Today I had a 90 minute commute to work as I went to Hull to cover a shift at Paragon station. It's all very modern - the ticket office there shares a hall with the bus operators as Paragon is now a bus/rail interchange. My shift started at 11 o'clock so I didn't have too busy a day. It turned out to be a pleasant change of pace.
I've a lot of time for Hull. I visited Amazing Fantasy today, an independent comic shop on Anlaby Road just across from the station. It's well stocked, with plenty of recent issues and graphic novels and is well worth a visit if you're a comicky person (like me).
I picked up my copy of the new Ultimate Comics Spider-Man from there today. Back in June I blogged about the death of Spider-Man. Well, this is the comic that begins the story of his replacement.
The number of phone boxes in the modern world is diminishing, but you can still see examples of Hull's unique cream boxes dotted about the city.
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The last time I went out for a drink in Hull with my erstwhile wife she asked a couple of police officers on the beat where was a good, quiet place to go. After a second's bemusement (it was clear the officers were more used to worrying about the noisier parts of town) the officer we were talking to gave us a walking escort across town
We aren't too far from the Humber Bridge, once the longest single span suspension bridge in the world, now the fifth.
What fascinates me is how the Humber was crossed before the bridge was completed. It wasn't that long ago - just 1981 - when the bridge was opened. Up until then there was a ferry that ran from the Corporation Pier in the city -
- over to New Holland Pier on the Lincolnshire side where you could join the train to Grimsby and Cleethorpes:
As I left to catch my train back to Scarborough I bumped into poet Philip Larkin as he was off for his train.
I picked up my souvenir t-shirt.
Au revoir, Hull.
More soonliest.
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