I think in hull the council and the press like to keep the public down and play to the idiots. So many good people come off council estates and stay in them. Instead of talking it up it was allowed to be talked down. It used to be they moved them off ezzle rd where they were happy, as you say no inside toilets etc etc, and gave them a house with heating inside bathrooms etc etc And so much green space to play in.
Spot on re. the council & press - as kids my generation loved playing in bomb damaged and derelict houses and warehouses around Drypool and Old Town but, all that green space - that was something else, grass tracking on my Norman Nippy and ditch jumping with my brothers, a paradise full of simple pleasures.
Would agree with that. I grew up on North Hull Estate, went to senior school on Orchard (where lots of my family lived - moved there from Hessle Road) and played rugby for Bransholme for years. I met so many good, good people who many would judge by appearances or silly preconceptions, and yet were and are some of the best people you could wish to be associated with. And our houses on NHE - on 17th and 6th - were brilliant. Massive gardens, spacious, room for drives/garages if you wanted. My mum and dad still live on NHE, and my Londoner (sob) wife and kids feel so at home there. Growing up next to Fifth Ave School fields was a just wonderful. There was a gang of between 10 or 20 local kids playing football, rugby, cricket, block, realio or whatever every weekend or holiday, and the oldest ones made sure the younger ones were OK. I don't think it's rose-tinted glasses when I say I wouldn't swap that for anything.
contempt of court.a night or two in the clink. you might get the option to apologise first though, unless your outburst is seen as particularly obnoxious.
I've an arial photo somewhere that I'll try to post some time. It was taken during the war, and it shows some sort of buildings in Princess Elizabeth playing fields, that look like a military camp. They're laid out along 'roads' that look very similar to how the park was set up for years, and the entrances seem to be where the existing roads to the park from the estate are. Anyone any idea what it was? I know there was an Italian POW camp round there, but it was further north and on the opposite side of Bev Rd.
a workmate/ pal of mine has found a website with maps of hull etc from years gone by and they are free up to a certain amount of zoom. they might show something? ill have to remember tomorrow to get a link off him https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/509500/429500/13/101329 if that link works it shpws the layout of the camp??? a few years later its just outlines of the roads. buildings all gone. loads of maps from 1850 onwards only at a certain zoom. a bit tricky to suss out but once you have you can actually go back in time. type in kingston upon hull in the search then in the available maps window is a list of maps. they only appear at a certain zoom so its a bit scatty.
There are a number of old maps that have been digitised and put on the Council website. https://maps.hull.gov.uk/myhull.aspx
