Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Two cobbled streets in Hull
Month: October 2025
Making do
As Flickr seems to be having considerable issues today due to the significant AWS outage, I’m uploading a picture directly for a change.
I’ve just picked something I shot a week ago on my trip to Mablethorpe – the place where The Cut, empties into the North Sea via a concrete outfall. It’s another of those things that I’ve photographed on numerous occasions, but the light is quite nice here.
Ricoh GR III
Taken on 11 October 2025
George Street car park
Another example of brutalist architecture, this time in the form of Hull’s George Street car park. The multi-storey construction takes the form of a continuous spiral and it was developed and designed in the 1960s by Maurice Weston who had built other similar car parks.
As with many car parks from the 60s (in the UK at least), the parking bays were designed for smaller vehicles, meaning that some of today’s considerably larger cars – particularly SUVs, I would imagine, find it a greater challenge to fit. I’ve noticed similarly small bays in other car parks from those times, often with the disadvantage of concrete pillars that form part of the structure meaning that the bays cannot easily be widened.
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Bascule bridges in Hull
The river Hull has a number of bridges, most of which (in it’s lower reaches) need to accommodate the passing of marine traffic. As a result there are bridges of various designs in place, including swing bridges and also, as pictured below, bascule bridges. There are other bascule bridges along the River Hull, and I may try and seek them out at some point – they’re impressive to behold.
The first two pictures show Drypool Bridge, built in 1961 to replace an earlier swing bridge constructed in 1889. The bridge is decorated to commemorate John Venn, the English mathematician after whom the famous diagrams are named, who was born in Hull in 1834.
The final picture is of North Bridge (or New North Bridge), built in 1931.
While looking up the dates the bridges were opened, I found the website Open Bridges, which is jam packed with interesting and detailed information on Hull’s bridges, along with wonderful photographs, drawings, and blueprints.
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Man in a window
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
The traditional (not) red British telephone box
One of the things that the UK is famous for is it’s traditional red telephone boxes. While many of these have now disappeared (or been turned into mini-libraries, or defibrillator locations) due to the rise of mobile telephone, a lot of them still remain, particularly in large cities. But in Kingston upon Hull, these boxes are not red, they are cream.
This is to differentiate them from the phones owned and manged by British Telecom (and before it, the Post Office). Way back before the Post Office took on ownership of the public phone network, it was managed on an individual basis by local councils. While the rest of the country ceded control, Hull kept a grip on its own network and has managed it separately ever since, first through the Hull Corporation Phone Department, and now through Kingston Communacations (KCOM). And so, while the phone box designs are the same as elsewhere, their paint colour is not.
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Cat rescue
Today has been quite interesting. I spent a considerable part of it rescuing a cat which, possibly, didn’t require rescue.
The cat in question showed up outside my house this morning. It looked quite thin, but otherwise healthy. It was still there later in the morning and, when I stroked it, I could feel it’s bones, so I gave it a pack of catfood, which it ate almost immediately.
To cut to the chase, I spent several hours taking the cat to the vets (it had no name tag). They discovered that the info on it’s microchip was out of date, showing it living in another town, and the contact numbers were dead. All the local cat shelters are full due to it being the tail-end of kitten season, and I had to locate another vet who would take it in as a stray until a shelter place could be found.
Then, later in the day, I discovered that it lives just down the road…
I don’t actually know if the cat was missing, or just decided to wander onto our property for a change (I’ve never seen it before) but it’s safely back with it’s family now though, which is good. Things would have been much simpler however had it had a name tag / up-to-date microchip data.
Appropos of nothing, here’s a picture of what men used to wear in the 1970s in the UK. I was a child then though, so wore nothing like this. 🙂
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Window silhouette
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Up and down the River Hull
It was low tide when I was in Hull, so the titular River Hull was showing a lot of mud. I think it made for more interesting pictures though
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Around the docks at Hull
There’s a public footpath that winds it’s way through some of the western docks at Hull. in parts elevated to run along the top of one of the warehouse buildings, and the following pictures were all taken from that path. A mix of FP4+ and Tri-X as I switched rolls part way through.
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Ilford FP4+ / Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 10mins / 9mins.
Taken on 9 August 2025
Steel City Snapper photography 