Made the Guardian did Barry. Great read this. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/...y-nuttall-army-war-council-housing-demolition please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Bloody Hell, Barry Nuttall. There's a blast from the past. A character who had the bollocks to stand up for what he believed in. Sad to read that he had died. RIP ya eccentric loon.
I got told he ended up down Rosedale Grove off SBW and he often slipped away from the front line to spend time there during the struggle. I remember Argyle St before it got cleared, and while that article is very good on detail it can never tell the full story. Hull's slum clearance has been going on decades, and is controlled in the main part by subsidies from central govt or even the EU, which is why it goes on in fits and starts and we have those lovely rusty lights in West Park. Was that toy shop called Duggleby's on Princes Ave/ SBW corner?
Always remember his small platoon on Anlaby rd , Not sure if he ended d up on Rosedale but his vehicles were on the corner there ... Always brought a smile and a cool memory from my childhood
Always referred to that junction as Botanic Crossing,old enough to remember plod directing traffic from his box
Go done Lonny on a regular basis....Clarry pub, Lonny chippy and Campey's with just the one original old house in on the other side of the road. Although officially diverse, Johnny Pole seems to use it as beercan dumping ground.
He did live on Rosedale Grove the big house on the corner with Lockton Grove. You'd see him and his mates sitting out in the garden in all weathers dressed up as American soldiers. I'd pass by on my paper round every morning and evening. His two and half ton US Army truck was always parked on Lockton and he'd have various other vehicles in his garden. He had at least a daughter at Ainthorpe School while I was there and I seem to remember him setting something up on the school fields there at least once. I also remember them driving around in all their kit on a Friday night.
Splendid well written article. As are Douglas Dunnes poems of Terry Street if you ever get to read them. I remember Barries Army and the area having spent a lot of time down Londesbourgh Street as a lad, I knew it well. The Flamingo Club was someone's front room on Claredon Street, it started life as a late night 'coffee' club and finished up being a home for stray cats. There were loads of shops on Londesbourgh Street and a fireworks factory. My aunt lived in a two up two down a terrace close to where the walkway to the KC starts today. The front room was the 'best room', never used, the settee had a plastic cover on it and their were plastic runners on the carpets to save them. The room was still curtained off the day they had to move out to make way for the bulldozers. The backyard had whitewashed walls and plastic flowers ( free with Daz washing powder) placed in plant pots nailed to the wall. One outside tap and an outside toilet. All the houses, which were very close together backed onto a passage which led to a bomb site where a couple of houses used to be. I remember the whole area being damp, foggy and musty. Rag and bone men, tramps, raggy arsed kids and smelly old men and women. Young mothers with beehives hairdo's, part-time teddy boys, deckie learners, people with no work sat on front door steps smoking and watching, shifty looking club men knocking on front doors, the rent man, blokes on bikes, kids in prams, street jumble sales, fat coppers, rusty cars on bricks, and a whiff of poverty in the air. Barry Nuttall's lads were suspected of letting off a tear gas bomb in Polar Bear one night. My uncle once threw a bloke through Polar Bear window because of a claim of cheating at dominos. He also had a bare knuckle fight one Sunday morning in West Park and over 1,000 people were said to have turned up for it. Despite all that the area had more soul then it has today.
Probably nothing, I think it was a sort of consolation gesture, it was pretty hard to take the feeling of rejection and separation from friends, however like many others I did not fare too badly on a Secondary Modern education.
