My missus used to get into lido(1960s)by climbing the back fence without paying.I used to pay.She is the reason they had to close it down. We are 3 months separated by age.I get my pension at 65 she has to work til 66.What goes around....
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From the bus stop near lido I used to read the name of a café opposite Rendezvous.REN DEZ VOUS was how I phonetically read it in my head(I presume it was a café)
Cycle to the park. 10 No.10 from the shop behind the splash boat. Fishing in the lake til we got bored. (Caught nowt). Cycling like loons thru the rocks and along the paths, annoying everyone. Trying to chat up every passing lass. (Failing miserably). 3 and ya in all afternoon. (Inevitable jumpers for goalposts). Home for tea. (Giving a croggy to the lad who'd had his bike nicked during the day). Story of my summer holidays 1977.
Used to live down Portobello Stan. I was seeing this lady who was quite into the outdoor sex. Had quite a few adventures in East Park!
I went there in the late 1960's. We'd been to the Tower the day before and met some girls who we arranged to meet next day at the Lido. It was quite a trek for us from West Hull but they turned up! I seem to remember the Lido was quite near Holderness Road and was parallel to it. The best summer job I ever had ended at East Park in 1976. I worked for the Parks Department and was sent to East Park. I ran the motor boats at first. This included chasing some kids Keystone Cops style when they stole a boat. Our boat caught them but they legged off while we towed their boat back in. After that I worked the Splash Boat - absolutely great. I was powerc crazed. The best was saved for last. I got to drive the Wild West train. This was a tractor covered with plywood to make it look like a train. It pulled two coaches. The regular driver had done his back in driving it and he became the conductor. He hated it all but I couldn't understand why till I took it out for the first time. There was a small raised bank that I drove along the side of. Suddenly a bunch of kids on BMX bikes swooped from behind it, hollering and whooping likes Apaches. They attacked the train! They rode alongside, jumped from their bikes and tried to board the train. My conductor proved to be my saviour. Thank God he hated kids. He produced a large cudgel from the back of the second carriage and, as soon as the kids' fingers landed on the woowork, he smashed them with his stick. Happy days. Were any of you one of those Apaches?
My husband had 2 uncles that lived in Watt St- even number side. One left in the late fifties with his family for Sydney and the other was there from the 30's to the 90's and was a Bookmaker and Club owner on Hedon Road.( Embassy Club)
Dunno how old you are, Chazzman, but did you know Bri Woodward - lived on 'odds' side, a good way down?
Wasn't the Lido next to 'East Park Ballroom', parallel to Holderness Road and between the 'Ballroom' and East Park Ave?
Nah from 87 time to 93 roughly Stan, lived top end too. Really enjoyed living there, people were real friendly.
I can remember as a kid a gang of us going for dips in the middle of the night during the school holidays by scaling the fence, the parkies were a miserable bunch though
My husband says that's where he believes it was. He occasionally went to East Park Ballroom for the Saturday dance. I first visited Hull for a few days in 1977 without my husband and he gave me a list of things to do. On the list was to go to East Park and see the huge floral clock. Also- see Hull play at the Boulevard from the Threepenny Stand(that was a horrible place). My overriding memory of that visit,however, was seeing the lines of fishing trawlers laid up alongside the dock-seemingly scores of them and such a sad sight.
