Hull and Hereabouts

The weekend in black and white is here .

In the centre foreground the little King's Lynn ferry has, in one form or another , been shuttling folk across the river for over se...

Here we are again down the Fisher Fleet; this time with a bit of day light. If you carry on past the fishing boats you eventually fetch ...

Well here's a little bit of nautical history moored up in the Marina. The Comrade is a type of craft known as a Humber Keel designed...

Here the little coble Harlequin is putting out into relatively calm North Sea to check lobster or crab pots or maybe just for a trip rou...

This old barge or lighter with the odd name of Poem 25 is a fixture in the old harbour of the river. I've shown it before here  but...

Maybe it's just me but watching ships carry out intricate manoeuvres in a fast flowing current attempting to get into a narrow dock ...

Nothing much changes or so it seems at this place. It was just like this when I first came here nearly half a century ago. Maybe the war...

I'm told that every tidal estuary has a bore, that is when the incoming water overcomes the outflowing water and surges upstream. In...

Here's a small boat slowly motoring into the marina some time back in August. Couldn't find a use for this picture or rather col...

I have mentioned Neptune , the tidal power scheme, before and also how it proved to be not quite the raging success that had been hoped....

You turn your back for a moment and strange things pop up all over the place. I'd not been in town for a couple of weeks (yes it...

Seen here reflected in the Transport Museum's window the Arctic Corsair , Hull’s last sidewinder trawler, is open to visitors from t...

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow ....

Long before all this City of Culture malarky the river Hull had its own 'poems' .... This rusty old barge has been moored here b...

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

An extremely gloomy day with that rarest of things a warm stiff Easterly breeze blowing and Bridlington was fairly empty (and mostly shu...

Here's another view of the old trawler Arctic Corsair moored, if that's the right word for a boat that's firmly stuck in t...

So finally I have clambered aboard the Spurn lightship that has been moored in the Marina for years. I didn't go below decks as I...

Here the high rise delights of Anlaby Road's hinterland punctuate the sky with a gentle toxic glow in the evening sunshine. From thi...