Hull and Hereabouts

After the excitement of the Lord Mayor's Hanse Day I was at a loss for something to do and to make things even more interesting it ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a slum once cleared must be brought back to life with a museum and so it is that the vestig...

Horace had the misfortune to encounter the Prince of Wales (not the present droopy muppet, nor yet the even more useless one before him ...

Last Summer I posted a statue of Minerva that stands in the museum gardens; I mentioned at the time that there were two other statues t...

Tucked away in a corner of garden of the transport museum this ancient looking statue gives no indication as to its origins nor its subj...

Seen here reflected in the Transport Museum's window the Arctic Corsair , Hull’s last sidewinder trawler, is open to visitors from t...

I have to admit to not really being a museum sort of person. Ever since I was dragged round museums as a child I've harboured the th...

Seems this toad has found its way across town, a short hop you might say, into the Transport Museum's gardens with convenient access...

This imposing building on High Street now houses the Hull and East Riding Museum. It was originally the Customs House then in 1856 it be...

A couple of years ago I took this shot of an odd-shaped woman holding an apple and dropping what I took to be a tennis racket or perhaps...

What to do in Hull to while away an hour in a February snow shower... why not try a visit to the Hull & East Riding Museum? During t...

I had to poke my camera through a security fence on Tower Street to take this view of the Arctic Corsair moored up by the Transport M...

This is the view from the Streetlife Transport Museum. As you can see it was a very rainy day. The trawler you can see is the Arctic C...

Here's the oddest thing I came across in the Transport Museum the other day. It's described as elaborately carved and highly dec...

  What to do on yet another rainy day? Why not visit the Streetlife Transport Museum? I've shown you the outside but until Frid...

The Guildhall and Law Courts reflected in the Transport Museum's specially darkened windows. One day I might actually go inside.

Moored behind the Museums Quarter is the Arctic Corsair, a trawler from Hull's fishing fleet of the 60s and 70s. It's now a museum...

This is the riverside walk behind the museums.

At the top of the High Street in Hull's old town stands the Wilberforce Museum in the house where William Wilberforce lived. Three year...

  Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by   A sight so touching in its majesty...   Well, ma...