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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.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
