Brady heard that bridge reminded someone of a Max Bygraves song and suggested ours was held up by a large pink toothbrush on one side and a large blue toothbrush on lthe other.
After mergers and branding themselves Reckitt & Colman, Reckitt Benckiser then RB today the company has gone back to the original Reckitt brand. We are Hull.
A bit of spending going on down Whitfriargate at the moment, things like One Stop no doubt encouraged by the amount of new residential developments...
I’m down Whitfriagate as we speak and there’s lots going on. Hopefully it will make the area look nicer and not put the focus on the shops selling tat. Also it’s a real shame that the original gate is in such a state. Looks awful!
Almost exactly seven years ago. That's now sixteen John Lewis stores closing, roughly a third of them and and 2,700 jobs gone.
Wow time flies!! It seemed much sooner. Will be very hard to fill that massive unit with a new tennent. Do you know if John Lewis owns the building or a tennent?
They'll be a tenant, if they owned the building, they wouldn't be closing it. They were one of the anchor tenants in that development, so probably got a rent free for the few years, I suspect they've asked for it rent free for a few more years now, as the eight closures announced today were as a result of not being able to agree new terms with landlords.
The old M&S store on Whitefriargate is going to become a Job Centre. Why the **** would you need a job centre the size of a department store?
The amount of jobless people in the area now, and probably more when furlough employer contributions increase and it eventually disappears ... sadly it needs a big old building. Let’s hope we can get enough investment that it can move again to Bun in the Oven
The only other job centre that I can see that is that big, is the one opened in Scotland in the 70's, to deal with the fallout of the dock and shipyard closures in Greenock and Glasgow. Seems a tad excessive, there's about 4,000 unemployed in Hull, you could get them all in there at the same time.
My gut reaction was how disappointing it was, but as Dennis said I think it’s meant to be temporary to cope with a serious increase in joblessness due to post-pandemic economic fallout. For the time it’s open it keeps the building in use and maintained. It also brings footfall into a retail area that’s desperate for customers, although pretty much by definition maybe not big-spenders admittedly. Provided it’s free to be developed as and when any recovery comes I think it’s a decent interim solution.
Probably depends on the definition of ‘unemployed’ but there’s around 40,000 claiming some type of unemployment benefit across the whole Humber area and **** loads more on furlough that might end up claiming when the employer furlough contributions start ramping up July & Sept. As said earlier though it’s supposed to be temporary. Let’s hope it’s miles too big and just useful for extreme social distancing !