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Shops that used to be houshold names in Hull

by Willow 4 months ago
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Mackmans_bakery

Can you remember shops that where houshold names for years but have long since gone out of business. Skeltons closed recently. Remember Mackmans. There must be quite a few others

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  1. JohnGlynn Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Where did they all go!

    I remember being dragged along to shop in Frank Dee´s, was that a local firm?

    Good topic!

  2. kitch Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    maypole carlines bob sewell,zerneys.goodfellows clifford dunn, marks and marks, gold stones, trippets savemore.Just goes to show how our shopping habits have changed

  3. karl Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Binns, used to go every Saturday to pic a dish.

  4. Ron Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Clifford Dunns at Bladon,s(used to work there) next to Thornton Varleys, Northerns used to get my Levis there 30 bob!,Hammonds,Edwin Davis next to Co-op where me mum used to get her divvi.Could go on for hours

  5. yorkie Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    heh how about peters of hull o beverley road a motorcycle shop

  6. yorkie Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    arco sports shop now the eat all you can chinese corner of saville street

  7. yorkie Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    edwin davis’s on bond street and of course jordans cars and motorcycles which also became grattans catologue

  8. yorkie Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    C & A now of cause T j hughes

  9. yorkie Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    bladons was another old shop

  10. noah Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I remember hanging out in syd. scarboros

  11. JohnnyNoah Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Oh the bargains that could be found in syd’s.

  12. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Bob Sewell on Holderness Road. "The East Hull workingmans fruiterer" and another one was "Gillys" " Don’t be silly shop with Gilly". How old fashioned where those shops

  13. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Others on Holderness Road where Wallis bakers opposit garden village, what happened to them. Also Harpers shoe shops and Presto’s. What became of Presto’s.

  14. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Mason’s on Carr lane under the city hall. That was the shop to get your levi’s and your Ben Sherman staypressed shirts.

  15. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Frank Dee was a local man. Was eventualy taken over by Gateway. What did Goldstones sell, or is the name a giveaway?

  16. Seasider Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Being interested in music I used to spend a lot of time (and money) in Stardisc – remember the groovy orangyredpurple carriers? Also Regis Records on Holderness Road, Cravens on Holderness Road, and a well stocked 2nd hand stall in the market run by someone I just knew as ‘Barry’!

  17. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Harrisons Hardwear on Holderness Road just next to the overhead railway bridge, thats another one. Where was Stardisc??

  18. YourMailWill Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    And not forgetting Sydney Scarborough’s (Syd’s). One of the last independent record shops in the area with a wide range of alternative stuff that you didn’t see in HMV or Zavvi. It’s a shame it closed down before I was earning enough money to reallt take advantage.

  19. Seasider Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Stardisc was opposite the ‘chicken shop’, was it called West Street? (Round the corner from Skeltons going towards the KC building) I’d never make a city Navigator!!

  20. Carmichaels

    Rosy Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I remember Carmichaels on George street. It knew it throughout my childhood and then it went. I must admit though, I never actually went in it. I can’t remember when it shut down. Can anyone remember?

  21. kitch Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    baloon stores were you could get everthing to decorate your christmas cake

  22. kitch Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    dolcis shoes you could always find a fashionable pair of leather shoes there

  23. Ron Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Monument Fish Shop ah! the aroma,Willis Ludlows.Remember being dragged into Chelsea Girl by the girl friend of the time.

  24. Chromosome23 Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Pen Corner on Saville Street. I bought my first copy of ‘Private Eye’ there!

    I can remember Mackmans, but I can’t remember what they sold. Was it a bakers? Meat pies and stuff?

  25. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Yeh Mackmans where bakers, probabley as big as Skeltons at the time. They went bust as well.

  26. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There seemed to be a co-op on every street corner at one time. Co-op milkmen, co-op coalmen, and co-op undertakers. There was even co-op mobile shops. Proper mobile shops not like the scruffy ones today. Who actualy owned the co-op.

