Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

I often wonder if town would be better without Princes Quay.

Demolish it, build a replacement cinema/leisure centre on a smaller footprint in the dock and take better advantage of the water basin potential for landscaping

Move all the shops out to other units around town to help fill them. Debenhams for example could house Primark.

 

I agree there is way to much retail space for Hull .
People just don't bother leaving their house to shop anymore

 

Still highly regarded and we had a fine pioneering aircraft heritage at Brough. I remember the Buccaneers and Phantoms flying out of Holme on Spalding Moor and the Brough runway in use. Did some work on Typhoon when a work package was brought over from Warton. The Typhoon is indeed an incredible aircraft.

 

Its class working over there real exciting place to be

 

Bang on Brady, real distinct noise, remember hearing a hum and my dad dragging me outside as a young kid with him already knowing what it was before we even got a look at it.

 

Just another side of our great heritage and history we apparently aren’t allowed to be proud of anymore, well **** that I am certainly proud of it.

I’ve never actually worked on Typhoon but required to know a lot about its avionic systems etc find it fascinating, had a very good friend responsible for a maintenance programme and help desk down in Wales he told me some very cool stories.

 

I think it will be remodeled and reduced at some point but Primark is in the old brutalist Willis Ludlow building on land with no need for demolishing and the old Debenhams is under planned refurbishment.
I find town has been busier this summer and feel some recovery is underway, Burton building, Monocle, Earl de Grey, Queens Gardens, etc.

 

Why can't we be proud of that ?

 

There are always exceptions but shopping centres are dying the world over. Including in the US, home of the 'Mall'.

It's just a change on human habits.

Town and city centres need to adapt. Mixed use units, greater density, places where people live, work and play.

 

it wont interest a lot of people
but as much as we love the online world

it also makes me sad a tad, i remember how great going to the video game shops were
game, gamestation on a saturday afternoon, taking a game in to sell and then get instore credit for a new one, it felt exciting
the diff consoles to try, the diff events that were on

now its all online, a much less social activity
just a little tangent but they were a big part of the high street i think

same as going in virgin megastore and listening to samples of cds
its satisfying actually having a physical item

not to mention you dont own any thing you download, you just have a licence for it, that can be taken away

 

We can and should be, the aerospace industry though is certainly something to be coy with in the current political climate. That’s more what I was alluding at.

 

Showing an age difference my ‘game station’ shops were , Suggs, Sportscraft , Arco and the model shop Ferensway plus Bonsalls in Hessle . You bought things you had to assemble and / or paint yourselves in a lot of cases . Speed of movement and brain was irrelevant , did you have a practical brain and a steady hand , and somewhere safe to put the results , mothers didn’t care what they moved and broke to dust !!!

 

On the subject I’ve lovely sounds had engine rebuild garage near one of my jobs in recent years , the sound of an MGBGT I think 1800 revving was music !

 

I was a huge fan of airfix when I was a kid.My Father(who showed me how to build them) was brilliant at painting them and hanging all the planes from my bedroom ceiling,something I'd also go on to learn...I remember back in those days we all had big boxes full of those little tins of airfix and humbrol paints,my favourite colour being 'Crimson'.

You can still get them(I buy the odd one still to this day to do with one of the grandkids) but they seem more interested in violent 'shoot em up' internet games nowadays...The little 'Fockes'!!