Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

Tom Boyd senior, of the Boyd Line, won a DSO for the WWII raid on St Nazaire which featured HMS Campbletown ramming the dock gates. He was one of the few Royal Marines to make it back to Britain following the attack.

 

No matter how comfy it looks, I dont think its a great life.... imagine what it must have been like for the Hull trawler crews.... any trawler crews... !!!! they were a different breed...

 

There was some Watson Hall farming back of Walkington as you head up towards Bishop Burton in the 80's and 90's

 

Probably in a turf war with noddy holder

 

The deckhands worked 6 hours on, 6 standby, 6 off. Any respite came steaming to a different fishing ground.

Oh, it was all very scenic, wondering at the aurora borealis, sunbathing at stupid o clock in the morning, the shortcuts home through the Norwegian fjords, the sun glinting off shards off ice as they were chipped off masts and rigging, the majesty of the waves as they broke over the bow and knocked out a bridge window (ready cut plywood always on board), the crests of waves illuminated by an upwardly pointing searchlight to answer my simple question "how high are the wave tops. Aha, I hear you say, what was an engineer doing on the bridge? Because the bridge rang down in the midst of said storm to politely ask if I could fix the steering. Never ceasing to marvel as to why pack ice floating by would suddenly decide to clog up the cooling water intakes. As the ship rolled further over, sea water swirling around a porthole, wondering if my last thought would be, ****in 'ell, that looks like a washing machine.

But mostly the groundhog days. Work, eat, sleep.

 

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Said porthole is the middle of the three on the line of the boat deck.

 

Which ship Asterix..

 

The pic is St. Jerome, I sailed on all three, sister ships. The porthole thing could have been her, St Jasper or St Jason.

 

Must have been on most of the farms in that area but back in the 80's and 90's never bumped into Noddy. Does anyone know any more about his farming in the area?

 

You're asking a lot of questions. You PC Plod or summat?

 

Nah. Talking of plod they used to keep their horses in that area too.

 

To be fair, the signs were there.

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Now you mention it I seem to remember JWH being in farming.

 

This is me in 1970 receiving the Gold Cup which was the fishing industries golf tournament which I won. Receiving it from the very Tom Boyd you mention.

This was at Hammonds by the way.

 

The greatest raid. Incredible story.

 

Anyone got a spare £1m kicking about?

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...ews/iconic-tower-nightclub-venue-sale-4782398

 

Yeh yeh, but how did you do at the golf?

 

In the current environment .... clubs haven’t been open since March. It’s worthless as a nightclub
Saying that I’d pay £250k for it now