Hull and Hereabouts

Bridlington pier attracts all sorts who bring along all the right gear to catch either the light or the odd passing codling or flounder ....

Though Pirates grow old And their beards go grey It's never too cold For a trip round the bay. OK I'll give up the d...

Ah well that's another turn around the solar system completed. I hear so many saying this year has been a bad one, worst year ever a...

So I'm taking a stroll by Victoria Pier when I notice the Humber Rescue guys climbing up the stairs at the end of the pier and with ...

I know you all appreciate the lengths that I go to in order to bring you photographs of this precious town. I do however draw the line a...

This being Hull even our Smiley faces are bursting into tears. Still if you look behind there's a reason to be cheerful; the pier ...

Struggled to find a title for this post. Thought of "all that glisters" la-di-da but I've used that already, or maybe ...

This brought to mind memories of the physics lessons of my distant youth; the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection or so th...

As the Parisian Pont des Arts padlock affair came to a close the other week so a new one springs up here at the Victoria Pier. These, as...

The non-going drama of the repairs to Victoria Pier continues to enthral spectators. It's been eighteen months now of non-stop inac...

"Hey", said the guy who was fishing off the Corporation Pier, "they actually work! I thought they were just for show!...

Well it looks like a shelter but just how much protection it gives when the going gets rough is open to question. This seemingly redund...

These seats on Corporation Pier seem to have survived the purge on public seating currently underway in this town. From here you can res...

The old Corporation Pier, nowadays officially known as Victoria Pier, is a good place to check out the skies and the view over to Lincol...

... We shall get there someday ." After nigh on six months the pier still awaits repair. Perhaps it could become an art install...

Umbers by the Humber, ah well. This is yet another part of the seemingly endless fish trail that winds round the town and pops up when ...

I've just realised that the other day when I said they were making ready for the tourists to pour in that  in fact they were repairi...

Victorian Pier is undergoing repairs to damage caused I think by the floods at the end of last year. There's bright orange plastic f...

This ramp down to the Humber was used to wash horses. Now you can see how rich and brown the Humber is so I wonder just how clean the ho...

This is the view towards the river Hull from what is now called the Victoria Pier but which used to be called the Corporation Pier and f...