Hull and Hereabouts

Remember back in the bad days, the days before the glorious Fat Controller took us all under his gross, adiposal care and smothered us w...

I've told before how gun-running local entrepreneur cum property developer Zaccharia Pearson 'donated' a piece of land to ...

Pearson Park is the unlikely recipient of a large dollop of money (is £3.8 million a large dollop or a goodly sum? what is the conventio...

I posted about this delightful surreal carving in Pearson Park before showing the thing being carved and to be honest I thought I'd...

Well here's a rare sighting. What a mute swan? Rare? Well yes when it's in Pearson Park duck pond. In thirty odd years I've ...

Here's another set I should have posted last year before the grand ennui set in. You might recall an old dead tree being reshaped i...

I know, I mean, well manky is not a nice word but it seems among British birdwatching folks these beautiful mallard hybrids have been g...

I've posted this little folly before but I think it's worth another visit especially as the trees are in their Winter best. This...

Pearson Park in February without its greenery is still a pleasant enough place to while away a half hour or so. Just watch out for the...

In Pearson Park the old Queen could do with a bit of a wash and brush. She does scrub up well as they say, see here . And we breathe in ...

In the  glad confident years of the end of the last century Humberside Police spent well if not too wisely and opened little stations at...

‘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...

There's been a mosque in Pearson Park since the late 90's. It was in a converted Victorian villa and as the congregation grew ma...

Over in Pearson Park a chestnut tree about to be felled due to being rotten has been transformed into this interesting oddity; a three h...

Well the first dusting of snow in two years thankfully melted away before I could get any pictures. Here's one I took earlier, much ...

Out for a walk on Saturday when the sound of amplified voices drifted out of Pearson Park; it was the the Full Flava Festival transform...

My what a difference a coat of paint makes (along with hours and hours of hard work). Here is what was the Dorchester Hotel on Beverley ...

I don't know if I've shown this before but it doesn't matter if I repeat myself (a sure sign of creeping old age ...). Anyho...

Photo by Margot K Juby

Again this is from last week; it's probably all daffodils and primroses now the mild weather has set in. This horse was a plain old hors...