Off Topic The Rank Hovis building bites the dust...

That all does look rather lovely. It would be awesome to think a city like Hull could appeal to that industry and grow in that area too.

Small steps, and these ones are brilliant.

 

That's why they have so many crystal balls on the table.

 

Splendid

 

Love this picture in today's hull daily fail
"picture of the day" appologies if it's been
posted previously just looks like a giant
Has took a dirty great bite out of it...

 

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Newland Ave a fair few years ago.

 

Grafton Street corner Jackson's, with the Monica Cinema (with the fancy front).

 

Is that a tram or trolley in the distance?

 

I think those are trams, even though I am getting on a bit it is before my time.

 

Yes in deed, I used to go most Saturday morning with my Grandpa and Grandma shopping down Newland Ave.

 

Thanks John. Before my time as well. Believe the trams were replaced in the late '30's by trolleys.I used the No. 62 trolley down Newland Ave. for 4 years to get to Marist College on Cott. Road. Replaced by buses in Nov. 1963 just after I left the school.

 

Sounds as if we are about the same age I left in 63, I used to like the old trolley buses.

 

I'd guess at a trolley because of the overhead cables and the lack of rails in the road, but like everyone else is claiming (!), it's before my time.

 

I initially thought that but having seen a later photo of trolleys in Newland Ave the overhead cable configuration is totally different with two sets of cables to allow two trolleys to pass. The photo only shows one set.Could be wrong but if you look closely at the foreground of the photo there are faint white parallel lines which may be tram rails.

 

The posts certainly have a double power lines as the trolleys required and the two wires can be seen in the foreground. But the vehicle in the distance only has one trolley pole which suggests is is a tram and the vehicle certainly looks like a tram but also suggests the photograph was taken around the change over from trams to trolleys.

 

It's deffo a tram, it has the tram profile/silhouette. And the later trolleys did have two cables.

 

The pole/s on the right carry two cables as there are no poles on the left.