Mecca/Locarno - Saturday morning Mecca/Locarno - Saturday afternoon Mecca/Locarno - Monday night Bailey's nightclub - any night Hull Brewery Mild Standing on the bridge over Dairycoats rail crossing and getting engulfed in smoke as the trains went underneath. Flash Gordon (in the pictures I may hasten to add) Broken biscuits from Woolies The many train lines/stations ripped up because of Dr Beeching I could go on but many of you will not have a clues as to what I am going on about so I'll shut up lol.
Free parking in the city centre, no single or double yellow lines, police you could trust. Kids safely playing on the streets, bombed buildings, open field around Sutton, ships in the city centre docks. Boothferry Park, Wallis's Butchers on Holderness Road, Mr Myers horse and cart green grocery, milk in urns and jugs. Pharmacists jars of potions and chemicals. Pussy pelmets, a world without tights but with double decker buses!!, good schools teaching English and the sciences, jobs for all. Locarno, Skyline, the dance hall in the Market Place, cyclists with lamps, no drugs. Moores and Robsons and Hull Brewery ales. Thick, choking smog, coal fires, blanket mounds, ice inside bedroom windows. Deposits on bottles. Monthly national trade figures, bank managers. Man powered lawn mowers, Mobylettes. Rationing, bus conductors, local trains, cobblers, reel to reel tape decks, records, gramaphones and needles.
A GP who smoked a pipe.Knew all the patients names but did not have a clue how to cure them. Wage snatches sticklebacks respect for the bank manager
My mate held up a Grandways. Got caught straightaway!! Called him a Walter Mitty character. Not sure if he's still ina the loony bin now
haha in the early 80s as a paperlad i had to deliver H&E and another similar magazine , i cant remember the name of he used to get it 2 or 3 days later after i'd finished with it haaa
Rington's tea delivered to your door by special van Milk in churns delivered to your door Riley High School Trams Trolleys
stanley, when i was a kid i used to get bathed in one of those!!!!! me mam never used the plunger.was it the dolly??
