I moved to Hull for a couple of years in the early 90s and went back to Plymouth, apparently permanently, in late 1996. It was depressing to find that, although I had kept in touch by spending a lot of holiday time there, the place had changed a lot. The streets were full of fences, demand signs, prohibitions and official threats. I suppose that Hull still looks like a run-down 1970s provincial town because the council is too skint to do the same. The ghettoing of the working class has been going on since Callaghan. It's like being someone who remembers the Weimar republic talking to lads in the Hitler Youth.