Hull and Hereabouts

Coming back in the gloaming from a clandestine shopping trip for strictly non-essential things (so arrest me!) I came upon a fat hedgeho...

Grove Street I suspect there aren't many streets which can boast it has a quote from a Philip Larkin poem just daubed as graffiti...

.... What will survive of us is mud.   (With apologies to Mr Larkin)

... and speaking of old Pip Larkin, as we were, his statue in Paragon Station has caught the attention of those who would reshape the w...

Last Saturday (May 4 th ) Marks and Spencer on Whitefriargate closed after nearly ninety years of selling "cheap clothes/ Set out ...

The Prospect Centre is having some work done on the lift and to protect Joe Public boards have been erected and to hide or brighten up t...

At the junction of Jameson Street and South Street stands this little gem of Edwardian baroque revival. It was built in 1903 and is, of ...

Yet Another Larkin Event! It seems you can drive out Larkin with a pitchfork but he still comes straight back in. So this is the New Eye...

Quite right! Nothing like putting your feet up with a large G&T (a pint might be pushing it but who's gonna know?) and letting s...

‘It was the top flat of a house that was reputedly the American Consulate during the war, and though it might not have suited everybody...

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...

I took a few more shots of Larkin's somewhat grotesque statue in Paragon Station the other day with a view to using them at some poi...

... is that you can't read the little bits of Larkin poems scattered around Hull station without looking faintly funny as you lift f...

Ella Street (or at least its residents' association) has a thing about birds, there are bird tables along the length and little mode...

The NHS has undergone many twists and turns over the years. There are many who say it is being sold off for private profit, well that ma...

I've just found out that the first Thursday in October is National Poetry Day. And since I also just happen to have a piccy of  Laug...

Old Pip Larkin still running for his train .... He once wrote in an introduction to a book "When your train comes to rest in Parago...

Last year was the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Humber Bridge. Since then, as I may have mentioned, the tolls have have b...

You don't have to be a lover of graveyards to appreciate the glories of Spring Bank Cemetery. At this time of year it's looks ...

The Beverley and Barmston drain to give it its full name drains the land between Beverley and Driffield and runs to the west of the rive...