Kathmandu

Looking slightly the worse for wear this Buddha stands outside Kathmandu, a shop unlike any other in Hull. It's an amazing place selling silver jewellery, incense, crystals, Tarot, candles, clothing, handicrafts and more. This dull list doesn't begin to convey the Aladin's cave of delights within. For those wanting body piercing (not me, I hasten to add) there's a studio upstairs. Definitely worth a visit even if you don't buy anything.

Oh yeah, it's on Ferensway opposite the station

Net Value

This is the length 'developers' will go to ensure that nothing stops them in their path to profit. The site is a school on Inglemire Lane and plans have been submitted for some new buildings. The netting, would you believe, is to stop birds nesting which would delay these crazed folks from uprooting the trees. Time is money ....
Anyway an open space amenity is now fenced off and ruined by heavy machinery. All this before permission has even been granted to go ahead with the 'development' and despite a protection order being in place. A Council spokeswoman said "The nets are up to protect the birds."  I suppose the fencing is to protect the people!

Skyline

Found myself in the Princes Quay shopping centre partly because it was raining (at long last!) and partly out of  morbid curiosity. The place is slowly dying, almost deserted, empty units and desperate attempts to hide it all behind acres of plasterboard. They've even taken down the plaque commemorating the official opening by some royal personage in 1991! The planned expansions of 2006 are but a distant memory.

Well look there's one, there ...

OK here's Vladimir and Estragon wandering down Posterngate.

It's a load of cobblers I know so I'll put it into the CDPB theme day thingy.

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Maizecor Tower, Wincolmlee

Across the road from the defunct Scott Street bridge is this concrete wonder; the Maizecor tower. It's on Wincolmlee, an old riverside roadway where Hull gradually extended northwards outside of the city boundaries.

Maizecor take maize (not surprisingly) and turn it into all sorts of wonderful products. It's the only such mill in the UK. They have a website that will tell you all you want to know about what they do and how they do it, it's here. 

Can we have our bridge back please?

Here is the Scott Street bridge. Eighteen years ago it was found to be too weak to carry traffic. Instead of fixing the problem it was left in this ridiculous state. No use to anyone. I know there has been discussion about demolition but no decision has been made as far as I am aware. If it can't carry heavy vehicles it could at least carry pedestrians and cyclists. I'm waiting to hear from the council to find out what's going on.

Paragon Arcade

Hull has two shopping arcades, Hepworth Arcade which I showed you a while ago and this one. Paragon Arcade is just a few doors up from the bank I showed the other day ( I took this shot from the same spot). It was built in the 1890s and cuts between Paragon Street and Carr Lane. It has a mixture of shops selling flowers and jewellery and so on. Of the two I prefer Hepworth's it's much more interesting.