Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

It's the 'it'll never happen to me syndrome'.

 

Just looked seems Stephen Graham is one of the stars, and Weller is highly listed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_(upcoming_film)

 

I didn't say anybody, every case is different.

 

Are you referring to me having a weak personality?

 

Got a letter through my door about the filming. Usually get more notice than this.

NOTICE OF FILMING - February 2023

CONFIRMED DATES AND TIMES

FILMING AREA: High Street, Scale Lane, Bishop Lane

Dear Residents of Hull's Old Town,

Firstly, we would like to thank the businesses and residents who have been so accommodating during our time in Hull so far. It is incredible to be able to bring productions to Hull and show off the beautifully historic architecture the city has to offer. The intention of this letter is to inform you of three days' filming in the immediate area.

Set during WWII. 'Olly' is an original screenplay written, directed and produced by Steve McQueen. Working Title will provide the production backing with New Regency and Apple being the finance partners. McQueen is best known for his Oscar winning '12 Years a Slave', 'Widows' and, more
recently, the award-winning series 'Small Axe'.

Below is a list of our road closures in the immediate area.

ROAD CLOSURES:

• BISHOP LANE;

Monday 6th - Friday 10th February 2023

•HIGH STREET;

Tuesday 7th - Monday 13th February 2023 (access for deliveries & bin collections until - except Sunday 12th February. Please speak with a member of the team outside these hours)

• CHAPEL LANE-FLOW REVERSAL FOR ACCESS; Tuesday 7th - AM Monday 13th February 2023

• SCALE LANE; Saturday 11th - AM Monday 13th February 2023

SCALE LANE CAR PARKS FLOW REVERSAL FOR ACCESS ONLY; Saturday 11th - AM Monday 13th February 2023

To facilitate the shoot, we will also be suspending a number of parking bays on Scale Lane, South Church Side and Alfred Gelder Street.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or concerns, or if you have any important deliveries during the filming periods detailed overleaf,

 

I thought I was going to be one of the stars too, but received an email yesterday saying my services for the first week were not required. Denied my big chance.
I may still be required for crowd scenes the following week though.

 

Get you, Richard Burton

 

It sounds like the diet's not going too well.

 

Looking back on Hull's much-loved Cecil as it prepares for the final curtain
History of landmark city centre cinema, from Rocky mania to bingo hall supreme

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Police were called to help manage crowds of teenagers queueing to see Rocky 4 at the Cecil, Anlaby Road, Hull, in February 1986. (Colourised picture from the Hull Daily Mail archives.)
It boasted the largest CinemaScope screen in the country when its doors swung open for the first time in November 1955.

A giant cut-out figure of Marilyn Monroe standing over a New York subway grate with her white dress billowing in the air loomed large above the entrance of the new Cecil cinema on Anlaby Road as guests arrived for the official ceremony and a screening of her latest comedy The Seven Year Itch. Among them were John Davis, the managing director of the Rank film group, and his actress wife Dinah Sheridan.

The glamour of that night is perfectly captured in a newsreel still available to watch on YouTube. As well as the fur coats and the civic chains gathered together for a cocktail party in the building's restaurant, there's a palpable sense of luxury about the building itself and a real sense of a bomb-scarred city emerging from the gloom of post-war austerity.

Read more: The hidden 400-year-old house in the heart of Hull

Designed in a modernist style by leading Hull architects Gelder & Kitchen, the cinema could seat just over 2,000 people in one huge auditorium featuring stalls and a 678-seat balcony. It really was a theatre of dreams.

Later this month, however, the curtain will come down for what will almost certainly be the final time at the venue which is now operated as a bingo hall by leisure group Mecca. It's due to close on February 26.

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ROCKY MANIA: Fans queueing outside the Cecil, Anlaby Road, Hull, to see Rocky 4 in February 1986. (Colourised picture from the Hull Daily Mail archives.)
The Cecil actually started life on the opposite side of Anlaby Road where the curving glazed Monocle office block - still better known by its former name Europa House - now stands. Back in 1911 the Theatre de Luxe cinema opened for business there before being renamed Cecil in 1925 after a major re-build.

The first Cecil featured a stylish Art Deco design and a cafe created by converting shops and offices next door. Sadly, it was left in ruins after being badly damaged during a bombing raid in 1941.

Occupying the site of a former hospital for seafarers, the post-war Cecil arrived towards the end of the golden age of cinema in Hull. The number of cinemas in the city had peaked at 36 in 1938 but by the end of the Second World War there were only 25.

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Bingo at Mecca, held at The Cecil Cinema, Ferensway, Hull, in 1996 (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Competition from television - ITV first became available in Hull a few months after the new-look Cecil opened - soon started to have an impact on audience numbers. Like many others, the Cecil experimented with live music shows and hosted what was probably Hull's first experience of high-octane raw American rock 'n' roll when Jerry Lee Lewis topped the bill in May 1962 five months before The Beatles first performed in the city.

The era of multi-screen entertainment was embraced in 1971 when the Cecil's restaurant was converted into a 137-seater cinema. A year later the stalls in the main auditorium were replaced with a bingo hall while the balcony was split into two smaller cinemas.

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Changes of ownership during the 1980s reflected similar fluctuations in cinemagoing trends, although big Hollywood blockbusters still managed to pull in the crowds. Some memorable images in the Hull Live archives show police officers being deployed to keep an eye on hundreds of teenagers queuing to see Rocky IV in 1986.

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Cecil Cinema in the 1970's
Trading under the name Take Two, it finally closed as a cinema just over a decade later when the two screens in the old balcony were removed to make way for a new snooker hall with daily bingo sessions continuing in the auditorium below. The old screen in the former restaurant is still in situ.

 

Saw my first porno film at Cecil, me and my mates all 16 pretending to be 18

Super vixens


I wonder if the John Wayne bronze is still in the foyer???

 

What! Not Regent?

 

Are you sure it was Cecil? Regent was the place for soft porn, Tower showed the likes of Bruce Lee films, Cecil was always the blockbusters

 

I knew we'd get an expert opinion.



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yeah I’m sure it was Regent. Asking for a friend obviously.

 

Russ Meyer’s films were a cut above the Regent’s offerings. Somehow his films were spared being classed as soft porn when basically he was a director who knew how to exploit a pair of tits when he saw one.

 

Yep it was deffo Cecil

 

His house rather than his cinema though…

 

They changed the lights at this junction awhile back

I’ve seen three crashes there since then
RIP


A 30-year-old man has sadly died after a crashbetween a motorbike and car on Spring Bank West.

The incident took place at 7.15pm on Friday, February 3 at the junction of Chanterlands Avenue in Hull. It is believed that a white Ford Focus collided with a grey Yamaha MT-12.

 

There's a YouTube channel, dashcamhull, that features that junction in nearly every video he puts out.

 

Chilling words. R.I.P.