Hull and Hereabouts

 “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” So, at last, the Government decides to close the pubs an...

Driffield, let's be honest, is not a big place. A visitor would be stretched to say it had more than one street, named rather sweetly...

This pub  in Cottingham has been closed since January and was only open for a few weeks over Xmas before that, the seasonal decorations ...

Claims to be the smallest bar in this small town and who is going to argue? I think it could also be the reddest one as well. As I reca...

I've shown the Eagle on the corner of Coltman Street and Anlaby Road a couple of times before ( here and here ). The place has lo...

“ It could be an almost heavenly development,giving scope for infinite variety and the opportunity to create a real community .”  Herber...

Picture by Margot K Juby Round the corner from the Duke of Cumberland sits this quietly unassuming public house named officially as t...

Margot was saying, just the other day, that the sign on the Duke of Cumberland in Cottingham was looking a bit faded and unreadable. We...

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 ...

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've shown this place before a long while back so I thought it would be an idea to show some more details. This is the Bull on Be...

At the junction of Jameson Street and South Street stands this little gem of Edwardian baroque revival. It was built in 1903 and is, of ...

This pub was built in the mid 1870's to cater for the thirsts of railway workers at the engine sheds of the Hull and Selby Railway. ...

That's half way between Hessle and Hull. As a crow flies it's about four and a half miles from the centre of old town Hull to He...

Albert has had to wait six years for his appearance in this blog due to a slight aversion on my part to anything batrachian. It's be...

Next door to our greasy fingered barber is the Star of the West or rather the reinvented Star of the West. The original watering hole wa...

I started the month off with an abandoned street but did not have the space to include this empty pub also on that street. This is the ...

The Polar Bear on Spring Bank has gotten itself a pretty new sign, well it's new to me. The place seems to have the decorators in a...

The oddly named Purple Pig restaurant on Trinity Square went  belly up last October when the company that owned it put itself into liqui...

This Sunday being the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox means that it is Easter Sunday, a day for eating c...