  27. Rosy Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Willow, I remember a mobile shop in the 60’s on Longhill Estate. I can’t remember what it was called, but someone called Brian drove the van. Can anyone else remember Brian?

  28. Chromosome23 Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I remember the man who used to drive around Bilton Grange back in the ‘60’s selling hot bread cakes. Hot as in warm of course, not knocked off!!

  29. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Rosy, I think they called him Brain Edwards. I know his sons.

  30. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Caynaut, the man who sold bread cakes what was his name, or what was the colour of the van.

  31. JohnnyNoah Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Becks for bikes closed last year :(

  32. smky57 Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    i remember Fletchers in town use to go there every week for savoury ham roll i loved it, also use to shop there for a little old lady who loved fletchers. Not many shops now that can compete with fletchers and skeltons.

  33. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Fletchers pork pies at Christmas was big business for Fletchers. Where do people go now for pork pies.(#######ASDA probabley)

  34. barrow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Jordans Three floors of motorbikes.Heaven

  35. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It’s been bugging me, the other big bakery firm in Hull. Mcleish. It’s a few years now since they went out of business.

  36. HarryDownes Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sellit & Soon on Holderness Road and Pools Corner on Newlands Ave. Two of the most interesting shops for a bargain.

  37. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sellit & Soon was that the pair of miserable old #### opposite Astoria. Sorry but I have bottled that up for years.

  38. Roberto Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Aubreys supersave

  39. HarryDownes Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    No Willow, it was a large shop near Witham opposite the former Ray Reardon Snooker Hall

  40. Roberto Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    RJ Models on Holderness road, childhood bliss. Sportcraft in the town centre.

  41. Ron Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Brian used to come round Greatfield as well in his mobile shop. He used to live near the flats on Bilton Grange. Willow, I think the shop you mean was Vic Peers right across the road from Astoria. I can also remember a milk machine outside the row of shops there.

  42. HarryDownes Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Eddie Burbanks former Hull City legend had a Sweet & Tobacconist’s shop on Holderness Rd near opposite to Boyes

  43. ChiefDragon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Mallory’s hardware, Scotch wool shop,Timothy White & Taylor {chemists} Ted Key the butcher. Where have all the haberdashery shops gone?The only one I know now is a stall in market place. Does anyone sell embroidery goods?,you know the old ones with the patterns stencilled on? I can’t be doing with all this count the rows stuff.

  44. Chromosome23 Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There used to be a tiny model railway shop down either Berkshire Street or Brecon Street. I went there a few times as a kid. It was hardly a shop at all, just seemed to be somebodys front room.

  45. Seasider Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I can’t believe that no-one’s mentioned ‘Fields’ with the man in the window grinding coffee…so I will!

  46. Roberto Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I remember the model railway shop in Berkshire st, Wasn’t it just on the bend? and in the window it just looked like a few bits and bobs among the dust. Further towards Mersey st school was "Evil Edna’s" chip shop.

  47. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Must know how she got the name evil edna

  48. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There was a supermarket on Ings Centre called Willis Discount

  49. EdddGeee Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Vivo on Southcoates Lane, formerly Royalty Pictures. Regis Records on [Holderness] Road. Bush opticians still going. RJ Models and Sportcraft, totally forgotten about those. I bought my first Tamiya 1/35 scale Panther tank from RJ….aaaah memories.

  50. Rosy Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Gosh, small world Willow, fancy you knowing Brian’s sons. I was between the ages of 5 to about 10 when I remember him coming round in the van. As soon as we heard the van, the whole street seemed to come out. It was a great place to meet people and get the local gossip.

  51. noah Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I remember a bloke in a purple van coming around Greatfield selling stuff like black puddings, pies etc. called him Mike

  52. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Would that have been before the local shops where built. I believe there where quite a few mobile shops in those days. They would have been a real necessity to all three new council estates in east hull.

  53. noah Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    No Willow not before estate shops.Do you ever remember ‘Butcher Bell’who had a shop corner of ceylon st i think?Used to drive a leccy van around SuttonTrust

  54. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I think you will find I am right noah

  55. Roberto Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Dooks shoe repairs & Joe Allon’s DIY shop on Endymion st, Buttons bike shop on Little Buckingham st. Claytons bike shop on Holderness rd. Len Hall motorcycles also on Holderness rd.

