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Hull: City of Culture
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've never been to Hull. Is it worth visiting now it's a City of Culture? "
U mean Hull on earth?
Oh I doubt it from the very few times I've been there  |
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I'm in hull I think it's stupid they will waste stupidly amounts of money for this yet they havnt got money to spend on the people that actually live here or repair the things that need repairing x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I love the fantastic Hull Fair, newest, biggest rides, and black eyed peas, lush x"
Omg! Do they still have this?? It used to be huge....
Spent many a day in my youth hanging out at hull fair!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I guess Hull just edged it because the approving committee wanted to pay homage to that great philosopher n humanist Lord Prescott - these criteria are often taken into account I imagine  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does the town/city change once you have had your year in the limelight being the city of culture?
Does it make any difference?"
no but some of the populous are likely to start reading the gaurdian and smoke gauloise afterwards  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I quite like hull, granted its gone down hill since the knocked the earl de grey down but it's not too bad really, had some cracking nights out round there after playing rugby |
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By *nnebellWoman
over a year ago
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Hull has many good attractions, Ferrens Art Gallery, Willberforce House, both free plus The Deep and many other museums and other free atractions. Im a culture junkie ive seen exhibition's of work by Hockney, Constable and Canaleto. Plus a 3 day summer art's festival with a concert of headliner acts.
These are just a small selection of things ive sampled in Hull.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've never been to hull but I'm sure you could find something interesting there, people used to say horrible things about Liverpool I went there expecting the worst but was taken aback by how friendly people are, I also love Leeds it's the people for me that make a city, so ill reserve judgement on hull till I visit |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought Leicester would win for 2017.
Three years of regeneration, arts and youth schemes and plugging the city and then a year to show the city off. I hope it helps Hull.
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has anything other than mr line acre ever come out of leicester
not a place im that familiar with |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"I thought Leicester would win for 2017.
Three years of regeneration, arts and youth schemes and plugging the city and then a year to show the city off. I hope it helps Hull.
has anything other than mr line acre ever come out of leicester
not a place im that familiar with"
I don't know but I liked their campaign.
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"Hull has many good attractions, Ferrens Art Gallery, Willberforce House, both free plus The Deep and many other museums and other free atractions. Im a culture junkie ive seen exhibition's of work by Hockney, Constable and Canaleto. Plus a 3 day summer art's festival with a concert of headliner acts.
These are just a small selection of things ive sampled in Hull.
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Perhaps this is why it has been named city of culture 2017.....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Hull.... A city a culture? That has to be a joke
Sorry Hullites"
Hull has been named City Of Culture?
That's a bit like naming Jimmy Savile 'Childrens entertainer of the year' |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"It hasn't done Londonderry any harm this year, and it really was a shithole. "
Has it done any good though?
" Never been to Hull, but may make the effort now."
Hull, as someone said on the radio, isn't on the way to anywhere. You have to make a decision to go there, for no reason other than to go there.
I wonder if that'll be enough. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It hasn't done Londonderry any harm this year, and it really was a shithole.
Never been to Hull, but may make the effort now."
Bit harsh, Derry isn't a shit hole at all. When you look at Belfast and ones running riot over a flag and you call derry a shit hole?
Done this place a lot of good this year, lots of events on all year round place has been buzzing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought Leicester would win for 2017.
Three years of regeneration, arts and youth schemes and plugging the city and then a year to show the city off. I hope it helps Hull.
has anything other than mr line acre ever come out of leicester
not a place im that familiar with"
Walkers crisps
Richard 111 's body
And Leicester Tigers rugby boys
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Got friends from there, very nice people, well balanced. always read Robert Crampton Saturday times, he is from Hull and always has something interesting to say. Worked in glasgow in the 80's90's when they were city of culture, and it made for a very cool, party place then. support the arts, its better than all the other bollocks we have to put up with. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought Leicester would win for 2017.
Three years of regeneration, arts and youth schemes and plugging the city and then a year to show the city off. I hope it helps Hull.
has anything other than mr line acre ever come out of leicester
not a place im that familiar with
Walkers crisps
Richard 111 's body
And Leicester Tigers rugby boys
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so you could stuff yer face wi cheese n onion while watchin a bunch of hairy arsed men play with their oddly shaped balls. Result |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought Leicester would win for 2017.
