Off Topic Hull: City of Culture

Anyone go to Jack White at the Arena last night? Any opinions?

 

Real posh, but most of us were rebelling against our aristocratic backgrounds and having it away with daughters of the landed gentry.

 

I think the decline started when Hodge took over in 1967. He came from a boys secondary modern (Peel Street?) and he brought that kind of discipline with him. Didn't understand girls with brains either, he was visibly uncomfortable in their presence.

 

Wilf
I had to go and see him and confess that I had broken a window (tech drawing room I think) playing football on the basket ball court in the play ground.
He was quite reasonable and gave me credit to going to see him .

 

Us kids from the council houses could still go and have an opportunity to achieve things. Although I struggled and my achievements came after I left school, it certainly put sister on the right path that led to a fairly senior level with a major oil company.

 

Must be a different "Benny" Goodman. The one at Hessle High was bald!

 

KHS's Benny was also extremely small, no more than 5ft or so. He was as stated the City Organist at City Hall.

 

Any of you Old Kingstonians ever go on one of those school trips to Europe in the 60's ?
I remember the one to Innsbruch - think it was one or two years before they held the Winter Olympics around the city. On one of our day outings we went to the site of the ski-jump that was in mid-construction and we were allowed to go to the top of it. It was mid-summer, and bloody scary !
The bierkellers back in the town were quite an experience for 15 - 17 year olds too. Great experience - Bill Sykes turned a blind-eye to the discreet visits made to them by a few of us.

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So he was - must have needed special wooden blocks built for him so he could reach the organ foot pedals ?

 

I'm surprised Enob didn't go there instead of Wolfreton.

 

If you ever looked at Benn'y's feet he always wore what appeared to be specially made boots. They were probably lifts, to give him more height. I thought that he was a useless teacher, however it didn't put me off music, as I play the Piano and Guitar.

 

We used to call him twinkle toes.
He was a rubbish teacher but we always had the oppprtunity to learn various instruments with the peripatetic teachers one of whom was his wife.
So we always had a good school orchestra.

 

I had to wander around Gypsyville/Hessle High Road with that on my school blazer.

 

Brilliant

 

great concert with the added bonus of Jo Bonnamassa for last 20 minutes

 

A bit of good news for the City (not Hull City unfortunately).

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/business/vodafone-resq-200-jobs-hull-2136961

 

I hope it is good news. Some call centres can be a bit dodgy...

 

Our son worked for one somewhere in the city centre a while back and its a bit of a pressure job, not sure about the shady side of things Plum.

 

I didn't really mean dodgy as in illegal, more as you say high pressure, unacheivable targets, poor working conditions etc.