Hull and Hereabouts

Lately I've been reading up a bit on quantum physics and what 'reality' might be. I thought it about time I caught up on all...

Queen's Gardens pond looking really quite nice in the early September sunshine, almost picture postcard perfect, the only fly in the...

John Enderby Jackson was apparently someone of note (or notes even) and has a small plaque in Queen's Gardens which I came across to...

On a very breezy, overcast but not especially cool day that threatened much forecast heavy rain but turned out dry I took me walk around...

The Rosebowl fountain in Queens Gardens I've shown before. The recent weather being averagely warm and sunny meant it was spouting f...

A few weeks ago Hull Council announced what it called "ambitious plans" to capitalise on the city's maritime heritage, you...

  Staying in Queen's Gardens for no other reason than that it is greening up nicely and the first summer visiting birds were singi...

Almost exactly two years ago I posted that the empty police station by Queen's Gardens was for sale . Well someone bought it (for £1...

Freshly arrived in town today, the Knife Angel or National Monument Against Violence and Aggression, made from thousands of knives surre...

A lengthy bit of cold weather does wonders to the Rosebowl fountain in Queen's Gardens. These are the best icicles I've seen her...

Queen's Gardens was no peaceful place on Saturday. Tucked away under the shadow of the Wilberforce Memorial a small would-be jambore...

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

So as promised the thing that Hull Council bought but couldn't find a place to put has been plonked in Queen's Gardens where is ...

This is the view from Queen's Gardens towards Savile Street. The buildings have featured before in this cheery little post . I am ha...

I've shown this fountain several times before. I like it, that's a good enough reason for me to post it again The weekend in bl...

The continuing works to titivate this town are now reaching out to Queen's Gardens. The result is that the two duck ponds are fenced...

For the past fortnight or so a few dozen homeless folks have been camping around the fountain in Queen's Gardens. It was a protest ...

Having put all their eggs in one basket by moving to Clough Road , Humberside Police now find themselves with surplus empty police stat...

Have I mentioned how they'll nick anything in this one horse town? Even if it's cemented into the ground. Here's the old M...

You'll be aware from a casual reading of this blog that the town is undergoing a make-over, a renovation , a transformation from ug...