Hull and Hereabouts

  In November 1605 a plot to blow up Parliament and the king was thwarted due to the incompetence of the conspirators, betrayal and plain ba...

Railway Road in King's Lynn does not as you might think head to the railway, no, it runs teasingly close but keeps away from the station...

' ...the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. ' This shop...  You do remember shops, don't you? You...

For the first day of the new season I thought I'd post these from a jewellery shop on Chapel Street . I won't call them mad Marc...

In much the same way that out-of-works actors are not "out-of-work" but "resting" this shop is not "vacant...

 "Tid, Mid, Misere; Carlin, Palm, Pace-Egg Day" I sometimes think folk invent things behind my back, while I'm not look...

I've been in several Morrisons stores in my time but none have anything like this stained glass window. With my limited local knowle...

There aren't as many corner shops as there used to be, not that that is a bad thing it's just the way things work out. This on...

Next door to the Bull on Beverley Road this supplier of deep fried battered savoury mashed potato  is apparently the Best in Hull and t...

If you have a super-duper memory you will recall seeing the self-same store way back in 2012 . Back then the threat was of redevelopment...

This was for many years an Argos store until it shut a couple of years ago. Before that, I remember it was the Habitat store selling ove...

I don't know how these things work; I'm talking about fashions. Now a few years ago you couldn't give gin away, it was mothe...

The news earlier this year that the town centre was to lose a pair of Boots 1 (here on Prospect Street and later on Whitefriargate, yes...

The birch is a pioneering tree, so I'm told, spreading rapidly and colonising clearings and waste lands. It is short lived (if 80-10...

Last Saturday (May 4 th ) Marks and Spencer on Whitefriargate closed after nearly ninety years of selling "cheap clothes/ Set out ...

This wonderfully misspelt shop on Spring Bank is no longer trading, cannot imagine why ...

Cliff Pratt 's have been selling bikes on Spring Bank for donkey's years. They claim to be Hull's leading cyclist specialist...

When I was young we'd have called this a junk shop but now it's 'antiques' and 'collectables'; so spins the worl...

Serving battered fried fish and chips must be a lucrative business as Audrey's in Bridlington seems to have doubled in size since I ...

Mr Craft and his company it appeared had designs to have stores on the main roads into Hull. Starting in the mid 1880s with Beverley Roa...