Hull and Hereabouts

Being a very late adopter of technology I've just got myself an iPhone and have been playing with its camera. I find it a bit of a ...

Another demonstration of the versatility of the Land Rover, stick a wooden hut on the back and hey presto (does any one say that any mor...

Maritime Museum Right, so back in the city of culture a few buildings in the town appear to be illuminated in ever changing colours. Th...

A couple of Hully things cropped up in the news while I was away. First Hull was declared the second worst town in the UK. The source fo...

Hull has its own sudden elegancies. Philip Larkin   The fiddling around by the Council with Queen's Gardens does mean that th...

One of the first buildings I posted about was the Maritime Museum and over the years it has cropped up regularly (like a recurring toot...

  O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close       In midst of this thine hymn my willing eyes, Or wait the "Amen," er...

I've shown the Maritime Museum more than enough times but not, I think * , this façade above the entrance. The building was origina...

There you go; tree, lights and an illuminated fountain. Who says I don't do Xmas?

City Daily Photo's start of the month theme is " My City's Skyline ". I've done several skyline shots over th...

The perennial question of what to do with the remains of Hull's Beverley Gate has once again failed to be answered. The Council flu...

This poor girl has been hanging around with the blood going to her head for over a year now and by rights I should have posted this last...

I think they sell Apple computers ("More power behind every pixel" ??!!!) in this shop  but that doesn't stop there being ...

Having been selected as the cultural omphalos for 2017 why not go the whole nine yards and spruce up the town as well with a £25 million...

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, before the reinvention of coffee and the banning of smoking indoors, you could take a seat here ...

I mentioned a few days ago that the collective insanity known as Hull City Council had proposed a series of makeovers for the city centr...

They seemed to be packing a whole year's worth of 'culture' into one afternoon in Hull yesterday. The day started with the L...

You turn your back for a moment and strange things pop up all over the place. I'd not been in town for a couple of weeks (yes it...

I thought there would have been more of this football related nonsense about town given that the local club have reached the FA cup fina...