Looks **** to me! One of the last places I would want to go to. Look at all those caravans. They come to the city, take the local money then **** off. Then for 51 weeks a year, it's a **** hole (well, 52 actually).
Walton Street club does OK from the fair bosses. 20k delivery last week to cover what they sell to the owners of the rides. I was gobsmacked when I heard it. I imagine Parkers doing OK too with the general workers using that place. I know it doesn't help the city but its good to know part of the £76.50 I spent tonight will be reinvested in 2 struggling boozers!!
That would be the Titus ("I'm just going outside, I may be some time") Oates, as opposed to the priestly one would it not?
It's a myth that they don't spend any money locally, it used to be the biggest week of the year for Westway's used car sales, those fair blokes love a big old Merc. Always a big week for retailers in Hull and Beverley, though most needed extra staff, as not all of them thought they had to pay for everything. I went with my grandson on Saturday, he absolutely loves it, as I'm sure most of us did when we were kids. It was too busy though, busier than I've ever seen it before, it was a nightmare getting down Walton Street.
I noticed Parker’s was displaying its opening times for the week: Open til 10.30 pm, then reopening 12 til 4.30am
To be fair you didn’t think one of the most famous quotes was uttered by an American rock group of that name.
Yeah, the 'workers' go in Parkers apparently with Walton Street club reserved for the owners. As OLM has said shops do well as well as some other businesses but it is worth sparing a thought for the pubs/eateries in town who generally suffer badly whilst fair is on.
I suspect those that do well, are not balanced by those that suffer in the period during and either side of the fair. I know of several that take their holidays during this period as it's not worth opening, as their normal customers have spent up at the fair.
There are tens of thousands of people who enjoy the Fair, look forward to it and get a well-being boost from attending it. That should be factored in too.
Yeah, I noticed even Clarrie was shut and I thought that might have got a bit of fair trade as people went for their bus or back into town but clearly not
It isn't myth at all its swings and roundabouts (sic). Winners and losers. An earlier post named the two pubs, Walton Club and Parkers as two establishments that do well from the Fair, as they do from football, especially Walton Club, but it didn't do a lot for The George did it which is now demolished. I knew personally that a Butchers on Chants Ave always did well from the Fair, as did the takeaways, and Cognac opened specially for the Fair people on the first Sunday of the fair, all day and night and they could do a weeks takings. Incidentally they needed too because the week after the Fair no-one came in the place, and people avoided it when the Fair was actually taking place. The other shops did nothing and some used to close Fair week because of the traffic congestion. Personally, I traded within spitting distance of Walton Street for twenty odd years and before that in the city centre and Fair week was always a quiet week as was the week afterwards. I knew Fair people too because a couple of them used to borrow equipment off me, sometimes tools too, and believe it or not they would return them before leaving town, this went on for years. They actually spent very little money and told me the Fair has its own suppliers that follow them about everywhere they go. I knew Bob Carver, he took a fortune on Walton Street but nothing in the town, swings and roundabouts again. The best Fair story I have is when the Beatles first came to Hull, 1963 or 64, first week on the Fair. they were playing the Majestic on Holderness Road and had just returned from Hamburg. Friend of mine played drums for The Aces and he was in Windmill pub before the gig and the Beatles popped in for a drink. 'All dressed in black leather' as I was told, because of the Fair the pub was virtually empty and the concert was attended by about 60 people, he could have even told me it was about 30. So, I know some big winners from the Fair but more 'losers' who's takings always took a dip whilst it was here.
