Hull and Hereabouts

Earlier this year I posted that this place was a sugar beet factory . Well I was just showing my age and my ignorance. There was a sugar fa...

Over last weekend and to the annoyance of many gridlocked motorists Castle Street was blocked off and the new footbridge (which we last ...

Here's the river we've been trailing all the way up to Sheffield. The Don was once a jet-black flowing cess pit of pollution but...

Here you might be surprised the ancient or rather slightly older thing is Doncaster's station not the gothic church that would like t...

So to avoid any confusion this is the Ouse. Not the Great Ouse the we met in King's Lynn, nor yet the Little Ouse not even the Sus...

"...it's oh so nice to just wander But it's so much nicer,  yes it's oh so nice, to wander back" On this bright...

What's this? Some kind of fair ground attraction at the back of Staples, a place well known for attractions of an all together differ...

There's a craze to paint murals in this donkey's ass of a town. You've got a few square feet of blank  Victorian or Edwardia...

Here's the Drypool Bridge once more. Last time I posted about it I mentioned it was being redecorated in tasteful lime green and d...

...in the City of Culture. Barmston drain again with the onset of Autumn Margot took the second one, and quite possibly the first; ...

In a way the idea of turning this useless bridge to nowhere into a musical instrument makes as much sense as an unlamented 70's po...

I don't know about culture (that's probably not come out the way I meant it) but I do know there's a tidal wave of propagand...

This little swing bridge allows you to nip across the entrance to the marina without having to go over the dock gates. For some reason, ...

If this looks a tad familiar that's because I've posted the other side of it  here in glorious technicolour.. The weekend in b...

I've posted about East Park before so I've absolutely no excuse for doing it again ... Weekend reflections are here

A film crew was at work on High Street on Monday filming some Victorian costume drama about a woman who poisoned lots of people (charmin...

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women...

As the winner of several design awards the Scale Lane bridge has many of the attributes of stylishness. It was hideously expensive, look...

I'm thinking they had a job lot of bricks that, erm, fell of the back of a lorry, as it were, and well it's a shame they don...

Park Street bridge is not just Park Street bridge; it is bridge HUL1/1 and not to be confused with any other bridge. The weekend in ...