Hull and Hessle

A trip to Hull with my support worker today, somewhere I've not visited for quite a few years. The weather was lovely most of the time, it just drizzled a bit whilst we were inside the art gallery. If we saw a shop in the main shopping area that we wanted to go in we did and I bought a jacket from a charity shop and a sausage and tomato pie from a butcher's shop, a type of pie I've never seen before but I did see them for sale in another shop...they must be popular in Hull.

Something I noticed, of course all the telephone boxes are cream coloured because Hull owns its own telecommuications company...and all the phone boxes are still in operation.

We started by having problems at the multi-storey carpark; the first payment machine didn't work and the second one was a different type and myself and Siobhan were really struggling until a young woman came over and helped us. It had a slot to put money in but it wasn't accepting cash and so we had to pay by card.

We encountered another problem when we needed to use the toilets in the shopping centre; we saw this sign and assumed it meant that the toilets were upstairs and the steps or lift were over to the right...we were wrong, they were actually straight ahead a bit and over to the right.

We then made our way down to the Old Town.

We couldn't go inside the Minster, it was closed for a private function.

We arrived at the Museum Quarter, fortunately all museums in Hull are free admission. We only briefly went inside the Hull and East Riding Museum; it seems to be mainly designed for children. We spent much longer inside the Streetlife Museum.

 

We got to the waterfront and went in a pub for a meal.

When we returned to the City Centre we went inside the Ferens Art Gallery. I enjoyed seeing the Dutch Old Masters again, although I thought there were a lot more the last time I was there. In one of the other galleries there was a display of work by young artists, I particularly liked this one and so took a photograph of it.

On the way back to Doncaster we stopped at Hessle and had a quick look round the shops - I got something for my tea.