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10th Service Battalion East Yorks Regiment Enlist in Hull in 1914
My Great Uncle John Percy Norfolk enlisted at Wenlock Barracks, Anlaby Road, Hull on 1st September 1914 and became a private in the "Hull Pals". The barracks at 380 Anlaby Road were built around 1911 on the site of a former private residence known as Somerset House. Writing now in 2012 this area is scheduled for demolition and redevelopment. Great-Uncle John's battalion was known as a Service Battalion as the men who enlisted all committed to serve for the duration of the hostilities. Their Battalion became known as the "Commercials" as all the men were tradesmen from around Hull. They formed one of four Battalions in Hull. Great-Uncle John Norfolk (known to me as "Uncle Percy") was promoted to Lance-Corporal early in 1915 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later that year, and to Lieutenant in 1916. He trained at Hornsea and Ripon before active service in Egypt and France (where he was severely wounded at Helmterre and required repatriation to England for surgery). There... Read more
Priory Cinema
I think that it became Savemore Supermarket. I remember going with my mum from Willerby Road. Supermarkets in those days were few and far between.
Fresher Experiences
Loved this pool, swimming, was like been abroad, bring back the LIDO.....it's more fun swimming outdoors.
Machine Gunning in Daylight at Saltend in The Second World War
I lived in Marfleet during the Second World War. One afternoon we heard a machine gun from the direction of Saltend. Not long after, a column of smoke arose. It was said at the time that a 2-man Heinkel float plane had landed in the Humber opposite Saltend and had machine-gunned the works and fractured a pip line. Can anyone remember this? Regards, Terry McComiah, 61 Beach Road, Tauranga 3110, New Zealand
A Winter Crossing on The North Sea
I well remember the King George Dock as I embarked here with 33rd Signal Regiment (a TAVR unit formerly known as the Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry). We were en route to Germany having a posting to RAF Gutersloh for annual training and we travelled to and from Rotterdam in rotten winter weather in November 1968. The entire regimental vehicle pool went aboard - everything from fully loaded three tonners to our secret "Comcen" trucks, all escorted by Land Rovers. Each vehicle carried a warning sign on the back saying "Achtung - keine blinkzeichen" (warning - no indicators) and we filled the ferry with our equipment and troops. It was a particularly rough crossing on our return to Hull. In fact it was so rough that we lost a great many of our vehicle lights. The cause was simple: the Rotterdam ferry staff insisted that we parked our transport on the vehicle deck in the normal civilian style of just a few inches gap between bumpers. They had taken no account of the... Read more
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Hi, can anyone out there in Hull remember the Webster family from Cumberland Street? The dad was a bargee, there were quite a lot of kids. Please answer via this site, I would love to know more about them.
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
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.
