Route: Hull Old Town
Area: East Yorkshire
Date of walk: 7th January 2017
Walkers: Andrew, Gilly, Lucy, Phoebe and baby Bobby
Distance: 4.0 miles
Weather: Sunny intervals
This week is the launch week of Hull’s year as UK City of Culture 2017, with an estimated 150,000 visitors descending on the city centre in the first four nights, most of them heading for the celebrated Made in Hull light and sound show – the opening event
We’d seen the show the night before, and today went for a walk round Hull’s old town. If you prefer to follow a fixed route click here for a link to the Fish Trail walk, which is roughly the route we took today
Anyone who hasn’t visited Hull before may find it an odd choice for a walk, but I hope that the photos which appear below will persuade you otherwise – it’s a wonderful place, full of character and atmosphere and well worth exploring on foot
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The Humber Bridge at sunset last month…
…and two days ago
The night before the walk ‘Arrivals and Departures’ projected onto The Deep, one of the most spectacular aquariums in the world
This wonderful show by ‘imitating the dog’ told the story of how Hull’s history was built on working hands washed here by the sea
Soundtrack by Terry Dunn, and apologies to him that I can’t reproduce it here - but it was an integral part of the show
Whitefriargate, on the way to the next installation at Queen Victoria Square…
‘We are Hull’ by Zsolt Balogh, telling the story of the city and its people over the past 70 years
Another apology - to Dan Jones, whose soundtrack was wonderful and helped to make this a moving experience
War is over
We are Hull
10.30am next day, the start of the walk from Holy Trinity Church
We cross High Street and head towards the River Hull
The Arctic Corsair, a deep sea trawler which was converted to a museum ship in 1999
Looking back along the River Hull to the Museum Quarter
We head along the riverbank towards the tidal barrier and The Deep
Scale Lane footbridge, the only moving bridge in the UK which people can stay on as it swings
The Tidal Barrier, the second biggest flood barrier in the country after the Thames barrier - it protects thousands of homes during times of tidal surges
Victoria Pier, where the Rivers Hull and Humber merge
Looking across the Humber to Immingham…
The shark sculpture by The Deep
We didn’t have time for a visit today, which caused a controversial moment with Phoebe, but here she is enjoying the reef a couple of years ago
Victoria Pier…
Looking back to The Deep from Victoria Pier…
and now looking the other way, towards Albert Dock
One of Hull’s iconic pubs - The Minerva, featuring the smallest pub room in Britain
Looking out across the Humber
The Deep again
Looking across Hull Marina
View towards Hull along the Marina…
…and looking back towards the Humber
1884
Hull Marina
Humber Street Fruit Market, part of a massive regeneration project
Walkiing along the marina towards Princes Quay
Spurn Lightship, which guided ships along the treacherous River Humber for almost 50 years
A view back along the marina
Princes Quay
Walking back to the start along Whitefriargate, I pass by Amuse Agents - Hull’s premier inconvenience store
…and lastly a Hull institution in Hepworth’s Arcade - Dinsdale’s Joke Shop, founded in 1933 - ‘we sell laughter’
