Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Silhouette

There can't be many supermarkets with a view like this. Here's Morrison's car park, Holderness Road. I featured this mill before.

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

South Marine Drive, Bridlington



This impressive terrace looks out over the beach and boating lake that I showed in the last two days.There are hotels at each end but the middle section is apartments 

Monday, 25 October 2010

End of Season Bridlington



Martha, Laura and the rest will have a long wait before anyone comes calling. I also can't see many breaking the local bylaw against swimming in the boating lake.


Sunday, 24 October 2010

The South Beach, Bridlington



 Bridlington in late October can be a cold and miserable place but when the sun shines through the clouds like this ....

Saturday, 23 October 2010

Progress from Albert Dock, Hull


 Running along the Humber to the west of the River Hull is the Albert Dock. It was built between 1863 and 1869 and named after Prince Albert; Victoria Dock was built earlier on the east side of the Hull (sickening the sycophancy of our ancestors). It was extended in 1880 by the addition of the William Wright Dock (he was chairman of the Dock Company). It's the best part of a mile long. Surprisingly (well it's a surprise to me) the dock is still in use for general cargo and a few fishing boats. There's also a training place for the North Sea oil rigs. Far off in the background you can just make out the Humber Bridge.

Below is the view eastwards through the dock gates showing (just) the P&O ferry to  Zeebrugge and Rotterdam in King George dock (another dock, another royal).


 Finally here's the wide brown Humber that the dock leads into. The name Humber might come from an ancient , pre-celtic word meaning river, or it might be, as  Geoffrey of Monmouth has it, named after Humber the Hun. Whatever the history, it's a wide old stream and now a very important waterway with the modern docks of Hull and North Lincolnshire being some of the busiest in Europe.





Friday, 22 October 2010

Tidal Barrier, Hull

The Tidal Barrier has recently been overhauled and improved so we should be safe from destruction by flood at least for the next couple of decades.