Hull and Hereabouts

Not having TV or social media folk had to make their own entertainment in the old days. In Yorkshire and North East England they came up...

Well here's a little bit of nautical history moored up in the Marina. The Comrade is a type of craft known as a Humber Keel designed...

Came across this little ship in the Marina today. This is the schooner Pickle and it claims to be a replica or reconstruction of HMS Pic...

Someone sat down, or more probably in this town a whole committee sat down, and decided it would a good idea if there was a thing at jus...

Here's an odd thing at the marina, I've no doubt it has meaning but I'm damned if I know what it is. This was taken before t...

Trying something different with the Spurn lightship.

Hull's marina sparing no expense on health and safety ...

You see some odd things in the marina from time to time ...

For want of anything else to offer here's the old Spurn Lightship reflected in a solicitors window. Possibly the only thing they ca...

I was going to title this "the Stern of the Spurn" but thought better of it. It is, as I'm sure you knew, the back end of t...

Bleurgh! I'm feeling a bit like death warmed up at the moment so I'll just post this gloomy little scene and retire for a while ...

What to do with an old fruit and veg merchant's warehouse? Simple, turn it into the "forefront of Hull’s developing coffee scen...

A Victorian guide to Britain's railway, Bradshaw's Guide, talks of Hull being like Venice and people taking special trains from ...

Here's a small boat slowly motoring into the marina some time back in August. Couldn't find a use for this picture or rather col...

It's that time of year again when painted pianos pop up around town, a slightly overweight man in a green mask waves large handkerch...

Attempting to cross the entrance to the Marina my progress was halted by a siren sounding like an alarm clock on steroids, a flashing ...

There are still bits of the old narrow gauge rail that used to run around the old Humber dock that is now the Marina. (I've been to...

Quite what anyone working behind this office window thought of me as I lined up this shot I can only imagine. Maybe they get quite a fe...

Marina notice It's a pity dogs can't read, I'm sure they'd be mightily amused by these warnings. The weekend in black...

The good ship (sorry, boat)  Maybe in Hull's marina.