Hull and Hereabouts

The theme for the City Daily Photo's start of the month shindig is ' brown '. Since there runs a big streak of glorious brow...

I posted quite recently about the removal of this old trawler, the Arctic Corsair , from this site to a place upstream. I told a sorry t...

.... What will survive of us is mud.   (With apologies to Mr Larkin)

If you like mud then Hull could be just the place for you. When the tide is out there's acres of  thick oozing alluvium silting up t...

...or at least good evidence that fish do not need bicycles.

Here's yet another of those old riverside warehouses reused as offices, this one is next door to that C4DI building I showed the ...

I don't know if you local paper has a buzz word that it uses over and over despite the writer not having a clue what the word means....

You know those sisyphean tasks that this town gets itself into, bridges that take years to build, piers that are never mended, roads tha...

Here's the local penguin farm and fish tank reflected in some glorious mud with yours truly in the shadows.

Here's the view across the entrance to Humber Dock or the Marina as it's now called. This the old Steam Packet Wharf that I menti...

Moored behind the Museums Quarter is the Arctic Corsair, a trawler from Hull's fishing fleet of the 60s and 70s. It's now a museum...

  Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by   A sight so touching in its majesty...   Well, ma...

This is the entrance to what is now Hull's Marina but what used to be a busy trading dock. During the nineteenth century hundreds of th...