  56. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There was a shoe repairer on Holderness road called E Soar near Quelshes newsagents opposit that football ground the name of which I cannot remember

  57. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Brunswick United

  58. eileeng Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I wonder if anyone remembers Trippetts of Brook street, Hull. I am now 67 but I worked there straight from school,(Estcourt High Sc.)aged 15.I can still "see" Mr. Trippett standing around watching his "empire".From Animal Defender

  59. ChiefDragon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Monica fisheries on Newland Avenue, She used to sell ‘squatties’ beautiful and she always put one or two chips with your squattie.There was a scrap merchant on Beverley Road, opposite Fountain Road can anyone remember the name?

  60. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There was a butchers on Portobello street called Jack Pank, he closed years ago but we where brought up on meat from Jack Pank

  61. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Another well known shop in East Hull was Joyce Soames florist, next door to what is now the Mill pub.

  62. Willow Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Karl mentioned above about Pic a dish on the top floor of Hammonds. The top floor used to be the toy department. Brilliant end to a saturdays shopping at christmas for a kid was a look around the toy department and then finish the day at pick a dish

  63. Ron Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    What did they call the shop on Holderness Rd opposite Village Rd that was like a large greenhouse, I think it was a greengrocers or florist?

  64. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I think the place you mean was next door to Wallis the baker. I cannot remember its name or what it sold.

  65. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    On quite a few of the estates where shops called Veal’s. What happend to them.

  66. eileeng Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    seasider, I worked at the highclass Fields grocers and coffee house in Beverley in the years 1960/61. It is now Nat. West bank. Hope that interests you. Animal Defender.

  67. eileeng Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Does anyone also remember Turners, (I think,) on Beverley Road,Hull ,with their slogan" Everything but the girl". Animal Defender

  68. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Just googled it. It was Turners

  69. Seasider Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Eileen – thanks for that. I can still smell the aroma of freshly ground coffee – you must have been on a permanent high!!

  70. ChrisHolmes Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I am old enough to remember Binns, Willis Ludlow which i think became Allders before it transferred to become the largest Primark store in the UK. Happy childhood days spent on chanterlands ave in the Galt Toys shop next to the library, and on Newland Avenue I have very fond memories of that large toy warehouse that used to be nxt to the railway bridge. Can’t remember its name but it had the best range of lego kits you could find anywhere.

  71. ChrisHolmes Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I am old enough to remember Binns, Willis Ludlow which i think became Allders before it transferred to become the largest Primark store in the UK. Happy childhood days spent on chanterlands ave in the Galt Toys shop next to the library, and on Newland Avenue I have very fond memories of that large toy warehouse that used to be nxt to the railway bridge. Can’t remember its name but it had the best range of lego kits you could find anywhere.

  72. Dawnie Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Clifford Dunns I was dragged there every Saturday morning before Branny centre opened for the weekly grocery shop. Willis Ludlow which then became Allders. Syds was a favourite haunt of mine for gig tickets and local music mags. Co op which is the building next to BHS. Yankee Burger which used to be down the side of Binns.

  73. smky57 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Veals had two shops on longhill, one a bakery the other fruit and veg, i think they closed down due to the council putting up the rates. hope that answer your question willow.

  74. barrow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Can’t remember the srcap merchants name on Beverley Road,but we got pram wheels there for our boogies. What about the kardoma and ABC cafes along Whitefriargate.And I was going to mention the Fields coffee house with its loverly coffee smell

  75. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ChrisHolmes the name of that toy warehouse on Newland Ave is bugging me as well. I think they had something to do with Beals newsagents.

  76. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ChrisHolmes it has just come to me AT COST

  77. ChrisHolmes Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Yessss fantastic, Willow u r a legend. That place was wild. Can’t believe it ever closed down. Toys r Us never had the same appeal for some reason even though it was much larger!

