To Hull And Back is a sitcom pilot from BBC New Comedy Award 2012 winner Lucy Beaumont. Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a living doing car boot sales at the weekend - except they don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get rid of any of their junk. As their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped, and dreams of moving to London to meet her dad and become a famous actress. But will this dream come true? Written by Lucy Beaumont (who plays Sophie) and starring Maureen Lipman, who plays her mum. Radio 4 - Wed 14th Oct - 6.30pm.
Sounds like Lucy Beaumonts earlier life in Hull when she lived with her mother, Jill Adams. BBC RH said this morning that 'Sofie lives with her mother in Hessle......'
She was born in Hull and went to school at Newland Girls School on Cott Road, her dad owned a tailors where the entrance to Prinny Quay is now (her sister used to live next door to me). All three of the main characters, Lucy Beaumont, Maureen Lipman and Kerrie Marsh, are from Hull.
Is that the Gill Adams whose major concern when the KC was built was a little old lady who went to Hull Fair every year and had a pattie and chips. Would she still be able to get her pattie and chips. (Of course to rveryone's relief the KC did not put an endvto pattievand chips purchasing at Hull Fair). Shecalso wrote an article after the QPR game saying she was ashamed of Hull becsuse of fans chanting "not enough died". QPR fans contacted the News Of The World, which had originally stated this and from where she had obviously picked it up from, to state this was not true. which didn't stop hervrepeating it a few weeks later. Though, in balance, she did post about seeing FC and Rovers fans brawling on Princes Avenue after a derby and one getting such a kicking he was taken away in an ambulance. Surprisingly (sarcasm alert) it quickly disappeared, and even more surprisingly (sarcasm alert) no mention of the incident appeared in the HDM or on RH.
She came in the Botanic a couple of times in the 70s when i was in there. Didn't speak to her myself but she appeared pleasant with no airs and graces about her.
Another famous Hullite - John Alderton. My Mum and Dad used to own the shop his parents owned, his sister lived just up the road.
My Mum babysat for two Alderton kids when he was back in the area visiting his Sister. Very down to earth people.
My Dad was in the same class as Maureen Lipman and claimed he was on the desk next to her. But as he went to Kingston High, I think this must have been Primary School in the 1950s.
That would be Maurice Lipman, I think my dad worked for him for a bit when he was a lad (my dad that is) and he would never hear a bad word said of jewish folk since.
It was indeed, or 'Mori Lipman' as he was affectionately known, he was a very popular bloke. He used to have all Maureen's press clippings up on the shop wall.
My mum worked with John Alderton at Hammonds for a while just before he made his TV breakthrough, sometime in the early 1960s. She always spoke very fondly of him, as did all of her friends from that time. Apparently he was a very nice young chap.
Yes. Ms Adams also lived above Paulines Gift shop on Princess Avenue until she moved to Nottingham a few years ago.
