Hull and Hereabouts

On our way home from town we wandered around St Nicholas chapel which I've shown many times. This time we walked around the north side ...

This little church is not much spoken of in the tourist bumpf, we hear loads about St Margaret's church and St Nicholas chapel but...

I hadn't intended to revisit this magnificent old thing but Margot had some personal business to attend to here so in I went to get ...

It was the fashion at one time to carve grotesque figures in churches, you'll find them supporting the roof, hidden on screens but q...

This little church made a brief appearance in a post sometime back ( here ) without any comment. So today here's St Peter's over...

Blogger allows you to make draft postings and somehow this picture has been hidden away in the "draft" for so long I've f...

Now the griffin, as you know, mated for life and when its partner died it would continue its life alone. The medieval church took this w...

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

I've been though Goole many times by train but never set foot in the place or, to be honest, given it much thought. So what can I t...

Sticking this castle in the Norfolk countryside involved shifting an existing village slightly to the north. The village, known then as ...

Jube, Domine, benedicere The church of St Mary on Lowgate has featured a few times in this electronic mishmash. I thought I'd po...

If you feel a little cheated, let down perhaps, by all the build up of yesterday's post then the feeling is mutual. Saturday Marke...

Approaching King's Lynn along the A17 you know you're nearly there when you can see the spire of St Nicholas chapel and the twin ...

There's nothing much about Trafalgar Street which runs for no particular reason off Beverley Road. There's a flint faced church ...

King Edward Street as the name might suggest was pushed through the chaos of late Victorian Hull around 1905. These are a few buildings ...

I'm keeping out of the city of culture for a few days; they have taken to dancing in an old graveyard while stuffing their faces all...

Over in Trinity Square the finishing touches to this year's marathon makeover were being put in place the other day. I noticed this...