O/T - Nostalgia

Any old 'uns remember any of these?

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And.....anyone else a member?

 

Nostalgia . . . It isn't what it used to be

 

Here's another one - from 'Rockies' in East Park. I remember the Zanzibar Gates being in this spot.

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[EDIT: I just noticed this is called 'the Khyber Pass Folly]

 

Wasn't there a small pond, on the right? That's if the wall on the left foreground is the wall at the base of this:

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Do you mean the pond down the windy path past where the budgies used to be?

 

Bruce had a hand in building those walls. Give Neil Hudgell a call. Where there's blame there's a claim.

 

No, Charlesworth - there was a little pond, onthe right as you look at it.

There was one called 'Lily Pond', off to the right. Down near where you started the spiral up 'Monkey Puzzle'.........



[EDIT: we used to catch newts in Lily Pond]

 

The budgies on sunken path?

 

haha thats where me and my mates used to go and get stoned when we twagged off school ah the good days

 

That turret was moved to where Viccy Dock estate is. We welded all the railings that surrounded it. Don't know if it's still there though.

 

I think it was from the Citadel

 

I'm not a massive Madonna fan but I thought of this song the instant I saw this photo.

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This used to be my playground,
This used to be my childhood dream.
This used to be the place I ran to,
Whenever I was in need
Of a friend.

Why did it have to end?
And why do they always say

Don't look back?
Keep your head held high
Don't ask them why

Because life is short
And before you know
You're feeling old,
And your heart is breaking
Don't hold on to the past.
Well that's too much to ask.

 

It was indeed and always smelled of wee wee and pooh...

 

As I recall it, to get up to the floor inside it, you had to walk up a stepped single brick wall. No support.

You had to be desperate for a crap. Or just, as possibly in your case, weird....

 

I went to the Royalty Cinema on Southcoates Lane in my ABC Minor days. From 1945 until about 1947 when I started playing Football/Cricket for school on a Saturday morning. Kept my badge until I left the UK.

Also joined a club called the Lions in those days (through buying a publication called The Lion?). Wore both the Minors badge and the Lions badge on my lapel. Memory is very hazy on the Lions Club.

Anyone else remember this?

 

Guilty as charged ... but in mitigation I also had a sensitive nose!

 

The more I see of these pictures of Hull from days gone by the more I despair of the places we have lost, there has been some cracking pictures on these threads so keep them coming as they stir the old memory cells into action. Incidentally the HDM had a feature the other day about some guy who gets into our derelict buildings of today and takes pictures of what its like inside now. It featured the Carlton picture house, Rank/Hovis mill and inevitably the Lord Line building, fascinating stuff.