Hull - whats it like?

[Roadkill]

Why couldn't they hold the conference at the Lawns (ie Cottingham halls of residence) as well as sleeping there? Its got everything they need, I'd have thought

Incidently, I liked your lengthy piece on Hull' although I'd say they bulldozed two good pubs rather than one. It's a great place, apart from the racism. I only left the city to get married but I'd recently bought a flat on Springbank.

geoff

I doubt they've the facilities to handle a conference at The Lawns, and tbh the place is a bit scruffy too.

I never knew you were a Hullite. If you were about before I moved, you should have come out on the piss with me and Longdog...

 

[RRH]

I live in Manchester but my brother went to university in Hull, I think it gets a bad press TBH good night life etc. I just think it is due a big re generation project like MCR, leeds, liverpool etc if it gets this it will be a really good city it is after all the (8th?) biggest in thr country.

 

[Biggerdave]

Whoooooooo

A thread about Hull. I'm from Hull, and I even went to school in the City centre along Princes Dock (before they built that monstrous shopping centre, and cleaned the area up so the tramps had no-where to die). The city is under rated, but I have to be honest it was abit claustrophobic work wise. Mind you I ended working in the fish markets, and eventually got transferred to Grimsby. Now thats a town that puts the Grr back in Grim.

Live an Manchester now, verdict still open

 

[Velouria]

Like I say it is a fabulous city I love it very much and miss it greatly

But for something like this convention I'm not overly convinced of how appropriate it is as a venue

even driving there is a pain the last 30 miles seem to drag forever

and the one time I did it I got caught by a speed camera at 47 in a 40.

Bastards

 

[Roadkill]

A thread about Hull.

They're all crawling out the woodwork now, aren't they? And there was me thinking that me, aqua and Longdoggy were the only urbanites in Hull...

 

[chico enrico]

Hull = Dull.

 

[aqua]

maybe then we'll be saved from having you ever grace the city

 

[MooChild]

Besides, of course they pay you to natter. In Birmingham, a Hull accent sounds positively sophisticated.

*shakes fist!

 

[Roadkill]

Hull = Dull.

It's considerably more interesting than most of your posts.

 

[Error Gorilla]

I really grown to like Hull in the time I've been here, even if finding a job is like searching for rocking horse shit.

 

[Pugwall7]

I went to uni in hull. i loved it. So much more character than 99% of cities in the country and Hull people love to have a party (Hutt street!). When my friend came there to visit he was suprised how Bohemian it was (round the avenues, Hitchcocks and stuff). It is in the arse end of nowhere though

 

[Roadkill]

I went to uni in hull. i loved it. So much more character than 99% of cities in the country and Hull people love to have a party (Hutt street!).

Ah. the legendary Hutt Street parties. I never made it to one, sadly. I do have a mate who puts on superb parties in a barn at an undisclosed location in the city though.

Three more days and I'm back.

 

[fogbat]

Bit belated, but have you considered York University?

It's been a few years, but they certainly used to do decent conference stuff. Everything is on one, gorgeous (between spring and early autumn, anyway) campus.
A bar in each college (they say college, but mean halls of residence).
Only 15-20 minutes walk to the town centre.
Lots of duckses and gooses and moorhenses!

 

[dweller]

The HullTruck theatre is fab.
Go and check out a Godber play!!

Watch out for ghosts in some of the older pubs.
And I mean real ghosts, not old characters.

 

[Roadkill]

Watch out for ghosts in some of the older pubs.

Provided they're not the ones claimed to be in Ye Olde Whyte Harte. Lovely pub, but 90% of the claims made about its history are total bollocks!

Not that I believe in ghosts anyway.

 

[oneflewover]

Provided they're not the ones claimed to be in Ye Olde Whyte Harte. Lovely pub, but 90% of the claims made about its history are total bollocks!

Don't ruin the civil war and smallest window claims, i'd be gutted, quoted them for years... ...

 

[Roadkill]

Don't ruin the civil war and smallest window claims, i'd be gutted, quoted them for years... ...

The smallest window is true, but that's another pub whose name I can't remember. It's down Bishop Lane - or the street next to it, anyway.

I used to work for the bloke who wrote this - a lovely man, and he really knows his stuff - and we talked about it a few times:

Evidently, the building dates from the 1680s so it can't actually have been the plotting pub, although it might be on the site of it.

 

[avu9lives]

York Uni ?

 

[longdog]

Don't ruin the civil war and smallest window claims, i'd be gutted, quoted them for years... ...

Never let the facts stand in the way of a good yarn is my motto

Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth

 

[Geoff Collier]

The smallest window is true, but that's another pub whose name I can't remember. It's down Bishop Lane - or the street next to it, anyway.

It's The George in The Land of Green Ginger. How can anyone forget that street name? And I haven't even set foot in Hull for over a year

geoff

 

[Roadkill]

It isn't The George. I think it's the Manchester Arms on Scale Lane, but I may be wrong.

Even so, I'm in Hull for the first time ina month and I'm dead fecking glad to be back. Brilliant place.

 

[terrywit]

A thread about Hull. I'm from Hull, and I even went to school in the City centre along Princes Dock (before they built that monstrous shopping centre, and cleaned the area up so the tramps had no-where to die)

but the monstrous shopping centre was out of bounds, for us younger wearers of the sailor suit

 

[Geoff Collier]

It isn't The George. I think it's the Manchester Arms on Scale Lane, but I may be wrong.

Even so, I'm in Hull for the first time ina month and I'm dead fecking glad to be back. Brilliant place.

Oh yes it is. Does this ring a bell?

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/george.htm

 

[david dissadent]

You havent been to Hull till youve had a night out in Spiders.

 

[Roadkill]

That's the George, but that's not the one with the little window.

Since I'm at Doggy's this week, we're going to go and find out for sure.

<now wishing I still lived in 'ull: oh for my nice little flat on Beverley Road!>

 

[Roadkill]

You havent been to Hull till youve had a night out in Spiders.

I've walked home afetr five Pangalactic Gargleblasters.

Proper 'ull me.

 

[Geoff Collier]

That's the George, but that's not the one with the little window.

Since I'm at Doggy's this week, we're going to go and find out for sure.

<now wishing I still lived in 'ull: oh for my nice little flat on Beverley Road!>

Look to the left of the George's "stable" doors. And do we want to put money on this?

 

[aqua]

I've walked home afetr five Pangalactic Gargleblasters.

Proper 'ull me.

I've done the same

sadly the memory haunts me now

*feels queasy at the thought*

 

[Roadkill]

Look to the left of the George's "stable" doors. And do we want to put money on this?

No, 'cos now I'm sober I'm a bit less confident. I'll go and find out though.

 

[Geoff Collier]

No, 'cos now I'm sober I'm a bit less confident. I'll go and find out though.

OK. And while we're on the subject of Hull pub trivia, which pub was the venue for an international meeting of the Free Rudolph Hess campaign in the 1970s.

Just out of curiosity, are you a Monty Python fan or a genuine radical revolutionary, or even both?