Hull and Hereabouts

The Greek is on Princes Avenue. This place used to be a fish and chip restaurant for a short while a couple of years ago ... and b...

The walls of this old outhouse run not at right angles to the street it's on but to the road behind giving an odd effect. This is Du...

I guess an eatery by the name of Roosters Plaice ( sic ) might not be to everyone's taste and so it came to pass that the business c...

Albert has had to wait six years for his appearance in this blog due to a slight aversion on my part to anything batrachian. It's be...

The massive influx of visitors to the cultural offerings has led to an extraordinary demand for accommodation. This radical solution off...

This was taken in December when it seems there was a market for wreaths of holly and mistletoe and other Yuletide paraphernalia; how lon...

Here is Princes Avenue's sole remaining butcher's shop, T L Norman. Now it's been called T L Norman for longer than I'v...

Is there some photographic etiquette about these things? The guy with the expensive camera and tripod and all the trimmings seemed to be...

Artlink seems to have been going for as long as I've been living in these parts. It's a sort of community arts thing with a g...

If you peer closely you can still make out the name Pauline gently fading with the passing years. That would be Pauline Gift , who died ...

It's coming to something when a conversion of a pair of old railway cottages to a taxi office is looked on as some sort of 'good...

On Princes Avenue Probably best to say as little as possible about this ...

"Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters." ...

At the end of a busy day the working man deserves nothing less than a hearty meal and an ice cold pint of the amber nectar. He might als...

At the corner of Princes Avenue and Spring Bank the newly painted and recently relaunched Pearsons pub is all that it appears to be. A l...

Pause and sigh at the passing of Gwenap; Britain's (possibly the World's) longest established 'adult' store on Princes ...

Perhaps I should take more photos from the top deck of the bus; the main drawbacks are the dirty windows and thr reflections. Still, with a ...

Pave is one of the many cafés and bars that have opened in the Avenues area. It's name is an abbreviation of P(rinces) Ave(nue). It'...

I admire the understated modesty of this store. 

There will be no more salsa nights at Pier Luigi's since it closed in October last year, a victim of the recession and the banksters...