I reckon quite a few on here are from North Hull. Question: Was there a Dewhirst's on Endike Lane? Or was it on Greenwood?
I cant recall it on either Stan but Im not as old as some on here!! Not saying there wasnt one though. Would it be on the same row of shops as Len Beck?. There used to be a Dewhirst butchers too and i thought of them first. Endike changes to Endyke after the roundabout with Greenwood/Hall Rd.
Endyke Lane runs into Cottingham and the East Riding. Endike Lane is relatively 'new' in comparison and is entirely inside the Hull boundary.
Given I'm one of the younger ones, I'm absolutely useless on this topic. But something similar - there was once a rumour that when the McColls on Endike was a Jacksons, there would be a bus service running between this store and the other Jacksons store on Greenwood. No really. People actually believed this in the area.
As The Omega Man said it was near Len Becks tailors, I think there was a bakery close by too who used to do hot buttered bread cakes in the morning.
The reason I posted this thread is this: In 1943, when I was but a few months old, my parents separated (and later divorced). My sister and I were brought up by my mum (with big input from my grandparents). I didn't meet my dad until I was sixteen. He didn't impress me much and I subsequently saw him about three/four times, before his death in 2004. The gist of it is that I was told he managed a Dewhirsts on NHE (as well as - possibly - another on Hessle Road). I occasionally find another clue and continue researching my family history.
I asked my sister and what she said bought back some memories. I can remember the shop, it was a double fronted shop with a central display, loads of draws of stock. We think it was this building. Shops often ran their own "didleums" or draw club, which were buying clubs. My Mam was always in one or two. Every week you paid a set amount in and each person in the club was given a week number. There would be say 26 members and each one would pay in the same amount for 26 weeks, a draw would take place and every week one of the members would have the weeks money to spend. It seemed to work and I think that there is still at least one shop in Hull that still does it. Retail credit was very restricted and this was a way around it. I found this. Dewhursts, Endyke Lane. "Dewhurst's was the nearest shop that compares to Boyes... Do you remember the vacuum tube money system they had in the store? When you made a purchase they put your money in a little tube shaped canister, then fired it through tubular piping at high speed and it went whizzing through the store, up walls and along the ceiling, finally ending up in the cash office some distance away. After a minute or so, your change and receipt was returned to you by the same canister and the loud noise 'KERR-CHUNK' as it hit the buffers." This is Your Mail website
My mum used to run what she called a 'didleum'. It was basically a christmas savings thing. People would pay in so much a week then at christmas they'd get it all back with a share of whatever interest had accrued. I always wondered about the name though, I would have spelt it 'diddlum'. Anyone know where it comes from?
Probably cos so many got fiddled out of their money?? Is Dewhursts on Endike part of the Dewhursts factory that used to be on Sutton Fields? They used to make clothes for M&S? Do you remember Dewhirst as a butchers TOM or anyone else?
I don't remember the correct spelling, Dewhurst or Dewhirst but I seem to recall a bakers shop on Hessle Road by that name, it was close to Woolworths and not far from the Boulevard as I remember. They made great fruit pies and after we moved to Co. Durham, I always took pies home after my visits to Hull. This would have been from about 1963 to 1970. I think there was also a butcher shop by that name but they may have been in Darlington. Ones memory becomes a bastard as one ages. Memo to young people ... don't grow old!
