Good list there CT. Would add the only comedy half hour that featured a regular football segment. The 'Al Read Show' which had a critical, know-all, crowd fan shouting at his team. Also 'Much Binding in the Marsh'. Dick Barton was a real 'street clearer' as all games stopped for the 6-45 pm start and generally kids weren't allowed back out after it finished. Also favourites of mine Journey into Space, Paul Temple, and The Man in Black.
Ah, I knew a few people down there. Linda Stone for example, and Susan Pinnock. There was a family called Burgoyne too. You'll remember the shops round the corner on Cambridge Road? Mrs Needler's newsagents? Fish and chips? There was a laundry / dry cleaners too that became my foster father's electrical shop. There was a cinder track across to Boothferry Road, but that lad is now completely built up I'm afraid.
Whoa! I don't suppose you remember Leslie Holmes do you? She was a little older than me and lived next door or next door but one. We were naughty in our shed. I think her Dad was a trawlerman. Perhaps you also remember Pip Wood who lived across the tenfoot. He broke his leg. I remember vividly the rag and bone man in the tenfoot ... I used to mimic his shouting, something like raaaaaaag bon! The retiring headmaster was probably Mr Clark, his wife taught me at first year infants, 1957. Ice slides, yeah, we used to march round the playground doing "all join on" before making a slide. And we did "all join on" shouting "any-body-in-the-road-gets-a-good- KICK". And then there was that awful Dancing Festival every year on the lawn with the French windows all opened up. And the school always smelled of furniture polish after the holidays. And the caretaker was Mr Bielby, who stoked the boiler. Mrs Russell played the piano, and there was a woman who played the cello - an alarming sight when she took her seat. I sang in the choir so she was just above my head. I can also name quite a few children from my class at Penshurst. Graham Branton (his Dad ran Kingburn Athletic), Graham Paddision, Clive Sibborn, David Liversedge, Berwyn Williams, John Jolliffe, Paul Welton, Jimmy Barnes, Tony Hanson, John Lewis, Linda Beaumont, Gail Beddington, Yvonne Colley, Linda Stone, Susan Pinnock (I thought she was nice), Colleen Whur (she was nice too). I couldn't help laughing when the lasses tucked their skirts into their knickers to do high jumping during PE.
During bombing raids an Anti Aircraft gun was often positioned at the top of the Marfleet railway bridge, which was almost opposite my upstairs bedroom window. I used to make an excuse to leave the garden air raid shelter and race upstairs to watch the gun firing before being called back into the shelter. Back on topic..... X- Ray machines in shoe shops which enabled the position of the feet in the shoe to be viewed.
Some great memories shared in those recent posts. I'd be interested to hear accounts of the social scene for young adults in those pre-disco and Kareoke days.
There was a very fashionable coffee bar at The Plaza - that was the pictures in Hessle (I detest the word cinema, it is so pretentious). It was done out in pastel shades of green, yellow and pink, and there was a jukebox that played Doris Day (Move Over Darling) and Eddie Cochran (Three Steps to Heaven). There were fluorescent lights, which in those days were avant-garde. Mind you, I hardly got near the coffee bar. I was restricted to Saturday mornings at the pictures watching Zorro or Laurel and Hardy. Back then dance halls were popular. The Beverley Regal was infamous for the fighting, and it took the bouncer Sam Evans all his strength to sort some of the youths out. Locarno in Hull was similar, but I don't recall a dance hall in Hessle. I still like Doris Day ...
I don't suppose you know my brother Graham Carter. He would be there from 1947 and then went to Hessle High. On the first day that he started at Penshurst, he came home at play-time thinking that was it!! My mother was looking out of the bedroom window at the back and she saw him heading home, so she went to meet him. Was there a teacher called Miss or Mrs. Sibborn? I seem to recognise the name Susan Pinnock, but none of the others. My era would be Geoffrey Tong, Gordon Pashby, Margaret and Eric Simmonds, Sylvia , Peter and Charles Davison, Eric Dibnah and his sister, whose name I can't remember, Margaret Harrison and Diana Clifford.
