Hull and Hereabouts

Lately I've been reading up a bit on quantum physics and what 'reality' might be. I thought it about time I caught up on all...

So we arrived in Sheffield and we needed to find the trams, we had directions to "cross over the track and catch a 'Blue Line...

The Rosebowl fountain in Queens Gardens I've shown before. The recent weather being averagely warm and sunny meant it was spouting f...

It's been a bit of dry spell for this blog;  here's a little something to be going on with. It seems the new fashion is to dispa...

A lengthy bit of cold weather does wonders to the Rosebowl fountain in Queen's Gardens. These are the best icicles I've seen her...

A couple of Hully things cropped up in the news while I was away. First Hull was declared the second worst town in the UK. The source fo...

For the sake of civic virtue They've got fountains there that squirt you... Now that the summer is all but over and  the leaves a...

Hull has its own sudden elegancies. Philip Larkin   The fiddling around by the Council with Queen's Gardens does mean that th...

I'm told it means You Only Live Once. It's how the youth of today communicate with one another. IKR too busy to use words, poor ...

I've shown this fountain several times before. I like it, that's a good enough reason for me to post it again The weekend in bl...

The promised fountains in Queen Victoria Square have yet to materialise. We are told by a Councillor that "The technology used to o...

There you go; tree, lights and an illuminated fountain. Who says I don't do Xmas?

I've shown this installation outside Britannia House (the dole office) on Spring Bank before but that was taken from a bus and you...

Queen's Gardens, Hull

It may seem odd to a youngster  but there once was a time when the Council did not put up lights and decorations for that consumer fest ...

Yesterday was a bit of a dull, overcast day, anticyclonic gloom is the meteorological word for it, any hoo this did nothing to detract f...

I mentioned a few days ago that the collective insanity known as Hull City Council had proposed a series of makeovers for the city centr...

The Boulevard was planned as a grand thoroughfare running up from the Humber to Anlaby Road and possibly beyond. It is a fine, wide, tr...

At some time in the 1870s life in Hull was so unexciting that it was decided to liven things up a bit by installing a set of six mermaid fo...