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Sherman Tank
Googling doesn't make you an expert
Schedule for first season of Hull 2017 City of Culture revealed - BBC News
Is it not great that Hull is City of Culture? What a great line up of projects that really tap into the very real, and living history of Kingston upon Hull.
It comes in for a bit of stick sometimes, but I think it's one of the friendliest and most underrated cities in England; with loads going for it.
I spend a lot of time amongst snobby people (especially in London) who if they think of it at all, it's as a dull Northern backwater where everyone has ketchup on the table like Vera and Jack. Hopefully this will be an opportunity to showcase the real Hull.
Is it not great that Hull is City of Culture? What a great line up of projects that really tap into the very real, and living history of Kingston upon Hull.
It comes in for a bit of stick sometimes, but I think it's one of the friendliest and most underrated cities in England; with loads going for it.
I spend a lot of time amongst snobby people (especially in London) who if they think of it at all, it's as a dull Northern backwater where everyone has ketchup on the table like Vera and Jack. Hopefully this will be an opportunity to showcase the real Hull.
Only if you leave your house.
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
I think this is a bloody wonderful idea. Anything that brings art and culture to people is to be celebrated. Ffs, thst stuff is the very food of the soul. It enriches and energises us, it brings a spark to peoples lives. Not every piece or installation will be universally loved but then you take away from art and culture what you bring to it.
I envy Hull this experience.
I envy Hull this experience.
Sherman Tank
Googling doesn't make you an expert
Keep it in the cupboard until you want to use it. Tables are for fruitbowls and a few books between meals.
Sherman Tank
Googling doesn't make you an expert
Only if you believe what you read in the tabloids.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
No.
It has about the amount of violent crime you would expect for a city of its size and I've never felt unsafe anywhere.
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
The only ketchup I allow in my place is the one from Curry 36 by Berlin Zoologischer Garten station. Granted this is a niche thing but fuck it, I like it. I brought back 3 bottle this summer!
So, who paid you to write this then?
In all seriousness, though, it is great. I've been in or around Hull for 25 years, a few years London excepted, and I've never seen a sense of optimism and momentum around the place like there is now. It's not just City of Culture - it might even turn out to be unimportant alongside 'energy estuary' and various other investments - but it does matter, and all in all it really does feel as if things are changing for the better.
But tell your mates to get their fingers out and finish the work on Jameson Street asap. It's just embarrassing atm.
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
Stinks of cocoa.
skategob
Does tha want some fist?
Anyone who was born here will tell you that after being stuck in the mire for decades, Hull is at last dragging itself out of it's past and hopefully on to much better things. It's going to be a massive year for the City Of Hull.
There are many events planned for every single day and something to cater for everyone. If you get the chance to come up here, you'll be made to feel very, very welcome.
There, done my bit
There are many events planned for every single day and something to cater for everyone. If you get the chance to come up here, you'll be made to feel very, very welcome.
There, done my bit
Yup. Everyone hates kcom - me included when they took ages to fix a line fault recently - but actually it's not so bad a service.
If you were here for this I'm doubly glad I didn't do it.
I do like the big arse print someone left on the steps of the Guildhall though.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
If you were here for this I'm doubly glad I didn't do it.
I do like the big arse print someone left on the steps of the Guildhall though.
I applied and was accepted but didn't actually go. They wanted you there some ridiculous time in the wee hour of the morning and i was already seriously run down from international travels.
Taking part would have been just asking to catch man-flu.
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
Anyone who was born here will tell you that after being stuck in the mire for decades, Hull is at last dragging itself out of it's past and hopefully on to much better things. It's going to be a massive year for the City Of Hull.
There are many events planned for every single day and something to cater for everyone. If you get the chance to come up here, you'll be made to feel very, very welcome.
There, done my bit
I like to write (shit) poetry, but can only really do so outdoors. A long weekend in Hull, when this all starts would be rather lovely I think
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
You could say she's been to Hull and back.
No. It's Becontree Becontree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anyone who was born here will tell you that after being stuck in the mire for decades, Hull is at last dragging itself out of it's past and hopefully on to much better things. It's going to be a massive year for the City Of Hull.
There are many events planned for every single day and something to cater for everyone. If you get the chance to come up here, you'll be made to feel very, very welcome.
There, done my bit
Interesting number of pop-up CoC promotional posters.
But you're right. There really is a sense of better times starting to take shape, and that's really gratifying. There was a story the other day about £1bn of public and private investment having gone into the city in the last year or so, and it shows. I've never seen so much building going on here as there is atm. Not any more: the cocoa mill closed ten years ago and they're currently building a waste-to-energy plant where it used to be. The main factory smell in that part of town is the tannery these days, which absolutely stinks!
Not any more. Bransholme was the largest in Europe in the 1970s, IIRC, but there've been bigger ones built since.
*e2a* Since this thread seems to have started me posting again I might as well drag out some of my recent photos for the Mundane Pictures of the North thread!
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
On what is this complete and utter nonsense based on?
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
My cousin who lived there in the 1990s.
Of course, he himself was a horrendous violent disorder problem.
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
On what is this complete and utter nonsense based on?
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Having it's 50th anniversary this year.
