MORE than a decade ago, she kicked up a stink over the state of the public toilets on the city's Walton Street fairground.
At the time, Lisa Brewer's concerns were highlighted in the Mail alongside a statement from Hull City Council saying that plans were in the pipeline for a new toilet block in keeping with the KC Stadium being built nearby.
Now she is wondering whatever happened to those plans after revisiting the loos and discovering they are even worse than she remembered.
Ms Brewer said: "I was born in Hull, but in 2003 I had just arrived back in Hull from South Africa, having travelled all over the world.
"I had seen a few things in my travels but I had never seen anything as bad as the ladies' toilets in Walton Street."
Ms Brewer, 46, of Fernhill Road, west Hull, got to know the state of the toilets all too well in those days as she ran a regular stall at the weekly market.
"I decided to speak out at the time because I felt some of the rent being collected from stallholders should have been spent on keeping the toilets clean," she said.
But a recent visit to the Wednesday market sent shudders through her once again.
"I was with my sister and brother and my six-year-old niece, who were visiting Hull from South Africa and Canada," she said.
"My niece is originally from Guyana and even she was shocked by the condition of the toilets.
"She had to be held up over the toilet because the seat was so filthy she dare not sit on it.
"There was faeces on the walls and the outside of the toilet bowls, no toilet paper anywhere, nothing to dry your hands on and nowhere to change a baby.
"I was so sickened by what I saw I decided to take some photographs. They are not a pretty sight.
"There are probably at least 2,000 people down there on market days, yet the toilets are in an appalling condition. I would say they are a health risk."
Ms Brewer and her family were left with no alternative but to look for other nearby toilets during their visit to the market.
"Initially, we were directed to the Sports Arena but the toilets there were closed.
"Then we tried the ones in West Park, but they were locked, too.
"We tried looking for a park warden for a while but there was no one around.
"After ten years, you would thought something would have been done about this.
"There's a lot of talk about how Hull is trying to attract tourists and visitors as the UK City of Culture, yet we can't even get the basics right with a block of toilets that are meant to be there for thousands of people who go to the markets."
Nick Howbridge, the council's property and assets manager, said: "We are aware the toilets are in need of improvement, however the council's property agent, NPS Humber Ltd, is in negotiation with the operator of the Walton Street market, Town and Country Markets Ltd.
"The discussions include improvements to the provision of toilet facilities for the benefit of customers."
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