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Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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  1. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
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    New benches installed...

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    I'm pretty sure those lights stands are staying, same as the ones around Trinity Church. I think it the CityPlan a few years ago there was something about always being able to light up some of the buildings in Hull on a night.
     
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    That would be a real shame, though it's hard to see how anything can be done with it and I fear it will simply continue to rot for years to come.

    That said, with the Venue going up, Earl De Grey would make a great retro boozer right on the doorstep... though god knows how much it would cost to renovate. A lot, I assume.
     
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    I was hoping precisely this would happen. Great shame if they flatten it.
     
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    Apparently, it had £250k spent on it not long before it closed and though it's been closed for a long time, it's still in fairly decent nick inside.

    As you say, it's problem is its position, even when the Venue opens, I'm not sure it will provide enough regular traffic to make it viable.
     
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    Whereabouts is the Earl de Grey?
     
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    He's buried St Mary's, Studley Manor.

    He holds the record for the greatest recorded lifetime bag of birds shot.
     
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    Castle Street...

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    Id happily see it knocked down. The building itself is unremarkable to my eyes and has nothing to offer other than nostalgia.

    I'm sure someone will come back with some details of special tiling in the basement or whatever, but it was always a ****hole for my money.
     
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    Has the location of the Marina footbridge been moved 50/60 yards.??
    I thought it was originally going to be the other side of the warehouse leading from Princes dock Street.
     
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    Walked around the Marina and Fruit Market on Sunday. It looked really well - first time since all the new blocks and roads were laid. I only hope that they're not over doing the eatery side. It would be great to have a bit more variety. But first impressions were it looked excellent.
     
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    I don't think there's anything particularly significant about the building itself, it's just been there almost 200 years and was a significant part of our seafaring heritage, attracting parrot lovers from all over the world.
     
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    I think it's a crying shame if they knock it down. We lost enough old buildings during WW2. At least preserve the ones we have left!
     
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    Save Earl De Grey!
     
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    If Earl de grey was in a diiferent location, say on the car park to Oriel House, on High street, it would be well worth saving. With it's present location though, fronting on to a major dual carrageway, it could never be an attractive place for the touristy types to visit. Knock it Down I'm afraid, and build facing the other way to a new public square around the new venue.
     
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    You could do that and save the frontage, juxtapose a new building at the rear complimenting the design of the new Arena and public square with upstairs bars looking out over the Marina through the original whores windows.
     
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    Excellent use of the word "juxtapose" and also a good idea.
     
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    I loved the Earl De Grey - the teddy boy looking barman, whose name has sadly become lost in the sands of time used to serve myself and a schoolmate half a pint of bitter after we'd had dinner, this despite us being in full Trinity House uniform ''stay in the back room lads'' was all he ever said. It was 68/69 and they still had both macaws perched behind the bar.
     
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    I know this is virtually exactly the type of post you're referring to, but the green brick frontage is lovely. Above the door the bricks are in the style of an elaborate fruit-bowl.

    I know a lot of people might not care, but I just think it oozes character, it's unique and I hoped the new venue could breathe new life into it. Appears not.
     
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