Looks like Sainsbury's are offloading several of the Jacksons stores they took over and converted to Sainsbury's Local. They've announced that they Bricknell Ave and Greenwood Ave are closing and Anlaby Road, Spring Bank and Hessle Road have all been flogged.
Brilliant news... A huge maritime project to protect and promote Hull’s rich maritime history is set to become a reality following the approval of a £13.6m grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Following on from the success of UK City of Culture 2017, the project is the next major milestone in the delivery of Hull’s City Plan and 10-year Cultural Strategy, which set out how Hull will achieve its ambition to become a world-class visitor destination. As well as celebrating every element of its maritime past, present and future, the project represents the next major phase in the regeneration of this historic maritime city and is pivotal to Hull’s plans to continue to develop as a unique and exciting cultural destination, ensuring a lasting legacy from UK City of Culture 2017. The grant of £13.6m from the National Lottery, means that Hull will secure pride of place on the maritime map and showcase its seafaring heritage on a global scale. Hull City Council’s commitment to the project means they are putting forward £10m of match funding, along with a further £4.3m for the redevelopment of Queens Gardens, once the world’s largest dock, which will connect the three important sites involved in the project. The project will see Hull Maritime Museum; Dock Office Chambers and the North End Shipyard regenerated and two historic vessels, the Arctic Corsair and Spurn Lightship, preserved. Creating a new experience and maritime trail, visitors will be able to discover Hull’s global links and how its heritage has led to shaping the city into the cultural icon it has become today. The awarding of The National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and the match funding of the City Council has been bolstered by a fundraising campaign, which is on the way to achieving its £2.6m funding target with £250,000 already secured. The success of the fundraising campaign embodies the support and passion of the people of Hull for the project, ensuring that their city remains at the forefront of arts, culture and heritage following its triumphant reign as the UK City of Culture since 2017. Over the last two years, more than 100 heritage and community organisations, 40 schools and 15,000 people have helped to shape the exciting plans, making this project the people’s project. Work is due to start in the coming months once permission to start has been granted from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project will be completed in a phased approach, the full visitor experience is expected to be completed by 2024. please log in to view this image
Amazing - ****ers writing into Look North to say its a waste of money! Great news for the City and hopefully it will get things moving again - it's gone awfully quiet.
It beggars belief sometimes how short-sighted some people are and have no feeling of responsibility for future generations. The fishing industry was a large part of the City of Hull's history, and it is only right, and I applaud those who have championed the project, that there is something there for future generations to see and appreciate what it was like in the past.
I didn't see this thread before...I was in hull at the weekend and was disgusted with my home city centre..so I wrote to the daily fail and apparently my letter is in the paper tonight lol
All the druggies around what used to be Fletchers fountain don't exactly give a positive impression of the city.
It's a shame you see it that way. I was in Hull this week and while I saw some pretty unedifying sights I saw more to commend the City. All major cities have 'druggies' and homeless people on the streets, nothing new there. But not all of them have a marina, Minerva, Lion & Key fish and chips, Maritime Museum, Ferens Art Gallery, the Deep and more. I agree it's easy to see the underside of Hull but it's easier to enjoy it.
It has got worse in the city centre and it does seem to be worse than a lot of other cities, though hopefully the new police pod outside the old BHS will improve things.
The Maritime attraction is brilliant. You’ve got to give people a reason to visit our city. This will help a lot.
Maritime heritage: it's not just the trawling, it's being a member of the Hanseatic League, our whaling history (not woke I know, but the raw courage of those poor bastards whose ships got iced in for the winter in the Arctic is jaw dropping), it's the staithes at the back of the wealthy merchants houses on the Hull, it's the citadel (or what's left of it and why it was built), it's Princes Dock, it's Queen's Dock as was. Basically a massive chunk of this city's history that trendy ****s have ignored, thick bastard concillors and the Luftwaffe have wrecked.
