Area you lived as a child

Born in a shamfour, off a terrace, on Williamson Street, Holderness Road. We backed onto an engineering firm which made thumping and clanging noise's all day and into the night. Moved at an early age to Perth Street, Chanterlands Avenue. A corner shop on every corner of the street. Hours spent exploring the back ten foots of the avenues. Pearson Park, train rides to Sutton from Botanic, six pence return, Radiator Fields, and the highlight of the year, Hull Fair.
Moved again to Ghost Estate on Beverley High Road, a wonderful place for a boy top grow up. Open fields, dykes, trees, old farm buildings, the River Hull, wildlife, birds egging, late night bonfires in the fields, everyday a new adventure. Loved it. Endike school, football and Hull City 1965/66, Wagstaff and Chilton, massive crowds, loads of goals, Boothferry Park at its best, The Beatles, pirate radio stations. Paper round, apple raiding, bike rides to Hornsea, hitch hiking to Bridlington, long hikes into darkest Wawne (pre Bransholme) Back ten foots of Welwyn Park Road, first girlfriend...........
Teenage years, fashion, tamla motown, youth clubs, football specials, skinheads, boot boys, monte carlo, pubs, old English cider, dodging coppers, lack of money, Leo Schultz, first job, first real wage packet (£5.50p) town centre, Broadway pub in town, Albermarle YC, football on a Sunday morning....................Where did it all go wrong?

 

21st avenue

OPE

THE QUADDY.

Green Huts ....Schultz's ....Trinity House before I got booted out

One of the First skinheads in Hull...

( its a way of life )

Monte Carlo Cafe
Albermarle yc

And king Arthur's on midland street

Jacko ..monte ...fez......Alex ..Sid....Macko...Fat George ..Wolfie. ect

Tapping in Train Station to get fare for away day specials.

Running away from home and hitching it to Away Games

First pub I got served in was rising sun when I was 14

Star and Garter....Tony's...Scamps .....Gothenburg

Left Hull just before I was 17

Mum lives off endyke lane....Sister lives on 21st

Beat you by 4 years Mr Tickler.

Two good away days that stand out Stockport in the FA cup

And York City v Grimsby town when loads of city fans went to support York.

First game was in the 65 /66 season when I finally got my dad to take me with him

Just realised this is an old thread that's been open

Mel.....your family will know my family for sure

 

Lived in Hessle until I was 16 then joined the Navy 1981. Lived in Plymouth ever since. Still have great friends and family living in Hull and my two girls are now avid City fans. Used to love larking about little switsie and my bog bike, playing football in reca and using the Boothferry Road lights as floodlights when it got dark. Watching City every home game with my dad, some grim days then. Under age drinking in Memaid pub on Boothferry Estate. Fantastic times. Still come up to Hull regularly to watch City and see my real mates and great people.

 

Bricknell Ave. Joined the Navy in 1988 and have just returned to living Hull area after leaving the Navy. First game 1979, we played Rotherham and beat them 1-0. Travelled length and breadth following City, whilst shore based, and no commitments, me and another avid City fan would hire a car and wherever City where playing we head to. Had some cracking nights out in places like Torquay, Carlisle, Cardiff, Shrewsbury etc.

 

My parents ran the Tivoli Hotel in the old town when I was born in 1938. A couple of years later my dad was assigned to a reserved occupation job on East Hull docks and we moved into a council house in Marfleet Lane a stones throw from Marfleet station and 10 mins from the docks. I could walk out of the front gate across the road through a fence into a farm, go through another farm and into endless green fields.

So as a young kid had fields,docks and a railway line to keep me entertained together with a decent gang of kids from the other 9 houses in the lane. Lived there until I left Hull permanently in 1959.
My old infant/junior school is still there although the name has changed. My high school in West Hull has gone and the college I attended is still there with a name change.

On a recent trip back to Hull I went for a visit to the old house for old times sake. The station had gone together with the line many years ago and the farms had been replaced with a school and sports field. Beyond the school was the Hull KR stadium and the fields beyond were occupied by a housing estate.

My best mate's dad at junior school looked after Eastern Cemetery and the huge house he lived in at the entrance is still there today. I spent more time there then I did at my house going home with him from school ,then playing, eating tea and then more play before leaving and running home across the fields and ditches often in total darkness.

Absolutely loved my childhood and would do it all again without changing a thing.

PS. The old Tivoli hotel was demolished in the 70's I believe. In the 50's it was the last stop for my mates and me on a Friday and Saturday night pub-crawl prior to going on to the City Hall dance. Started at the White Hart then on to the Bluebell Inn, Corn Exchange, then the Tivoli Tavern as it was known then.

 

That could almost be my post, if added to it was Kimberley Street, Thomas Stratton School, Wilberforce Junior High, Riley High and Gloomy Wood (Hymers College)

 

I remember the Bank Holiday Riot in Admiral Hawke well! Front Page news!