They occasionally had dances on Sat nights in the hall just round the corner from the cop shop near the Weir. The barrow-lads used to come up from Hull docks & created havoc...fights every time and the cops never made an appearance ! Early sixties they were - eventually stopped 'em cos neighbours complained.
I was a regular at Marist disco (Fat Wallys). The snowball dance at the end used to be quite interesting . Also Wyke disco. I quite liked a disco or two
Yes that was the Hessle Town Hall, with the South Lane Methodist Church opposite. Knocked down now!! At one time was used for selling and servicing lawnmowers! My wedding was at that church, officiated by the Rev. Charlton in 1959 and the reception was at the Town Hall. I also used to go to the Plaza on Saturday mornings and remember seeing the 3 stooges.
Cops. That's something else we never see any more. But neighbours to the hall? In that part of Hessle they would all be Chief Constables. Mind you, not a patch on Cave Road in Brough or Woodgates Lane. Hey, there's a thing, we don't see any more people openly advertising for domestic staff such as "woman for plain cooking" or "married couple to live in, would suit a retired serviceman", and neither do married women style themselves Mrs (and then their husband's names). How self-erasing can it get? Mrs James Collins?
That's right...no more "Evening All" coppers on the beat. Jack Warner in "Dixon of Dock Green". They're all "Z-Cars" these days, if you're lucky !. Used to look forward to those programs. Sorry, don't remember Leslie Holmes I'm afraid. From what you're saying Bunkers, I missed out ! Nudge,nudge, , ! btw...your mimicry of the rag & bone man is perfect....just how I remember it too.
I think they were all there when I was a pupil. Good memories indeed. The playing field seemed enormous - Hessle "Recker" even more so. Cricket using tree stumps as wickets. Supporting Hessle Old Boys or Kingburn Athletic on Saturday afternoons when City were away. Hessle RUFC used to get massive crowds there I recall - Park Ave and Bev Road used to be packed with cars those afternoons. Watching Hessle CC in the summer was always a treat too.
Yeh, those Saturday morning matinees at the Plaza - flitting from the 3d seats to the 10d seats when the lights went out was quite a scramble - everybody in the cheap seats did it & the management didn't care one bit. "Flash Gordon" episodes. Must have been that old bugger from Northolme Road who used to wear that long mac !!
Not at all. It was just a very good programme. Eddie gave as good as he got.... sometimes. You shall be hearing from my legal team. You slanderer.
Ah yes. I wasn't quite sure it was the Town Hall, for some reason I thought maybe the hall next to the lovely historic Church opposite Northgate, just off the Square, might have been the TH, but it was in fact the Church Hall. They used to have a library above the Church Hall (or was it the Towwn Hall ?), and a Cubs, Boy Scouts & Girl Guides troup in a building at the back of the Church Hall. I was a member of the cubs for a couple of years, and we got to use the grounds of the Vicarage for games, exercises etc etc. That was also a classic building, but last time I was in Hessle it seems to have been converted into flats & most of the vicarage grounds have been built on. Shame really, but that's progress for you..not.
Remember the first concert by an American Band, Stan Kenton, playing after the lifting of the embargo. Ted Heath band went to America in exchange. Earlier, Saturday night dances at the City Hall, then the Locarno opened when you had to be a member or their Club to get an alcoholic drink. Spencer's Arms across the way. Mentioned in a song Home in Passadena performed by the band. Welwyn Park Avenue/Road/drive that used to be the edge of Hull and the large concrete container to hold water in case of fires during the war. Ten foots between backs of houses where Ringtons and the milk man in their horse and carts used to go. Incidentally I saw they were now gated at the entrances from the street when recently I took an "old memory" drive down to see our old house. Smiths crisps with the little twist blue packet of salt inside.
Remember the discos on the wooden hut behind Good Fellowship in the early 70's - the floor nearly gave way when bouncing to Slade and the DJ had to tell everyone to calm down as the records kept jumping on his deck.
