This must be the fairest, most unblinkered account I've ever read of Hull - and it's in the Torygraph!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/10741962/Hull-a-city-of-culture-sharks-and-the-UKs-firmest-mushy-peas.html And I didn't know that about Andrew 'that's his name' Flintoff. I've always suspected he was a ****.
“This is what I really like about Hull,” he said. “It isn’t just the architecture, the cobbly charm of the old town and the romantic street names, it’s that the place is so completely of itself. It’s a fascinating city, on the road to nowhere and at the end of the line – it’s isolated and self-contained without being insular or unwelcoming. I wish we could have spent longer and explored more of it.” Or to quote one of Hull’s most-beloved sons – John Prescott, perhaps, or possibly Andrew Marvell – “Had we but world enough, and time…” Unusual of a turd like Sayle to be bang on the money. Shame some of our own snobby ER based fans can't see the jewels so close to home.
(long ago, it had its own telecommunications structure, which made local girl Maureen Lipman’s Jewish-granny plugs for BT such a betrayal) We still do
Has there ever been an eatery less worthy of positive publicity than Bob Carver? Still I suppose he's made his mattress, he'll have to lie on it.
Very positive article but i thought it was poorly written. Saw Alexei Sayle at Spring St back in the 80's.
What a good article, nice to hear that they came to find out for themselves what our great city is really like.
It's right, Hull is really quite unusual and it used to be that this was used against it, but now that 'uniqueness' in a sea of all cities being basically exactly the same it's hugely positive. I've always thought Hull was odd because people don't really visit that much. Take any other city and it's Saturday revellers are probably a third made up of 'out of towners' who bring their own customs and eventually all the cities merge into one. Hull's lack of outside influence means it remains very 'Hull'.
Let's hope that with the rumoured forthcoming prosperity, we aren't submerged in a sea of Tarquins and trendiness that has so blighted much of the rest of the country. Like keeping our name Hull City, it's all about heritage and identity- once gone, it's lost.
