Hull and Hereabouts

I knew that the light show in town was going to be a dull affair, I'd read what folk had said about it on social media. Still nothin...

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 ...

... a lot like mid-November . I don't know which is the more disappointing, misleading and tawdry. The tinselly fake-snow eight wee...

If you like seeing grown men putting their brightly coloured balls on a table and hitting them into pockets with the end of stick then sn...

I must have seen this plaque close by Queen Victoria Square hundreds of times, seen it, walked over it, gone about my life and then the ...

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...

A town crow, blacker than ever, treats the Saturday afternoon shoppers and carousers with utter disdain before swooping down on a discar...

... otherwise known as a bench. This was taken last March when the new benches in Queen Victoria Square were all shades of yellowy-red...

As well as the morris dancers there were a few others putting on a show on Saturday afternoon. The Elvis look-alikey was, well I won...

For the sake of civic virtue They've got fountains there that squirt you... Now that the summer is all but over and  the leaves a...

I'm told it means You Only Live Once. It's how the youth of today communicate with one another. IKR too busy to use words, poor ...

"The police are the public and the public are the police ..."                                                              ...

Here he sits picking out pleasant tunes on his guitar and being roundly ignored by all and sundry. I suspect he doesn't care. He see...

Here at the foot of the Queen Victoria statue are heaped flowers and balloons and toys and cardboard messages. It's part of that mod...

So the promised fountains are in business. And instantly turned into some kind of amusement feature for screaming children to put on the...

The public works were due to be finished today but to no-one's great surprise some bits and bobs are running a tad late. So we'l...

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

The thing that has been littering  Queen Victoria Square for the best part of three months is due to depart next weekend as the year of ...

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

Hull was and still is to some extent noted for its fine Victorian and Edwardian architecture, though many buildings were demolished in t...