Grew up on 21st then 5th ave. would like to reminisce with happy memories, but glad I got away from the place to be honest. Seen there is an Iceland (the peter Andre sort) where taxi place/garage used to be next to endike pub. The run of shops literally have about 7 takeaways and 2/3 slot machine places.....grim!!!!
There was an American Army base in the area during WW2. They actually paid for and built the Community Centre on 41st Ave ? which is still in daily use today. I heard from an old fella that there were riots in either the pub or club which stood where Cavalier Club was ( now Heron Frozen Foods) when the Yanks first arrived in North Hull. A gang of coloured Americans were involved in a riot in the club. It was the first time many of the locals had seen a 'coloured' man, according to the old fella telling the story, of course women were involved and it was quite a serious incident at the time. I believe the Yanks were based in the Thwaite Hall, which is now a residential part of Hull University. Thwaite Hall is only a ten minute walk from deepest North Hull. Another snippet from the same old fella was that originally York Road was built as wide as it is because Hull council expected the road to carry onto Beverley and eventually York but something happened to shelve the idea. Probably the same department who pulled the plug on the fly over idea from Snuff Mill Lane to priory road to by pass Cottingham. York Road used to come to a sudden stop in the middle of open country side before Orchard Park Road was built in the 60's. Hall Road was nothing more then a dirt track on the stretch from North Hull to Beverley Road right up to the early 60's. Now Tesco sits on the junction but in those days it was a track used mainly by grazing cows from Alan Moores Dairy Farm which was on the opposite side of Beverley Road and the cows were led across the main road from the fields to the farm for milking and back again. Imagine that now.
It has always been hard for me to look back at my families life on North Hull. What I accepted as normal life, was quite a tough upbringing. I cannot help but change the way I write this. Me Mam and Dad had reasonably good jobs, me Mam with school dinners and me Dad on the railway. They worked hard and we had a relatively good life, compared to many. The tough part for me was on the avenues and not in our house. Me Dad became involved in the HAT and it showed me that he was capable of dealing with complex situations with ease and total confidence. The HAT ended up spending 158m and local people from the estate proved their worth in its running.
Cavalier club is now Herons Frozen Foods. Endike pub kept opening and closing but now it's closed and insuring converted into a Premier off license, fish and chip shop and some flats. The car garage had also gone and is now Iceland. Not keen on the new Endike school building either. The fifth avenue building has also gone. It's all change.
Yeah those four have gone - as has Artic Ranger. Leaves Rampant Horse, Lord Nelson, Pilot, Pint and Pot and Cross Keys. Crazy that half of the pubs have gone. Greenwood became a Farmfoods and Orchard is fenced off empty land.
My uncle used to have a bike shop on Endike Lane near Endike club, haven't been down there is donkeys years, I guess it will no longer be there.
Could well be that Mel, I think at the time when he bought the business it was call Richardson's but that was in the sixties.
I grew up on Endike lane and then 24th Ave and have many happy memories, there is a group on Facebook called "North Hull Estate: The Old Years" if anyone is interested https://www.facebook.com/groups/1376377499353124/
Stumbled across this about north hull comm. It does not really shed any light on who funded it overall, only about bits and extensions. But it doesn't mention Yanks or Canadians. Interesting bit about women and kids using hand carts to move bomb damage rubble to use for the foundations. It mentions Douglas Revell though. There's a name from the past. https://m.facebook.com/mike.worsey/albums/oa.1419942738329933/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDM1ODQ0NDEyMzpWSzoxNDE5OTQyNzMxNjYzMjY3/?photo_id=958191714202768&mds=/photos/viewer/?photoset_token=oa.1419942738329933&ei=UzpfSTEwMDAwMDM1ODQ0NDEyMzpWSzoxNDE5OTQyNzMxNjYzMjY3&photo=958191714202768&profileid=100000113726436&source=48&refid=18&cached_data=false&ftid=u_6u_0&mdf=1
There was an Italian prisoner of war camp on the other side of Beverley Road opposite PEPF , remember the concrete bases for the huts when lived in Parkstone Road (50's to 80's) and that was the last street in Hull going north.
You'll know my mate who lives down Parkstone Rd then. He still lives n the house he was born in in 64. Got a doggy nickname.
Aye thats him. Not seen him for years and went to a wedding last Saturday and he was there. Had a great night talking about the old times. George is in Donny now.
