Where's the Irish guy who did up Waterfront and had one of the old Humber ferries as night clubs when you need him (Laurence Daley was it, not Arthur Daley either?)
i think i had to calm everyone down on FB good old days group when there was uproar about this earlier- at the time the HDM deliberately mislead the readers as to which building was being demolished if plans were approved . Im no HCC fan but they are getting rid of the bits that need removing so we can see the old building in its former glory . Rejoice that we can now park our cars up to the edge of this lovely building .There is a car park on Princes Quay and isnt there still one behind Argos which i bet is never full . What the city centre needs is a proper market square area brought back to the centre - but not that ****e on Fair ground
having seen the photo, i've changed my mind. we should close down some schools and hospitals and spend all the money renovating that poor doomed building. it's the pinnacle of architectural heritage and design in the city and must be saved for the incoming throngs to gawp at in 2017.
It's not really the knocking down of the more recent addition that's the issue, it's the fact that once it's gone and only the nice bits are left, they're going to make it into a ****ing car park.
It will turn from a cobbled street to a large piece of tarmac covered in parking spaces and I expect 'occasional' to be the most significant word in that statement.
Do you think it will suddenly change from public to selling the parking spaces to the solicitors/business' round there or just for Trinity House itself.
**** me mate â donât do that on here. What you need to do is hear one part of one side and simply rant your hatred towards HCC. Balanced discussions/debates are so passé, the dialectic is dead.
Council full of Labour ****ers want to demolish a traditional and historic piece of English architecture. What else is new?
Just looking on Google maps - there isn't even going to be a courtyard left once the current building is demolished. I've drawn the outline of the 'new car park' in yellow. The entrance to the car park, I have marked in sky blue. The building to be demolished is in purple. The archway is marked in red and the chapel in green. please log in to view this image
who is the Car Park to serve ? is it for the general public ? If this is the case its for splash dash shoppers , not for those spending their hard earned in the city , in one of our faceless nationals . turn it into a market , a bazaar a music venue a monument to our maritime heritage anything but a car park !! It must be the most shortsighted plan ever - Council ****s
Francis Daly. I had many a chat with him. He got so pissed off with forever battling with Hull City Council that he left the area years ago. He still owns some wonderful property on Richmond Street in the Avenues which he restored from their derelict state into luxury flats. I remember when I was a member of the Civic Society and we battled to save Scotts Square off Humber Street. This was a passage way from Humber Street which open up to a small square with former workers houses built around it. Very Victorian and oozing character. But it mattered nothing and the council bulldozed it to extend a lorry park. Then they moved the Fruit Market and the lorry park was redundant. I resigned from the Civic Society when I realised a worm had more bite.
He was a decent bloke Francis, though his prime driver was making a few quid, he approached things in the right manner and tried to do so while also looking at the bigger picture. It's a shame there aren't a few more like him around at the moment. Instead, we have the likes of Phil Akrill, who's not bad company if you're out on the piss for the night, but he doesn't give a **** about anything other than turning a profit, whatever the collateral damage.
Are you confusing it with 'Chicken Alley' ? That is a ten foot/road behind the houses (which are now shops and a garage) on Spring Bank which now back onto the council estate/ Polar Bear side of Park Street traffic lights. Called chicken alley because it was were they were slaughtered pre WW2 era. Scene of a gruesome murder a long time ago. Have heard the expression 'Pig Alley' but unsure where it is.
Runs from Humber St to Blanket Row doesn't it? Also reputed to be the scene of a murder. Interesting how many of the buildings down Humber St used to be pubs.
I'm interested. I've never known of an actual pub down Humber Street. There was the Fruit Merchants Club on the second floor of one of thee buildings but I've never known of a pub down there? The Oberon was a superb boozer, just around the corner from Humber Street. I always wondered why such a traditional old pub like that closed down when a new build pub 100 yards up the road manages to keep trading?
