Billboard to the left of pic advertises trains to BP. Proper dock before Northpoint on stilts got plonked in there.
Yeah, and my apologies, my memory playing me up again, it was the Lancella that got the Silver Cod in 56 Skipper Turner.
My father was in charge of repairs for one of the fishing fleets but can't remember which. After repairing one of the boats he went on trials and was supposed to be dropped off at Bridlington. The skipper wanted to make up time and dropped him off at Aberdeen in the early morning so taxi back to Hull. Not happy.!!!
From 1949-1956 a No. 45 morning bus from Preston Rd dropped me off at a stop just beyond the Newsagent shown there. I then hared off to catch a No.69 trolley which left from the side of the City Hall heading down Carr St and Anlaby Rd for the Boulevard and Riley High School. Was often late meaning a spell of detention!
If it was Marr who owned the Thornella I knew all the engineers there at that time. That happened sometimes going out on trials after repair or a refit and ending up in Aberdeen rather than Brid.
If you look carefully in Issie Lipmans window it says 'Closing Down Sale' which it finally did about 40 years later.
On Hull-The good old days there's an undated photo of the building with closing down sale "due to demolition." Was the building demolished?
Just checked and it is a listed building(1994). Perhaps this stopped the demolition? "TA0928NE QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE 680-1/22/319 (South side) Monument Buildings GV II Offices, now shops. 1902-08. By the North Eastern Railway Architects Dept. Ashlar with granite and ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roof with a coped gable stack. Jacobean Revival style. Ground floor cornice, dentillated main cornice, coped parapet with pedestals topped with urns. Single coped gable. Windows are stone mullioned and transomed casements. Those to the first floor have arched transoms, those to the second floor have round-headed lights. 3 storeys plus attics; 6 window range. Symmetrical 5 window section, to right, has a central square bay window with a 3-light window on each floor and a cartouche between the floors. Above, a shaped gable containing a cartouche and topped with a finial. On either side, a plain square bay window with a 3-light window on each floor. Beyond, a larger projecting bay with canted 2-storey bay window with a cartouche between floors. Above, a gable containing a round window with 2 keystones and drapery, fronted by a canted balustrade. The gable is topped with a stilted segmental pediment. To left, a smaller square bay window with a 2-light window on each floor. Ground floor has a central granite doorcase with rusticated Ionic pilasters and broken segmental pediment containing a cartouche with datestone. Moulded round-arched doorway with console keystone and fanlight in the form of a Diocletian window. To left, 3 segment-headed shop front openings with keystones, separated by granite pilasters. To right, 2 similar openings. Left return has at the angle a 3-storey turret topped with a spire and lead finial. 3-light window on each of the upper floors and a round-arched doorway with keystone and imposts on the ground floor. To left, a 3-light window on the upper floors, the first floor one blocked, and on the ground floor a round-arched opening with leaded fanlight".
