Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

I remember being in Driffield some years ago(1990's-Early 2000) and someone was selling tobacco(Golden Virginia) and cigs in the Rose&Crown,really cheap.I used to get it up here at the time but this deal was much cheaper,half the price!!!

This stuff had been washed up on the beach nearby in huge waterproof bundles,obviously the smuggler has sunk or been nobbled and ditched it.Bone dry it was,tested a pouch before I bought a bootload

 

Mad isn't it. Impossible to cover every mile of coast line. There is some great stuff on Robin hoods Bay and what went on there in decades gone by.

 

Years ago a lot of heroin used to get flown over to the northern Cambridgeshire area from Holland in a small plane
Probably still is

 

Maybe they were just cheeky scamps back in the day Jim while now it’s Armageddon

 

I think in the past there was an innocence to it in the sense that the money was kept within smaller circles and anyone buying it was using themselves.
Certainly in the case of drugs now this stuff is being mixed with god knows what and literally destroying peoples lives and their families/communities.

 

Not sure how old you are but do you remember when people started going over to France and bringing back booze and flogging it on as it was extortionate in this country?

 

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Yeah I remember. Those stubby bottles were crap but at that price it was worth drinking at garden parties!!

 

I don't suppose there was a cove not used back in the day to bring in various contraband but I see it as less harmless than it has now become.

It's blatant law-breaking these days and there's a total disregard for the laughable punishments given out.I remember when cheap tobacco and cigs started up here(late 80's,90's),it was ' hush,hush,keep this quiet but I've got cheap tobacco'.Shops didn't sell it,they'd have got shut down and the book thrown at them... Nowadays it's open and in full view of everyone,it's lawless and it sends out a signal that you can do what you want ...A dangerous precedent is being set here.

 

i'll have a 99p cone please sir and a packet of 200 lambert and butlers please

 

Depends who you got them off,I could get Stella,Kronenburg,primus etc...

I had good contacts back in the day running fish out of Peterhead and Fraserburgh to France,drop the load then down to Kraft Cheese at Namur(Belgium).None of my stuff was wet,just a bit fishy at times

 

I was only a pup, probably about 21/22. I would have drunk warm urine if it was cheap enough

 

Ice cream vans were at it up here when I was younger...A £10 cone had a half quarter of hash in the bottom of the cone!!!

All ended up in a nasty 'ice-cream' war though.

 

Your taking the piss mate.

 

Sphinx for you then.

 

Can you still buy those stubby bottles? I've got an urge now to go and get some for some reminiscent time in the garden

 

Not sure if Asda and Tesco still do them?

 

Tesco do the stubby stuff.

 

Bit of a side story but relevant to the stubby conversation and a sign of how times have changed. I was sat in my garden drinking a stubby when I was about 22/23. I'd chinned someone in waterfront the night before and was a professional boxer at the time so had proper spot balled myself. Police turned up, a man and a woman. She was inside with my missus and he came and sat down near me explaining they needed to take me in. I asked if I could finish my beer, knowing I wouldn't be coming home for a few months, and asked if he wanted one. To my amazement he sat and drank one! My dad would tell me stories about coppers having a beer after hours at his pub gardners arms in Coniston. Nowadays it's like a world away from those times.

 

I'm gonna have to try a pack to satisfy my curiosity now

 

A kid at school back in the 70’s lost a couple of fingers lighting a can of aerosol spray to make a flame thrower. It exploded and blew them to bits, had to have them amputated.