The Green Sports Mail...An institution in its day.. After a home game, get on the train at BP Halt at about 4.55pm. Games used to finish at 4.40pm on the nail, in those days!! Arrive into Paragon at about 5.10pm and there's a bloke at the metal rail gate with a paper bag shouting ' Get your Sports Mail'...Take your life in your hands, head into the bus station and play chicken with the buses....Get into the queue in the old wind tunnel and wait for the bus to North Hull. My dad would hog the paper. He used to have a saying: ' Rub me down with a copy of the Sports Mail'....I never could fathom why....... Oh what fun we had!!!!!!!
I worked there from the spring of 1969 to 1972. I do remember a Jack Davies, then again it might have been another Jack. it was only 55 years ago and the old memory does play tricks.
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...aem_aMXj0z__bVfwbO9wy6C3Rw#Echobox=1755930656 Good read for once in the HDM, our stadium sponsor and honorary president David Kilburn.
Me Dad was only into Rovers and international rugby union but by hell he used to make me wait to read the Sports Mail. He'd read the print off it before I even got a look in.
The excitement waiting for The Sportsmail was fantastic . We used to wait outside the Shops next to what is now Wawne Ferry .
News agent's at Beverley Rd Boothferry Rd roundabout in Hessle for my line-up. Wasn't called Sunny's in my day !
Ye very good read. Nice to see a company treating its staff well. I wondered when it says he started on Clough rd if it took over from Grahams builders merchants??
