Was up in Hull recently and saw that the Criterion pub on Hessle Road was still going! If there was ever a pub I'd be too windy to go in, that's it.
I used to go in Trogg Bar in early 70s. Rubbish watered down beer, big queues to get served and snotty girls but there were some good groups on. We'd go in via the public bar and through the toilets with cases of beer from supermarket and get one drink to get a glass and then pour the cans of beer into the glass with the cases on the floor hidden. Eventually the bouncers, as well as being on the main door, would be stationed in the toilets as well.
I was a Spiders regular early 80's. Harvey Wallbangers 50p...Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters...those were the days!!
I was in Skippers on its opening her, you couldn't move. Some proper head the balls went in that gaff, I was brought up around there and I had to be very weary of what I said depending on who was in there. The bloke who owned it had some very heavy connections and had to call upon them once in a while. Keep the local wide boys in check. Trust me when I say the boys he called in to iron out any problems were utter psychopaths. I could name names but won't.
I came back from a City match in the 80s and four of us went to Hammersmith for a few drinks. We saw there was a big queue of punks to get in some dance hall and Splodgenessabounds was playing. Me and another guy went in and joined in the fun but the other two were too scared and waited for us in a pub. I remember going to see The Macc Lads in Liverpool. With some groups the crowd tries to invade the stage but with them the bouncers spotted two girls and picked them up and carried them onto the stage and made them sing a "song" with the band.
Yes. Man went in and shot girlfriend/wife, who was allegedly having an affair, then shot himself. Didn't die, had face rebuilt, then was prosecuted and sent down. I wonder if he was the 'half head' man drinking at the bar post-release that an earlier poster saw... how many men with half a head can one city have? What on earth is going on with this site now? it's like typing through mud via my XP-loaded laptop... I'm afraid, for this reason, I'm out. ESSEX GULL
The shotgun thing was Trog Bar, I had just left and gone over to the Georgian. George St was the place to be early 1980's.
Was it Trog Bar.. must have been just before it became Lasers.. as it was early-mid 80s. Trog Bar had the record in Hull for glass replacement costs every month during this period. ESSEX GULL
During the early '70s, after a night out in Hull in the pubs and then a club (often Moving Scene in Witham) and if I hadn't met a girl - which usually happened most nights as I was pissed by 8 pm - I would have sobered up because I didn't drink in the clubs - some didn't even sell alcohol - most of my mates would go home but I'd go to the coffee clubs (Cameo, Gothenberg and the one on a corner of Clarence Street) and because I was in my late teens and looked even younger a lot of the women in their 30s and 40s would pick me up and take me home with them. To be honest I preferred these women than girls my age. I remember going out in leather jacket and jeans one night and we decided to go to Mecca that had a strict dance code. I saw a group of about 20 rugby players heading towards Mecca so we caught them up and got chatting to them. The bouncers asked if we were with them and they said "yes" so the bouncers let us all go in because they didn't want to turn all of us away. We were the only guys not in suits and everybody was staring at us all night.
Your picture looks to be from many years pre reflections . The shops to the left had gone I think , replaced by the college - maybe ? , and wasn't the YPI near there ? Also , looking at the front of the picture sees fencing where there is now a road junction . Your picture could pre date my birth .
We used to go in Queens because it was the nearest pub before going to Moving Scene in Witham. It was a boring pub that we would never have used if it hadn't been near Moving Scene.
Wimp or wos , which are you . Although I know one or two girls that drink in there who would scare the **** out of most if the north stand at the KC .
I knew Ray in the late 60s 70s. At that time there were only two black guys brave enough to hit the streets in Hull him and Backerie Dieberia who went on to to play RL for Bradford Northern! Ray was was brought up along with about 10 other kids by a foster mum! Hardly surprising in those days he struggled to make a successful life for himself but I recall if you actually talked to the man he was at heart a gentle soul in the wrong environment
I remember being in a pub and somebody said to me: "That's Ray Harvey". I'd never heard of him but I got the impression I should avoid him. Did he go to the Watney Cup match v Man Utd on Bunkers? There was some fighting with United fans and a guy who looked like him - short curly hair and sheepskin jacket - was in the middle of it.
Useless trivia time. Frances Lutwidge Dodgson lived in the building that became the Queens Pub when he was the local tax collector, based on Whitefriargate. His son, Charles, who also lived there, became more famous.
