When the industry was all closed down we had Tory MPs telling us that there was going to massive investment and they would make it a place where people wanted come to work and live. They were all false promises. It's taken nearly 40 years to get to this point.
Did he????? Didn't know that.
Public money was spent on cleaning up the industrial waste from it being on a colliery site, normal practice for old industrial areas, otherwise would never get redeveloped. What is happening now in Redcar with the old steel works. Ben Houchen usually on Look Newcastle with his hard hat on. However, Hall said the club should pay as they were using the land to build what was to become the Sol. Think he was also on some committee to allocate money for Millennium projects, the Gateshead Eye bridge got money but nothing for Wearside but will stand corrected. The bloke was an arse, the whole family thought they were Geordie royalty.
I said it was only useful 20 days a year.
Why's it only useful 20 days a year? It's not just for the football, you know.
Loads using it today. Will come into its own during warm weather when people can move easily between Sheepfolds and KS.
Even some nice signage on the roker end would look gpod. A 'sunderland a.f.c' or 'roker end' ,right in your line of vision as you are on the bridge would be good
Exactly. It wasn't built to make getting to the match a bit quicker. It was built to make the land at Sheepfolds more accessible.
Aye, that was it. Still reckon that's the case?
He was in charge of the funding for all the millenium bridges. He blocked the funding for the crossing of the Wear in Sunderland.
Yea bloke was in charge of the funding for the millenium bridges. Said ours wasnt worthy.
He blocked the funding as he stated it wasnt worthy.
Well there's another reason to hate the Dracula fyassed fucker and another reason to celebrate when his time is up.
Sadly our Mayor is from the same cloth. Keep an eye on what she does and doesn’t fund and where
Didn’t know that. The wanker.
Hall was a Sunderland fan I'm sure, but took it out on the whole area that he wasn't allowed to buy the team
Doxford Hall surely
I dont think he was that bothered by football, he only cared about making money. Couldn't buy Sunderland so took over Newcastle, got lucky with Keegan / shrewd move ? Went on to sell to Ashley. A lot of Mags despise him for that. Gave the Conservative party a load of money but think he has jumped ship to reform.
Jumped to reform says all you need to know
