Happy Birthday Laurie!!

[flyjoe180]

Happy Birthday Laurie, hope you have/had a great day mate

[monica]

Happy birthday Laurie....All the very best to you.

[Guest]

Thanks Joe all the way from New Zealand. Monica a feminine touch that is special thank you.

We have a Facebook group called 'Hull The Good Old days' where we swap photo's and memories.do you mean the 'Boothferry Bridge' over the River Ouse near Goole built in 1926.

If so here are a couple of pics for you!

With regard to V1 Doodle bugs, here is an extract from an official record from the Hull WWII files.

One landed on Reeds Island in the Humber and another fell just on the outskirts of Hull, Cottingham/Willerby.

So you must have brought them with you from London!

We still have very broad accents and we don't seem to ave an 'H' in our vocabulary, ence we cum frum ull, not Hull

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Gregg

First Gregg thanks very much for your interest. Think I gave you wrong info. Sure after looking at a map it was on the Hull. It would be some where at the end of Holderness road. I know you went up an incline to get to it.

Yes we got to Hull from London & they sent over a few V1's. Not many at least not when we were there. Actually went to Sunderland Grandmother first before Hull but a family difference then changed Grandmas so.

Laurie

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Thanks Joe all the way from New Zealand. Monica a feminine touch that is special thank you.First Gregg thanks very much for your interest. Think I gave you wrong info. Sure after looking at a map it was on the Hull. It would be some where at the end of Holderness road. I know you went up an incline to get to it.

Yes we got to Hull from London & they sent over a few V1's. Not many at least not when we were there. Actually went to Sunderland Grandmother first before Hull but a family difference then changed Grandmas so.

Laurie

The only bridge at the end of Holderness Road/Witham is North Bridge.

However this is a lift bridge.

The small photo is of the Drypool Bridge on Great Union Street replaced in the 50's maybe this is what you remember!

The first photo is approaching North Bridge from Holderness Road end, the second is self explanetary.

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Gregg

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[Guest]

Yes Gregg it is the Drypool Bridge. Searching back I remember the approaches & also my Relatives mentioning Drypool. The bit Drypool stands out. Thanks for that very much. Also have great memories of Paragon Station with the steam locos hissing as they completed their journeys to Hull from London. For a young boy such excitement as I remember passing them with the driver & fireman watching us leave Paragon leaning out of this monster.

Matter of interest my Uncle was also in charge of the drains, as they are known. Just before he died, when we were up in Hull for Uncle & Aunts 65th wedding anniversary, he told me all about the drains. He used to live in a little council house in Hopkins St (off Portebello Road) which was just next to one of the drains.

Thanks again Gregg all very interesting memories.

Laurie

PS the North Bridge looks very similar to the Pagasus Bridge in Normandy. In a boating holiday years ago now we cruised past it. At that time it was lying on the embankment to be replaced.

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many happy returns me old mucka

[Guest]

Thanks Rob very nice of you. Not so much of the "mucka" I have a shower every year !

Laurie