Hull and Hereabouts

This little church is not much spoken of in the tourist bumpf, we hear loads about St Margaret's church and St Nicholas chapel but...

The cunning plan to make Hull's tenure of the title of UK City of Culture as miserable as possible seems to be working ever so wel...

Coming back in the gloaming from a clandestine shopping trip for strictly non-essential things (so arrest me!) I came upon a fat hedgeho...

To cut a long and very unlikely story short: a king, Edmund by name, king of the east Angles was captured by, or surrendered to, the Da...

We took ourselves out on a trip to the coast on a road we had not traveled on for thirty five years. The road had been straightened and ...

Here's a thing you don't see that often: a statue of King Charles I, he who picked a quarrel with Parliament and lost not just th...

One thing that I did not see at the Mart was a roundabout with horses, folk are more interested in being put at the end of a vertical cen...

" Mr Wilberforce is far from being a hypocrite, but he is we think, as fine as specimen of moral equivocation as can well be concei...

Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost                                                  L. Cohen Close b...

  Ah so there's our old friend Mankind Under Threat squatting in the belated May sunshine all safe and sound now betwixt the City ...

... and speaking of old Pip Larkin, as we were, his statue in Paragon Station has caught the attention of those who would reshape the w...

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

The corn exchange, on Tuesday Market Place, was built in in 1854 with a fine baroque style façade featuring the town's  crest (below...

OK so King John lost the Duchy of Normandy and other bits of France to the French king, and he caused the decline and fall of the Angevi...

I meant to post these last year but obviously didn't. They're part of that exhibition at the University which I've shown bit...

I've shown this former cinema before but so long ago that a revisit is almost obligatory. The place has had many uses it is now a n...

I've shown this place before a long while back so I thought it would be an idea to show some more details. This is the Bull on Be...

... and look upon him now dead who when alive it were better for thee to imitate Thomas Whincop an unparalleled example of divers sorts ...

At the risk of being trampled under hoof I bring you this unusual angle on the King William statue in Market Place. The poor old thing l...

Between the listed loos and the listed tidal flood barrier stands the newly listed statue of William de-la-Pole , Hull’s first mayor. ...