Hull

A new Class 385 Siemens Desiro train pulls into Leeds station	An exciting shot of Hull station	Hammonds department store, Hull.	Major "improvements" to Hull railway station. It looks here as if the old buildings are being demolished and replaced with a metal framed glass structure.	This massive new development is going up alongside Hull railway station, it will include a new bus station among other things.
Hull Paragon railway station undergoing major alteration	Hull Central Library	Debenhams, Hull	The Prospect shopping centre	Greggs again but can you spot the golden 'W'?
This fantasically striking building is in the heart of Hull's retail district.	Another view of the BHS building	Hull City Hall, now a Tourist Information Centre but don't hang around in this spot too long as it is frequented by Chmuggers (annoying people that thrust a clipboard in your face and demand your bank details in the name of charity)	Fabulous traditional architecture	Princes Quay, now sadly dominated by the somewhat overbearing shopping centre bearing the same name, which can be seen right of shot
New flats near Queen's Gardens, the gardens used to be a dock but was filled in at some point	Queen's Gardens with Hull College at the end (for some reason a part of the University Of Lincoln)	A delightful caf in Queen's Gardens with a very rectangular Police station behind	The William Wilberforce memorial towers above Hull College at the Eastern end of Queen's Gardens	The end of the Police station, sporting some very fashionable (at the time) yellow tiles with an NCP (I assume from the architecture) car park beyond
This fabulous architecture is at the other end of the BHS building, it has all the hallmarks of 1950s retail architecture: white masonry, concrete-framed metal windows, even a clock! However the 'Investing In Hull' sign is obviously a joke as it's all boarded up.	It also looks like the building has a elliptical paraboloid shell roof (that's a concrete dome-type structure for those unfamiliar with concrete shell structures). These are quite rare.	This view shows the shell roof better.	1960s offices near the temporary bus station (Bond Street), the geometric form of this structure is strangely pleasing.	This fine old Art Deco building is to be razed by vandals in the name of progress.
Dereliction.	Face of the back of the BHS building	Back of the Art Deco building	The BHS building again. Does anyone know a good glazier?	Methodist Central Hall
Princes Quay	Princes Quay, flying the flag for Hull	All maritime cities have a token old lightship, here is Hull's contribution.	Lock gates at the end of Hull Marina	The marina
Looking West, the Humber Bridge can be made out if you look closely	Looking East...and look at how filthy that water looks.	The Deep, a maritime centre of some kind	All seaside towns have these coin-operated telescopes!	The Deep, somewhat resembling a shipwreck
At first, I thought the structure dominating this view was a lifting bridge but it isn't...	Lock gates at the exit from the River Hull	Sludge	It's actually a massive floodgate. The structure at the top turns 90 degrees then comes down	The River Hull, looking North from the mouth
A miltistorey car par, probably not NCP.	High Street, one of Hull's most interesting historic streets...	...Until you come across this which is totally out of place		The old Post Office, now a JD Wetherspoon Free House
Hull's 'Streetlife Museum Of Transport', well worth a visit if you like old cars and suchlike.	The museum also features mock-ups of the interior of some old-fashioned shops which are very good (similiar to the 'Milestones' museum in Basingstoke)	A classic Art Deco design		BHS again...now with a flower stall outside
A massive advertising hoarding obliterates the facade of this building	Dereliction	Car park adjacent to the temporary bus station	This is very simple architecture but it works well and with a little bit of imagination, could easily look very up to date.	Tunnel vision
Primark - because large windows are for losers	More fifties architecture, this time along Carr Lane	Kingston Communications building, Carr Lane. Note the fantastic folded plate shell roof gracing the central strructure	Fifties architecure again in a street too short to have a name on my Official Hull Visitor's Guide street map	The same building from a different view. Note those yellow tiles again! It also contains a triditional, independent baker's shop. Don't let Gregg's hear about that!
Hammonds department store, described by some as the best preserved example of a postwar department store		This staircase inside Hammonds is very Art Deco	Wow, look, at this huge complex! Does anyone know why it says 'Cecil' on the front? Answers on a postcard please.	The side of 'Cecil', note those bay windows and that fantastic hexagonal sculpted concrete
Multicoloured tower blocks line up near Hull station	A Hull Trains vehicle of some kind - either an Adelante, Meridian or Voyager (they look the same to me but I'm no train expert)	Hull station features a magnificent glass and metal canopy	A Class 158 Northern Trains service	The Humber Bridge, the longest bridge in the world until 1998 (now the 4th longest but still the longest bridge in the UK and the 2nd longest in Europe and definitely longer than any bridges in the USA!)
View West along the Humber	The railway line between Hull and Leeds features about half a dozen massive power stations (not to mention another half dozen on the line south from Leeds towards Doncaster). They were built due to the close proximity of local coal but thanks to a 'popular' ex-British prime minister, the UK coal industry is virtually extinct.

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