Why would they do that? There’s no law about kids being in a pub late, it’s just a rule that most pubs tend to have.
Aye, happy days working as a 17 year old in '64, on Joyland Dodgem ride, and occationally the Walzer ride. Funny how I'd forgotten the name "Joyland" as we always called it "Brown's Amusements", until my mate from Hessle, who worked only on the Walzers, brought me a glossy book about the place about 10 years ago. Loads of lasses used to frequent the cafe attached to Joyland, my most vivid memory along with the incessant playing of The Nashville Teens hit record "Tobacco Road' which was released that summer. Some weekends if it was our day off, we'd travel to a dance hall in Driffield for a knees up (and a grope ). Recall once sleeping overnight in a cabbage field ! "You Really Got Me" also played constantly. Yes, the memories. And no, Jimmy Page did not play on this recording ! Epilogue: Amazon advertizing Brid book for almost $600.00 !!! Don't tell my mate !!! https://www.amazon.ca/Pennies-Sea-Amusements-Bridlington-2006-10-07/dp/B01F7YA30K
Harry Brown had Joyland. Someone you wouldn’t want to get into an argument with. His brother Sid had the smaller one, Pleasureland, near Woolworths. Sid still made enough to have a Rolls Royce, racehorses and spend half the year abroad. I Get Around and Do Wah Diddy Diddy were staples that year as well. Along Animals and Stones stuff. Nashville Teens appeared at Brid Spa regularly over the years and always put on a good show.
Because that is what the licensing lot round our way decreed. Never used to get taken any notice of until a teetotal Methodist Inspector took over and has carried onl
Can’t recall waltzers. There was a speedway ride on the right hand side They put waltzers in at end of the 70s when the speedway was taken out and out something they advertised outside as a disco waltzer in. Don’t know what that was like as wasn’t)t going in by then. Used to have fun with the speedway seeing who would jump off at the highest speeds. Came a cropper when I jumped off when wearing Cuban heel boots and the heels caught in the gap between the wooden slats and I was catapulted through a crowd of people standing at the bottom of the steps with the heels left behind. Brown’s mechanic and enforcer, a fearsome individual called Emmerson grabbed me, marched me out and told me to stay out. Used to have to keep an eye open when venturing in again after a while. That complex was the largest amusement arcade in the country at the time. Browns were worth a bomb, they also had that electric car ride near the Spa. Like a lot of businesses went down the pan after the kids took over. They didn’t have the nous or ruthlessness of their dad. Noble, another well known fairground family own it now.
You know what, the ride my mate operated was Speedway,not Walzers. I recall it was a fast ride and when not busy he'd nod off on one of the 'bikes' Drat this failing memory. ta for your reminder/correction.
I was at my grandparents in Leeds when the last tram in Leeds ran and went down to see the parade. My grandad said it was a daft decision they would regret. They lived near The Shaftesbury Theatre on York Road. There was a fast double track into Leeds city centre with a road on either side. You could be in Leeds in 5 minutes and dropped off on Briggate opposite Marks and Spencer. In the early 1990s I had to go to Leeds because of work and took my dad over to see his brother and have a look round. Glad I did because my dad died a couple of years later and that was last times they saw each other. Anyway when .i picked my dad up I took him for a look round where he lived and to see his old haunts. The car journey that took 5 minutes on the tram took 40 minutes and then you had to navigate the traffic system and find and pay for a parking space. Such is progress. The cost of replacing their tram system which covered everywhere in Leeds would be so astronomical it would be impossible. For some reason Hull had a limited tram system which they scrapped and had more trolley buses. Given environmental concerns it is a crying shame that trams and trolley buses were scrapped. All the European cities which kept theirs must be glad they did,
See my two recommendations are in the top 3. Surprised Hull, Sheffield or some other English city isn’t up there.
Been doing some walks lately on the disused railway tracks round these parts. Another absolutely idiotic decision scrapping so many railways back in the day. You are right, it's a crying shame that tram, trolley bus (and old railways lines) weren't kept and even expanded on. So little foresight. Idiots.
I’ve worked for Francis for 30 years, he’s still alive and kicking, now living in a huge house he’s just built in Welton, the stories he told me about Waterfront, going out round the area in the dead of night allegedly nicking the old street name signs, I first worked with him at the Hesslewood Hall hotel and nursing home, the hotel lost business when ERYC allowed the **** Premier inn to open virtually at the top of his drive, when we worked on the old Royal William pub on Waterhouse lane, later turned into a lap dancing club, all the timbers allegedly came from the pier refurbishment, he then developed the old pier booking office into 11 apartments, then we did those magnificent houses on the Park Ave, Salisbury Street corner, then he sold the lot to buy the Pearson Park hotel and has turned that into letting rooms. I doubt there’s no one else who is not from Hull who has done so much to bring old buildings back to life. He bought the Beverley Blackburn which was shunted all over the region because HCC wouldn’t let him site it anywhere, he gave it to the Beverley Army museum in the end, he bought the old Humber Ferry and wanted to moor it outside the Waterfront, again thwarted by our backward council. That ended up at the Humber Bridge for a bit before being scrapped in Grimsby docks, what a frigging waste of a tourist attraction. He’s a very clever and astute man who HCC did there best to make life difficult, when I first worked for him he had offered to buy the Lord Line building to turn it into a hotel knowing the area would follow on and be developed, guess what refused by HCC, so when any of you on here think the council are going to let the fair go elsewhere for a sports village are going to be disappointed. Hull council will and always have been the most backward thinking set of ostriches this country has ever had, anyone remember Ford wanting to come here in the 60’s, but all the big businesses in Hull kicked off because they knew it would push wages up, so it was refused, so it went to Ellesmere Port instead.
Citizen needs to know what money you have spent in Hull, you’re not talking about going to City, Waitrose, and pubs are you? Cos we all do that, not Waitrose cos that’s a ****s shop for people with more money than sense
Another council would have had the Humber Ferry as a bar, restaurant or club. Bristol certainly would have. Ford wanted to build a plant not long after the war on that industrial estate next to the railway lines as you come into Brid. Local councillors who had seasonal businesses which would no longer have had the pool of cheap labour in the summer who then went back on the dole put an end to that.
I don’t actually. I was making the point if I had made the observation OLM did that Kempton would have been shrieking about me be being an anti .Hull hater. And not thinking if locals don’t consider it a good idea then why would we expect people with no connection to the city to do so?
