Keeping the memories alive…
No sooner had the dust begun to settle on the last showing of the Made in Hull light show on the evening of Saturday 7th January when workmen surreptitiously began removing certain items of street furniture. Street lights, bollards etc. began to disappear from the city centre streets. We all had no idea that this was happening and certainly no idea why…. but in the dead of night, a 75 metre wind turbine blade began …
Read moreAfter seeing the light show and the fireworks on the opening night, we set off to see some of the other installations but most were too crowded and to be honest, we skimmed over them and we were a bit too tired to do them justice. We’d seen the main events and so decided to head home and visit again one evening during the week to seek out the other things and see them properly. …
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Talk about In With A Bang!! Wow. We certainly started it off in style with a fantastic light show of Hull’s historic moments and events over the past 70 years or so. On Sunday 1st January, New Years Day, Queen Victoria Square, Hull was the setting for a spectacular film and sound extravaganza shown across the facades of the beautiful buildings surrounding it. The former town docks offices, now the Maritime Museum, The City Hall …
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Photo credit KCom.co.uk When in 2013 the announcement was made that Hull had won it’s bid to be UK City of Culture 2017 I’ll admit it here, I cried. I’ve championed Hull, my home city, all my life. Argued against not only strangers who have never set foot here but sometime family and friends, that it’s not a dump or somewhere where there is nothing to do or see but that if you take the …
Read moreOh My Word, I have been so neglectful of this blog and I’m quite disappointed in myself because I do this primarily for myself because I enjoy looking back through it from time to time. It’s surprising how you forget how you felt until you read your own words back. So, I think I’d better try and bring things up to date as much as possible. So much has happened that I’ll have blog in …
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