I used to like Gainsborough fish restarant. Fish and chips bread and butter and cup of tea or orangeade.
Maybe I imagined it, but could swear an Arco Intersport just opened on Savile Street. A few doors down from the original shop. Same signage as before. Only passed it from a distance. A link to the original or trading on nostalgia?
Schonitzs bakery ,opposite Hull Cheese ,when I worked in City Centre ,being the gofer at the time early 70s,great sausage and baked beans rolls I know it is still going but when I was back a couple of years ago went into Dinsdales joke shop down Epworth Arcade.My old man knew George Dinsdale who is still alive I believe.His nephew runs it now and he was telling me that it is the only novelty shop left in Hull and the fact George had done well out of it, has quite a few vintage cars which he takes out for drives every so often. Both were keen City supporters
Spring Bank West at end of Calvert Lane roundabout - end of Priory Road - became Clifford Dunns - think it burnt down recentlyorwas demolished
Google: Picadish Hammonds Hull UK to get the following highly evocative article: Flashback: Saturdays were special in 1950s Hull | Hull Daily Mail Hull Daily Mail › uk › story Mar 30, 2013 - ALWAYS A MUST: Hammonds' third floor Picadish, with its stylish wave ceiling, was an essential place ...
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/flas...l-1950s-hull/story-18563556-detail/story.html looks like both Gordon Clarkes and Johnsons were school outfitters
Of course. What was the Gypsyville one was it Regis? I used to go to ABC minors on Saturday morning there.
I knew the bloke who baked the pies (in the original shop up near Wellstead St). I was born less then 100 yards away from the shop so Hydes pies were a staple diet for us. He reckoned the unique taste was partly down to a leaky oven flue.
My Grandma always used to love the shop it had at the side with the cards and the wool, bought all her knitting stuff there when she lived on Graham Ave.
Padgetts has been mentioned - I bought my first "proper" camera from there and when it developed a fault they loaned me a Reid - English copy of the Leica 3 but now often seen on eBay for £2,000 to £3,000. My camera was a Fed 3 costing about £10.00 at the time (and not much more now). OLM also mentioned the small chip shop near Springhead which eventually became Dukes - I'm struggling to remember the former owner's name. He was a big mate of Waggy when he lived just round the corner in Hazelbarrow Lane and my dad used to play dominoes with him, Chris Chilton, Waggy, Andy Davidson and Ian Butler. Chip shop man used to go to all the away games and used to always get me a programme.
And that is all it was, a field with a small equipment hut. So after playing a game of football on a pitch deep in mud, with leather boots with hard toe cap and a leather ball that soaked up water, you had to make your way home covered in mud.
I think OLM mentioned Transvaal on Spring Bank. I remember getting a purple shirt with black skulls on it (Spider's appropriate!). Also on Spring Bank: Mel Smith's Records (Indie label stuff mostly in the 1980s), the musical instrument shop near Polar Bear, with a left-handed guitar window. Others I miss: Syd Scarborough, Brown's bookshop & the original Asian Kitchen on Princes Ave. Also one I never went in, but which was quite prominent on Princes Ave, Gwenap.
Is Boyes still open? Used to get taken there for ice cream on a Saturday. Medios - my favourite restaurant Fletchers - did the best saveloys Grandways/Jacksons - my cousin married into the family that owned it in the 80's, their name escapes me. Male Ego - used to go there for a "cooler" hair cut, after years of my Dad forcing me to get a short back and sides from Dave in the Bransholme Centre
From Inglemire Lane to Marfleet for me YT but didn't you live at Paul for a period when you attended Riley? Remember you saying you traveled to school on an E Yorks (EYMS?) bus.
