This is the new club shop and it must be opening soon, as there's a big kit launch event being held there apparently.
Lib Dems put plans to dispose of land for £10m veterans village on hold The ruling Lib Dem administration on Hull Council has put on hold plans to dispose of a community greenspace for a veterans’ village. please log in to view this image By Alexandra Wood Published 24th Jun 2023, 06:00 BST please log in to view this image Artist's impression of the veterans village, which aims to provide housing for 100 ex-Service personnel Thousands of trees have been planted on Garrowby Orchard, which used to house an adult education centre, since residents were invited to take over in 2017. Their efforts in creating a calm and inviting greenspace in an area of the city with little else in the way of nature, have been so successful it's been shortlisted for a BBC "Make a Difference" award. However in 2017, local charity Hull 4 Heroes approached Hull Council looking to develop a veterans’ village, following a similar project in Manchester. The then Labour-run council provided a list of sites, and backed the charity when it chose the former adult education site off Coronation Road. Plans including 48 homes for veterans and their families, community space, a support hub and training facilities were approved three years ago by Hull and East Riding Council. Last month residents became alarmed when they were told the council, which the Lib Dems took over in 2022, was intending selling 5.3 hectares of the land, which is an asset of community value. Hull Council documents state that a decision was due to be made by the Cabinet on April 24. But this never happened. Residents also became concerned that the council was exploiting a planning loophole, by not putting a time limit on the completion of a section 106 legal agreement. Once signed the charity has to start work within three years. However Hull Council said: "It is not uncommon for S106 agreements to take a significant period to sign after the committee decision and there are unrelated similar instances." The day after the Yorkshire Post approached Hull Council with questions, council leader Mike Ross emailed residents saying they’d decided earlier this year to put the proposals on hold. Coun Ross wrote: “The previous administration had committed this land to that project. The Lib Dem-led Cabinet is therefore faced with a complex situation – and one not of our making. "The conflict between the Veterans’ Village scheme and the Friends of Garrowby Orchard (FOGO) could have been avoided if the previous administration had listened to residents’ views sooner.” They are looking at holding talks between the parties to explore if there’s any scope for a “mutually agreeable” way to proceed, and if not alternative sites could be explored. The Lib Dems also stated that Hull 4 Heroes "legitimately felt they had the green light for the whole project” and added the charity “have put many years of work into developing a scheme they really care about and are passionate about delivering”. They’d asked the council to investigate “viable alternative” sites. A Lib Dem spokesman said: “We have never supported developing a veterans village on this site and Lib Dem councillors for the area have always made that clear.” Paul Collinson, from FOGO, said: “This is an essential resource and cannot be replaced.” Hull 4 Heroes was approached for comment
Gwylim Loyd still on RH but Burnsie & others gone. How the hell do you work that one out? Oh hang on ....
Have you heard that advert on everyday for the game that units us all for the Paul Cooke, no friend of defenceless women, show? Don’t get anything similar for the local football teams. Considering it is supposed to cover the Humberside region it is very Hullcentric. Of course Gollum once said it is not the job of BBC radio to promote sports clubs. Yeah, sure, Gollum.
The big picture: humour and hot dogs in 1970s Hull Sean Plunkett’s recently rediscovered pictures exemplify his character and charm. Sadly he didn’t live to see his work published Tim Adams please log in to view this image Sean Plunkett took this picture at a hotdog stand at Hull Fair in the early 1970s when he was studying photography at Ealing College in London. It is part of a series of portraits he made of the city in which he grew up that came to light last year when he sent them to a publisher, Café Royal Books. After college, Plunkett had worked in mines in Australia and, for most of his life, as a builder in the UK. None of his pictures had ever been published. A book of his Hull pictures is now out, and another, from a trip he made to Sicily 50 years ago, is planned. Sadly, Plunkett died in the spring, aged 75, of motor neurone disease. Speaking last week, his son, Leo, also a photographer and film-maker, explained how the pictures had been unknown to the family until Sean started making prints of them a few years ago. “It was funny,” he says, “I’d go to the print lab that I also use, and the people there would see my name and say: ‘Are you any relation to Sean Plunkett?’ They had been printing his pictures and they thought they were incredible.” He is not sure whether his dad had any regrets in not pursuing his original vocation – “building work is probably a more secure job” – but he suggests he never lost interest in photography, introducing his son to cameras from an early age. He can see his father’s character in the Hull pictures. “He took pictures of things he found funny, or bizarre,” he says. “He was good with people, and he had an ability to get right up in their faces – even with some fairly dodgy looking guys in Sicily.” Leo is planning an exhibition of his dad’s work, and there is a website devoted to it. It’s just a great shame, he suggests, that Sean didn’t live to see the book. “He’d have loved it.” Hull 1970s by Sean Plunkett is published by Café Royal Books https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/england/sean-plunkett-hull-1970s
A proper old school filth fingered Westler seller there. Fridge cold bread, pinky red burgers and wet onions, yummy. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
There's also a photo in the book of a chip van with a price list by the side of it. Curry gets a higher billing than peas. Conclusive evidence of which is more 'Ull. Case closed. Curry has it. Curry has it. Unlock!
Never in doubt. Finally the Establishment has recognised the culinary delights of haddock and chips with curry sauce.
Maybe the list was done alphabetically? Or in reverse order of desirability which put curry at the top.
