Get a clue, dimbo I'm talking the last 50 years not the last 50 hours Leeds= Junior Showtime, Glyn Poole, The Grumbleweeds, Smokey (or were they Bradford?), Soft Cell, Dusky Spice, and Kaiseh Chiefs *titter* Liverpool= Beatles, FGTH etc Manchester= Punk, Simply Red, Madchester, Oasis etc
Out of interest, where is this Fruit place? I don't go out much these days if at all so my memories go back to early 2007.
Ok, cheers for that. My gran lived in that area till 2007 when she passed away so since then have fallen out of touch with round there.
Leeds Building Society aren't on most UK high streets, it's only got 54 branches in total and some of them aren't in the UK. Skipton Building Society is bigger, with 103 branches and the biggest local one by far, is the Yorkshire Building Society, with 318 branches in the UK, though of course they're not based in Leeds. Our most local one is the Beverley Building Society, which recently opened it's second store in Pocklington and will no doubt catch up with LBS in due course.
City centres are changing. If you have ever been the the USA you will see just what happens. We still say that we are going down to town, the yanks have areas called Downtown. There the mall took the life out of the town centres and the same is happening over here. We still have main stream shopping in High Streets. Online sales did not just kill Game. The bank did the job. Combined with EA ending it's supply, the death bell tolled.
Recently opened or recently closed? If you're looking on the website, it hasn't been updated for a few years!
Actually, you're right, it closed it's Pocklington branch in 2009, at least you can't accidentally go to the wrong branch now.
Other than Lovell Park, there isn't really any properly central green space though, it's only because Leeds boundaries stretch so far past it's traditional boundaries it takes in loads of green space. If Hull's boundaries stretched as far as Leeds' boundaries do, we'd be able to count all the countryside from Hull to Brough and from Hull to Beverley. In Hull you're never more than a 10-15 minute drive from the countryside, water or beach. And that isn't 'effectively' countryside, it IS the countryside. Hull also has one of the largest city centre green spaces in the country, and I'm talking central. You did mention Burtons and M&S already - have you not heard that some companies have more than one HQ? Smith & Nephew started in Hull, as did Reckitt Benckiser - their main bosses HQ's may have moved south, but their main bases haven't left the city. They weren't failing industries though - fishing decline in one major part was down to the government not stepping in during the cod wars, allowing Iceland to bully us out of being able to fish in certain waters. Instead we started importing from Icelandic ships, meaning the Hull ones weren't needed. As for the caravan industry, it too was booming - some companies that went under had full order books, but needed loans to complete the work, the banks refused them the loans - these being the same banks that the caravan workers taxes had gone to to help bail them out - you couldn't make it up! The caravan has slowly started to try pick itself back up again, with good orders over the past year, but the government is trying to f**k it up again by introducing a new taxing system for caravan manufacturing that will see companies go down the pan - again, you just couldn't make it up!
It doesn't help when the media aren't willing to give us anything other than a bed rep too. Did anyone see Four In a Bed in Hull the other week? Channel 4 managed to zoom in on some razor wire and the metal sides of Hull Arena... yet when they went into the old town, to the Old White Hart, it didn't show them walking down the street, it didn't show an outside shot of the pub, it didn't even show the pubs downstairs interior, the only bar that is listed in the UK, as it was made by Doulton's of London and comes from the Whitestar Line - it was made as an intended replacement bar for aboard the Titanic once it had returned to England. So, if you were running a TV show, which would you show: This... and this... OR.... This... and this...
Humber street. It's one of those streets just off the Marina where the fruit markets used to be. They're starting to turn it into an arty kind of area. My friends band have played there and rate it.
