Hull and Hereabouts

They say there is no returning from the grave but that does not stop me returning to Spring Bank Cemetery with a couple of shots of i...

On our way through Spring Bank cemetery yesterday I came across this unique memorial which I hadn't noticed before. I think I might...

Given the eternity that they are intended for these stones are rightly taking their time over falling down. The theme for the first of ...

Margot took these a few years ago in Spring Bank cemetery..

 ...To break earth's sleep at all? The weekend in Black and White is here .

Usually fly tippers choose a secluded spot, a back alley or a country lane say. The depositors of this unwanted bed chose the entrance t...

Spring Bank cemetery has two of these Gothic iron Eleanor Cross style monuments. They are nearly identical. The left hand one is a listed...

It seems are the days of just leaving a bunch of flowers by the gravestone are long gone ...

Fraxinus excelsior (Pendula) Coming up to June and every other tree and bush has been busy getting out the greenery whilst the ash see...

Bene qui latuit bene vixit. So you spend a bit of money buying a lease on a quiet little plot in the General Cemetery, you lay out your...

It's been a while since I posted anything for the taphophiles amongst you. Here is the final resting place of one William Henry Smi...

I mentioned so time ago that the old burial ground of Holy Trinity church on Castle Street stood in the way of proposed improvements an...

  Lichenometry, a way of telling the age of exposed rocks by studying the size of lichens, is, I'm told, particularly useful on spe...

Northern Cemetery Chapel, Chanterlands Avenue, Hull People, it appears, can no longer afford to die. Yes I know they keep on shuffling ...

Oh! Death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?   Oh! Grave, thy victory?   The Bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling   For you but not...

Western Cemetery, Chanterlands Avenue I always think these places look at their best in Autumn with a good scattering of leaves and the...

If you're taking a short cut through the cemetery and get that feeling of something not quite right it might just be that giant toad...

You might think that old bones could rest in peace without being troubled by the progress of the modern world. Well you need to think ag...

Not Springfield, I'm afraid, but Spring Bank. 

I'm wondering, in that way that means I really don't care either way, whether this is the Lambert that Lambert Street is named ...