Hull and Hereabouts

The river Hull in these parts is basically an extension of the North Sea and as such is subject to the same tidal ups and downs. Which m...

There I was idly going through the curate's egg that is Twitter when I came upon the postcard from the past (@PastPostcard) titled ...

I posted quite recently about the removal of this old trawler, the Arctic Corsair , from this site to a place upstream. I told a sorry t...

Well here we are in Hull and that's the river Hull and that old barge has a hull ... so the title obviously had to have hull in it...

.... What will survive of us is mud.   (With apologies to Mr Larkin)

Let me see now the church, St Mary's on Lowgate has been there since the 15 th century, Holy Trinity which is just peeking out fro...

Last year I read that this old trawler, the Arctic Corsair , was supposed to be moved from here next to the museum of streetstrife and t...

That's river banks in case you were wondering. At long last work is under way to repair, fix and generally improve (upgrade could be...

Surely, says meself to meself, I've shown a barge going up the river before and to be sure this very selfsame little boat, sorry shi...

If you like mud then Hull could be just the place for you. When the tide is out there's acres of  thick oozing alluvium silting up t...

It's a strange compulsion I know, a kind of reflection fetish ... Someone puts up a set of windows and you just have to see what ref...

In a way the idea of turning this useless bridge to nowhere into a musical instrument makes as much sense as an unlamented 70's po...

I've shown this riverside building before. It used to be a buoy shed for Trinity House but it's been empty for a while and look...

Here's the tanker barge Dovedale H, built in 1962 and currently for sale (price on application) after many years on the Manchester s...

I think we can say the old Clarence Mill is now gone, well it ain't coming back. But where did those nice trees spring from ...

Last time I posted about the Clarence Mill it was half pulled down and well on its way to being a fully cleared site. Well you won'...

...or at least good evidence that fish do not need bicycles.

I've taken dozens of these shots down the Humber from this point or nearby. I post this one just because I liked that cloud and for ...

Four years ago to the day I  posted about a young man drowning in the river, well last December it seems it may have happened again. An...

I've shown bits of this sculptural fence before ( here and here ) so it's time for a full reveal as it were. It belongs to a wa...