I've worked on a few conversion builds like that, you would be surprised how many flats you can get in something that size, the Ellerman Building on Kingston Street has 13 flats with another 8 to be done, the old Pier Booking Office has 11 flats mostly 2 beds as well. They rent for £6-700 a month so you can soon make money in conversions
That was the Rev Bagshaws church for many years while he was the vicar for City, he is/was a very likable bloke, he loved singing Carols by himself at halftime at Christmas at BP as well
its the old Boulevard high school that's next door to st Matthews not Riley high that's further up Anlaby road.
Sorry you are wrong. It was Riley High when I went there along with Blue Mountains Bear and others including Jimmy Binks, the Yorkshire cricketer. The new school was built and opened in about 1958 further along Anlaby road and has since been knocked down.
Didn't Alan Hardaker the former secretary of the FA go to the old Riley High School? I'm sure i've read somewhere that he did. I went to the Parkfield Drive Riley High School. Im sure it was built in the late fifties.
A tad later than me. You will have had Mary Watkins as your Akela, as her husband, Charlie, was Skip to the Scouts. They were fantastic people, neighbours and friends who fulfilled their selfless community roles for donkeys years. Great memories, great times. Cheers, Plum. I hit Riley in 64, unfortunately. I hated the place, not least Sludge and Claude Hammill, who were to teaching what Russell Brand is to comedy.
I wouldn't mind slagging off some of my old teachers but quite a few are probably still alive. Do give us the dirt on Sludge and Claude(unlikely name for a Hull teacher).
Parkfield Drive RHS opened in 1957 the year after myself and Yardley Tiger left the old Boulevard site in 1956, having both being there since 1949(classmates). Yardley left for Manchester Uni and I stayed in Hull at the old Hull College of Technology in Park St. TigerRoo was also at RHS from 1950-1955. Worth telling here that following our leaving in 1956, Yardley and myself lost touch and our next contact came in 2011 after Yardley posted his years at Riley which was spotted by my wife who was on here at that time. So after 55 years we were re-united on Not 606! I came into contact with TigerRoo a year earlier when I started posting on the Hull Mad site. The headmaster when we first went to RHS was a highly respected guy called Rochester(surname) who was liked enormously by the whole school community. On retirement a few years later he was replaced by Claude Hamill who most students and teachers disliked almost from the time he arrived. Alan Hardaker did indeed go to Riley leaving in 1928.
My research indicates that "Alan Hardaker" was a student, like me (but many years before), at Constable St. School. It also attests to his long term association with the football league and his avowed distaste of international competition. He wanted England to stay removed because international football included "too many wogs and dagoes." Funny how times have changed ... now it's a sleazy, dispicable European septic bladder, that maligns international football.
Normally I'd agree, but the church looks bigger than it is on the photo in the OP, at the moment it's just a single room building, you could obviously get a second floor in there, but the upper part is barely one room wide. If it was in good nick and just needed the internals sorting, then I'm sure it would be a worthwhile job, but apparently the spire really needs taking down and rebuilding and it's a listed building, so it's not going to be cheap.
It's quite ironic reading that, knowing we have a poster called "rileyoldboy". I'm guessing he should be "rileynotquiteasoldboy".
My wife PM'd him a while back on my behalf asking when he attended RHS. He replied saying he was a Parkfield Drive Riley High attendee circa 60's I believe. So probably could also be "newrileyoldboy".
Interesting that there was a guy nicknamed "smelly" in my year. Not very original as his surname was Smelt!
Mr. H. Rochester left Riley on September 1st 1952 to take up an appointment as headmaster at the South-East Essex County Technical School. Claude Hamill arrived at Riley in January 1953. In the interim Mr Trowill (Tiny Tim) shouldered the headmaster responsibilities as well as being Senior Master and Maths Master. No I do not have a photographic memory, I still have all my copies of the Magazine of the Riley High School that were published twice a year then. By the way when BMB Were reunited in 2011 we couldn't have been more physically apart, he is in Oz and I am in the USA. Another notable person who went to the building was Amy Johnson who attended school there when it was Kingston High School. She lived down the Boulevard when it was an area sought after to live. Riley started in Park Street and moved to the Boulevard after Kingston High moved to their new building on Pickering Road.
