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| From an outsider looking in, in that I haven't lived in Wakefield for twenty years, I think Wakefield is doing pretty well. I live in a city that is extremely similar in terms of population size, industrial history, and administrative importance, and Wakefield beats it. Apart from the big cities, which are getting by on coffee outlets and fancy pubs, it is common to hear about town and city centre centres dying, with proper shops being replaced by poundshops and charity shops. Wakefield is just like everywhere else, but still it opened its new sy shopping centre, and the top of the precinct near the cathedral is still a glorious place to be on a sunny day.
She waffles on about Sandal Castle and the Chantry Chapel. I spent a lot of my childhood playing at Sandal Castle, and it is better preserved now than it was then, but she needs to learn her history. My understanding is that Sandal Castle was largely uncovered not long before the seventies, so rather than letting it crumble, the city unveiled it and preserved it for the city. What does she want: it rebuilding in breeze blocks?
The Calder bridge hasn't changed in decades, and so what does she expect with the Chantry Chapel? Blame whoever designed the access into the city all those decades ago, not the city now.
To me, the city has hardly changed, and that is no bad thing. Any problems it portrays in the city centre are no different to anywhere else in the country. It's a sign of the times. I can remember my mother doing the weekly shop in Hillards off Northgate. Who would go into the city centre to do any shopping now, other than for treats and browsing?
As for the rhubarb festival, if they were selling the stuff from little stalls in a twee little back street in Camden, with signs written in chalk, she would be cooing over it, waffling on to her mates about how authentic it is.
Your past is what makes you. The fact that she is ashamed of it tells us more of her own self-image that it does about Wakefield.
My message to her is this: I've written things that have been read by more people and in more countries than you ever have, and I'm proud to put Wakefield in my biography. It made me the person I am: a Yorkshireman who likes drinking bitter, who looks after his brass, and likes spending his weekends watching rugby league. I go to London sometimes and meet high and mighty types who I know will think I am an uncultured oaf, but you know what, I don't enjoy their company. They drink wine I don't understand, guffaw a lot and talk about rugger. I can deal with that. Why can't you?
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| Quote: RebelRebel "The success of the festival should really be the focus of attention here, rather than the immature blog post that sought to mock it. Sadly, it seems the young lady has found another vehicle to promote herself... unless Kelner is hosting a discussion about gay and lesbian communities and their lack of representation in the works of George Gissing. Hopefully, she'll get the 6AM slot, when most of us will still be tucked up in our beds, and she can spend her 15 minutes of fame enlightening truckers on the M62.'"
Excuse me but did she not disrespect our city in a national newspaper. We know the blog was immature but people believe what they read and the image of Wakefield will have been damaged. Outrage therefore is understandable and she most certainly should be the centre of attention on this post.
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| I am hugely proud of being a Wakefield Trinity fan and i can see that improvements are being made to the city centre, but parts of the city are an absolute shizzer hole, filled with some of the scrotiest no hopers i have ever seen.
That said these problems are all a result of a social and economic free fall over the last 20 years, maybe she should address these issues in her paper, many of whos readers are actively involved in these failing areas of our society.
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