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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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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.
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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