[2019]
Trip to Hull
…Janet and I left home ca.9.30am, to walk to the St. Hugh’s Avenue bus stop in Clee Road, to await the
Humber Flyer bus.… It started to rain… as we waited. The bus arrived, according to the timetable we had, getting on for ten minutes late (09:55).
…En route, Janet ate sweets to keep travel-sickness at bay (and shared them with me each time). On the A15 to the Humber Bridge, there was severe, wind-driven sleet or soft hail. The bus arrived
at Hull Paragon Interchange a little after 11.50am, so we thought it over ten minutes late. There were copies of the timetable in a holder near the driver, so we picked up a copy on our way out.
Just as well: we’d intended to get the 17:20 bus back, but discovered that it had been re-timed to 17:00; we’d have been much pissed off if we’d stumped up just before 5.20pm and found we’d have to wait another 50 minutes! (What’s more, the bus we’d got outward was retimed from 09:45 to 09:50, so wasn’t all that late coming, and from 11:42 to 11:50, so was negligibly late arriving.)…
Janet and I headed off, crossing Ferensway and going along the eastern end of Anlaby Road, which continued as Carr Lane, then bore right into Whitefriargate, continuing along Silver Street. We turned left through the narrow alley to get to
Ye Olde White Harte; but unlike last time (17 November 2011), when I had lunch there, they no longer served food. It was rather too dark in there, anyway. So we resumed our way, crossing Lowgate and continuing along Scale Lane, till we got to High Street. Across the road, directly ahead of us, was the
Lion and Key, so we went in there. It was “traditional pub”-style within; and I noticed that the ceilings were completely covered with old beer mats.
Janet had cottage pie and I fish, chips, a battered patty (mashed potato and rosemary) and mushy peas. I had a pint of
CatHead Golden Sunset IPA,[i] 4.8% a.b.v. It wasn’t an “IPA” as I would understand it; it was a blonde bitter with a somewhat citrus taste. The food took half an hour or more from
Janet’s ordering it for it to come (but Janet, especially, enjoyed it when it did; I found the fish a bit soft), so I went and bought myself a further ½-pint.
- [i] Actually brewed at 48 High Street, Hull, I later discovered when I came to write my account of the day.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 12:23:22
The Lion and Key, 48 High Street, Hull
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 12:23:44
The Lion and Key, 48 High Street, Hull
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:35:36
The Lion and Key, 48 High Street, Hull
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:35:36 (detail)
The Lion and Key, 48 High Street, Hull
The we went, and visited Hull Minster.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:42:06
Views around Trinity Square: Trinity House
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:42:28
Views around Trinity Square: Kingston Hotel and Hull Indoor Market
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:42:50
Views around Trinity Square: Hull Minster
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:44:04
Views around Trinity Square: Andrew Marvell statue
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:45:04
Views around Trinity Square: Andrew Marvell statue
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:45:04 (detail)
Views around Trinity Square: Andrew Marvell statue
Admission to the Minster was free, with contributions boxes
placed here and there.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:47:48
Hull Minster: nave, looking east
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:48:10
Hull Minster: nave, ceiling
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:48:54
Hull Minster: south aisle
We bought a teddy bear from the gift shop and called it “Kingston”.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:55:16
Hull Minster: one of the stained-glass windows in the south wall
The pulpit was open above; it didn’t have a canopy over it, as many have.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:56:44
Hull Minster: pulpit
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:58:34
Hull Minster: another of the stained-glass windows in the south wall
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 13:59:24
Hull Minster: and another of the stained-glass windows in the south wall
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:02:58
Hull Minster: view east through the choir screen
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:04:02
Hull Minster: south transept
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:04:02 (edited detail)
Hull Minster: main window of the south transept
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:04:32
Hull Minster: small window in the south transept
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:05:26
Hull Minster: beneath the bell tower, the inner northern array of organ pipes
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:05:48
Hull Minster: view upwards from the same position as “14:05:26”. The inner southern array of organ pipes comes into view.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:06:10
Hull Minster: choir, looking east
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:06:42
Hull Minster: choir, looking east
It was recently in Lincoln Cathedral that we first noticed an extra pulpit in the choir; Hull Minster had one, too.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:07:30
Hull Minster: choir, looking west — pulpit
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:09:28
Hull Minster: right window at the east end
One of the staff of the café pointed out an error in a stone commemorative plaque.
