Elsie's was one Greenwood shops. Oxtobys on one side of the road Elsie's one the other. We still run a family diddle um. For those not in the know Christmas clubs are diddle ums. My Dad ran the OAP Wednesday club in Greenwood. The last time he did the diddle um he paid out over 11k.
He'd shout through that stable door to his wife in the back, and like a sit com, a voice but rarely if ever a person, would reply...I loved the smell of the shop though. I remember the beer-off at Greenwood pub too.
I've lived between London and Glasgow, with lots of places in-between, since I left Hull College. But I always say I'm going Home, when I return to Hull. And yes Curd Cake ( with raisins in), from Skeltons ( next to Cavalier). Nobody has mentioned the bike shop. My Grandma would buy ". Fresh" lard from the butchers, which my Grandad would serve to me, ourkid and my younger cousins, on toast........... Bloody terrible
Didn't the son used to be a decent goalkeeper? Also, didn't they had a bakery on Inglemere (sp?), but I never used that one.
DmD, I was in 3 pantos at the community centre and last weekend, I sat with me Mam talking about when I used to sing in the shows. My one and only line in Robin Hood was "Watch out lads the Sheriffs coming" How apt, as I now am a sheriff!
The Inglemire shop rings a bell, but I can't help with the goalkeeper. Mel, I could well have seen you perform. My memory is terrible, but threads like this make things creep back in. The Drs at the end of York Road that was a shed type building that became a bank. (Or did the bank become a Drs?) I do know Freddy Briggs daughter's a regular at City.
I remember when I started buying my own clothes - Northern on Ferensway, Gersteins and Royce on Anlaby Road, Marcus Bishop in South Street, Maurice Lipman (Maureen's dad) on Monument Bridge, Leonard Silver in Savile Street......
The thing that always makes my wife chuckle. Jumble sales outside of people's gates. The toys laid out on a blanket with the youngest kid sat on a kitchen chair keeping guard. Hull invented the garage sale only we didn't have garages.
I put Drurys, think Dutch has it right it was Drewery's. Ye used to go down the side to the bakery to get the hot cakes first thing ona Satdee morning. The shop didnt open till 9. My old man was at Endike school with one of the Drewerys so we used to get more than a dozen!! My Grandad's membership number for Cavalier Club was 1. He died at 97 and was still going in for a pint of Mild and to the bookies right up to his passing in 1990. My Grandma passed within months of him going, 70 years married and couldnt live without him. She used to give me a note to give Reg the butcher for Pork Chops, "but make sure you tell him to cut some of the fat off em, I'm not paying for fat. Oh and lads its Endike not Endyke, thats the posh bit t'other side of the roundabout.
We used to call that 'Lecky' Drain, because the water was warm. Sandy Bottom was where Barmy Drain went under the bridge on Ferry Lane, up at Woodmansey.
My spelling is ****e ( especially when I'm on this iPad)I know, but my memory is reasonable. Can you pm me your Grandads name, because he will of known a lot of my family. My Uncle Harry, who owned lots of social clubs in Hull was a great guy, me and ourkid used to stay at his huge house on Great Gutter Lane in Willerby, he had so much land, another uncle, used to keep pigs there ( not that you could see, or smell them , from the house. Your grandad would of certainly tasted a lot of different Milds in his time, with all the changes of breweries.
This is brilliant and is bringing back all the memories of old places on Endike and Greenwood. We loved Drewery's (or however it is spelled), i was sent by me mam in a morning on a Saturday, the hot cakes were to die for and if we were lucky we could have real butter too - that was a special treat! We did all our shopping on Endike and if we needed anything special went to Newland Ave and occasionally into town. I remember the Rex cinema near Oldstead, i took our scruffy mongrel to a dog show and was amazed to win third, i was dead chuffed that day. Some of the really old shops that were on Endike were Home and Colonial and Cress and Wagners ahhhhh i remember polony and chiterlins well!! also i had a saturday job at Arthur Fish on the corner of Ellerburn and Greenwood, bloody hard work filling the shelves and getting burnt hands boiling the beetroot in an old boiler out in the back yard! I could go on and on LOL
newton hall 67-72...Pongo Wainwright scariest teacher, Tex Tucker art teacher - felt sorry for him, Hitler the history teacher, 'Ena' our form teacher, massive snowball invasions of Lizzie & Shakespeare...walking thru Greatfield in my stupid short pants n uniform. Nicking goodies from the two old women in Carricks corner climbing on Estcourt's roof (girls school) looking for the showers...red hell Bierkeller - two out two in! Dr Feelgood at Dingwalls among others anyone remember sharks (band) with 'Snips'?
