On the way to visit Eleanor & family in Leeds we decided to pay a visit to Hull – for no better reason than neither of us had visited the city and also it was that year’s City of Culture. Unfortunately even though we went in June the weather was not kind to us: windy & chilly.
Hull (or Kingston upon Hull to give it its full name) is an ancient seafaring city known (according to their tourist board) as Yorkshire’s Maritime city. But it is 25 miles from the North Sea!
The city has some fine old buildings which it uses as a backdrop for its growing film industry. (Don’t mention Hullywood…….) In fact leaving our apartment one evening I wondered about the floating car by the waterfront until later that evening I noticed that it was being used as a film prop.
Hull City
Trinity House
01 Trinity House
Trinity House
02 Guildhall a
The Guildhall
03 Hull City Hall
Hull City Hall
04 Hull Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum
05 Ferens Art Gallery
Ferens Art Gallery
09 The Streetlife Museum
The Streetlife Museum
10 Kingston Comms
The Streetlife Museum
Kingston Communications –
the only non-BT area in the UK
08 Hull Truck Company
Hull Truck Company
An award-winning performance venue
12 Tower Ballroom
Tower Ballroom
15 Wilberforce House Museum
Wilberforce House Museum
13 Hull MInster
Hull Minster
14 Hull MInster 1
Hull Minster
16 Zebedees Yard
Zebedee’s Yard
The Waterfront & Docks
24 Nearby appertment
Outside our apartment
– notice the filming barge over Ann’s left shoulder
25 Nearby appertment filming
Filming a waterfront scene
17 Old Harbour
Hull Marina
18 Old Harbour 1
Hull Marina
19 Spurn Lightship
The Spurn Lightship
06 The Deep Aquarium
The Deep Aquarium
07 The Deep Aquarium 01
The Deep Aquarium
21 Drypool Bridge is a single-leaf bascule Scherzer rolling bridge It originally opened in 1961
Drypool Bridge is a single-leaf bascule Scherzer rolling bridge
– never seen one like it before
It originally opened in 1961
22 Vertical Lift bridge
The strange horizontal structure is The River Hull tidal surge barrier.
– it’s the second largest flood barrier in the United Kingdom after the Thames Barrier in London
23 Humber Bridge
The Humber Bridge
– when built in 1981 it was the longest single-span road suspension bridge in the world
20 The Docks
Offshore Supply Vessels designed to support the North Sea Oil & Gas platforms
