If they had a tongue in cheek,smiley I would have used it.Though it is true people who had less than what people take for granted nowadays, and what a lot consider they should have as of right, were more content.
It's a shame the Queens isn't cared for these days, Castro. It's a lovely building but the owners (Marstons) don't seem interested. Maybe one reason is it's a listed building and they were refused permission to serve food. It's Hull City council though, so no surprises there. The beers **** aswell.
Always used to go to Botanic or Avenues. My local is a Marstons. That brewery has a funny attitude. A couple have moved in and are doing their best to try and attract customers back as loads have gone due to the constant changes over the last few years. They wanted to put a John Smiths pump in as the younger ones are happy with any crap lager but older ones don't like their bitters. Blank refusal. But on holiday earlier this year in Dorset and later on in the New Forest went in gastropubs owned by them with a John Smiths pump on. Daft thing is people would go in my local if it was in but no one down there appeared to be drinking it.
Marstons near us has just changed hands, a local restaurateur has bought it off them. We're booked in for Xmas Eve, his other place is top nosh. Hopefully this new place will be too. Boring bit of info, free for you all.
No, we were too busy huddling in the corner of a room so we didn't fall down the hole. But then again: "From the late 1850s, the availability of food and the ability of even the poorest to pay for it generally improved. The 1920s and 30s were an exception to this. There was no famine, yet mass unemployment became a problem in several parts of the UK. While the New Poor Law had been relaxed, workhouses were still in existence, and without a well-paying job, it was often difficult for working-class people to feed themselves and their families. The UK saw a number of hunger marches in the 1920s and 30s, with the biggest being the National Hunger March 1932 and perhaps the most famous being the Jarrow crusade. From the outbreak of World War II, unemployment swiftly vanished, and remained very low in the UK for decades afterwards." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_Kingdom#19th_and_20th_century Granted there didn't seem to be actual starvation
It was the penthouse suite in Homethorpe Flats till we were cruelly evicted. I was thinking of becoming Major General Chazz Nuttall but it was time to move on. Sent you a pm will tell you and only you due to paparazzi
Bloody 'ell John...another distant memory of my childhood you've resurrected ! I'm assuming you mean the tape dump on the Hull side of Hessle Haven, as opposed to the Ferry Boat Inn side, which was on the west side. As 11/12 or 13 year olds, my mate & I used to go there (bloody) early every Sunday morning (weather permitting) to pick mushrooms (monsters they were), which we sold for a few pence a pound to a local merchant in Hessle (who flogged fruit & veg from his cart & horse around the village). After that early morning adventure, we bicycled up to Hessle golf course and caddied for 3 brothers who were butchers. Miserable golf club wouldn't let us kids into the club-house after the round, so one or other of the brothers would make sure we got an orange juice brought to us outside. Coincidentally, the mate mentioned above (who lived on Hull Road, Hessle, just next to the place I worked in the summer a few years later (aged 16/17), called "Hull (Hessle ?) Box Company", which made wooden crates for the fish docks), is visiting us next Tuesday. He still lives in Hull - only old schoolmate who has been there all his life. I'll need to ask him what the name of the butcher brothers was - totally forgot.
We get around: Saltburn St Arborfield Bordon Dortmund Lincoln Paderborn Windsor Bordon Paderborn Sennelager Newcastle Tynemouth Washington My guess is there will be some really good ones to come.
That's the one we went there to get tape to put on our bikes. I bought my first set of second hand golf clubs from Hessle GC, the pro was John Easey at the time.
We used to bike there on summer evenings, to get tape for our bikes - must've been mid/late '50s. But the tape dump was in the tip/quarry at Little Switz. Smith & Nephew's?
