Yeah - a mate of mine is a sparky and at one time worked for a firm doing Morrisons' lighting. He said the light over the fruit and veg made them look better... ...than they actually were.
If memory serves me the dart board in Monument was placed dangerously close to the door into the gents toilet - mistiming your departure from the bog could be disastrous for both the dart player and the departee.
They have The Golden Ball on the list but forgot to mention that Ken Wagstaff. one of the best known sportsmen in the city was the landlord.
M & S are closing up to 60 stores (or converting some to food stores). Hull is one of them... Another blow for ****efriargate? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/marks-spencer-stores-closing-at-risk-a7415821.html
Just to reiterate what the paper itself says, these haven't been confirmed. The Daily Mail guessed the stores 'most at risk' and everyone else is now running with the same list.
Apparently, M&S are looking for a new site in Hull, be handy (though unlikely) if they move into the old BHS building.
It wasn't the Daily Mail, it was retail analysts Local Data Company. Though they're really just educated guesses, they are based on solid criteria and the majority of the sites they've suggested will be on the actual list.
I walk down there often, and whilst I'm not a big shopper or anything, it's got Thornton's, a couple of game/DVD shops, a novelty gift place, Burton, M&S, some charity shops and a really rather decent chippy. I'd have thought that makes it one of Hull's better shopping streets.
M&S Hull has always been on the third tier of M&S stores. They were prevented from opening a flagship store on Priory Park 25 years ago and it has been down hill ever since.
Thornton's shut down yonks back, there isn't one in Hull, they're only in Anlaby and Beverley and M&S is unlikely to be there much longer, which will kill it completely.
I walked up Whitefriargate couple of months ago and started counting the empty units, I lost the will to live when I got to about a dozen with still half way to go.
I'll pay more attention to empty units next time I go down there. I suppose it's not something I really look at normally.
Oh aye, so it is, I thought they'd both closed, but it's only the King Edward Street one that's gone.
To be fair the loss of M&S is only really another empty shop.... M&S have been irrelevant as a clothing retailer for years having lost their way, going from selling a premium clothing product...largely manufactured by themselves in the UK to now selling items made in the same factories in the far east as Tesco, George, Primark etc.......but still expecting customers to pay the same premium price
I often hear people say things like this and there's no doubt that they're not the force they once were, but they were still the UK's largest clothing retailer last year.
