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I Used to Cycle There
I used to live in Carr Lane which was only a short walk across (at that time) an open field, to visit these shops. Comics and penny sweets in the newsagent, where I also paid in to my Post Office Savings account, then later withdrew when I had enough to buy an Airfix model. My mother shopped at the co-op which was several shops to the left and there was a fish-and-chip shop roughly in the middle of the picture.
One of the shop keepers had painted a notice on his window, using a white paint that was easy to rub off the glass with just a finger, saying he had "Boiling Fowl". As delinquents my friends and I just had to alter it to "oili owl".
Boating on The Lake
The photo above, of the two Lads on the lake is of my Brother Graham and I. I can`t remember it myself but apparently, Graham tells me, he was fed up because he wasn`t allowed to drive the boat as he was too small.
My First And Last Jobs in Hull
This is a photo of the Derringham Branch of the Hull Savings Bank where I started as a junior bank clerk at the age of 16 on 31st August 1965, probably around the time when this photo was taken. It certainly looks right.
This was my first job after leaving Riley High School, just down the road from the bank. The heating in the building was powered by a big coal fired boiler in the cellar and one of my main tasks was to shovel coal down the coal chute and stoke the boiler, not what I had expected when I had applied for a job as a bank clerk and all this for the princely salary of £325 a year.
What a lovely buiding this was, especially in 1965. Polished wood panelling everywhere; solid mahogany counter; highly polished (and dangerously slippery!) parquet floors where the staff worked and a beautiful mosaic floor in the customer area with the Kingston Upon Hull three crowns crest set... Read more
Summer Holidays
My Mam was from Hull and I was born there. We moved to Wales when I was three. We used to go to visit my Gran in Glebe Road, and my Aunt Hilda. We loved the patties and fish and chips. They were the best. I remember the trams, the parks and riding bikes. Us children, my brothers and I, did not like the smell from reckits factoryl My dad used to laugh as we held our noses walking past there. They were great holidays.
Opening of The 'New' Hull Police Station
My great-grandfather, Richard Gillett, was an Alderman and laid the foundation stone for this building. I don't suppose that there is a photo of the Foundation Stone anywhere, is there? A member of our family has the engraved silver trowel and gavel which were presented to him at the time.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sheilaweston/gillett/Gillett\%20Family\%20Photographs/richardgillett.html
Sheila Weston, nee Trenbath
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