnut if you wish, maybe even Knut ), he that sat by the sea shore and told the tide not to rise and...

In these revolutionary times I find I have practically given up watching TV. I watch one recorded episode a day (if that) of an old rep...

I somehow ended up "by the tide of Humber" once again, so I thought I'd show some of the delights that can be spotted here...

I suppose my favourite view of Hull is one where I can't see it all, out across the Humber, where sky and Lincolnshire and water mee...

Surely, says meself to meself, I've shown a barge going up the river before and to be sure this very selfsame little boat, sorry shi...

"This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays."                                       Douglas Adams  The Hi...

I'd never seen old Humber so flat calm and peaceful. No clouds other than those made by the gentle folk of Lincolnshire (*waves hell...

The theme for City Daily Photo starts the year Janus fashion by looking back for the ' Photo of the Year '. Out of 236 postings ...

Ah well that's another turn around the solar system completed. I hear so many saying this year has been a bad one, worst year ever a...

It's not often people stop and gawp at the sky but yesterday's flaming sunset was quite a spectacle and had folks looking up in...

I know you all appreciate the lengths that I go to in order to bring you photographs of this precious town. I do however draw the line a...

I've taken dozens of these shots down the Humber from this point or nearby. I post this one just because I liked that cloud and for ...

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...

Here's yet another of those old riverside warehouses reused as offices, this one is next door to that C4DI building I showed the ...

I'll post this and maybe a few more before I disappear again. Hull is like some aged tart undergoing cosmetic surgery at the moment,...

I don't know if you local paper has a buzz word that it uses over and over despite the writer not having a clue what the word means....

Apologies if this is not the finest quality shot but this cargo ship was nearly two miles away across the old Humber. The odd looking it...

As the Parisian Pont des Arts padlock affair came to a close the other week so a new one springs up here at the Victoria Pier. These, as...

The non-going drama of the repairs to Victoria Pier continues to enthral spectators. It's been eighteen months now of non-stop inac...

The new  C4DI building is coming along nicely and is due to open in October.