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Off Topic Sea City - The Humber Estuary

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by petersaxton, Feb 7, 2016.

  1. Edelman

    Edelman Well-Known Member

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    I see now
    Bloody hell i sometimes go past it on bike aswell
     
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  2. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

    John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. Well-Known Member

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    I didn't doubt what you said, I am sure that had an affect outcome. However I believe the Icelandic's did offer a reduced quota to catch, which if accepted there would have been at least some fishing still continuing there, but the negotiators insisted on keeping the same level of catch, which turned out to be the death knell of fishing there.
     
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  3. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    This mural of 'Big Lil' was completed at the end of last week...

    please log in to view this image
     
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  4. BOJACKHCAFCMAN

    BOJACKHCAFCMAN Well-Known Member

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    I think it looks great, a great way to celebrate a part of our history, they should look at doing a few more to give the place even more character
     
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  5. Kempton

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    Why does it remind me of Northern Ireland?
     
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  6. DMD

    DMD Eh? Forum Moderator

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    The people that painted it, are the ones that painted some of the Northern Ireland murals.
     
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  7. Plum

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    Where is it exactly?
     
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  8. DMD

    DMD Eh? Forum Moderator

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    Almost opposite Tigers Lair. The gable end faces onto Pease Street
     
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  9. Plum

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    Thanks, I'm up in Hull this week I'll have a look.
     
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  10. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

    Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC Well-Known Member

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    Not on Ezzle rerd though...
     
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  11. Plum

    Plum Well-Known Member

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    Speaking of 'ezzle rerd I popped into Rayners one lunchtime last week. It went like this:

    Me: Do you do sandwiches.
    Barmaid (looking at me as if I was speaking Chinese): Err, what d'yer mean?
    Me: Do you sell sandwiches.
    Barmaid: Err, we sometimes do buffys but you've got to order 'em in advance.
    Me: No, I just wanted a sandwich with my beer.
    Barmaid: No, there's a bap shop just down rerd.

    I gave up.
     
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  12. spesupersydera

    spesupersydera Well-Known Member

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    Used to be the only sandwich you'd get in Rayners was a ''knuckle'' ****er :emoticon-0107-sweat
     
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  13. Ernie Shackleton

    Ernie Shackleton Well-Known Member

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    <laugh><laugh><laugh>

    Sometimes I really miss my hometown!

    A jar of pickled eggs, pork scratchings and KP nuts on a card that revealed a scantily clad buxom lass as the evening progressed.


    Sandwiches, my arse.
     
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  14. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    We used to go to The Station on Bev Road after Monday night football and they made us free sandwiches every week, they charged nothing at all, even for the odd one that had a pube in it...
     
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  15. Plum

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    Yeah but I wanted it with sliced white bread on a dirty plate...
     
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  16. City Man

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    Yer man @ Botanic has the right idea with the big Steve Bruce flag on the side of the building.

    One of the very best locations in the city is the KC stadium south stand wall as seen from the trains coming into/ going out of Paragon.
    A prime location for a large neon 'Hull City AFC' visible at night.
     
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  17. Uncle Z

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    Picked up a good book today covering this and the Blundell Park meeting (and other bits of interest about the North Sea) in Waterstones. Seems worth reading as it has a chapter given over to 'essle Rerd. I think it was called 'The Naked Shore Of The North Sea' by Tom Blass (?)
     
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  18. swftiger

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    An interesting extract -
    "In the hessle road district of Hull, a red-brick, working-class suburb on the banks of the River Humber, stands a statue to a fisherman called William Leggett. His memorial commemorates a curious incident on the night of 21 October 1904, when one of Hull's largest fishing fleets was mistakenly attacked by the Russian Baltic Fleet's warships, which were steaming through the North Sea on their way to battle the Japanese navy for supremacy in the north Pacific, 18,000 miles away.

    The nervous, trigger-happy Russians thought – astonishingly – that the Hull trawlers were Japanese ships lurking in ambush near Dogger Bank, and duly unleashed their big guns. In a hail of shellfire lasting 20 minutes, Leggett and another fisherman were decapitated, two others were wounded and a trawler, the Minto, was sunk before the bewildered crews of the remaining 45 boats could limp back to port".
     
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  19. WhittlingStick

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    i think a part of that trawler was in the town dock museum IIRC
     
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  20. Trumpton Tiger.

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    Totally agree. But I bet the next one done is of a RL player in a black and white irregular hooped shirt.
    Like the council house built with two rugby players on the gable end which can be seen from the main railway line in and out of Hull.
    I wonder why they chose rugby when the same line runs alongside Hull City's old Anlaby Road ground ?
     
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