Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Too good to last
Toogood Street has no buildings now and serves little purpose as it runs along the side of land drain. In fact so useless is it that ten years ago the council applied to have it stopped up on the ground that it is no longer necessary for public use! This seems a bit of a sad ending for such a wonderfully named street.
The strange looking device is connected with clearing out the drain which enters the river Hull nearby.
Monday, 26 March 2012
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Margaret Moxon Way
Here is the crossing from the bus station to the shopping centre. Some of the good people of Hull like to play a game of chicken with the buses entering and leaving the station off to the right of this picture.
I post this because the other day I was idly browsing through Hull in the virtual world that is Google Earth when I came across Margaret Moxon Way. I'd never heard of it. Turns out when the new bus/rail station was built those who decide these things also changed the name of the road; they'd had a competition to come up with a suitable name and apparently Maggie Moxon got the nod. I had to use a well known search engine to find out just who this lady was; a missionary to Sierra Leone and New Zealand no less. So now you know more than the local paper as it still reports the frequent accidents at this crossing as happening on Collier Street.
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Friday, 23 March 2012
Thursday, 22 March 2012
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