Nature's Larder in Paragon Square did great scones and filter coffee before we all got the cafetiere bug.
Yep.....we were the Primary school team playing the big boys from Juniors. Ian Strodder the bastard...studs up into my shin...13 weeks I was off with that, Asked him to do it again the following year
That sounds better than my guess at the name. If memory serves me right, it often doesn't nowadays, it was on the right going down Jameson Street from Ferensway. I've no recollection of what business was on the ground floor.
Do any of you remember the Hull Daily Mail entrance down Jameson Street. Both sides showcased all the photos from previous Daily Mails. Whenever we went in town we always had a look to see if we saw anybody we knew.
I certainly do, in fact, I can remember seeing my picture in there after it was taken of the audience at the New Theatre. I was there as all the paper boys were given a preview of the panto one year.
Just slightly off topic - who on earth buys their clothes from John Ford!? I guess Noel Edmonds might but anyone else?
I remember it as a small kid definitely. Probably because Prospect Centre was nearby and that was one of the main places to shop. Funnily enough, my Uncle actually sold the HDM a lot of the land they built the new office on. He resisted for a while, but eventually gave in.
I had a Saturday job at Conleys Jewellers, just up the road from the old HDM offices on Jameson Street. We were on the corner opposite the Post Office and there was a recessed square of a few shops including a Wimpey's right next to us. We used to send our jewellery repairs to Hugh Rice who worked in a basement on George Street, he did alright for himself.
Remember as a kid lugging a cart piled high with old newspapers/comics/magazines , collected by door knocking the area for a few weeks, from Marfleet Lane to Jameson Street very early one Sunday morning. Did this with the kid next door who came up with the idea to supplement our pocket money having heard that the HDM would pay cash for paper. The collected items were stored in our air raid shelter at the back of the house. After paying for the cart hire we made about 2 bob each and it was never repeated. Much more lucrative to scour our area for empty beer/lemonade bottles and return them for their deposits at the nearby Hull Brewery pub- sometimes supplemented by bottles pinched from the back of the pub. Think tuppence was paid for a large empty beer bottle.
When I was about 8-9, a pal and I collected jam-jars, around Summergangs Rd./Lee Street/ Westcott St. Two big bags full, walked right from Crown pub. to Humber Pickle by North Bridge. First thing we discovered was that the company only wanted jars with snap-on lids. So we threww all the rejects off the bridge. The next time we did it - half-penny a jar - we had the right jars, and with the cash went to Saturday morning matinee at the Regal; had popcorn and lemonade AND caught the 64 trolley back to Summergangs.
One of the money making ventures we looked at too Dr Stan before selecting the waste paper option. With women wanting glass jars for home made jams, pickling etc and other storage purposes we didn't think we would get too many.
Reg Swinson WPC Hudson The Houses were; Dickens GREEN Elgar BLUE Newton RED Constable YELLOW I was house captain of Dickens.
Anyone remember the British Programme Collectors Club? Think it was proximate to Fer Ark. Also have a vague memory that it was sued by Robert Maxwell because one of his companies had the initials BPCC.
