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My Family

Market Place c1960
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I have just started to trace my family tree and found that my mother was born in the pub in Patrington market place in the year 1922. The family name being Melbourne. Does anybody have any memories of the people who owned that pub around that time or even a little later. It would make interesting reading.

We Had A Caravan Here

The Cliffs And Beach c1955
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My family had a caravan in the field behind Johnsons Farm, opposite the corrugated iron clad cafe in the picture. At one end of the cafe were amusement machines such as; Jennings indian head, one armed bandits and other mechanical amusements. Our caravan, originally a tourer but then a static, was made by a small company called Quorn. I have photographs of it. My father, says that he remembers when, as a child, he would ride his bicycle past the cafe and on for a further few hundred yards. That would have been in around 1935. I'm guessing that the photograph is a little later than 1955. There were two rows of shacks running parallel to the cliff edge, north of the cafe and they were still there in 1956. The cafe was shortened to enable it to continue to trade for an extra year or two before its inevitable end. I have been back many times since, and always marvel at the huge amount of land that has been... Read more

Boating on The Lake

East Park Boating Lake c1965
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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

Savings Bank c1965
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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

Savings Bank c1965
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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

New Police Station 1903
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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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Savings Bank c1965
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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.

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