“Jason”, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 01/03/17.

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I was very impressed by this replica of Amy Johnson’s Gipsy Moth aircraft hanging from the roof from the roof of the Paragon Interchange. You can’t tell from this photograph, but “Jason” is flying over the florists, towards the railway station ticket office. In a plane just like this one, Hull born Amy Johnson flew from London to Darwin in 19 days in 1930 and this replica was made by inmates at HM Prison Hull as part of the City of Culture celebrations.

You can read more about the replica on the BBC News website.

Souvenirs: Flyer, 2Faced Dance Company Present “Two Old Men”, Paragon Interchange, Freedom Festival, Hull, 2013.

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To quote from the 2Faced Dance Company’s website, “2Faced Dance produces innovative, accomplished and aspirational artistic performance and participation programmes alongside a captivating community dance programme that truly reflects the landscape in which we are based, allowing us to tell new and original stories, generating distinctive new work, whilst striving to stay relevant to our audiences“. This performance ticked all of those boxes.

The section on “Two Old Men” describes the performance as “a story about two men’s extraordinary experiences, eccentric behaviour and witty tales.Two Old Men will make you gasp, laugh and cry as the old men take you on a life long journey all the way to the pub“.

If you’re interested in the technical details the performance involves a mix of “break, street and contemporary dance”. Here are some of my photographs from that “adrenalin fuelled” twenty minutes:

Regular Hull commuters or readers of this blog might notice something different about this part of the Paragon Interchange, which I’ve mentioned here and here. Last November, to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, plaques were mounted all around the walls and between the double doors you can see in the background in the photographs above. How quickly history is made.

Red Light, Brook Street, Hull, 09/12/14.

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It is one of the quirks of Hull city centres one way system that buses leaving the Paragon Interchange sometimes end up going around the block and facing the Interchange again at the Brook Street traffic lights, where the bus has stopped here. We’re heading left, whilst the other bus (outlined by its red break lights) is heading into the Interchange. The block of blue light you can see on the right of the photograph is the Christmas lights of the St. Stephen’s Shopping Centre, which is next door to the Paragon Intercgange on Ferensway.

Tinsel Wrapped Around a Door Handle, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 29/11/14.

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Vintage Bus, Gandhi Way, The Museum Quarter, Hull, 29/11/14.

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Outside the Streetlife Museum of Transport.

This delightful vintage bus was ferrying visitors from Hull’s Paragon Interchange to the Streetlife Museum of Transport on Saturday. I didn’t take advantage of the lift to the Victorian Christmas event, taking place in the Museum Quarter, because (as regular readers will know) I like to stroll around Hull when ever possible.

Leaving the Paragon Interchange.

Later in the day I spotted the bus again leaving the Paragon Interchange, the combined centre of operations for the city’s bus and rail services.

At the traffic lights.

The pedestrian crossing linking the Paragon Interchange to the St. Stephen’s Shopping Centre is a regular trap for departing buses and I just happened to be at the pedestrian crossing when the bus was leaving (a perfect instance of being in the right place at the right time).

Another Train With a Moustache, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 19/11/14.

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What were the chances?

Another commute to Beverley from Hull and another train with a moustache waiting for me on Platform 7. I might have mistaken it for the first train with a moustache [see: A Train With a Moustache, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 08/11/14], but then I remembered that I’d written down the number of the first train in my diary, so I could know for sure. This is moustache train 158792 (or should that be moustache train 57795? I didn’t think to look up what numbers railway enthusiasts actually record!) were as the first moustache train had 158795 written on the front. Perhaps trains with moustaches are quite common place after all?

Rolls of Honour (unveiled), Paragon Interchange, Hull, 10/11/14.

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“Product of HMP Hull”.

On Saturday I posted a photograph of these memorial plaques wrapped in bubble wrap [https://anticsroadshowblogspot.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/plaques-wrapped-in-bubble-wrap-paragon-interchange-hull-081114/] and here is one of them now they have been officially unveiled. One of the interesting things about them is, if you look at the bottom right hand corner of each of them, you’ll see, written in gold, “Product of HMP Hull” and, credit where credit is due, the staff and inmates have done a really good job.

To quote Station Manager David Hatfield, interviewed by BBC News, “We have over 2,000 names and 20 plaques but it started as one simple plaque but as we got the names from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission they just kept growing“.

Interestingly, the Hull Daily Mail, lists the number of names as 4,730. 4,730 Hull servicemen who left the city, mostly via what is now the Paragon Interchange, to the various theatres of World War One, never to return.

Plaques Wrapped in Bubble Wrap, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 08/11/14.

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The Hull Daily Mail informs me that these memorial plaques are going to be unveiled tomorrow and as it happens I will be back in Hull on Monday, so I will be able to see them and photograph them without the bubble wrap to; God willing. The 20 plaques, recording the names of the 2,000 Hull servicemen who lost their lives during World War One, looked so striking this morning, even covered up, that I thought I would take some photographs.

 

A Train With a Moustache, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 08/11/14.

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Charming.

The title says it all really, it’s a train with a moustache, the highlight of my commute to Beverly this morning. Why? I have got no idea why! I am not sure what numbers railway enthusiasts record in their notebooks, but I did notice and record that the moustache train had the number 57795 painted on the side of it in white and the number 158795 painted on the front in black, so look out for it!