Hull isn't so bad after all

[Highway Man]

Isn't the bloke who was supposed to dispose of the dead bodies, but forgot to dispose of the dead bodies being sentenced today from Hull?

He lived two doors from me. Be interesting to see the outcome today.

 

[fillyboy]

I've just discovered that Kingston upon Hull and Hull are in fact the same place.

 

[MNW67]

Recently did a reunion night at Spiders night club. Pleased to report its hardly changed in 20 years since I used to go there. Cheap cocktails, excellent music, and an atmosphere like no other nightclub.

When I say cheap cocktails, I'm talking £2.50 for half pint drinks such as Tarantula, and about £4.50 for pint drinks such as Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. Drink at your own risk.

Then there's the Adelphi - legendary music venue that supports budding artists, and seen many famous acts pass through their doors.

There are so many great pubs for real ale, I can't list them all, but include: White Hart, Ye Olde White Hart, Station Hotel, Black Boy, St Johns, Minerva.

City centre isn't what it was, as a combination of Amazon, St Stephens shopping centre, and Kingswood out of town retail park have contributed to various mainstream shops to close. But there still enough there to keep us going, including independent shops.

There is also plenty of history as well.

I once visited Stoke for a course. Seemed very boring in comparison.

Sam Smiths and bar billiards in Ye Olde Blue Bell.

 

[Highway Man]

Sam Smiths and bar billiards in Ye Olde Blue Bell.

In market place ? Been thrown out of there many times (Joking)

 

[wobs]

Sam Smiths and bar billiards in Ye Olde Blue Bell.

Bar billards not there last time I went. Unless its hiding upstairs.

There is a bar billiards in Fretwells (also in old town) though.

 

[wobs]

I've just discovered that Kingston upon Hull and Hull are in fact the same place.

One of the things that puts Hull on the map is its non-existence as a city.

We all call it Hull, but strictly speaking its Kingston, as the river is called Hull. Hence KC - Kingston Communication.

 

[MNW67]

Bar billards not there last time I went. Unless its hiding upstairs.

There is a bar billiards in Fretwells (also in old town) though.

1980s along with a large selection of Sam Smiths bottles. Table not far from the bar.

 

[Highway Man]

Bar billards not there last time I went. Unless its hiding upstairs.

There is a bar billiards in Fretwells (also in old town) though.

It was replaced with a pool table upstairs

 

[Collectors]

When i moved out of London "Good move" i had drawn a line from the wash in the east to Bath in the west & anywhere south of the line & spent 6 months looking for a new house.. Now many areas i could not afford & ended up in Norfolk. Not the most mountains of areas & not the prettiest., but cheaper than the rest & let me retire early. PS: it also doesn't rain much here in comparison to above the line i had drawn.

 

[wobs]

When i moved out of London "Good move" i had drawn a line from the wash in the east to Bath in the west & anywhere south of the line & spent 6 months looking for a new house.. Now many areas i could not afford & ended up in Norfolk. Not the most mountains of areas & not the prettiest., but cheaper than the rest & let me retire early. PS: it also doesn't rain much here in comparison to above the line i had drawn.

We don't get much rain in Hull either, but I believe you get even less on Norfolk.

PS: No hosepipe ban here yet (famous last words!)

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Where can I buy this magical chip spice

Some weird place with funny coloured phone boxes at the arse end of the M62.

 

[Highway Man]

Some weird place with funny coloured phone boxes at the arse end of the M62.

It's how we are known. It's a fair description.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I went for a day trip to Hull on my birthday as a treat about 3 years ago. Just because I'd driven near it, towards it but never been there. It's alright. We went back a year or so later, did a walk all around the docks, I love a bit of semi-derelict seascape.

It's definitely a bit different to the rest of the UK, as it's not on the way to anywhere else the place gets left alone to be whatever it wants to be, without having a load of outsiders passing through.

 

[fillyboy]

Do they still have yellow phone boxes? , donkeys years ago I bought some shares in Kingston Communications as there was takeover speculation at the time and that was when I heard about the yellow phone boxes, never quite got my head round how or why they had their own telecoms company.

edit: and I genuinely didn't know Kingston upon Hull was Hull.
Kingston upon Hull sounds proper posh.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

They do, but they're more of a manky magnolia colour. Whoever picked the colour back in the day could have chosen better, or they had a load of leftover horrible paint that they needed a use for.

I believe the Kingston thing was because their council owned their phone system so it didn't get sold off with BT. They sold it off later though.

Why does Hull have cream coloured phone boxes?

Most UK phone boxes are red, but Hull's are cream. And now they've just been given Grade-II listed status! So why are the city's phone boxes so special?

www.bbc.co.uk

I remember talking to someone in Hull on the phone in the early 1980s and he pressed a load of numbers on his phone so I could hear the fancy new tone dialling they had there - we were still using the loop disconnect system, where the keys mimicked the rotary phone by pulsing so it took ages to dial. So they were more advanced than the rest of the UK at one point at least.