Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

Used to work for a large company that supplied Marks and Spencer. What a set of twats to deal with.

I know of some small local businesses that went under because of them. They approached my dad who had a bakery. He wasn't going along with all their restrictions and conditions and outlay, which including paying for the tins you were going to use and which were no use if they cancelled the order. Which happened to another baker who decided to tie up with them within a couple of years messing up his business.

 

Greencore ???

 

'Kinell Castro what'd your last one die of! Anyway, since you asked,

 

It’s a DoubleTree, we’re talking one step up from a Travelodge here.

Let’s not overdo it.

 

Formula 1 engineer Paddy Lowe started out working in a canning factory (might have been Heinz, can't remember what he said. Might also have been plastic???), developing the optimum thickness of the packaging.

 

Funnily enough we had a guy from a canning plant another week talking about the incredibly fine tolerances on the thickness of a fizzy drinks can and the cost of maintaining the presses that make them. How they’re actually conical and pressed out of sheet, which kind of makes sense, but I’d never have realised without being told.

 

Travelodge have improved fromb5 years ago

 

They were really, really **** five years ago, now they're just really ****.

 

The Double Tree hotels in the States I have stayed in are ****e.

 

They're soulless.

 

One of them will be a Starbucks apparently.

 

I don't know what's already in Paragon but I always felt a station should have at least a newsagent, a coffee shop, a sandwich shop and a florist.

 

Some toilets that are open late at night would be a useful thing to have there.

 

I think we should try and be bold, not popular I admit but something actually useful, despite what we all may think. How's about a funeral directors office, pop in for a coffin, no not a joke but, well I don't know what, then a Citizens Advice Bureau, an internet cafe, and a place to book a hotel in Hull for the night, I know these things can be done online but hey I'm trying here.

 

You can bet they won't be.