Hull and Hereabouts

Here from the height of last year's summer is the terminally dull and unoriginal mural that appeared on a gable end on Spring Bank. T...

This wonderfully misspelt shop on Spring Bank is no longer trading, cannot imagine why ...

Cliff Pratt 's have been selling bikes on Spring Bank for donkey's years. They claim to be Hull's leading cyclist specialist...

They say there is no returning from the grave but that does not stop me returning to Spring Bank Cemetery with a couple of shots of i...

Rolled up in town late on Friday afternoon about 4pm but could tell something was up as the bus diverted and left us to get off on a sid...

On Spring Bank, the former waiting room for hell has been transformed into an ice cream parlour. I appreciate the grey and red decor an...

On our way through Spring Bank cemetery yesterday I came across this unique memorial which I hadn't noticed before. I think I might...

Margot took these a few years ago in Spring Bank cemetery..

I took this from the bus on my way home thinking to post about the evils of fluoridation and Hull City Council's wish to override ...

 ...To break earth's sleep at all? The weekend in Black and White is here .

Usually fly tippers choose a secluded spot, a back alley or a country lane say. The depositors of this unwanted bed chose the entrance t...

So we're waiting on a bus on Spring Bank and Margot starts taking pictures of the trash that abounds in those parts. "What do y...

Spring Bank cemetery has two of these Gothic iron Eleanor Cross style monuments. They are nearly identical. The left hand one is a listed...

It seems are the days of just leaving a bunch of flowers by the gravestone are long gone ...

Fraxinus excelsior (Pendula) Coming up to June and every other tree and bush has been busy getting out the greenery whilst the ash see...

I've shown this installation outside Britannia House (the dole office) on Spring Bank before but that was taken from a bus and you...

The Polar Bear on Spring Bank has gotten itself a pretty new sign, well it's new to me. The place seems to have the decorators in a...

Bene qui latuit bene vixit. So you spend a bit of money buying a lease on a quiet little plot in the General Cemetery, you lay out your...

It's been a while since I posted anything for the taphophiles amongst you. Here is the final resting place of one William Henry Smi...

For the past few months the orange bollards and safety fencing have been up at one of the busiest junctions in town where Beverley Road ...