Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

And I was replying to someone who said it’s the same everywhere
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Surprisingly, to me at least, is how high up the list of most visited cities Bristol is.

 

In my humble opinion the best City in England.

 

I didn’t really notice it at York itself until I went as an adult when I moved back here later, but when I lived in Windsor it was glaringly obvious from the tat in the gift shop windows what constituted the UK tourist circuit to an international audience.

They’d sell a range of Windsor souvenirs, obviously, but then one or two mementoes of each of the other handful of locations on ‘the circuit’ for the coach trippers who’d missed getting them at York, Stonehenge, Glencoe etc when they were there.

It was a real window into how the rest of the world saw the UK at that point, and as you say York was very much part of that in a way that would take us (or Leeds) decades to get to.

 

It's ironic and interesting that York only has its historic buildings, because unlike Hull and others, it was far too poor to replace them with better ones over the years.

 

Some amazing restaurants in Bristol

 

I think it was always popular but they've made a cracking job of developing the waterfront. I've been a few times in recent years, it really is a nice place.

 

I think it is a good city, and an example of how to use waterside settings Hull should follow but I was surprised it got more international visitors than Liverpool or Oxford in one list I have seen.

 

It's the way you tell 'em, Dutch. Rome suffers from similar problems.

 

I worked for a Bristol based company for a number of years and spent a lot of time down there. It’s ok, it wouldn’t be in my list of must visit places though.

 

I have just been to a meeting in Scunthorpe town centre and had the pleasure of walking the length of its high street .On a Friday afternoon the place was doing a great job of resembling a ghost town ,barring a bloke playing the bagpipes ( badly ) and the usual suspects riding bikes down the pedestrian way and the ones sat in doorways without teeth it was bloody depressing.I really cannot see how retail can be profitable with such a poor environment it’s got no chance of attracting anyone .

 

Scunthorpe has been like that for 40 years... it didn't need a demise in the retail sector... much like GY centre...

 

While Hull has prinny quay which should never have been built there and is now a disaster
And the fuxking awful St Stephens!!
Whoever designed that wants shooting

 

It was two lads from scunny, who I chatted to on a Kings X to Donny train, who asked me, if typhoo put the tea in Britain who put the xunt in scunthorpe?

 

I had to go to Scunthorpe for a jon interview years ago. It was closed.

 

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We had a day out in York last year, all down to the individual of course, but won't be hurrying back. Overpriced, with shops full of tourist tat.

 

Yes, pet?

 

I had the misfortune to work for Dunlop in Grimsby for a few months in the mid eighties before they unceremoniously sacked me on Christmas Eve.

Flush with a couple of months wages I'd blown the lot on an engagement ring for our lass and was relying on bumming money off friends and relatives to spend the Christmas period on the lash then pay everyone back with January's wages.


Instead I was back to signing on, on the 27th.

And looking hopefully and yearningly through the pub window on boxing Day like an alcoholic Tiny Tim.