Wasn't it on the corner of Anlaby Road and Boothferry Road? There was a row of small shops there, opposite the Mirror shop. I always thought the owner was mad leaving those large mirrors outside on match days. I bought my two 1966 World Cup final programmes at the programme shop. We'd go in each week to buy the City away programme from the week before. I'm pretty certain the Chinese above Fletcher's was the Pearl River. I went in there for my friend's 18th birthday in 1973. First time in a restaurant. No idea what to do or order. Got Chow Mein because I'd had the Vesta variety. Everyone else seemed to have chop suey. Then we went to the Master's Bar on Jameson Street and the ABC to watch Boxcar Bertha - the midnight movie. Fell asleep in it. Walked three miles home and found the sneck down on the Yale lock. My parents didn't respond to the doorbell so I slept in the shed that night. Happy Days!
Back around 1971, I was in the fiction "D" section of the college library. A lecturer asked me if I was partial to Dickens. I told him that I'd never attended one. Dadum! At Cunny, we had four houses: Andrew, David, Patrick and George. On November 30, as a member of Andrew's, I and the rest of the house, got an extra 15 minutes play time on the afternoon of November 30. Aside from the whisky and the road back to England, it's the only thing for which I can say thanks to the ****s north of us.
I think you're right about Pearl River. Kam Wah was, I think, near Masters Bar, upstairs above shops; there was also Hoi Sun, near where Andy' Records was, facing across to Fletchers corner, on Jameson Street.
I've never this before, it's the central arcade of the original Hull Co-op, where the different departments were set out as different shops (courtesy of Keith Parker)... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
A while back someone on here was asking about a story about being able to walk straight out of Empress into another pub, it seems it was true, the other pub was the Monument Tavern, but it closed in the 60's. Ten lost Hull pubs that were once hugely popular http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/ten-...9889940-detail/story.html#QS716YX1b3L3UkTp.99
Did not realise Golden Ball had gone. I used to work around the corner from there when Waggy was landlord
M&S might soon be added to the 'missed shops' list, Hull is No.25 on the list of 52 stores that will either be closed or made into a food only store.
No great loss, even my mother says their clothes are rubbish now and she's a textbook M&S customer, you know, buy it,keep it a week then take it back
NEWSFLASH: Their food ain't all that. Waitrose are better top end, Sains and Tesco can often better them on range and price, and Morrisons piss all over em on prices and range of fruit/veg.
Who is the statue of? Looks a bit like the one of Andrew Marvell which was outside Hull Grammar School when down Bishop Alcock Road off Bracknell Ave, or could be Michael De La Pole.
Morrisons are best for meat and the fruit and veg is also decent, Waitrose do the best ready meals (apart from Heston's overpriced ****e), I never go to Asda, Sainsburys or Tesco nowadays, Aldi and Lidl are better.
I think it is - I recognised it as Andrew Marvel - I went to Grammar and was in Marvel House for my troubles
Mrs. LBIA has recently started working at Sainsbury's, personally I've always liked them as a store. She's loving working there, from what she's told me it seems a really great place to work, and all of the colleagues that she's met so far have all worked there for years and love the place, it all sounds a bit like the total extreme opposite to what I'd imagine it would be like working for the Allam's