Three years of regeneration, arts and youth schemes and plugging the city and then a year to show the city off. I hope it helps Hull.
has anything other than mr line acre ever come out of leicester
not a place im that familiar with
Walkers crisps
Richard 111 's body
And Leicester Tigers rugby boys
so you could stuff yer face wi cheese n onion while watchin a bunch of hairy arsed men play with their oddly shaped balls. Result "
You goddit |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
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Worked in glasgow in the 80's90's when they were city of culture, and it made for a very cool, party place then. support the arts, its better than all the other bollocks we have to put up with."
It's sometimes forgotten that Glasgow was European City of Culture.
The title Dundee didn't get was UK City of Culture. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Worked in glasgow in the 80's90's when they were city of culture, and it made for a very cool, party place then. support the arts, its better than all the other bollocks we have to put up with.
It's sometimes forgotten that Glasgow was European City of Culture.
The title Dundee didn't get was UK City of Culture."
You know that is right, I must admit I was a little worried that they were running out of cities. It was still a fab place to be at the time, full of energy. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
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Worked in glasgow in the 80's90's when they were city of culture, and it made for a very cool, party place then. support the arts, its better than all the other bollocks we have to put up with.
It's sometimes forgotten that Glasgow was European City of Culture.
The title Dundee didn't get was UK City of Culture.
You know that is right, I must admit I was a little worried that they were running out of cities. It was still a fab place to be at the time, full of energy."
The view at the time was that it was a parting 2 fingered gesture from Thatcher who'd done her best to ruin the city.
Her plan backfired spectacularly, as visitors to the city can see now.
We even have shops on both sides of the street. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"The Land of Green Ginger  "
I didn't know it was a street in Hull until R4 this evening (a whole feature on Hull getting City of Culture and reminding people of Larkin working there).
The Land of Green Ginger was a book I read as a child about Aladdin's son and the Genie of the Lamp. I loved it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was brought up in a little place just outside of hull... Beverley.. As in the race course... It was bloody rough hull, but I had a ball as a young teen... Not been back for many a year I moved to Liverpool... Hull evokes fun memories for me, yeah it's not the best but there are many a worse places.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's all come as a surprise to me that Hull won it
I've only been there a few times.
I thort the ONLY culture Hull had was growing under some of the inhabitants armpits
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"Yo peeps chill!
Hull is city of culture for 2017.
They have like over three years to make some. 
Careful, John Godber will be after you for saying that."
I can take him! Anyway, even he left to go to Wakefield yo! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In all honestly Hull ain't that bad. You don't have any no go areas like other places and I am not afraid to walk anywhere in the city at night. Some area's are rough bit you get that in all cities and towns.
I think it will provide a welcome boost and hopefully the whole area will benefit.
As for the culture bit everywhere has culture but if you are blinkered by what you read in the press you will not know about it.
Come visit in 2017 and attend some of the events and I am sure your perception will change. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"In all honestly Hull ain't that bad. You don't have any no go areas like other places and I am not afraid to walk anywhere in the city at night. Some area's are rough bit you get that in all cities and towns.
I think it will provide a welcome boost and hopefully the whole area will benefit.
As for the culture bit everywhere has culture but if you are blinkered by what you read in the press you will not know about it.
Come visit in 2017 and attend some of the events and I am sure your perception will change."
With a bit of planning, events will be spread across the whole year and not crammed into 10 days, like Glasgow's Commonwealth Games*.
This has resulted in an increase in hotel room charges being increased by 400-500% - even in towns 20+ miles away.
There's nothing quite as satisfying as ripping off tourists, is there?
*not just the Commie Games, the Ryder Cup hotels are at it too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Crikey, the good folks of Hull must be hoping that the standing joke that is John Prescott, will be on a year long sabbatical to Outer Mongolia or somewhere equally forbidding in the 'City of Culture' year!!!
Either that or find an outsized stewards costume and ship him out somewhere for the year |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
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Either that or find an outsized stewards costume and ship him out somewhere for the year "
There's talk that Illustrious will be berthed in Hull.
What we'll do should we feel obliged to help the victims of a typhoon half-way around the world is anyone's guess. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hull is a great place to live it's my birth place. Certain eye sores in hull need to be renovated and hey presto make it look even better. There is a lot of old abandoned buildings that need to be sorted out but I'm sure the council will get round to it sooner or later. I hope  |
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there was no need to bring Lord Prescott in2 the discussion now was there 