Plans continue for improvements to this website. Am also planning to interrupt ‘runs’ with topical comments.
Have taken to spending an hour or so in the afternoon sitting on one of the new benches on Nelson Street (‘Minerva Pier’) on these hot days. Yes the view of the water is somewhat blocked by the new flood defence wall but the south bank and part of the Estuary is still visible. The flood defence work done in this area has been done to a very high standard and blends well with the pre-existing surroundings. The young trees have been planted in the proper modern fashion and each has an expensive metal tree surround, this particularly welcome as recently two young trees in Pearson Park were snapped mid-trunk by a group of idiots, these didn’t have metal tree surrounds.
The flood defence work in the Nelson Street area also blends well into the pre-existing footpath on the west bank of the mouth of the River Hull and thereon to the open-air amphitheatre and the recent developments of buildings and access alleyways in the area. Also just past the Tidal Barrier an underpass under the the A63 (Myton Bridge) gives walkers direct access to the Old Town.