Despite the news in May, there were rumblings among those that normally work the event that a final decision on it going ahead hadn’t been made (until today). Other (but much smaller) fun fairs have started going ahead. There’s been a two up in Middlesbrough and the surrounding area over the last fortnight.
The old Barracuda bar is opening next week, and will be called Tiffany's, the bloke who owns Tofts is running it. Spent half a million quid doing it up according to the HDM - pretty ballsy in the current climate.
Don't get me wrong, on the whole I'm on favour of having the fair, but are there any figures anywhere that show Hull Fair is a financial gain to the City? I've looked before, and all I could find were comments from local businesses saying it negatively impacted on their trade either directly, or indirectly as people had less money to spend afterwards.
I’m the same. I even like the fair, but my assumption is more money leaves the City than comes in overall (even though it will make a profit for the Council I’d think) No figures to back that up though. Just a reasonable guess
Some of what I found suggests that overall, it's not really a money spinner for the Council when you look at the costs of maintaining the site, road closures, Policing etc.
