Hull and Hereabouts

No, it's not some modern sculpture based on the Jonah myth but a mere rubbish bin. This, close by the now closed (temporarily) and ...

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...

It shows how much notice I take of my surroundings when I discover that this sculpture, Cormorant Boat by Kate Siddle, recently unveiled...

I mentioned that last Saturday that along with the Hull Folk Festival Hull was also host to the BBC Proms held at the little stage ...

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...

Here's a close-up of the nose-cone of the fish tank cum penguin prison known as the Deep. It's still pulling in the hoopleheads ...

Anyhow here I am pointing the camera outside the biggest fish tank in the country (possibly in the world, who cares?) to capture these w...

Well, turn your back for a few weeks and all kinds of things can happen. The skeleton of the new C4DI building at the river mouth has g...

It's not all falling down in the old town. At the new C4DI site work is underway to put in the necessary supporting piles. It seems ...

This weekend was the Open Heritage Days, when various old buildings and some not so old are open for us public to come in and have a goo...

Here's the local penguin farm and fish tank reflected in some glorious mud with yours truly in the shadows.

Opposite the Deep Weekend Reflections are here .

Along the riverside it's an all too common sight to see these little floral tributes to those who died at sea and also, as  has just...

Imagine, if you can, that you're a flightless bird from the Southern hemisphere used to ranging up to 16 miles a day in the ocean fo...

The bit of land on the east side of the junction of the river Hull and the Humber, where the Deep is now squatting, was once a large shi...

Nice name for a push tug, Shovette, here moored for some reason by the horse wash.

Old Pip Larkin still running for his train .... He once wrote in an introduction to a book "When your train comes to rest in Parago...

This view of the Deep from Humber Street is not perhaps the one most visitors see. It's from Humber Street, I actually poked my ca...

This is probably the most important piece of kit in the whole city. The flood barrier must have paid for itself many times over in the thir...

Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne, Und die trägt er im Gesicht. Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer, Doch das Messer sieht man nic...