My London Diary went on holiday last Friday to Yorkshire, where I spent a weekend staying with a friend in one of Hull’s stateliest homes, a grand ‘Arts and Crafts‘ mansion near the university, which he is busy restoring to something like its original state, but with modern comforts such as central heating and en suite bathrooms. However I haven’t posted pictures of this rather grand project this time, but from a couple of trips we made during the weekend.
Hornsea, on the North Sea coast, used to be a short rail journey from Hull, although thanks to Dr Beeching, the trackbed became available and is now a recreational trail, but we went there on the bus. It’s the kind of seaside place that is seldom crowded, but since it rained most of the time we were there, even less so. Our route back was interesting, going through Beverley and then passing Bethnal Green, both of which I photographed.
Arthur Fish & Sons, Fish St, Hull, 1970s
Hull was where I made my first major photographic project – and had my largest one person show to date, with almost 150 black and white and colour prints on display in the fine Ferens Art Gallery there in 1983. Traces of the Hull I photographed are still visible, but much has changed, sometimes for the better. The pictures I’ve put on My London Diary from last weekend in Hull were taken within a short walk of where Fish St.