Bit of a mystery. I was taught the bishop of York version. This history of Hull book suggests the bishop one too: http://www.information-britain.co.uk/history/town/Hull98/
Hull has a great deal to offer but as people have said needs to get its house in order to promote the city properly. I was thinking about the proposal to bring HMS Illustrious to Hull which is a fantastic idea. Only one big problem, where do we put her? I am not in favour of her being stuck in King George dock next to the old Norland berth for example and I have come to one conclusion. Put her on the river front by the Marina at the edge of Albert dock on the Humber side. There are deep(ish) water berths there and it is easy walking distance from the city centre being just behind the Ice Arena, only problem is getting agreement with ABP and moving the existing businesses. The old girl is over 200m long and I am not sure whether her beam would be too big for the lock gates. A new moveable pedestrian bridge could go over the lock and there you have a fantastic opportunity to bring our heritage into the city. She could have gone on Victoria Pier with some berthing piles being put in on the river side to hold her in position but she would ruin the view from that lovely square. I know that St Andrews dock is out of the question. The plans for that and the Lord Line building at an advanced stage. Neither the Council or ABP want to do anything with it. Any advances?
No mate. I went to Hull Grammar School. It's a subterranean school sunk deep under the river where the students study wearing deep sea diving gear. The bubbles often obscured the blackboard and I blame that for my occasional mis-spellings on this forum.
So, do you live in a pineapple under the sea. And do you go by the name Spongebob? Or Patrick? Or Squidward?
I'm known as Crayfish to my friends and I'm currently living in an old fridge dumped under Trent Bridge.
Some surprising ones there, namely: Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow and Scarborough. London - obvious why, but those numbers should have people wondering why the government still plough so much money in on effort to attract tourists to London via mass marketing, advertising and huge events instead of using some of it to showcase other areas of the UK, I mean nearly 9 million more visitors than the second most visited place in the UK - crazy! Manchester - shopping, nightlife, football/other sports finals, MEN events and tourism. Birmingham - Bullring, NEC events, canals etc Edinburgh - tourism more than anything. Bristol - one of the surprise ones. Perhaps a lot of people use it when visiting the likes of Devon and Cornwall? Leeds - shopping? not a lot all else. Maybe people use it as a base to visit the rest of Yorkshire? Glasgow - Lots of tourist attractions, but at the same time, it has a bad reputation, but it doesn't stop people going. Quite interesting, Hull's bad rep is a 'butt of all jokes' type, but Glasgow's rep is more of a violent reputation. Blackpool - we all know why, but why?!! A lot are probably stag-do's though. York - tourism. Scarborough - very surprised! No shopping, no stag do's, not really any tourist attractions, no big events, other than the odd Yorkshire cricket game there aren't really any sporting events... so all those people are day-trippers looking for a 99 on a sunny day pretty much. Newcastle - shopping, tourism and stag-do's. Dublin - tourism. Cardiff - sporting events, tourism, nightlife. Liverpol - tourism, shopping, nightlife, football. Brighton - tourism, gay tourism, nightlife. Bournemouth - tourism/seaside getaway. Sheffield - Sheffield Arena, Meadowhall and a bit of tourism. Isle of Wight - Isle of Wight festival, Bestival, Isle of Wight race and holidayers/tourism. Nottingham - Tourism (Robin Hood mainly), Sherwood forest etc... Norwich - A lot of people will visit when going to the Norfolk Broads. Shows what is needed to attract people though - good tourist attractions, shopping outlets, good nightlife, sporting events, live music events or a beach.
i'm quite happy to call the place hull and i quite like the fact it has a normal name and a sunday best name. as for "Hull is always lumped in with Grimsby and Scunthorpe which are quite ugly names for towns and together outsiders mitakenly imagine an ugly, dour region." the names of grimsby and scunthorpe are not "quite ugly names" - it's just your perception of the places that colours your view of the words used to name them.
But southerners aren't that bright. They've heard the expression; "It's grim up North." so Grimsby must of course be the 'grim' capital. Scunthorpe not only contains a naughty word (which probably leaves them light-headed and fanning themselves), but it also sounds a bit like Scum-thorpe. Add to that a town known as Ull and the region sums up the last place where they want to go and spend their money.
I hadn't heard it either, though I was watching the latest series of Russell Howard's Good News - and he said, 'Has anyone seen the news this week? Hull has been voted 'Happiest Place to Live in the UK!' ...then he said, I wonder what the locals make of it? ...and it cut to a clip of a dour faced old woman in Queen Victoria Square (looked like Look North footage) were she said "Ave live 'ere all me live an I 'ate it!"... it cut back to Russell Howard doing an impression of her "I'd move somewhere else, but then I wouldn't be happy would I?".
I can only agree about Scarborough there, but i don't understand how you think it's shock that Glasgow, Leeds and Bristol get a lot of visitors. They've all got miles better city centres than Hull has. Nobody goes and looks round the outskirts or the council estates like Chappeltown or Govan, when they go to visit these places.
Snap with the old school scarf Dogsbody. Same vintage or thereabouts me. Other posters have mentioned Wyke, Myton & Meaux. No one yet has mentioned the missing one (Tranby) - so I will.
Daz i think your posts are brilliant and wish you were in charge at the council but dont diss Scarborough its great. I love it there. One of the few places i would move to if i ever leave Hull.
I wasn't so shocked about Glasgow, as I know it has loads to see and do, it was more how Glasgow has such high numbers even with a bad reputation, when it seems a 'bad reputation' is one of the major factors in why Hull struggles to attract visitors. Just because Leeds and Bristol might have better city centre's than Hull, doesn't mean they should be able to attract more visitors - if there is nothing to do, then it's all based on shopping. I wasn't shocked that they'd had more visitors than Hull, I was shocked at how high up the list both are. Tourism-wise there is just as much to do in Hull as Bristol, and even more than Leeds, but I suppose Harvey Nichols is what the 21st century visitor wants.
Haha, I don't have a problem with Scarborough, I just found it bizarre how high up the list it is, compared to other places that have more to see and do.
Not really no. They were happy to just take notes, but have attempted to do one of my ideas, but in a cheaper way. I think I mentioned on here a few weeks back about my idea for a 'Carnaby St' style arched sign at Whitefriargate (spanning Burtons to Thorntons for example) as a welcome sign to the old town. Recently the council have put up blue banners stretching across Whitefriargate that say 'Hull Old Town' on them. Not quite the same effect, but a try at least. I also showed them my replica of Beverley Gate I suggested be built at ground level using the original bricks as the foundations - there was a story in the HDM recently that they were planning on looking at doing something with the 'hole in the ground' and a replica was suggested in the article.
