Hull and Hereabouts

Today's May Day theme is Shopping . Hmmm. A walk round town this afternoon (yes a sightseeing trip, first in weeks, nothing had chan...

I'm much too young to have any knowledge of the great smogs of London but I am old enough to remember when each house in the land bu...

Deep in the depths of Whitefriargate surrounded on all sides by empty shops and the all pervading absurdity that is the city of culture ...

The birch is a pioneering tree, so I'm told, spreading rapidly and colonising clearings and waste lands. It is short lived (if 80-10...

                                             "The Philistines were Wrong: Culture can bring a city back to life"              ...

Last Saturday (May 4 th ) Marks and Spencer on Whitefriargate closed after nearly ninety years of selling "cheap clothes/ Set out ...

While I was posting about King's Lynn the so-called festive season came and went and New Year too; seems so long ago now. Anyhoo ......

Had a short wander about town for first time in a while and came across the sorry state of the Hull Hole aka the Beverley Gate remains....

If by some misfortune you find yourself at the wrong end of Whitefriargate and feel a bit weary and lost then this helpful tourist map o...

That's the long list of empty buildings on Whitefriargate, poor Demon Trading has been added, closed because of high business rates...

At some point in time whoever owned 61 Whitefriargate took it upon themselves for whatever reason to embellish the rather plain façade w...

I've shown bits of this building before but for some reason never the tout ensemble . This was until recently the HSBC bank on Whit...

Now I know you should not judge something before it's finished but this is not looking good. Regular readers will recall the Hull ...

Somehow I think the carefully designed advertising for some upcoming cultural event is not reaching its intended audience.

You can see this is a place to park bicycles, you don't need someone to put silvery studs in the ground spelling out STAND. It seems...

Parliament Street is one of the last places to get a make over and consequently has those old familiar orange barriers making a maze out...

And while we're on Whitefriargate, a short mediaeval street just 200 yards or so in length and once the flourishing bustling heart o...

OK it's one of the things that Hull is noted for: cream coloured phone boxes. I'm sure I've been over this before but briefl...

Do you recall the Xmasses of yore when families gathered round a blazing log fire and exchanged small gifts of oranges or maybe an apple...

It's that time of year for silly window displays. Here we have some seemingly drunken winking mannequins tottering over to starboard...