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  1. 4tiger

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    I saw it a couple of weeks ago, thought it was excellent. Very funny and kept you interested throughout. Plenty of Hull references as well.
     
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  2. originallambrettaman

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    They are indeed, the installation's called Weeping Window and will look a bit like this...

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  3. originallambrettaman

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    It's going on permanent display outside Siemens factory.
     
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  4. Party Hull!

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    Personally prefer my fish with skin on.
     
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  5. originallambrettaman

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    Ferensway clock's looking very well kept...

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  6. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    Me too
     
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  8. Barchullona

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    149 in Brid are the equal of, if not better, than Harpers (in my opinion). Inghams in Filey is pretty decent as well.
     
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    Its about time.
     
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  11. City Man

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    Been to 149 a couple of times, very high quality tempered somewhat by eating outside the shop in an unworthy drab location.
     
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  12. Barchullona

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    To be fair it is a shop mainly for locals and people who take them back to caravan parks.I live a couple of minutes away by car so it is handy for me. Chaos getting parked sonetimes as the former post office a couple of doors away is now a mini mart. The area and road in front is supposedly being altered to cope with the change. Great moment in there when Charles and Camilla popped in and the lass behind the counter asked a bemused Camilla if she wanted scraps.


    There is a new place, open on good days off season, and all through the summer down on the seafront where the beach huts are underneath where the path starts to go to Sewerby which has just won an award and is very good. A bit pricier than 149 but a pleasant place to sit outside on a sunny day.
    Locals go a lot, not just holidaymakers, which is always a good sign when they go out of their way to get there.
     
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  13. City Man

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    Had elderly relatives at Sewerby, seems a decent place to retire to. Relatively low key Wessie presence.
     
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    There are Wessies there. Just not the loud, obnoxious city dwelling types from Leeds etc that infest a lot of the town.
     
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    So I understand, but don't they have more than one?
     
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  16. originallambrettaman

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    I'm sure they have several, but I believe they cost about £150k each.
     
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  18. charon-the-ferryman

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    so Roary's not off to Everton, the ****
     
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  19. originallambrettaman

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