The greenhouses were actually well paid, I was earning over £100 a week in 1980, then I moved to London and got £50 a week and had to pay for a flat/food/travel etc.
More to this than meets the eye. It’s now being touted as modern student accommodation and 90 residential houses. There aren’t that many students now and the ones here mostly live in the campus tower blocks. HMOs I reckon so watch this space.
All part of the big picture I said needs looking at. Someone mentioned Brough, all those working there earning good money spending it in the area buying houses and cars. There may be as many employed as before possibly even more but if most are unskilled low pay getting government top ups then the effect on the local community is different and it all needs to be considered.
True, a large percentage of the old Brough workforce still live around Brough/Elloughton as very cash rich pensioners, the grey pound, when that generation are gone the local economy will deffo be poorer!
Well, if Starmer and the rest of European politicians get their way, British teenagers are going to be fighting Russians in trenches in the Ukraine, whilst the doctors and engineers that entered via dinghies will be moved into private houses in areas where the economy is struggling, so problem solved.
Great to see the forces with a big bold recruiting in Victoria Sq yesterday with the jet - kids would love it and why not . Hope the interested young men. Talking to the staff took it further .
During the 2008 financial crisis and COVID, governments printed lots of new money which found it's way into the hands of the rich. They have more than enough money already so the excess goes into buying assets.
The Typhoon is a marvel of British and European collaboration, I was lucky enough to watch three takeoff right up close to the runway, the sound was otherwordly.
We've been talking for probably over 10 years on here about the high street (or prinny quay in this case) being on its arse and getting worse. Is it actually continually getting worse all the time or did it bottom out ages ago and this is just what high streets are like now? Outside of London and the other trendy cities at least.
Was watching a video on the small towns surrounding Liverpool this exact issue was raised, gone from having decent shops and reasons to go in town to poundland, vape shops and ****e. No money in city centres anymore it belongs in the greenbelt where the more middle class live, of which they are choosing to spend all their money online rather then the high street.
Doing some work at R.A.F. Scampton once and we was pretty close to the runway, then a Vulcan bomber took off, **** me i've never heard a noise like it. We said summat to the Airman who was with us, he just smiled and said you get use to it. Considering he was stood there with ear plugs in and ear defenders over the top of those, he would be used to it. ****er never offered us any defenders. **** me, those Vulcans were loud buggers.
As an aircraft nerd that makes me so very envious, the Vulcan is iconic, a throwback to when this country was regarded formidably all over the world. Amazing howl it makes as it takes off an all.
I used to love working across at Warton when they did afterburner takeoff at a ridiculous rate of climb. It used to set loads of car alarms off in the staff car park
Yeah feel like that’s the last main shop that shows good activity in there. The rest is a ghost town.