 

Yeah, that nutter bloke eventually moved and set up camp on 'little' Wyndam Street.

No butchers coat for me but definitely Crombie coat, Ben Sherman and Brutus shirts with loafers, and yeah occasionally day glow socks

 

Scar,
Greenwood, Endyke and now Cavalier all the estate drinking holes gone!

As we have often said Scar, our families will/do know each other. Its funny listening to my Mam, she will give you a potted history of just about everyone on the estate. My sisters are just as bad!

 

Born Walcott street Hessle road, back to back, one down one up, moved to Argyle street 56/57 number 68 live there for the next 10 yrs.' loved it around there had some great times with some great mate's,then moved up to OPE Hardane in 66/67 never did get use to it up there, too far out for an inner city boy. Joined the Merchant navy in 69 and never really came back to Hull, Went to school at St Wilfred's Saner street both infants and juniors, then on to the nautical school in the Boulevard.

 

Aww the not606 retirement home.

 

Mel.....think I mentioned it before someplace .
My uncle Ronnie and Aunty Shirley were well know
In Caverlier Club.

Ronnie took me fishing in barmy drain at times and I remember one day he caught a bloody big pike..

My dad lived all his life on north hull.

My grandad lived in spotted dog during opening time.

 

Nothing as good as going to Gumpits on your dirtbike! Peggy Farrow was brilliant

 

Minster Close, Sutton & Neasden School. Very happy memories!

 

Wilberforce Street up to the age of 4, can't remember much other than missing floorboards, strange. Then Longhill Estate, vaguely remember 6 months at East Mount before Wansbeck opened. Went to Riley and moved to Ings Estate in '65 Married in '73 and back onto Longhill for 3 years before moving to Kirklands Road. Preston village in '07 and Kirk Ella last year. Last move getting too old now.

 

Mucky Bucky

 

This. Lived down Bucky street till 01, but spent my whole primary school years at Mucky Bucky school. Secondary school (Lister) doesn't exist anymore, aren't I an old codger now.

 

I just found this thread today! It has brought back lots of memories from the shops on Endike Lane to crombies and Ben Sherman shirts.

As a child I can still remember the caravans being there before Orchard Park was built (we lived just off Endike Lane). I went to Hall Road school until I was about 11 then we moved yo Anlaby. My auntie lived down Bentley Grove near the quadrant. The names of the shops all came back to me and the memories of my mum riding her bike with me sat on the back and my brother taking me to the Rex (didn't even remember the name) cinema and us not being allowed in cos I was too young! All the kids in the street joined in with games of block, kerb or wall, skip to London, hop scotch hand having a massive skipping rope right across the toad that everyone joined in with. Being allowed to staying out that bit longer when it had been snowing making "slides" oh and playing Darleks even though they were terrifying!! Oh and the entertainment van coming round in school holidays to entertain us.

Then there are the other memories of standing on bunkers hill as a skinhead, my mum going mad cos I had cut my hair too short. Getting into Malcolm's disco in my crombie. Hanging around Peter Pan park and Bernadette avenue fish shop.

And many many more memories. Thank you all for bringing back all these wonderful memories!!

 

What a great thread this is.

!956 born in a prefab in Woodmansey. Memories of walking to Beverley to do the weekly shop, playing football at the C of E school and wanting my mother to get me a Hull City shirt so I could show off. She came back with a pale lemon something god knows what. I was so disappointed. Summers spent walking along Barmy drain to Dunswell and Beverley. Ponds, newts, skylarks eggs, going down to the farm where my old man worked at weekends. I was in love with the farmers daughter. She was blond and beautiful and about 20 years older than me at least. Reading about Hull City and The TIGERs and how they had won, lost or drawn and how I ached to be a part of that experience.

Moved to college street in Sutton in 1966 and watched the world cup final in our new house. I thought the time I would attend my first city match was getting closer but thinking about it now it must have took until the spring of 1967 before I finally got my wish. A night match and over 30,000 there. The noise, the floodlights, the atmosphere. It was all I expected it to be and more. I was hooked. Summers spent on the same drain I guess just a different stretch. Fishing and messing about in the country side. East Park and my granny lived on Lee street and her sister on Summergangs road. Trips to see Aunt Polly on Hessle Road and Aunt Dorothy on Bilton Grange.

Then girls. They were all beautiful or was it just the testosterone?

Back to city. Started going more regularly in 1969/70. Bunkers Hill, Skinheads, those matches against Boro and Sunderland where they threw pennies with filed edges at us. The great comeback against Sheffield Wednesday. The last time I left a match early after my old man told me I was stupid for doing so. Crombie's, Harrington's, Sta press trousers, sprayed doc martens at Stockport in the FA cup.

As someone else said, where did it all go so wrong