Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

[springtiger]

Spin that just a little and picture a traveller wanting to be in a particular part of Hull, a City they've never visited before and not on the outskirts.

Could they work out their journey from the signs in the interchange?

Ponto is pretty good , adventurous decor , interesting menu , and on a Monday at 6-30 it was early busy - mind you could be it’s almost the only one !

 

[TwoWrights]

Yep we need more glitzy red , yellow and orange windows with flashing signs and shop signs to take us up a notch !

Like your favourite shop in Paragon Square?


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

[originalminority]

Picture a traveller arriving by train or coach into Hull, needs a hotel within walking distance. Royal Station not available so further along ferensway offers up holiday inn, Hilton, travel Lodge. There is the campanile but it doesn't look attractive enough to make crossing the road worthwhile. After settling in goes out for a short walk and looking for food, crossing ferensway through a small street will bring the traveller to king Edward street but not much on offer there, can do a right onto Jameson st which will bring our weary traveller back to the station. Alternatively keep on king Edward to viccy square which is all very nice and gives the choice of paragon street or Carr Lane and back to ferensway.
All in all rather bleak and poor representation of the city. We have quite a few nice places but they are all over the place and not in the immediate city center.

A strange supposition that a modern day traveller would arrive in a city after carrying out no research on his destination? Maybe the traveller had a smart phone and had done some pre-booking, went on Visit Hull etc, maybe read the Sunday Times who recently listed HU1 as one of the 11 coolest postcodes in the UK? Maybe discerned the area around a station isnt always the best part of any city and took a taxi to the old town?

 

[TwoWrights]

A strange supposition that a modern day traveller would arrive in a city after carrying out no research on his destination? Maybe the traveller had a smart phone and had done some pre-booking, went on Visit Hull etc, maybe read the Sunday Times who recently listed HU1 as one of the 11 coolest postcodes in the UK? Maybe discerned the area around a station isnt always the best part of any city and took a taxi to the old town?

Like these visitors, and those in the comments who have booked to visit Hull on their recommendation.l?

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[balkan tiger]

A strange supposition that a modern day traveller would arrive in a city after carrying out no research on his destination? Maybe the traveller had a smart phone and had done some pre-booking, went on Visit Hull etc, maybe read the Sunday Times who recently listed HU1 as one of the 11 coolest postcodes in the UK? Maybe discerned the area around a station isnt always the best part of any city and took a taxi to the old town?

The point I was hoping to get across was about the lack of joined up thinking.
The interchange, the hotels on ferensway, the fine dining on prinny Ave, night life in the old town, historical buildings in viccy square, Humber Street and the fruit market cut off by the A63/Castle St.at least they eventually got footbridge access to it now. All nice isolated bits of regeneration done with Grant and aid money, and now the next in line is the east bank of the river hull. Which reminds me that I have never been over the scale lane footbridge.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

How good would that have been as the Marina with all bars n restaurants around it

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[bradymk2]

How good would that have been as the Marina with all bars n restaurants around it

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yes
why the **** was it filled in

 

[Ernie Shackleton]

yes
why the **** was it filled in

Landfill.

https://maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happening/blogs/stories-of-queens-gardens

 

[Plum]

How good would that have been as the Marina with all bars n restaurants around it

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Don't suppose marinas were seen as much of a leisure feature back in the day, can't have been that many folk with boats to put in it!

 

[HHH]

Could have been the Venice of the north.

To be fair, the revamp of Queens Gardens is looking decent. Despite some warranted criticism.

Let's just hope it doesn't become the domain of skanks and skagheads.

 

[bradymk2]

Could have been the Venice of the north.

To be fair, the revamp of Queens Gardens is looking decent. Despite some warranted criticism.

Let's just hope it doesn't become the domain of skanks and skagheads.

Where else will they hang out?

 

[HHH]

Where else will they hang out?

In your sister's front garden.

 

[bradymk2]

In your sister's front garden.

You live in the centre
Maybe your front garden

 

[HHH]

You live in the centre
Maybe your front garden

Maybe, if they let me have a toot on their spliff.

 

[bradymk2]

Maybe, if they let me have a toot on their spliff.

Dont think its weed they do these days

 

[HHH]

Dont think its weed they do these days

Aye. Not that sort at least. But most places I walk through these days smells of weed.

 

[springtiger]

Marina and Humber st busy today in the sun . Some cracking new big boats in the dock and two smart new barges I think , wife thought one was mine it was called ‘ Grumpy’ - totally unfounded .

 

[tigers1970]

Marina and Humber st busy today in the sun . Some cracking new big boats in the dock and two smart new barges I think , wife thought one was mine it was called ‘ Grumpy’ - totally unfounded .

Its my barge!!!

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

This popped up on my FB feed..

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[HulltoHellandback]

Will be spending a few Friday and Saturday nights in there