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Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote
>In message <baff32h46o9hdm9otkg1l5644koc9mujo5@4ax.com>
>          David Hansen <SENDdavidNOhSPAM@spidacom.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:02:24 +0100 someone who may be Graeme Wall
>> <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote this:-
>>
>> >> If it was then the people who would whine most loudly
>> >> would be people who take the drug alcohol. Not one penny of the tax
>> >> they pay is spent by government on more or bigger pubs.
>> >
>> >But it used to be in Hull
>>
>> I am aware of the government run pubs in Carlisle, until ISTR the
>> mid 1970s. There was even one run by the Council in Fife, with
>> singularly bad results, for a while in ISTR the 1980s. What is the
>> story in Hull?
>>
>>
>
>Sorry, Carlisle.  Must have been thinking of telephones.
>
>Well it's all North...
>
><g,d & r>
>
  Hull had the yellow more white than yellow telephone boxes
  The Corporation sold off their interest in the phones and with some of 
the monies built the Kingston Comms arena where footy and rugby league 
is played as well as other uses by all accounts an inept council;
near old Botanic gardens railway depot (getting back to railway thread)

  Carlisle had their pubs obviously the shells in the first world war 
weren't
always filled properly so watered down beer was served in the cities 
hostelries

Hull Corporation also ran the electric supply many moons ago as it was 
DC and that ran into the 50s i believe.
  As the fangley electricity was put into newer sections of the City AC 
took over.
-- 
d hill