To Hull & Back Part 2

Hello everyone.

So how are you all keeping?

My last Blog was titled "To Hull & Back" but I ran out of time when I was writing it so I shall finnish off what I have started!

As I have said a couple of times now. To me Hull is not a bad city, and I felt sad to leave the place when I moved away back in 1987, and then when I visited 2 weeks ago. Now there was was a reason that I decided to go back, and that was all down to my mate called Adam. For the past 8 years I have been working in the same office as Adam and he too has a common background of living and growing up in Hull, also like me his parents moved away from the city about 3 years ago. Now Adam is a great chap and probably misunderstood when I first met him I thought that he was mad, but after I got to know him he turned out to be a great chap.

By the way if you are looking for another blog to follow take a look at Adam's Blog as he is taking one HUGE ADVENTURE of leaving the country of his birth to live in Israel, anyway here is a link to Adam's blog:http://adamisme-newstart.blogspot.com/

Hence the reason that I decided to take a trip to Hull. Adam was alway talking about the place, and all the new bits I just had to go back and see it for myself!

When I came home from Hull I came back via Lincoln. Lincoln is yet another great city of England with a very long history reaching back to when the Romans invaded the UK.

So the reason that we came back via Lincoln rather than the Motorways is that I visited my Grandmother. My grandmother is 94 years old an I try to visit as much as possible as she is house bound. On this trip we only stayed with her for two hours as my uncle was coming over to take my grandmother shopping.

The trip down the A15 which used to seem to take hours seem to flash by and we was in Lincoln in next to no time.

To Hull and back!

Well here I am, and this is my first blog! I am writing this between watching CSI Miami on a Tuesday night just outside London.

My first entry though is not about CSI Miami, but about my trip to Hull and back.

Now Kingston - Upon - Hull is what I would call a rough and ready city. To a lot of people it is a run down place with lots of 1950's buildings in the city centre and 1960's housing estates to the north and east of the city, but for me it was home between 1983 and 1987 and it is one of the best places that I have lived.

Hull became a Kingstown when Edward the 1st gave the town a Royal Charter way back in 1299, over the years it developed and at one point was the second largest town after London.

In the 1700's William Wilberforce lived in the town he was famous for his campaigning against Slavery.

Now why does Hull look so rough and ready these day well its all thanks to the second world war where the city was 95% destroyed by Hitlers airforce when they bombed the city.

Back in the 1980's the city started to have a revival and the start of a lot of regeneration work was carried out with the building of the Clive Sulavan Way and the Freetown way.

With my parents being Salvation Army Officers we nether stayed in one place for more than 4 years and during my teenage life Hull was my home and where I had my first job.

Now last Thursday (6th October 2011) for the first time in 24 years I returned to the city of Hull propper. I had been to the outside of the city 3 years earlier, but had not seen the city centre.

On our first day there I took a walk up the Beverley Road past my old home, and the Beverley Road Swimming Pool and then took a look at Pearson's Park, and it looked so nice in its autumn colors. Then in the evening we stayed in the Hotel.

Friday 7th Oct 2011 - First day of the Hull Fair

After a restless night due to the locals being a little rowdy after their night on the town and being woken up at 4am. I went into the city centre and then down to the pier. Hull Pier was the point where the ferries from Barton on Humber used to drop off their passengers until the Humber Bridge opened. It is these days a perfect viewing point of the Humber's mouth and New Holland.

I then took a look at the old town and Holy Trinity Church.

In the afternoon, I visit Princess Gardens which in it's heyday was the main dock in the city centre, then the new shopping centres after which I retreat back to the Hotel for Dinner.

19:00 and we go to Hull Fair. Now Hull fair is the largest and also one of the oldest fairs in Europe. Infact back in 1993 the fair reached the grand old age of 700 years.

The fair is great hopfully I'll load some photo's later!

Well I mus now sign off but I will tell you more about my life and travels later.