Of course they have, as it's all part of the area that makes up the East Riding, of which Hull is the major conurbation. I'm not talking about the criteria for this UK city of culture malarkey anyway, I'm talking in general terms, as that was the question you asked & having spent time in both Cities, my opinion is that Leicester is a **** pit in comparison to Hull.
I admit I had 5 great years at university there and it's a City that in all honesty isn't too dissimilar to ours; similar size, similar hard working people, just a lot more ethnic diversity. I still have loads of friends in Leicester so whichever wins suits me. The City centre is brilliant for shopping and the Highcross is amazing, it ****s on St. Stephens. The Haymarket is their version of the Prospect Centre, but is, hard as it is to believe, actually worse.
Did you spend time in the surrounding areas? Clearly not, we have more Britain in bloom finalists than any other part of the island. And we were talking about the cities, so the surrounding areas have **** all to do with it Ps. Having spent time in both cities, my opinion of hull is its a **** out, and the surrounding countryside and villages are full and boring.
1969 after Swansea was granted city status. As for it not being that big, depending on which figures you take it is not much smaller than Hull, about 15,000 less. Larger than Southampton. If you take just the city area about the same as Sunderland.
There's only ever been ten episodes of that(The Lock Up) and they only made it here because West Yorkshire police were too stupid to work the cameras.
Nice little write up... http://meehanmedia.co.uk/the-blog/hull-in-2017-a-city-reborn-just-ask-yourself-do-you-believe
I loved the insight into what it could be like, made me feel even more passionate towards the city winning this title
[video=youtube;4vMh8JAKYAQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vMh8JAKYAQ[/video] Leicester need this accolade most: they've all but lost their culture. Hundreds of very similar sari shops don't make for 'vibrant diversity'. The Lineker family market stall may be hauled out as some kind of iconic local focal point, but the city is very bland and it's shopping is way inferior to Nottingham (not that shopping is a criterion in all of this). Dundee is a good call. A forgotten city with jute, jam and journalism. Leitch football architecture. Waiting to be (re)discovered by the ignorant national press with their narrow attention span. Swansea was world famous for its copper mining activities, the Morriston Male Voice Choir, Dylan Thomas. So Arts and Industry, like Dundee. Hull: member of the Hanseatic League, a city with several consulates, mentioned in Robinson Crusoe, home city of John Donne, adopted city of Philip Larkin (who found the place his ideal artistic muse), a quirky city of white telephone boxes and descendants of whalers and trawlermen, a place apart, independent, isolated and with centuries-old international trade to the Low Countries and the Baltic. An unreconstructed old skool city with more history than any other in Yorkshire apart from York, and one that is to use a journalistic cliche, 'a hidden gem'.
Sport: 4 top flight clubs in their respective sports. Upcoming in the boxing world. Largest youth football league in the country. Arts: Hockney & Picasso exhibits, Hull Truck Theatre, Larkin, Marvell, Poet Laureate Motion, late Hollywood Director Anthony Minghella, Sir Tom Courteney, Maureen Lipman, Spiders from Mars History: Helping hand in starting the Civil War, Wilberforce, an MP for Hull and who abolished slavery, built ships for trading with Europe for centuries and then part of the fishing heritage of this country. One of the largest ports in the country. Has it's own telephone system. Immigrants came to Hull before getting trains to Liverpool and ships onto America. Amy Johnson- aviation pioneer. George William Gray- pioneer for LCD technology 90% bombed in the war.
The FA were created at The Freemasons' Tavern on Great Queen Street in London on 26th October 1863. It was a Ebenezer Cobb Morley who wrote the rules of the modern game and it was him who was from Hull.
I have deleted all the irrelevant stuff from the list. Every city of those listed had a few minor celebs, three out of 4 are ports etc It's the uniqueness and the 'wow!' factor (helped by being underexposed) that wins it. Let's hope the judges don't delve into the murky past of Councillor Bayes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8400212.stm
I think you've got to compile everything that is incorperated in the city or else the portfolio would be small. I reckon having pioneers in aviation and LCD technologies is massive. The sign does read "Kingston Upon Hull, the Pioneering City" afterall.
Kingston-Upon-Hull is a more cultured, historic city than the other 3 short listed, massive effort still needed to clinch it but great news.
