Having seen the drydock I would be surprised if it could host very big gigs so the question would be who would perform there? Saying that it would be good for the city to tidy up that whole area which is an eyesore and has been for a long while, and BTW Rovertiger if you actually bothered to look up the history of WW2 regarding Hull you would actually find that the Luftwaffe actually did flatten Hull, or certainly 95% of it.
Are you sure about that? I thought the proposed site for the super casino was the one in this article, where they're now planning to build the Centre for Digital Innovation?
That's what Mike Nellist told me - when the council were negotiating the purchase of all the Humber Street warehouses. Of course he could have been speaking generally, and the Humber St. end of the site could have been for housing/hotel/retail/etc. (But I did get the impression that the council (and developers) saw it as fronting the Marina - tie up your million pound yacht, stroll ashore, join the high-rollers...).
No way. Just think about the 10,000's of Victorian houses in east hull, hessle road, Beverley road etc. I'm sorry 95% is bullshit.
Hull was the most severely damaged British city during the Second World War, with 86,715 buildings damaged and 95 percent of houses damaged or destroyed. Of a population of approximately 320,000 at the beginning of the war, approximately 152,000 were made homeless as a result of bomb destruction or damage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_Blitz#cite_note-bo1-4
Don't we already have an amphitheatre and one that stinks of piss to boot! The ole in the ground at whitefriargate , Bin the taxi rank stop the buses using the road and expand the hole The backdrop being town docks and vikky square and the foreground being the old town walls The council destroyed what we had in the fruit market area after the war and still seem intent on ruining the jewel into the river . I think most agree the area could have been restored much sooner and the widening of castle street was a catastrophe for the city but probably the only affordable option at the time. The castle street plans are still only that and there are to be some casualties along the way The worship house ? On dagger lane and King Billy statue to mention two Not sure what the upshot for those is but in the plans as a concern
Don't forget - 'damaged' covers a lot of things (tiles blown off, fallen chimney-stacks, walls demolished, windows and doors blown off).
You can't use wiki as fact! Anyway just a minor point the original claim was 95% of all buildings, that states 95% of homes. The 2 facts are not the same.....
I think people need to be concerned when the council propose to knock down buildings of historical and/or architectural significance - in this case, neither of those apply. There were concerns regarding the history of some old stables on the site, but now it has been recognised that they're not as historically significant as first thought. i.e. Get it built!
95% 'damaged' which can be anything from a fully flattened house to smashed windows or shrapnel damage. If you look carefully around the old town, you can see marks on some of the old buildings from blast damage, tiny holes/dents etc...
There are plans to build a replica of Beverley Gate at ground level using the original bricks as the foundations, and fill the 'hole' in. I came up with the idea and told Hull regeneration department of my idea a year or two ago, now the plans have suddenly been proposed as part of the new 'City Plan' - would have been nice to have been acknowledged with some credit. Would look nice as a sentence on my CV! Eh?!! Not heard this, where have you heard/read this? Why would King Billy statue and the worship house (? I assume you either mean the Masonic Hall, or Mission pub?) be affected by the Castle Street upgrades? The upgrades are nowhere near those 2 things. The Castle buildings and Earl De Grey may have to come down, those are the only 2 buildings that I believe are in the plans as a possibility of having to be demolished as part of the upgrades.
I'm quite aware of the damage caused during the war, the fact that this City has never had the recognition it deserves for it is one of the things that pisses me off. It's always London, which is understandable and Coventry. Coventry was one night and I know, that one night must have been horrendous but because we was only reported as a ''North East Town'' the City's plight has passed most people by. That's why it pisses me off seeing any old buildings demolished for new builds, go onto the Facebook group ''Hull: The good old Days'' and you'll see how this great City used to look. So please don't patronise me by saying I don't what happened during the War.
