TUNNEL GHOST?(Leeman Road Pedestrain Tunnel, York)

On my way to the Railway museum late last year, I walked through the Leeman Road pedestrian tunnel, under the railway lines above. I’ve only walked through the tunnel this one time, and I was anxious to get to the end! It just felt really eerie. I felt the need to continually look over my shoulder and indeed I did; something felt uncomfortable. Despite my paranoia there was not a soul in the tunnel with me. Or was there?

I had forgotten about my tunnel experience, and how much I wanted to get out of it, when the other day at work the TA’s were passing around a mobile phone with a video clip of two girls who recorded themselves walking home from town drunk one night late last year. About 40 seconds into this clip lasting just over a minute there is an unusual, and most certainly out of place shadow. Some reckoned it resembled a skeleton. I saw the clip over the shoulder of a co-worker. Whatever it was, it looked out of place. The girls in the clip didn’t notice anything until they saw the clip the next morning.

SATURDAY MORNING STROLL

(GNER's HQ)

(Pretty fancy digs for the Great North Eastern Railway)(View of the Ouse and its historical landmarks)

(Millennium Bridge - South of York City Centre)

WHEN DID YOU WANT THAT DONE FOR?

May 13th, or Friday the 13th of May 2005, these luxury flats, behind my house at the time, were up in flames. Although the fire did some serious damage, 9 months have passed and the work is not yet finished.

This sort of manual work seems to take a ridiculous amount of time here and nothing gets done when planned.

Example:

When term started at the University of York in October, the University had to put up some forty students in shared reading rooms with cots and no place for their belongings. The company employed to build the dorms designed to house them had not met the deadline! These students, most of whom were international students and therefore explicitly promised state of the art accommodation, were forced to band together with strangers and sign on to independent housing contracts off campus.

Example:

The main girls changing rooms have been out of operation for months for refitting. Again this job should have been completed in October. Hence we have no lockers for storing valuables, etc.
Example:

It took my parents months to have their new kitchen counter, stove and sink fitted before they put the house up for sale. Booked in October for November the man for the job simply didn't turn up on the day. It was eventually completed in January of last year.

I'm sure the solution to this problem is to send people to university, landing thousands of people in debt for a future that they would otherwise still get, while not promoting apprenticeships for the plumbers, electricians, painters, plasterers and builders this country desperately needs. Thanks Tony!

Another 9 months?

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