Hull and Hereabouts

One of the tree lined walks in the Walks, King's Lynn. In this brief interlude between two phases of non-existence it really seems ...

Here we're back in King's Lynn in the Walks . Peeking out the background is that old Red Mount Chapel but the trees in their lat...

Remember back in the bad days, the days before the glorious Fat Controller took us all under his gross, adiposal care and smothered us w...

Whenever I see this tree on my way back from the shop I say to myself I must take a picture of it in its springtime glory. Finally I had ...

Early in the 18 th century someone had the bright idea to construct a walk or mall from the town eastwards across uncultivated, vacant ...

While in Lynn this was the view that greeted me each day on my way to get the newspapers in Norfolk Street. Bit different from the usual ...

For the past three or four days they've been at it again. Barely had one little storm faded away than they issue warning of impending...

Snuff Mill Lane The anticyclonic gloom of the past week has been briskly blown away by a cold front, well, I say cold it's down to ...

In this bleak midwinter rain has fallen, rain on rain ... and so Snuff Mill Lane fields are nicely awash and home to a few wary gulls ...

It is said that you cannot step into the same river twice but that doesn't stop you trying to photograph it. So, pace Heraclitus, he...

Sometimes a good idea gets just a little out of hand ... this magnificent silver birch adorns, nay, dominates majestically the delight t...

I posted about this delightful surreal carving in Pearson Park before showing the thing being carved and to be honest I thought I'd...

A few years ago I noticed that the two elm trees on Nelson Street were going a bit patchy in the foliage ... oh no, I thought at the tim...

I've mentioned before that Cottingham has a fair few splendid trees so I thought I'd post some again because they are still sple...

A few weeks ago Hull Council announced what it called "ambitious plans" to capitalise on the city's maritime heritage, you...

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...

When they came to build on the farm known as West Bulls just to the west of the Hull/Cottingham boundary they arranged to leave a trian...

They say there is no returning from the grave but that does not stop me returning to Spring Bank Cemetery with a couple of shots of i...

Here's another set I should have posted last year before the grand ennui set in. You might recall an old dead tree being reshaped i...

The willow trees on Paragon Street are getting new surrounding walls and some fresh soil by the look of things. I hope the new walls ar...