discussion Happy Birthday Laurie!!

[Ian M]

Ouch!

Is there not a guarantee on dental work where you live. We do. takes the edge off it a bit.

Ian M

 

[ojays]

Hi Laurie, believe it or not , the splash boat is still there providing thrills for the young and old alike for the last 80 odd years!

I hope this brings back memories.

I used to live just a few hundred yards from Brindley Street back in the 50's. Small world isn't it!

As to the bombing of Hull, that is still a very sore point here.

We were the second most bombed city in the country after London, a fact that never made the public domain. Only ever referred to as 'A North Eastern town was bombed last night'

Check out hullandeastridingatwar.co.uk as we have just started to record the wartime history of Hull after, records were recently discovered covering the bombing campaign on Hull.

All the ARP records for the wartime period are now being collated, they were found somewhere hidden away!

If you Google 'The Hull Blitz Bomb Map' you will see just how much was destroyed.

Hull was a very important port supplying much of the foodstuffs imported to keep the country going, and many of the convoys to Russia were sent from here. Hence the need for the Germans to put Hull out of action, something we are proud they never succeeded in doing.

Gregg

 

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Sorry Laurie, I think it is still before midnight in the UK but I'm not sure whether you are on UK or European time! Anyway a very happy birthday to you. I hope you enjoyed the day and have many more to come.By the way I was born in Hull as well. Can't remember much about it now though.

Seems to be a few of us Hullians on here! lol

Gregg

 

[Guest]

Belated 75th birthday greetings Laurie, I hope it was good one for you.

 

[Guest]

Happy birthday!

 

[Guest]

Very many thanks I must have birthdays every month it is very nice. So thanks to Ron Ian M Ian Papa Terry Gregg Andy & Francesco.

Thanks Gregg the boat splash enhances the memories. Another you might know. Viewed my first film, must have been 6 at the think it was Royal or something like that at the endd of Brindley St on the SouthCoates Lane. Cried when we went in with my Grandma as they just played music and I thought that was it. But no cheered up to Lassie come home. Think in this film Lassie takes a ride in a Bomber. Last time in Hull the cinema had changed to a Supermarket.

Also my Uncle Laurie Johnson was an Alderman of Hull & in charge, as a politician, of that magnificent Humber Bridge.

Thanks to you all very nice & very welcome.

Laurie

 

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Very many thanks I must have birthdays every month it is very nice. So thanks to Ron Ian M Ian Papa Terry Gregg Andy & Francesco.Thanks Gregg the boat splash enhances the memories. Another you might know. Viewed my first film, must have been 6 at the think it was Royal or something like that at the endd of Brindley St on the SouthCoates Lane. Cried when we went in with my Grandma as they just played music and I thought that was it. But no cheered up to Lassie come home. Think in this film Lassie takes a ride in a Bomber. Last time in Hull the cinema had changed to a Supermarket.

Also my Uncle Laurie Johnson was an Alderman of Hull & in charge, as a politician, of that magnificent Humber Bridge.

Thanks to you all very nice & very welcome.

Laurie

Your welcome Laurie,

I hadn't realised you had such a prominent family in Hull.

I used to go to Saturday Minors at Royalty cinema in the 50's. When it closed it became a carpet warehouse, then a supermarket as you so rightly said.

I assume you went there in the 40's which was probably a good decision, as the other cinema just down the road (Savoy) on Holderness Road, was bombed and the escaping cinema goers strafed as they left, leaving many dead.

Here is a picture of Royalty in the 50's for you!

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[Guest]

Belated 75th birthday greetings Laurie

Andy

 

[Guest]

Thanks Andy not belated at all as I am 75 for another 12 months. He he Pauline will be 76 in March older than me. I take full advantage of this in broadcasting the fact far & wide !

That is the place Gregg how on earth did you unearth that picture ? I was there in probably July August 1944 taken up North to avoid the V1 doodle bugs raids on London. Accents were very broad in those days & coming from London with a near cockney accent I became, for a time, the interest of all in the class when I spoke. Probably the first time they had heard a Londoner as TV etc. was not about & most of radio was Oxford accents don't you know.

Thanks for that Greg another if you can find a photo. The Swing Bridge think it was over the Ouse.

Laurie

 

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Thanks Andy not belated at all as I am 75 for another 12 months. He he Pauline will be 76 in March older than me. I take full advantage of this in broadcasting the fact far & wide !That is the place Gregg how on earth did you unearth that picture ? I was there in probably July August 1944 taken up North to avoid the V1 doodle bugs raids on London. Accents were very broad in those days & coming from London with a near cockney accent I became, for a time, the interest of all in the class when I spoke. Probably the first time they had heard a Londoner as TV etc. was not about & most of radio was Oxford accents don't you know.

Thanks for that Greg another if you can find a photo. The Swing Bridge think it was over the Ouse.

Laurie

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.

'This V1 was one of 40 air-launched from Heinkel bombers off the coast between Skegness and Mablethorpe and aimed at Manchester. Many had gone off course including the Tudhoe V1 and one which landed in Northamptonshire, and only one actually hit Manchester, but there were 35 deaths, most of them in Oldham. The air-launching of V1s was a tactic employed by the Nazis after the V1 launching ramps were captured by the Allies.'

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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[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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[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

 

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

Laurie