I mean where there's a petrol station now, next to the railway bridge, I was wrong about it being where Spring Bank and Willerby Road meet, it's actually on Spring Bank(I didn't realise Spring Bank went that far).
I remember when kennings big showroom window had a brick thrown at it after a city game in the early 70s ...Bounced off then the whole window shattered.
Me too - my mate worked in the "spare parts" stores section @ Green Arrow between '63-'65. He left school a couple of years before I did to work there, so I stopped in to chat cycling home from school almost every afternoon. I'd forgotten is was a VM dealership because they'd repair almost any make of vehicle - which was treat cos my mate occasionally got to drive ( or go with the mechanic perhaps) the punters' cars up Boothferry Rd to Darleys & back testing out the repairs they had made. Some of 'em were quite exotic models too - Rollers, Jags etc. My mate somehow managed to buy an ancient Humber Super Snipe (mentioned in an earlier post above), a diesel engine if I recall for a song from a customer at the garage. He took about six months to fix it up to get it on the road, but regretted his decision when he discovered it guzzled up the petrol. Still, we had a couple of months cruising around the villages pretending we were Al Capone's gang. Big disappointment though was it didn't seem to attract too many birds - must have been the intimidating size of the back seat !! Happy days. He's still in Hull & coming to visit us around Christmas, must ask him if he's got any old photos from the period he could bring with him. PS: Keep these great historical OT posts coming OLM - just love 'em.
I realize the parked cars in the photo are in the garage forecourt, but is it still legal to park on the roads facing on-coming traffic ? Do that here in Canada (well Toronto anyhoo) and they give you a ticket ! Or was the rule you could only do it during daylight, but was an offense after dark to park facing the wrong way ?
It was at night before you didn't have to have light on your car all night. Lots of people had oil or parafin lamps next to their cars. They had red on one side and white on the other. My dad had a little light that he attached to the battery overnight. I got picked up in Canada for parking on the wrong side of the road but when heard my accent, the policeman realised that I was very English and just waved me on my way.
I've just remembered going on my bike to the Kennings in the picture to get a starter motor for my mini van in 1976. I can place it because I'd just come back in it from watching City lose 5-1 at Bolton. I remember being quite scathing about the supermarket end of Burnden Park, little knowing that we'd have something almost identical very soon afterwards. The red light came on at Farnworth and I called the RAC who diagnosed it as the control box. I also rode out to Willinghams to get a control box which I got home and promptly dropped and broke. I had to ride back again - about eight miles each way.
Cheers for that. My old man had the same battery connected light - cold weather & the battery was dead in the morning...did he curse !
Kennings spares department was down the side at the bottom if i remember I got a complete clutch for my moggy for £5.12.6d That was trade though LOL
My dad actually bought another battery and charged that overnight to swap in the morning! We used it to power a car headlight that he got from a scrapyard when the miners' strike meant the city was on a shift system for power. Everywhere else in the street was black but our living room was eerily white. I never admitted it at school in the morning as everyone claimed they couldn't do homework in the dark. That was when Northern Ireland played Spain in the afternoon. I was really lucky because we'd got tickets but my school hadn't any power so we weren't in. Otherwise we would have had to truant because having paid for the tickets I wasn't going to miss George Best.
Bloody hell, you just reminded me about battery chargers...once I did it in my bedroom when I was in digs in Leeds, circa '67. Ran it all night, plugged it into a power outlet next to the bedroom window. Next morning the curtains were in tatters, completely "corroded ?" as a result of the gas that came out of the top of the cells ! Landlady wasn't too happy...took me weeks to pay her off for replacing the curtains.
