Hull and Hereabouts

Buttresses are very common, almost ubiquitous, on church buildings of this age, we are talking a complete rebuild between 1371 and 1419 so,...

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

You, as a person of importance, would not tarry long in the basement of this keep. Instead you'd be shown upstairs to the reception ...

I guess an eatery by the name of Roosters Plaice ( sic ) might not be to everyone's taste and so it came to pass that the business c...

It's a strange compulsion I know, a kind of reflection fetish ... Someone puts up a set of windows and you just have to see what ref...

Do they still have those games for children where you have to draw a line from one number to the next until a kind of hazy picture emerg...

An abandoned doll in... an abandoned shop in ... an abandoned street. Guess what today's theme is at City Daily Photo ...

Endyke Lane Dove House charity shop is gearing itself up for Hallowe'en with this appealing twosome. Margot took this with her ph...

Having a grill protecting your window is, as you can see, no real protection at all. This one on Vicar Lane clearly should have had the...

You might think that being in the unfortunate position of having to board up a window to protect it from hoopleheads and gopniki that yo...

These Victorian offices on Union Street/Albion Street used to be the School Board's Offices but now thanks to the passage of time, p...

It's really not fair, some might say, to juxtapose a broken window with Orchard Park. Orchard Park, the very name conjures up a rura...

And so to Bridlington, and what is all this then? The High Street was chosen to be the location for filming a rehash of Dad's Army ,...

Jarratt Street, Hull I don't know how long this quaint window sign has been here but clearly somebody got sick and tired of it ......

Marks and Sparks'  "The Art of Christmas"! pshaw!

Over on North Church Side plans are afoot for a boutique hotel no less, in or on the site of these fairly plain shop units. A local prop...

I've not been out and about much lately what with colds, seasonal social interference aka Xmas, looking after a large black dog and ...