I was born and lived on tadman st, Hessle road for 12 years, it's just a football kick away from the fish docks. I was outside my front door 10 seconds before the top of smith and nephews blew up....as my mum closed the front door there was a bloody Big Bang, glass was everywhere, in the sun they looked like diamonds covering the street. My next door neighbours were the Beaumonts, Ricky went on to box....
Redbourne Street and Boulevard for me 'til I was 18, went to school at Constable Street and Kingston High. Used to watch Hull FC early on 'cos you could sneak in at half time, switched to footie in the mid-sixties so I witnessed the Waggy and Chillo days.
My cousin boxed with Ricky, I think he started off at Kingston ABC. I tried it once but it was far too painful!
In the sixties myself and my pal watched City one week and Hull FC the following week. We would bike from Anlaby and put our bikes at his aunties house which was the first house on the right down the Boulevard from Anlaby Road end.
1967 , The year of My Addition to U'll. Upon return from Hedon Rd Maternity. We were settled in Stepney Lane off Bev Rd. 6 months later Our family were on the £10 passage to Australia, until We returned in 1989. Been Ere since.
I can't remember what that end of Boulevard was like in the sixties, was it a bit posh? (by Boulevard standards). Some of the houses there now would have been very grand at one time.
I remember it was a large house, in fact we left the bikes in the hall way and there was more than enough room to pass them.
I spent the first two years of my life with my family in a flat on the Boulevard just round the corner from Queensgate Street. When I was two, we moved to Bacheler Street and I went to Constable Street school from 1955 to 58 when my dad died and I finished my schooling at a charity boarding school down south. In 1963, we left Hull for a village just outside Darlington. I emigrated to Canada in 1975. Plum, perhaps we were contemporaries at Cunny? Having just read all of this thread which i think started in 2012, I notice a lot of early posters don't seem to be around anymore.
Only Julian went to Ampleforth because he won a full music scholarship, I know because I sat next to him at St John Fisher until he left to go to Ampleforth and remember the whole affair about wether he would go or not. Also the rest of the family all went to The Marist or St Mary's so even though Catholic where comprehensive.
I was greatfield to in the 60's,dad used lord charles pub and bookie's next door he was on the trawlers. I remember the grocery van to.
You're a touch older than me TC, I started at Cunny in 1957. However my brother (not a poster on here) started there in 1954 so you may well have known each other.
He had two sons who went to Ampleforth. There were calls for his resignation when it came out.Typical hypocrisy, didn't want anyone else's kid gaining an advantage through going to a Grammar School but happy for his own kids having access to something the voters kids couldn' t.
We moved to Hull from Wakefield when I was six on New Year's Day 1962. We lived on Newland Ave till 1973 when we bought a house just past the roundabout on Cottingham Road although my parents continued running our shop till 1988. My early years were spent in the streets around Newland Ave and Pearson Park. I walked across the pond there in 1963 when it was iced over. We used to go fishing there. We didn't have rods or anything like that. We had some green pea sticks and some string. We only had a back yard but one of my friends had a small garden. We used to dig up worms, tie them to a piece of string, then tie the string the pea stick and dangle the worms in the water as bait. It work. We caught lots of sticklebacks that we brought home in jam jars to die the next day. I went to Sidmouth Street school and then the Grammar School in 1966. It was probably the best school in Hull but that's because it only took the highest achieving pupils. I ended up my career working with but not for Ofsted. Almost all of the lessons I had at HGS would be classed as inadequate now but it's different criteria.. They were probably regarded as good then. They can't have been that bad as I now earn a living writing grammar, punctuation, spelling and comprehension textbooks.
Hull Grammar did well in comparison with Grammar Schools in other cities who also took the brightest.. Something must have been right in those days as this is the only country in the developed world where numeracy and literacy levels are higher amongst 50-65 year olds than 18-30 year olds. Sorry, but after reading your last sentence can't resist pointing out 'then tie the string the pea stick...' and ' It work.'
What makes you think that wasn't deliberately ironic? Anyone who was intelligent enough to go to HGS would be capable of that kind of fishing.
Oh yes, I forgot, HGS didn't teach typing. I can't blame them for that. I can spell and write perfectly but my fingers are dyslexic.
I can't tell you the names because that would reveal my identity. I've had eleven published this year for one of the three biggest educational publishers in the country. You can get them all on Amazon. They are all aimed at pupils taking the Key Stage 1 and 2 tests in English. I do take picking me up on the inaccuracies in the right light and it is quite funny! I spent ages checking out the post before I put it up because I knew I would be a prime target! Proof reading skills, eh? My publisher pays someone to do that. You never see your own because you know what it is meant to say.
