You know, I’ve seen those tracks and always assumed they were tram lines.Thinking about it, of course they will be railway lines serving the docks and fruit trade.
This was a channel 4 prog....'Old Railway Lines of Britain', or something like that...Think it was on Saturday night...ie 19th October at around 7.30pm.
And the decision made then of where to locate Paragon Station is responsible for the current issues of the City centre’s spread out layout. Did the town planners have no foresight!?
I'm old enough to recall Botanic, Beverley Road, Holderness Road, and Sutton stations.....My mam and dad used make me walk from my home on Longhill to Sutton to get the train to Hornsea...omg...we're talking 60 years ago... ps I was only a nipper.
My nearest when I was a kid was Holderness Road, we used to love standing on the stairs that went over the tracks as the trains passed underneath. We used to go home grafted after being there a while.
Aye, always thought you had a look of Professor Marcus from the Ladykillers film. Some would claim One Round is Ric Glasgow, I couldn't possibly comment. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Was that the Withernsea Line?....Whereas Beverley Road was the Hornsea line. One Round..Excellent...Cracking film...Always makes me laugh. Even today....Great cast Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Danny Green (One Round), Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom.... The railway station opposite the old ladies house is Kings Cross....It was filmed on the line into Kings Cross and St. Pancras/ Euston. Sadly the street is no longer there. I've looked....As is Rillington Place, in Notting Hill, the scene of the Christie murders in the late 1940s.
Around 1960 my mum and dad had gone to London for a few days. They were sat in a park when a gentleman asked if they minded if he sat next to them. He was very pleasant asking where they were from and what they had seen. My dad thought he looked and sounded familiar but couldn’t place him. Then a year or so later he saw an episode of The Human Jungle and it clicked - the pleasant gentleman was Herbert Lom.
The footbridge you mention was placed perfectly between the street that I grew up on, Beeton St, and where i went to infants and junior school, Courtney St - there was always a train as we were going home, I always had the steam and soot bath
You couldn't beat the soot baths. I'm from James Street off Williamson Street, I was there 'til the houses came down when I was twelve.
'There 'til the houses came down'. Rovertiger, aka Maj Gen Barry Nuttall. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
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