Off Topic Hull most 'missed' shops...

Fletchers...Loved their sausage rolls..
Lipman's for a suit
Northerns for me Oxy bags.

 

was it Barrs - we used to get Cherryade, Lemonade, Dandelion and Burdock and Orangeade

also had the fishman every Friday - he was called Adrian Hill and his son was Ronnie Hilton the singer

 

When I lived in Anlaby we had a fish delivery but I was told it was Ronnie Hilton's brother.Could be my memory failing though and it was the father.

 

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While looking up these pics I also found this one:-



Me, top row left.

"Big playgie", St Marks St.

 

just checked on Wiki - Ronnie Hilton's real name was Adrian Hill - that's my mother getting her facts mixed up all those years ago

 

Might well have been, it was a long time ago! My grandad was in the fish business so we got fish every Friday. I had to take it to the chip shop in Redbourne Street to have it fried. Try that one at Papas!

 

Chicken dinner?

 

There were a lot of car crashes outside their windows.

 

Has anyone mentioned Prem on analby road? The best place to buy your Farahs in the late 80's

 

Spent many happy hours on that park (and the drain beyond) in the early 60's - split my head and needed 3 stiches after falling off that tractor - mebbe 63/64 ish?

 

Wow. Cheers, I'm amazed - it's not exactly a great location for a shop. I wonder if they still stock Farahs lol

 

We must have met then. Was our main hangout when we became too grown up for "little playgie" down Hodgson St.

There were I recall lot's of injuries. That slide behind the engine for example. Must have been 20ft + and on a concrete base. Twice the height of the standard ones. The monkey bars were a h&s nightmare too. Footie on the crushed gasworks slag encouraged players to stay on their feet. No diving on that stuff.

"Down'drain" was better than any playground though.

 

Forgot about the ''football pitch'' - I remember it had a perfectly painted goal on the wall of one of the factories that backed onto the park. Can you imagine any local council building swings the same height of those to the side of the Parkies hut? The older kids could get 20 odd feet in the air!

 

That sticks in my mind too. And jumpers at the other end. Twenty or more a side sometimes.

 

Ours was Corona as well. They were based in Hessle near the foreshore.

 

And then there was the coal-man. Initially a horse-and-cart, then later a flat-bed lorry.

Revell Bros., Hawkings (?), and Hills.

 

Blimey, a milkman and a coalman, you'll be getting electric and everything soon