Right, if they've worked, the first one shows the park, with NHE at the bottom, and Parkstone Rd to the right. The second should be a closer view of the buildings on the park. It's from some point during the war, probably nearer the end.
Anyone any ideas about the buildings in the pictures? I can't see any buildings near Emmott, so I wonder if the stuff in th park is the POW camp?
At the top right of the picture, where the road narrows to single track, there's a complex on the right which is where I remember the concrete bases where. Also remember two bomb craters in the field north of Parkstone Road, which you can see on the first picture. One was deeper than the other and always filled with water, very dangerous in winter as we tried to skate on it when icy.
You can also see on this picture the Beverley and Skidby drain which ran along the west side of Beverley High Road, past the end of Endike School's eastern edge (Barmy drain was at the western edge, also in picture) and then down Oak Road, past Northumberland Avenue School/Almshouse through to Fountain Road and turned sharp left (North) after crossing the road to join the River Hull. Filled in some time in the 60's I think.
The road up the middle is Beverley High Rd, just north of Greenwood, South of Tesco. The bit toward the centre is what is now Princess Elizabeth bowling greens, but looks to have buildings on. It's those buildings I'm curious about.
I'd not noticed them, I'd been looking further south. There's certainly something there, so it confirms what you recalled. I wonder if the bigger bit on the park was army, as the balloons were nearer Sutton Rd bridge I believe. It's a bit much bombing near a pow camp.
There's a site about all the bombs dropped on Hull which suggests, like a lot of those dropped, pilots where told just to drop them anywhere if primary target missed or not visible and/or on the way back from another town/target.
Aye, I looked at some of the newer properties built in a street, and compared them to the bomb map and the aerial images and could date the hole on the picture, sad sod that I am.
Brings back a lot of memories lived down 38th Ave for years. I went to 5th Ave infants in the 60's, it was an old school then, before going to Shaw Park when it opened. Yet 5th Ave school out lived most of the new schools on OPE. Spent a lot of my teens in the Spotted Dog pub and Inglemire club.
