O/T Hull City Centre

So what, that was the 70s, he was obviously a glory supporter

A man from Hull also wrote the rules of football - i.e. Hull created football! Hull City AFC, the birthplace of football

 

So why do Leeds fans only go on about the history of their club?

HQ's? So do BP, Reckitt Benckiser, Comet, Seven Seas, Smith & Nephew, P&O etc not count?

Museums; Hull has 8 free museums for starters, including the Maritime Museum, Arctic Cosair (last remaining trawler), Spurn Lightship, Streetlife Museum, Wilberforce House and Ferens Art Gallery - which has one of the best collection of Dutch masters outside London and will be hosting the Royal collection of Da Vinci's works later this year - the only gallery in Northern England to be doing so.

...that's without saying anything about the likes of The Deep, that the city has 3 theatres including the famous Hull Truck and the fact Leeds had to pinch the Royal Armouries to fake that it has any history.

So to say it's no longer a cosmopolitan city is plain stupid.

 

Dazzar, as an aside, would you happen to know where the original gallows for Hull where? I've asked this before and been told about the ones in Hedon Road Prison, but were there any inside the City walls?

 

Hmm, not sure on that one, but I do remember seeing an old picture of Hull with a chain thing from a block tower which went across to the main part of the citadel (where The Deep is now) and the picture had heads hanging from the chain (said to warn any potential attackers).

So could have been near there?

Also, I remember reading that when Sir John Hotham was beheaded for treason for turning away the king, his head was put upon a stick somewhere in the city or above Beverley Gate, something like that... maybe Google about Sir John Hotham being beheaded, may tell you something?

 

I couldn't live down South, I get pissed off having to go to London every fortnight.

 

Students don't tend to stick to themselves. Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and numerous others are cities where you'll see students going about their day and nightlife in the city centres rather than withdrawing to the areas round their digs most of the time.

Leeds has also generated millions by itself, and we're hardly surrounded by poor areas, unless you count Bradford and Huddersfield. So you can't take all the credit away from us when private business rather than government spending has been a major part of our boom over the last 20 years.

I'd say we're neck-on-neck with the Mancs and ahead of the scousers in 2012, but it's pretty subjective how you rank those things. Certainly Leeds' economy and pull factor is far greater than both those cities have. Fastest growing big city in the UK.

Our flats have a 98% occupancy rate due to the rental boom and the airport is in Leeds and Leeds comes first in the name. So I'll take those brownie points if you don't mind.

Red herring question. We don't.

Of course they do, but I think they are surpassed by Asda, Leeds Building Society, First Direct, Jet2, Rockstar Leeds, Arla Foods, Yorkshire Bank and Republic. Not to forget Burton's and M&S who we introduced to the world.

You have good museums obviously, but that doesn't make you cosmopolitan. Face the facts: Hull is losing money, failing to generate new businesses and revenue, the dole queues are lengthening and your struggling settlement is nothing in comparison to the powerhouse Leeds has become. Your little brother's just grown up and he's learnt to kick your arse.

 

Cool pics. I have an 'Old Hull' book somewhere with loads of pre war pictures inside. If they had of been made to re build like for like with what was destroyed during the war the Hull would have been a very different proposition.

 

"You have good museums obviously, but that doesn't make you cosmopolitan. Face the facts: Hull is rich in history, no guncrime and a city of pioneers, the terrorism risk is non existent and your maligned settlement is nothing in comparison to the ****house Leeds has become. Your little brother's just grown up and he's still learning to lick your arse."


Agreed mate...

 

Leeds isn't great by any stretch of the imagination. Loads of really, really **** areas. Even the slightly nicer areas are still ****. Beeston, Armley, Halton Moor, Burmantofts, Kirkstall, Harehills, Farnley, Pudsey, Headingley is 'ok' only because it's got some decent eateries, Crossgates ALL pretty ****. Leeds only gets remotely nice when you head away from it north to Adel, Alwoodley or further North to Otley, Harrogate, Wetherby.

I wouldn't want to live in Leeds, ever. Back to back houses everywhere and no gardens - Crazy.

 

Leeds Building Society surpasses BP and Smith & Nephew?

Hull is finding a new identity having seen successive governments throw it onto the scrap heap - no money given to rebuild post WWII, they let the fishing industry go down the pan and they've done the same with the caravan industry....

Now Hull is on the verge of becoming the green capital of the UK, with Siemens wind turbine manufacturing, the supply chain companies that will follow, the ship building that comes from the business, as well as seeing a biomass energy plant and Spencers green waste energy plant also set to be built and the UK's first urban wind farm, Hull is moving in the right direction.

and you didn't grow up, you just imported a load of southern bankers

 

Your just a lonely old cu*t now fuk off off our board.

 

You sure it's 'Bankers'?

 

If you go on Google Earth put HU28LN (postcode for St Stephen's) into the search bit. You can have a proper look at it on there and if you keep zooming in it'll give you the streetview pictures as well. That way you'll know what people are talking about.

 

Kirkstall, Pudsey and Headingley are all decent areas that would pass for OK in any other city. Like you say, Adel, Alwoodley, Otley, Wetherby, Horsforth, Rawdon, Guiseley, Yeadon, Moortown, Roundhay, Oakwood, Shadwell, Bramhope, Harewood, Meanwood, Scarcroft, Wike are all nice areas. There's some nice places to the East and South of the city too, not that they're my area of expertise. What a load of rubbish that it's back-to-backs everywhere. Obviously it's like that in the inner city, but I don't think you've been to the nice bits all that much. We're the city with more green space per mile than anywhere else in the UK - 2/3 of the City of Leeds to be precise. So don't give me that bullshit about it being a concrete jungle. Five minutes' walk from many places in Leeds and you can effectively be in the countryside.

It's a company you'll see on most UK high streets. Smith & Nephew's HQ is actually in London, so your point is irrelevant anyway. Well, no more relevant than me mentioning Burton and M&S who've now emigrated from Leeds to the capital.

Don't rely on failing industries then. Successful cities are dynamic, they don't pin their hopes on one means of income like Hull, Barnsley and Coventry foolishly did.

Glad to hear it. Your economy can't get much worse.

To work in the banks created by Leeds folk. Not to forget the strong textiles industry which we didn't rely on as mills and factories, but adapted into successful clothing businesses, with the help of our Jewish compatriots.

I'm not old!

 

I see you don't dispute being lonely and a ****.

Good job really.

I've spent ****ing ages reading your posts and you really are one boring bastard.

I've nearly lost the will to live.

 

Mission complete, then. Almost.

 

I end up going to London every fortnight and love it! In many ways I could happily go back up north but I know so many people down here that it would be stupid...and I seem to have rather a lot of northern friends down here anyway.

On the subject of Leeds, it is generally thought of in the house music world to be one of the best places to go out in the UK at the moment - arguably the best. Some of the best parties are there, some of the best clubs with fantastic sound-systems, and many exciting new producers and DJs. Far more revered than Manchester or Liverpool at the moment.

 

Great, house music, another reason to dislike it.

 

There demonstrates the ignorance of a boring clueless nugget who's managed to drag another thread down to his level and still get his arse spanked yet again.

Apart from many other industries we've been heavily involved in, the wealth drawn here from those varied industries, including the wool trade that relied upon us meant we could build a bright modern City. Unfortunately as we were more important than the West Riding, the Luftwaffe laid most of that to rubble.

Ironically, York being poor kept it's old buildings and they're now what tourists go to see.

I guess we should have stood blubbing with our hands out like the wessies do when their mono-industrial heritage failed.