Hull and Hereabouts

You might look at this and think that looks like bit like an old fashioned bank and you'd right it was once a bank but now it's a...

"A handsome monument has been erected, by the congregation, in St Mary's church Hull, to the memory of the Rev. John Scott. It ...

Jube, Domine, benedicere The church of St Mary on Lowgate has featured a few times in this electronic mishmash. I thought I'd po...

It's been a while since I posted anything piscine related to the Hull Fish Trail . To rectify that omission and as it's Friday h...

This was for many years an Argos store until it shut a couple of years ago. Before that, I remember it was the Habitat store selling ove...

What you've never had, I suppose, you'll never miss. So future new visitors to Lowgate might wonder at older folks shaking their...

Victorian and Edwardian buildings often have decorations that are frowned upon by the modern steel, glass and concrete builders of today...

Here's the law courts building once again, this time from the top of the bus heading out to Holderness Road.

Just round the corner from yesterday's doorway and within spitting distance of the old Queen's Dock this pair of buildings, now ...

When the grand old central post office up the road was closed a few years ago this less imposing but perhaps more viable post office op...

Running off  Lowgate, behind the old court house , Exchange Court is evidence that the court house (now pub/club) was once a public exch...

St Mary, Lowgate, Hull jobsworth ˈdʒɒbzwəːθ/ noun BRITISH informal an official who upholds petty rules even at the expense of humani...

Well the doorway was open so I did not resist the temptation to have a sneaky peak inside. This is Ocean Chambers on Lowgate built in 19...

You could see St Mary's on Lowgate if it wasn't for the houses in between.

How long have I lived in Hull? Thirty plus years and still I find something I've never seen before. Way up on top of a building at t...

On the right St Mary's, Lowgate part of the Church of England which increasingly becomes irrelevant and absurd. It likes to think it...

Here with its seasonal decoration dimly glittering in the late afternoon light is Silver Street. It continues eastwards from Whitefri...

This is St Mary's on Lowgate which I've shown bits of before( 1 & 2 ); here's the southern side.  The original church date...

If you get caught doing something you shouldn't then you might end up having to appear in this building to account for your actions. Thi...

View from the mediaeval churchyard of St Mary's Lowgate.  This month's theme day topic is time.  Click here to view thumbnails for...