tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9141783190152880313.post6026735913663603700..comments2012-05-17T08:19:07.060-07:00Comments on Tim Roux: Why I am proud to be from HullTim Rouxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923457513709903725noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9141783190152880313.post-11779430128646112122012-05-17T08:19:07.060-07:002012-05-17T08:19:07.060-07:00Hi Tim,
I've just posted my virgin blog... LOV...Hi Tim,<br />I've just posted my virgin blog... LOVED YOURPIECE ON HULL... ALAN PLATER WAS OF MY BEST FRIENDS IN THE WORLD... I'D KNOWN HIM SINCE THE EARLY 50'S AND DIRECTED MANY OF HIS PLAYS.. I ALWAYS STAYED WITH HIM WHEN I FLEW OUT OF HEATHROW - I WAS A TRAVEL AGWBT, BUT HAVE NOW JUST COMPLETED MY 19th BOOK - maybe will catch up with friends.. take care from a beautiful SUNNY EAST YORKSHIRE DAY................... dayBIT OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9141783190152880313.post-23607164560185999732009-11-22T03:41:55.303-08:002009-11-22T03:41:55.303-08:00Like Tim, I left Hull as a child, just a little ol...Like Tim, I left Hull as a child, just a little older, at 16 and following the death of my mother in a road accident. I always thought Hull a good place to come from but not a place to live in. The city, considering it is a port, always seemed parochial. Being at the end of a road, rather than on the way to anywhere, has shaped Hull and isolated it. I often wonder what would have happened had the then government continued the road link from the Humber Bridge to the north, to form another arterial route from the south. But, no matter, as Tim rightly points out, the city has found an identity in cultural terms and has shrugged off its parochial past to welcome cultures and voices from all over. I have lived all over the country but returned to the area a few years ago and now live in Driffield, writing under the name of Stuart Aken, and attending a writing group in Hornsea (full, I'm afraid, so no new members at present).<br />It was Tim who introduced me to this website, so my public thanks to him for that.stuartaken.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05695584662320617659noreply@blogger.com