Not this one again. Merseyside tyneside etc are different. They resulted in areas like Liverpool, gaining a position of authority, rather than being a suburb of Manchester and other urban areas gaining their own individual identities. It's not universally liked even with that. As an administrative region, Humberside was wasteful and expensive to run, and to an extent we're still paying the cost of that folly even though it was such a brief spell last century.
From what I have heard, the team running COC is very professional and it has impressed those that have come in contact with it. The volunteers who have already started to work on events will be an asset to Hull. There will be mistakes, some things will not work out as predicted and some will consider it to be a waste of money. As I see it, you lot who live and work in the area, will not know what has hit you, when the show comes to town the buzz will infect you all. Those who live in the East Riding will ride on the same bandwagon as the populace of the city and everyone will feel a part of it. When I first made Southampton my permanent home, I can recall a summer were the area seemed to be always in the news for positives and Hull was the opposite. The change started for me when Hull City won the Play Off final, the pride seemed to bounce around, the city still got knocked and rubbished by the media, but something was ignited by that spark. It might have just been me, but the win marked the start of a change. That feeling that I had at the game that at last what we had won was worthwhile and recognised throughout the world, seemed to carry through. You will know when the change has happened, when people stop moaning about the unfinished works and start looking at the culture.
FFS, stop being so uptight,I was just asking as I couldn't recall it being in Hull. Thought it might have been on a steam preservation trip like Sir Nigel Gresley and others and wondered how I had missed any notification if it. Saw it recently on North Yorks Moors Railway. Unusual for a Pacific loco to have been in Hull as far as I recall with it been a terminus. You normally had to go Selby as that was the nearest place you could see them thundering through.
trying to book tickets for the Hypocrite at Hull Truck. It seems to let you pick your own price?? Is that right or a glitch on the site?
You haven't read, or heard, Hull folk getting irate about commentators saying today's match comes from Humberside? Some object to the name .Radio Humberside being used.Never seen that myself, Hull is by the side of the Humber so it is no different to referring to Merseyside. But folk do object to it. Never seen that as a too much of a problem though I prefer to see Vity described as an .East Yorkshire club. He only started objecting to North Humberside being used after its abolition and quite rightly said the area was no longer in North Humberside but was once again East Yorkshire. (It always had been in East Yorkshire physically but not administratively).
I'm talking about the fuss the HDM have made of it running 2 stories on it as if it's big news. Instead of telling me he had his tongue in his cheek maybe somebody should tell the HDM.
There was no mention of districts, just towns and both are YO. You complicate it needlessly and I'm far from confused. Staithes is TS but that's not Scarborough, nor is it Whitby, it's Staithes.
Nicely diverted, but no uptight from me, just a reference to your sarcastic smiley ffs. If you're saying it was unintentional then fair enough, as it would read differently without it. You're the king of correctness on here, so read it again.
I put the smiley in to indicate it was a light-hearted remark as no one would suggest that the train was diverted to Hull on its way to or from Edinburgh or London on what was a non stop journey, which is what the steam powered Scotsman was famous for, which was the only way the train, as opposed to the engine had come to Hull. You were lucky to see it in Hull in BR days because, as I said, the appearance of Pacific locomotives was an extremely rare occurrence in Hull inthose days, can't recall seeing any offhand, the nearest place to see them was Selby. Flying Scotsman hadn't been seen for a decade so just genuinely wondered if I had ever missed it on a steam preservation trip before it started its rebuild or it had been since and .I had somehow missed any mention of it.
Just tried and failed to get tickets for the Spiders from Mars gig in March. Web-site crashed so rang City Hall. They told me there were only 2 tickets left - so I got them.
