Probably some friend ,of a friend ,of a friend and a tasty brown envelope for services rendered... Think what you could do with £400k(Or what the Council could do with £400k),it's a serious amount of money!!
Don't know. It's a specialised job and if involved re-engineering new parts, calibration etc it would be thousands of hours of work for a handful of professionals in the UK with specialist knowledge and specialised machine work. How much is spent on consultants to have management meetings.. it's a lot of money but relative. It's being fixed as part of the guarantee.
Why do we even need it fixing though? Surely it does need to work anymore and can just be in situ as a tourist attraction? As Ric has said, 400k would go along way with community projects or other ways to improve the City centre.
Fairly sure Radio H*mberside reported last week that it has modern workings, it's raised by magnets, steady Ric. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Warm here, I might water the garden with the hosepipe for a few hours. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
£400k would go nowhere to improve the City Centre. Might do a fair amount on community projects but I still think refurbishing it was the right thing to do. What are we supposed to do just ignore our heritage and buy something plastic and shiny instead?
I'm not saying get rid of it Dennis. Just asking why it needs to be working? Can't it just sit in one position now and be part of the tourist/heritage of the city? Its not being used by ships to set their clock anymore is it?
Can't see what the drama's about to be honest.. According to the article it was out of action for a century prior to the £400k makeover in 2023?
If that's true then it's even more bizarre they want to get it working. Some parts of the city centre are fantastic. We can still have a brilliant place to visit and live but wasting money like this is what is holding us back.
Jim, if it's going to be displayed it has to be working or it just draws ridicule. If 400k is deemed too much don't display it at all and miss out on part of the city's heritage. The money to restore it was a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund with some from the Council. Then grant couldn't have been used for anything else. In any case 400k is bugger all in the grand scheme of things and it's going to be fixed gratis anyway. That same fund stumped up umpteen millions for the restoration of the Arctic Corsair, the Spurn Lightship, the Maritime Museum, etc. Would you have stopped that aswell?
No I wouldn't have stopped that, those projects are great for the City and real attractions to people. Maybe I'm being ignorant about this thing but I don't understand why it needs to be working to attract people. I'm guessing it moves very slowly and if it was just in place with a plaque explaining what it did and why then it would be OK. As I've said I don't know much about it, I was speculating as to why the money was spent. I bow down to the knowledge of people who know more than me here. I just couldn't understand why it needed to work to be an attraction.
An attraction that doesn't work isn't much of a draw! Where I live there's a clock on a church tower where a couple of figurines ring bells every quarter hour. Tourists gather in their hordes gazing skywards to watch them doing it. There's an expectation that it will work. If they don't they'll grumble about it, post ****e on social media etc, etc.
‘Wasting money like this’ is ‘holding us back’?! To be honest that’s genuinely laughable. It’s peanuts anyway. The Council only spent £170k anyway, because the Heritage Lottery Fund paid £280k, and not all on the ball (the clock tower itself was refurbished) It’s part of the whole work to improve attractions (like the moving of the Arctic Corsair, to brand Hull as Yorkshire’s Maritime City in order to hopefully bring in more visitors for years to come. It might not do that, who knows, but not trying things like that would definitely hold us back. You have to speculate to accumulate and a Council that didn’t at least try to capitalise on our unique history would be rightly criticised. Don’t get me wrong. I know the Council don’t get everything right but JC you can’t surely knock them for at least trying to improve the City Centre and to create attractions to bring in visitors at the same time.
