Hull and Hereabouts

What can I say about this pub that's right outside the entrance to the university? Well first off, when I came to Hull it was not a ...

Seemingly not shrugging at all old Atlas is still carrying the world on his shoulders. Like the witch's heart Atlas is one of those ...

Here's the Duke's Head also on Tuesday Market Place. Now memory is a funny old thing but I distinctly remember this place being ...

I last posted about the new "swanky" hotel on Ferensway back in April when it looked like this . Since then the rooms, which co...

I mentioned last year plans to build a new hotel on the site of a former dance hall/disco/nightclub/knocking shop on Ferensway. Well it...

Hard now to imagine the thousands who came to Bridlington for their annual holiday but the evidence of their visitations lies in these t...

Another sign on the via dolorosa that is the Larkin Trail , this on the doorway of the Royal Station Hotel .  You are dying to read...

Over on North Church Side plans are afoot for a boutique hotel no less, in or on the site of these fairly plain shop units. A local prop...

“Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" "Yes....

There's a lot of what is politely called 'faded glory' abounding in Bridlington. Here, for example, is a classic seaside hot...

My what a difference a coat of paint makes (along with hours and hours of hard work). Here is what was the Dorchester Hotel on Beverley ...

It's almost always fatal to be described by the local press as iconic . So it was with the Portland Hotel which went into administra...

Well I've got say I'm surprised. That 18 storey hotel that was planned for High Street has just been refused planning permissio...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a plot of land standing idle must be in want of a hotel. So this site between High Street a...

For reasons that need not detain you I ended up walking around the wilds of East Hull the other day. It seemed the place was either in t...

Diagonally opposite the New Theatre  on Kingston Square this hotel was built in the early 1800s restored in the 1980s and claims to be ...

I have said before that pubs really shouldn't change their names. This might now be called Original Keys but you can be sure that local...

This is the first building of the redevelopment of Hull's riverside, the so-called Boom development. It's a hotel standing all by i...