Hull and Hereabouts

On my way back from the shops I stopped to take a picture of the setting sun and the trees on Cottingham Road and this family of cyclists...

We went to Bridlington the other day. It was closed. Hibernating until well into next year, waiting for those glorious post-Brexit days...

The Fisher Fleet just after sunset with a bit of a tide to reflect the lights and ghostly almost invisible ducks quacking to themselves ...

This post is just an excuse to show again a favourite tree in Cottingham. (It's been seven or more years so you won't remember....

"This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays."                                       Douglas Adams  The Hi...

As the sun set softly over Loke Road (or simply 'the Loke'; as the natives term it) so Margot indulged her passion for pylons. ...

This is just the local primary school down the road designed by someone who thought (rightly) that a box topped by a pyramid makes for...

The advertising on this building attempts to convince that it is so much more than bingo but that's advertising for you; a manifest ...

I'd never seen old Humber so flat calm and peaceful. No clouds other than those made by the gentle folk of Lincolnshire (*waves hell...

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...

It's not often people stop and gawp at the sky but yesterday's flaming sunset was quite a spectacle and had folks looking up in...

Not much to say about these; they are what they are. Margot wants the world to know she took the top picture.

Here's Sharp Street with its new bunch of houses on the site of the old Goodfellows supermarket . Well they look a bit like houses b...

Cottingham cares for its cycles, no it really does; so much so that two of these perspex protectors have been put up in the village to k...

...or yet another photo of Anlaby Road.  In the foreground is EYMS' Hull garage. EYMS quite rightly put up fares when the oil pric...

Jameson Street, Hull The weatherpeople say we've just had the sunniest Winter on record, well every sunny day has it end and this ...

Half Tide Basin entrance, Victoria Dock If, twice a day, you have an enemy rising up and threatening to engulf you then defences akin ...

Here's a sample of some of  Cottingham's many splendid large old trees. These are all on or around Newgate Street/ Priory Road. ...

Trinity House Lane

A Victorian guide to Britain's railway, Bradshaw's Guide, talks of Hull being like Venice and people taking special trains from ...