lived on Bransholme in the 70/80's loved it played football in the street night after night, had great mates some of which i am still in contact with, playing for Bransholme high school i got signed up for Grimsby town played for the reserves then got a full time contract but had a motorcycle accident and had to pack football in, After that i got a full time job we moved to Holderness rd then got married i deserted East Hull and moved to Willerby were i live now
Perhaps one of you have lived or been somewhere I have lived. This is the order. I have moved on average just slightly more than once every 2.5 years. Casper Wyoming Tysons Corner Virginia Sterling Virginia Leesburg Virginia Frankfurt West Germany Athens Greece Leesburg Virginia Round Hill Virginia Ashburn Virginia Round Hill Virginia Fairfax Virginia Alexandria Virginia Paradise California El Dorado California
Born Hessle.early days.used to go fishing across bridge in barton.moved to north hull hu6. Went to cott high left 1990.In teens.loved hull fair dancing around that buzzing waltzes mental.going to that under 18 nightclub on corner opposite tsb bank.sports shop.used to walk bike every where. Family lived on quaddy estate deans.Moved to devon mid 1993.hull born n bred.every city match is an away match.see as often as I can.
Have spent a couple of days in Athens on a business trip. Visit to Frankfurt was on the first school trip from Hull to Germany after WW2 in 1955. Done by Riley High it went Hull, London, Dover, Ostend, Frankfurt, Ingolstadt, Munich, Tutzing am See, Munich and back to Hull by the same route. All land travel by train. We were instructed not to mention the war! Plenty of incident for me on that trip. Me and a fellow prefect took out a couple of local girls in Ingolstadt and found we were locked out of our accommodation on returning so spent the night wandering around the town and beyond. Then in Tutzing the other prefect joined us in talking to a another local who bought us all drinks including wine and litre "Steins" of beer and we all ended up totally plastered. My offer to write an article for the school magazine about the trip was politely declined! Have been to California a few times but not to the places mentioned.
Athens is a great place to visit but a horrible place to live. It had the 5th worst air pollution in the world when I was there it was so bad they put up blockades and wouldn't let cars drive for days at a time bc people couldn't breath. Frankfurt was cool, I like Germany a lot, I've been to 14 countries and if I had to pick another to live in it would be Germany. Where in Cali have you been?
Born off Newland Avenue 1938 in what was then called Rosemary Crescent (?) but is now Newland Grove. The bombings caused us to move around a lot to Goddard Avenue, Grafton Street, Alexander Road, Walters Terrace and finally Sidmouth Street. Happy memories and some sad ones from the war years when people lost their next of kin. My Mother would faint every time the telegram boy came peddling into our Terrace. Lucky to get my Dad back as he was in from the off and served all over Europe. First wife talked me into emigrating to Oz in 1967. When we got here she hated it and I thought I'd died and gone to "Boozers Heaven"! We split in 1974 when she returned to Hull whilst I stayed in Oz. Met the "Child Bride" in 1981 (she was 19, I was 42) been together 34 years, married for the last 25. Been all over the world but, apart from Australia, there is only one other place that we would live and that's Hawaii. Absolutely beautiful. The only place in California we have been 'elle' is Los Angeles - Hollywood Boulevard and Disneyland - but we didn't feel comfortable there.
San Fran, LA, San Diego, San Jose, Monterey and Sacramento. Last place was the one I really wanted to visit as when my dad worked on the Hull docks the US ship Sacramento came and dad worked on it and took me round it as an 8-9 year old.(Just after the war). Was huge and just loved the name. Agree about Germany. If I had to choose another country to live it would be somewhere in Southern Germany.
I've been to a few of those places, Santa Cruz near San Jose is real nice, they have a big wave surfing competition there every year. I go to Sacramento every few weeks as it's the closest city not counting places like Folsom.
Cali is nice in that it has lots of coastline, lots of state and national parks, but it isn't really my cup of tea. I am a Virginian, I'd rather be out in the woods of The Blue Ridge Mountains.
Have a recording of an old film by Laurel and Hardy called 'Way out West'. They sing a song called "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and the Blue Ridge Moutains are part of the lyrics. Understand they are a real beauty spot in the US.
Its my favorite spot but I think it works like that for everyone liking where they spent their early years. This is a listing that I found of photos of my parents house, they sold it a few years ago after my dad fell off the roof and broke his back. We moved around a lot but I spent the longest time in this house. I was the one that planted those willow trees when I was a kid. http://slideshow.mris.com/slideshow/slideshow.htm?ListingKey=97604916241 The family that bought the house have a photography business and this link to a page on their site gives you a good view of the pound and the two willow trees that I planted and why they call them The Blue Ridge Mountains as the range in the background gets this blue haze look to it at dawn or dusk. http://www.twinwillowsphotography.com/#!contact/czpl
Thats the one we have in the family album. Dad previously ran the pub in Patrington and took over the Tivoli in the mid thirties. Evidently the site 1, Mytongate was a hostelry/inn going back many generations. It's previous name before 1920 was "Old Bull and Sun"and reputedly was the last pub in Hull to show cock-fighting.
About ten years ago, my wife and I did the Southern section of the Blue Ridge Mountain Driveway. We flew into Raleigh and spent the first night there. Drove up to Mount Airy and then onto the scenic route. We hardly touched Virginia, heading south, to Asheville and the Smokie Mountianes. We stayed at random hotels in places like Banner Elk. It was a memorable drive. The people were great until we went off route in the mountains and were warned to stay on the highway. Our last week was spent on the coast, Wilmington and Mrtyle Beach
Longhill lad originally and went through Longhill schools and when I left there I attended Andrew Marvell from 1983 till I left in 1986. Enjoyed some great laughs as a kid on Longhill back in the day , some fond memories.
Went to Thanet Primary and Junior School on Bilton Grange upto 1983 then went to Andrew Marvell till 1987 . Lived East Hull all my life until moving to Leven six years ago
They were probably targeting just you cos of your constant criticism of their poor aim Roo. "Cant they hit the target, call that a strike. Useless no wonder you're going to lose"