Janet stayed in the café while I continued to look around, and I joined her later.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:11:58
Hull Minster: stone commemorative plaque in the south wall near the east end
In line 6 the word “mutually” was mis-spelled with one “l”, but an additional “l” was inserted in the wrong place.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:13:06
Hull Minster: view at the east end to the south
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:13:56
Hull Minster: table and plaque at the east end
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:14:16
Hull Minster: left window at the east end (behind “14:13:56”)
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:16:52
Hull Minster: maritime-themed displays in the north choir-aisle — model ships
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:16:52 (detail)
Hull Minster: maritime-themed displays in the north choir-aisle — model ships
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:17:44
Hull Minster: in the north choir-aisle — model of PS Lincoln Castle
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:18:58
Hull Minster: maritime-themed displays in the north choir-aisle
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:19:24
Hull Minster: maritime-themed displays in the north choir-aisle — memorials to mariners lost at sea, including the crew of the
Gaul
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:20:40
Hull Minster: in the north choir-aisle — surviving portion of a flood-damaged painting of the Last Supper, with only ten apostles remaining
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:21:34
Hull Minster: north transept
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:22:12
Hull Minster: small windows in the north transept
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:22:58
Hull Minster: the outer northern array of organ pipes, seen from the north transept
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:23:16
Hull Minster: nave, seen from the north transept
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:24:00
Hull Minster: door to the bell tower
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:24:32
Hull Minster: brass plaque listing the bells
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:25:20
Hull Minster: beneath the bell tower, the inner southern array of organ pipes
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:26:30
Hull Minster: nave, looking west
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:27:18
Hull Minster: nave, looking west
Joining Janet in the café, I had a cup of black filter-coffee.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 14:37:38
Hull Minster: in the café in the south choir-aisle — our new pal “Kingston”
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:06:20
Hull Minster: west end and south side, seen from Trinity Square
As we were leaving, the rain came on heavily, so we took shelter in a doorway in Market Place opposite the church.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:09:26
Hull Minster: east end and north side, seen from Market Place
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:11:20
“King Billy” statue at the southern end of Market Place (erected 1734), seen afar from the location of “15:09:26”, depicting William III (William of Orange) as a Roman emperor. The inscription reads: “This statue was erected in the year MDCCXXXIV to the memory of King William Third, Our Great Deliverer.”
We went from Market Place to Silver Street via Hepworth’s Arcade, where at a second-hand book shop
Janet bought Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat. We visited Ferens Art Gallery. The “modern” section, I opined, was for the most part a waste of space and resources.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:29:08
Ferens Art Gallery, Carr Lane, Hull, seen from the Queen Victoria monument, Queen Victoria Square
I was interested in the differences between the small study and the large painting of
The Man with the Muck Rake. In the former, the Lord appeared to be carrying in his right hand a crown of thorns; but in the latter, it was less obviously this, and it contained seven stars. In the former, there were four misty angelic figures in an arc above and behind his head; but these were absent in the latter.
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:53:20
Ferens Art Gallery, Carr Lane, Hull: Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) The Man with the Muck Rake
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:54:00
Ferens Art Gallery, Carr Lane, Hull: Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) one of two studies for
The Man with the Muck Rake
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:55:20
Ferens Art Gallery, Carr Lane, Hull: Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) The Man with the Muck Rake
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:57:30
Ferens Art Gallery, Carr Lane, Hull: Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) The Lion at Home
Saturday 4 May 2019 — 15:57:30
Ferens Art Gallery, Carr Lane, Hull: Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) The Lion at Home
We went to the waiting room in the railway station till it was time to go for the bus (boarded, 16:57).
It was the journey from hell! because three puttane, two young ones and one “mutton dressed as lamb” crone, and one young male scumbag got more and more loud, raucous and obscene as the journey proceeded. When they got off at Barton, we thought we were rid of them; but no, they’d only gone out for a smoke. One of them had an audio device, and after they re-boarded they played it audibly and sang along to it, sometimes shouting loudly and always out of tune. When we got to the Riverhead Exchange, where the bus now terminates,
ca.6.35pm we went to the nearby Casper’s pizzeria/ristorante.…
Janet had pasta spirals with “Bolognese” and I a huge pepperoni and salami pizza with added doner kebab slices.… The manager/proprietor shook my hand and kissed
Janet’s before we left. There was a №3 bus waiting, which we just managed to get (19:25).…
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