Liverpools slightly biased supporters

I used to go to Both and let's just leave it in the 80s.
I didn't even know there where Rugby clubs in Hull till I was 12 so that's how popular it was in the 70s.
Move on nothing new here !

 

Until pre-season starts I don't want to have the slightest idea what it says in the HDM! Eggchasing, pathetic top 10's and dayly blogs on Melissa Ede, no ta!

 

Her chest was hurting apparently

 

This is not true.

Some of the most banal, embarrassing and squalid local tales make the national press who fill up their pages with provincial ****housery.

The HDM has a vested interest in carrying these trashy tales because they titillate bored readers elsewhere who get off on poverty porn from distant towns.

 

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I'm alright

I'm going to leave this here so only those in the know, know.

Moonlight Tandoori on Cott rerd, do the mostest Vindaloo in the multiverse.

On a weekend they do anyway.

 

Enjoy !

 

in the 70s we used to go to see hull cos the bar was open on sunday afternoons.
went to a few away games for the same reason..
the bitter was tetley piss and served in plastic pint pots

 

Really relieved that the powers that be are going to see sense and do the right thing on this one.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/spor...eir-points-over-to-next-season-20190513185544






What?

 

I read ( maybe dreamt) that Liverpool waved the white flag of surrender during the blitz of WW2 ? It was during the tit for tat bombings and Liverpool as a city asked for it to cease as they were getting a battering ?
No other British city asked for the same compensation.

 

Plymouth folk headed for the hills at the height of their blitz.

 

They had a programme devoted to them in the BBC series about the Blitz along with London, Coventry and elsewhere but shamefully Hull was once again ignored. The most people killed in the British Isles in a single raid outside of London was Belfast with 50,000 made homeless.

To be fair Liverpool doesn’t go on about it as much as some other places who blame all sorts of things all these years later on bombing raids 75 years ago.

 

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If you read about it the Government was worried about morale in Hull as people were heading out of the city and sleeping in fields. That was due not to heavy bombing raids but bombers using the Humber to navigate and unloading bombs which hadn’t been dropped in raids elsewhere in the general vicinity of Hull. This led to lack of sleep and the worry something might happen day after day.
To put things in context it is estimated 4,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Hull between 1939 and 1945.
If you went to that friendly in .Braunschweig, a place that was slightly smaller than Hull at the beginning of WW2, it had along with Duisburg, 10,000 tons of bombs dropped on it in 24 hours in 1944, the most bombs dropped by on anywhere in 24 hours during whole of the war.. There were over 40 other raids on it as well. 90 % of the centre was destroyed, not damaged, destroyed. They declared rebuilding complete in 1963.

 

The BBC missed Coventry out as well. Lack of celebrities. Didn’t Hull have someone who got to the last 24 of a talent competition or something. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bb...C-Blitz-show-due-to-lack-of-local-celebs.html Even worse, for some, Norwich had a programme devoted to them.

At the end of the war there was a series of booklets issued about various aspects of the war. I found them among my dads stuff when he died. One of them was about bombing raids. It was by one of Churchill’s advisers, may have been Brendan Bracken (will have to try and dig it out). He said that although everyone knew about Coventry he would give the plaudits to Hull which was more badly damaged than any other city and continued to have raids on it long after most other cities. He also mentioned that Hull residents were rightly aggrieved at how the city wasn’t mentioned and that the deliberately vague descriptions made people unaware of its suffering compared to other places.

 

True, Coventry and Liverpool were blitzed but over a shorter time, Hull was bombed throughout the War, also I've heard a few stories of German fighters coming low and straffing the streets of Hull which was probably out of range in Liverpool. We were also in range of V1's later in the war with one coming down off Willerby Road. All adding more terror than a 6 to 12 month blitz.

 

Yes a lot of European Cities got out the original plans and just rebuilt !
Why did Britain still have bomb sites in the 70s?

 

The economy. Major industrial sectors started losing contracts to other more "progressive" & dynamic nations. We were heavily in debt to the Yanks, and I hate to say it, jaded after the pressure of WW2 for much longer than possibly we should have been. Hull itself was heavily reliant on a small spectrum of industry - hence the tax base was limited. Another aspect was possibly self interest at the local government level. The federal government were somewhat slow in recognizing the needs of certain places up North.
I'm obviously straying into non permitted territory here, so should cease.