Wow I've just been on their website (I was surprised they had one) and while the look and feel are somehow a little bit late 70s early 80s they really do have stores all over the country! Next you'll be telling me Bob Carver's has a Michelin Star!
Thanks for clearing that up. I always go to Setams every Christmas for the works secret Santa. 8 years running. Whoever gets the quality piece of earthenware has always left the bastard at work and have refused to take their gift home. f**king liberty is that. My personal favourite is the banjo playing clown with hair like Noel Brotherston. Closely followed by the Elvis Presley memorial plate.
God god forgot about Aubrey's, blast from the past. The shop where you couldn't turn around in or you would knock loads of stuff off of the shelf. They sold everything you could ever need as well. You ok Filey?
i usually call it boyeseseseses or something like that. it's like when i send a xmas card to my mate philllip. i never know if it's one L or two so i put three.
Bulldozers have well and truly flattened Hawthorn Ave, Rhodes St, Cecil St, Greek St, Haddon St, Haltemprice St, Ringrose St, all gone but redeveloped with brand new housing some built with some sickly green bricks. The bulldozers are also poised to demolish my old street as well, Clyde St oh and I almost forgot, Woodcock St demolished and all brand new houses as for Boysies it reminds me of the old Woollies shop that use to be on Hessle Rd.
Green bricks? All of the outside? I'm struggling to imagine how truly awful that must look. Or, it might look awesome. Next time yer passing, take a photo for us!
Better than having shops (streets?) stood empty, but meanwhile on Monks Cross York, very impressive new, large John Lewis, M&S (as well as the City Centre one) and Next opens, together with cafes and restaurants. Yet York is a fraction of the size of Hull.
York has benefited from being poor in the distant past and non-strategic more recently. Hull was affluent enough to be able to clear its old buildings and replace with fine ones way back in the day. Unfortunately, this mainly port trade made it a strategic target, and some Austrian bloke set to knocking our buildings down. As a result, York had what were effectively failed slum clearance, that people go and view, which generates income. Odd really, if people want to see what life was like in England 100's of years ago, they could just go to Grimsby.
Put simply, Hull does not have a large enough population of middle-class people to make a JL profitable; York does.
