Played football against Hammonds for Bladons in Hull Thursday League late 50's ,league was dominated by Police,Fire Brigade and Service sides.
O/T slightly but good read about Yankeeburger here. http://www.thisisull.com/people/855973026_cillajohnscience.html
I love these pictures as much as anyone but the question posed was would the city centre be full of all of these wonderful buildings if they had not been destroyed by the bombing? Well probably but would they befall the same blight as those shops, however ugly, suffer today. Those grand old shops would have suffered at the hands of the out of town shopping centres the Meadowhalls, our own little shopping centres, Kingswood for one and of course internet shopping, how could these wonderful and large building be maintained with the modern shopping onslaught? Edwin Davies comes to mind of course and now look at what was once C&A's maybe the bombs did us a favour at least there are still the photos.
Wonderful thread, you have bought back so many memories. My mum ( a true Yorkshire lady) did not believe in credit/hire purchase did have an account at Hammonds and she genuinely believed it was the Harrods of the north. I still have some of here statements which make amazing reading!!
Just read it, Chazz. Dave Tenney (Page 3) was in the same class as me at school; Tony Martin (and the Mods), who was Rod Ellis, was a mate of mine, too.
the slum clearance , ring roads would have certainly been built . In Coventry the plans to "modernise" the city centre were drawn up and ready to go . . . WW2 got in the way , but as a strange quirk it helped clear the buildings for his plans for a fresh city centre and ringroad system Im not sure what buildings the council planners would save as in the 50s and 60s even up to the 90s they thought modernisation and progress meant destroying the past . I hate seeing new builds next to grand buildings that show no sympathy to whats around .
In the sixties I used to go to the top floor and listen to records in the booths, so you could decide whether to buy or not.
Thanks for that. Surprised "The Glums" and "Colonel Chinstrap" were not featured in the anniversary edition. My favourite radio comedy show of the early fifties, along with around another 35 million or so listeners, was "The Al Read Show". Just had time to listen to it in its early days before mum packed me off to Sunday school! Still listen to recordings of excerpts from the show from time to time as a reminder of how funny he was portraying simple life experiences eg The Wife, The Dog etc. Another favourite in the show was the moaning critical football fan in the crowd. For me just comedy genius.
Nice photos, spent a lot of time with my gran in and around these places. Funny how seeing the photos brings the memorys back.
Along with Syd Scarborough's John we had our very own ipods of the day, incidentally did you ever actually buy any of the records you listened too, don't think I ever did.
I used to get my records from either the market(ex jukebox with the middle missing), or from the shop inside Paragon Station, or the record shop opposite the Tower.
True Stan but I always got fed up of waiting at G&D a very popular place as was Paragon Music Store where I bought my guitar sheet music from, which I still have with their prices ranging from 2/6d to 5/- lol.
I also seem to remember record 'fairs' which usually lasted about a day and I think Hull City Hall had one or two and a lot of the 45's had the middles missing but then you could buy the middle bits separately.
I was looking for 'Stardisc' and came across this: http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/-yorkshire.html
I'm trying to remember the name of the shop opposite the Tower. If it's the one I'm thinking of it also sold books and was into worthy causes in a lefty sort of way.
