Hull and Hereabouts

  Back in February this year, before the world went mad, someone took offence to the bells of St Nicholas Chapel. Seemed bell ringers had mo...

Here's an old barge marooned in the silt of the Boal Quay which has attracted the attentions of local painters and decorators and be...

At some time in the down days of this year someone with way too much time on their hands found a way to brighten up the walls of this  e...

You recall, well of course you don't, I'm just being polite, the old Clarence Mill and its slow, painfully slow demolition . Wel...

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...

But someday, everything is gonna be different When I paint that masterpiece.                                                           ...

This site that was to have had an eighteen or twenty-two storey hotel on it at one time, the plan described so accurately by a councill...

Grove Street I suspect there aren't many streets which can boast it has a quote from a Philip Larkin poem just daubed as graffiti...

... They have taken her away  and she'll never walk down Whitehall any more, she was a bold deceiver and lied to all the Leav...

Someone clearly needed to write a quick memo to remind themselves of the meaning of this ubiquitous acronym and I think we can admire th...

... since I posted anything. The new year sees Hull and all things Hully still much the same. Be assured you haven't missed anythin...

...or so says this somewhat philosophical Polish graffiti near Barmston Drain . It makes a change from the psychedelic colour splashes f...

I guess an eatery by the name of Roosters Plaice ( sic ) might not be to everyone's taste and so it came to pass that the business c...

Now I maintain this is meant to be a dog but Margot insists it's feline and looks a lot like our dear departed old cat Lulu (a ging...

In England, on this St George's Day, down the leafy lanes of Cottingham it  is heartening to find the Bard's innovative use of l...

Being the city of culture has obviously brought out the more literary minded graffiti types. This apt warning is on the site of the Depa...

Some creative spraying has been going on in the old fruit market area. This, on Pier Street, is by a "collective of Hull based aero...

You've seen those demolition videos where a whole block comes down at the push of a button and lies in a neat little heap ready to b...

Alexandra Road, Hull

It's been a while since I had walked down the lower end of High Street which I have shown before to have an empty plot awaiting the...