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The Green Sports Mail...An institution in its day.. After a home game, get on the train at BP Halt at about 4.55pm. Games used to finish at 4.40pm on the nail, in those days!! Arrive into Paragon at about 5.10pm and there's a bloke at the metal rail gate with a paper bag shouting ' Get your Sports Mail'...Take your life in your hands, head into the bus station and play chicken with the buses....Get into the queue in the old wind tunnel and wait for the bus to North Hull. My dad would hog the paper. He used to have a saying: ' Rub me down with a copy of the Sports Mail'....I never could fathom why....... Oh what fun we had!!!!!!!
 
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tigerscanada said:
Great stuff T.T. <cheers>
When I first emigrated to Canada, my old man would bundle up a months worth of Green Sports Mail and ship them over to me by sea mail so I received them 2 or 3 weeks later. Having lived in Hessle, when not at City for a weekend match, I used to watch the local team Kingburn Athletic who played home fixtures on the recca opposite Darleys on Boothferry Road, Hessle. Was always with great anticipation watching for results from the local football leagues of which I recall there were a number of leagues with many divisions.

Opposite our house (opposite Park Lane on Beverley Road in Hessle, lived a fella called Jack Davis (or Davies) who was the football photography for Hull City at the time. His daughter was a pal of my sister, so I got to chat to him often about City during the 60's and up to '72 when I bailed out of the UK.

Did you ever meet him when you worked at the HDM offices way back then ?
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I worked there from the spring of 1969 to 1972. I do remember a Jack Davies, then again it might have been another Jack. it was only 55 years ago and the old memory does play tricks.
 
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Edelman said:
The excitement waiting for The Sportsmail was fantastic .
We used to wait outside the Shops next to what is now Wawne Ferry .
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News agent's at Beverley Rd Boothferry Rd roundabout in Hessle for my line-up. Wasn't called Sunny's in my day !

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Behind a paywall now, so we can stop being tempted to read clickbait articles repeating stuff we've already seen.
 
jhe10 said:
Behind a paywall now, so we can stop being tempted to read clickbait articles repeating stuff we've already seen.
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I honestly thought was a joke
I never read it so didn’t realise it was serious until Mrs Tash told me.
Expecting people to pay to try to read the unreadable seems a cracking business model!
 
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Sent for the mail at 4 then had to go back about 5-55 to wait for the green version , 4 Sunday papers if we won , 3 if we lost ! Proper City obsession , mind you the reports were all different whereas now they are all cloned .
 
I see Hull live has gone to view with ads or pay to read with no ads. It was always a train wreck of a site so there's no incentive to pay and I see enough ads on the unofficial film and football streaming sites, so that's me out. It seems like the only 'live' site doing this that I've seen so far.
 
Ad blockers still work, but this pop-up also doesn’t allow you to reject tracking cookies without paying them, so they're still getting data from you even without you seeing the ads.

**** em
 
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Drypool Bridge will fully close for eight weeks from mid-to-late May, Hull City Council has announced. The crossing will be shut to all vehicles and pedestrians as part of the major repair and strengthening programme. Now that to me reads it will close for eight weeks from mid May until late May which would be about two weeks .
The bridge, which spans the River Hull, reopened at the end of Novemberhaving been closed since September as part of the scheme. The council, in partnership with local contractors Esh Construction and designers Mason Clark Associates, have been working to fix the bridge since routine inspections in 2024 revealed the need for essential repairs.
ESH Construction are from Durham ,last time I looked at a map that’s a good run out from Hull.
 
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