Off Topic Hull: City of Culture

He was exceptional and wore his City scarf well.

 

Finally got underway last week.

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San Sebastián and Wroclaw are this year's European Capital of Culture. The Mayor of San Sebastián said it was a great opportunity to attract even more visitors there. All that was needed to arrange some events as there was no need for any building or updating of infrastructure. A couple of Poles mentioned Wroclaw to me. One whose grandma was brought up under communism there and said she when she visited her here could not understand why, with everything they had, people were so miserable. The other had read in the HDM someone going on about bomb damage and Hull and how it had struggled to rebuild and how many people were killed. I looked it up. Has that place being through the mill. No bomb sites and wrecked buildings still standing there though. No need to build hotels to house visitors, there are hundreds of them. Though the new ones in Hull won't be ready. The theatre is shut for most of the year. It is all a bit of a shambles.

 

City Of Culture, City Of Music... Hull Music Archive relaunches with brand spanking new (and considerably better) website... bit light on content at the moment but it'll soon be growing bigger and bigger and bigger...

www.hullmusicarchive.co.uk

 

****ing hell, I could have done that. Looks like a Christmas bauble copy and pasted in paint.

 

Duplicate

 

Re the memorial, it's not the best graphic, I can kind of imagine it looking it rather better than it does on that dodgy "artist's impression" image.

 

The Boyson glass mosaic is to be retained in Albion Square re-development

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That looks awesome.

 

Official video...

 

Just got back from it Orig
FFS I could have done with an 'emotion' warning!
Absolutely brilliant.
Nice local references, lots of City mentions, some really funny lines...and what a powerful real story. Some genuinelly heart wrenching moments though...choked up
Loved it

 

Birthplace of feminism and old Brighton among historic sites at risk
Pioneering feminist’s church, London zoo’s aviary and Brighton Old Town added to register of endangered English heritage

'Other churches on the list include the huge Grade I-listed Holy Trinity in Hull, one of the largest medieval parish churches in England, and the Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed St Mary Woolnoth in London, mentioned by TS Eliot in The Waste Land and where the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce worshipped. It is threatened by structural problems in the tower.'

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https://www.theguardian.com/culture...storic-sites-risk-endangered-english-heritage

 

"It is threatened by structural problems in the tower"
Can't believe Sewell's haven't got the contract to sort that!