Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

I spoke to an HR fella at Amazon on Saturday who joined them 18 months ago when they had 35,000 in their UK team. He said it's already about 75,000.

 

New mural started on Clumber Street/Prinny Ave corner gable.

 

I get itsmick ronson is the other one Roland gift?

 

Looks like it to me Chazz.

 

It captures the spirit of Mick Ronson perfectly and Roland Gift on the side of his Mother's Shop(obviously a gift shop)...

I wonder who else is going to be on it?

 

I’m gonna pop along and have a look this morning

 

My young cousin lives in Blenheim St,we walk past it on the way to games...I'll have a look at it the first time I'm down.

It's brilliant.

 

That’s not Pauline’s, hers is a few doors down, but looks great.

 

It was never open that shop of hers

 

I seem to remember it being open until maybe mid 80s, but has been closed ever since. But nothing has ever been touched since.

 

It was open Wednesday and Friday afternoons in the years leading up to her passing.

 

Ah that legendary word again
Looks good tho


Legendary faces from Hull's music scene on huge new mural near Princes Avenue
Retired art teacher Ed Ullyart is in no hurry to finish
Angus Young
A spectacular new mural charting Hull's musical history is taking shape in a side street just off Princes Avenue.

Retired art teacher Ed Ullyart says he's already delighted by the public's reaction as it starts to emerge across a gable end in Clumber Street.

He said: "People have been coming up and saying some very nice things about it which is very satisfying from my point of view.

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"Most of them seem to want to know who will be appearing next."

The huge artwork already features images of the late Mick Ronson, Roland Gift, 1980s indie band The Red Guitars and folk group The Watersons.

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Retired art teacher Ed Ullyart works on an image of Hull folk group The Watersons
It has been commissioned by the building's owner Ken Cutsworth and is Mr Ullyart's first ever outdoor mural.

"I've never attempted something like this before so it's been a case of learning as you go along," he said.

"What I'm trying to achieve with the colours I'm using is to blend everything into the existing brickwork to make it look almost natural."

He used a projector to beam an outline of his intricate designs on the wall before drawing them in chalk.

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The former head of art at Malet Lambert and Perronet Thomspon secondary schools in Hull normally spends his time painting stage sets for East Riding Theatre in Beverley.

He also designed the sets for Hull playwright Rupert Creed's Turn and Face the Strange, the City of Culture-commissioned stage show which told the story of Mick Ronson, the legendary Hull-born guitarist who was the musical driving force behind David Bowie's Spiders from Mars.

"It was Rupert who initially came up with the idea of the mural. He talked me into it," said Ed.

With several well-known Hull faces from the city's music scene yet to appear on the mural, he says he's in no hurry to finish.

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Ed Ullyart working his new new mural in Clumber Street
"I honestly don't know how long it's going to take but I'm in no rush. It will take as long as it takes and it keeps me out of the gym."

As well as the city's musical stars, he also plans to include an image of popular Hull lollipop man Phil Boreham who died in January after spending several years patrolling a nearby pedestrian crossing on Princes Avenue with his dog Snowy and a handmade 'Thank You' sign he showed to patient drivers.

"He was a lovely chap, so it's the least I can do," said Ed.

 

That really is bloody good, and more to come.

 

Another new mural in 'Ull

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And it hasn't been Pauline's for a long time.

 

I’ve no idea if Pauline is still alive but the shop is still called Pauline’s gift shop and it still has the same tat in the windows.

 

Looks fabulous, I just hope once completed some sort of sealant can be put over to protect it...