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Weird how their reunion turned so "meh" so quickly. There were festivals offering millions a few years ago.
You'll have to ask the promoters that question. I'm not sure when Hull FC v Wigan (also played on Saturday) was scheduled. It might just be a case of the KCOM not been available.
Mystery as car is lowered into the water at Hull's Victoria Dock http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/myst...0374218-detail/story.html#5Se5BMBRKtjRvZeE.99
Saw them dropping it in last night. Haven't read the article so may have been said but it's no mystery. It's for Flood Part 3.
i thought it was making a eco system for the fishes or is that only in coral reefs they drop vehicles for eco systems i guess its to show what happens when neds get hold of vauxhall corsas.. ?
I thought that, but there was a sign up saying part 3 is in the basin again at the end of June. Most of the floats are still there from the last one.
The History Centre are showing a series of Alec Gill's photographs from the 70s and 80s taken on Hessle road. All black and white and worth a visit. Ends 29 June.
Certainly is worth seeing. When I worked on the fish dock we had a foreman joiner who took a photographic record of the building of the Humber bridge from start to finish. I often wondered what happened to it, he died many years ago, but that would be worth seeing if it was still with his family.
I went to see the photographic display, at the History Centre, of black & white pictures of the fishing community on Hessle Road of a couple of decades or so ago and I was immediately transported back in like some time machine to that era. I saw links to my past not just of a couple of decades ago but back to my childhood. The pictures were awesome, just life as it was with the joy and despair of those days, the delight and depravations of everyday living without the stuff we take for granted today. Every picture was a masterpiece in capturing that moment in time from kids doing handstand to a bloke with what looked like a bottle of Hull Brewery Mild sitting with his mates. A couple of OAP’s, without their teeth in, sat on a doorstep, and of course the fishing link. The fish house girls the trawlers and trawlermen, the process workers the whole caboodle of life on Hessle Road brought out in black and white details of such clarity the pictures jump out at you. It’s an extraordinary exhibition and one I exalt you to see if you can, even if you don’t have a link to that history the pictures themselves are classics of the time. I suppose that you could say that it also shows some of the squalor but it wasn’t looked on like that at the time, it was just the way it was. Not a single electronic gadget on show, not even a transistor radio, but kids still had entertainment even if it was swinging on a rope around a lamppost, another great captured photograph. Today’s generation would laugh at all aspects of these pictures, the clothes the kids wore especially, ‘wouldn’t be seen dead in those’ comes to mind, but Nike and their ilk were not an option in fact I don’t think that they were around in those days. But I think what attracted me the most was the way the kids were just that, kids, no heads bowed before a mobile phone, no one-upmanship as the lack of money was seemingly spread evenly around. But I know from experience, those kids were loved, yes, they lacked a lot but love was not missing amongst the fishing community. I don’t doubt there was a belting or two dished out by pissed up fishermen on their 3-day binge, but then it wasn’t a crime then to give a clip around the ear, or a whack across the back of the legs, you learnt quick what you shouldn’t do again, well in sight of your parents anyway. But those pictures put into focus what I tell my grandchildren as there is no way they can properly understand about my childhood no matter how hard I try to explain. In fact the pictures are a pictorial of my stories brought to life, awesome.
Must get to see that the next we come. Love the fish house girls or the patty slappers as we called them
Just in from the Tidal Wave festival on Brid beach. Lots of City of Culture volunteers present. Loss of sound at times. Pigeon Detectives and Top Loader were good. The Hoosiers were disappointing really - most of the singing was drown out. Lots of people left before their biggest song. They made all drinks 20p more expensive where you then got your 20p back for returning the cup. Really good idea except the more people drank, the less they cared about getting the 20p back. Loads of kids then ran around picking up people's cups and cashing in. There must have been five of them doing it and they probably had a tenner each. Entrepreneurial. Most places ran out of food which is surprising because there was barely anybody there. Really poor turn out. Not sure if it's the price, the line-up or the weather but I imagine Viking FM may be reconsidering next year's.
Even though I wasn't there, I'd deny that, under oath, in court. Seriously, I've never heard/read anyone say/write that before.
To be fair, I think you're younger than me, therefore, maybe, the original outrage escaped you. Just keep seeing flashbacks of that **** with the hair on the piano.