  78. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    My favourite toy shop as a kid was the top floor at Hammonds. "Action man" "Thunder birds" the list go’s on.

  79. Chromosome23 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Quote Roberto "I remember the model railway shop in Berkshire st, Wasn’t it just on the bend? and in the window it just looked like a few bits and bobs among the dust."

    It was great wasn’t it! You walked and shouted for the owner…ten minutes or so later he would come through from the back room, and yet nobody would ever think of stealing anything. He had cupboards crammed full of old track, wagons, engines. I loved that shop!

  80. Chromosome23 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Quote Willow "There was a butchers on Portobello street called Jack Pank"

    I went to school with his son John. John became a police officer as far as I know.

  81. MossyBoi Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    John Turnbulls :P

  82. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Quote Cavynaut John Pank became a police officer. I seem to remember that. Did you go to Maybury Road school?

  83. Chromosome23 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    No. I met John at senior school. We both went to Newton Hall Grammar, which became Greatfield High School. John was every inch the typical butchers son. Tubby, loved his grub, and always with a broad smile on his face. Nice kid from what I remember.

  84. bobsbar Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    what bwas the record shop on the corner of the arcade now fanthorpes?

  85. Hullweb Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    i think the problem with hull is that York only an hours drive away provide a much more shopper friendly environment. many independant shops, more cultural places to visit, more high street shops, market stalls, food fiars etc on a weekly basis and then Hull is segmented with kingswood, St’Andrews and then Hull Centre.. all with empty stores looking for a let.

    St.Stephens was a good idea sure it baffles me why it was so expensive so house 8 shops… the design of which means if your 22 foot tall you will find it welcoming..

    Hull needs investment.. alot of it.. the council couldnt organise a pee up in a brewery so its the status quo

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    Colombo Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Does anyone remember Mallory’s, the hardware shops? I think the last one was on Willerby Road next to Wildfowler Pub. Also who remembers Willis Ludlow when it was just Willis’ ? The attached photo shows it on the last day of 69 Trolley Bus service.

  87. barrow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    scrap merchant along Beverley Road was Edward Grocock.The junk mountain on the pavement was cleared 10 Aug 1956 by Hull Corporation and it took 53 lorry loads to shift it all,according to my records. Talking about the Wilis shop,I remember the Corporation cafe in a long hut at the back.My dad took us there for a meal The record shop at the arcade was Stardisc

  88. 1957 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    yes i rember the vans that came around the streets do you rember pick a dish at hammounds pk out on a sat all the best to you is good to see that them days where good days one thing i have never lost is we where born in kingston upon hull east yorkshire not hull or humberside iam proud of where i was born kind regrds ken

  89. RichardTreece Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There used to be a specialist camers shop in the city centre called Padgetts but its a while back now

  90. Dusty Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    In the mid to late 1960’s there were three main scooter / motorcycle dealers in Hull that were visited every weekend by those keen on Lambrettas,Vespas,motorcycles etc Peters on Beverley Road, Jordans in Story Street and Miles on the corner at the Anlaby Road end of The Boulevard.

  91. IanL Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Cussons,Boyce mens shop,Field’s,Trippet’s so many have gone now

  92. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Was it Boyce menswear or Royce menswear

  93. mitzi Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    what about abc when it was just 2 screens,we went every saturday morning to watch saturday matinee

  94. Ron Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Willow, it was Royce menswear. .

  95. 1957 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    peters of hull was great

  96. barrow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    THe ABC only had one screen.On the saturday morning show,there used to be the ABC Minors club with an entrtainer.I remember the Yo Yo chap on stage.Then again,I also say Roy Orbison there

  97. GwenMawson Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    What about Fields Coffee house. What a lovely smell and Wallace’s on Holderness Road. Used to queue there to get your ham and bread cakes. What happened to Oven Bottoms?

  98. pinklips Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Can anyone recall the name of the butchers/deli that was on Holderness road just past the old train lines, ( these were near courtney street )on the right if you where coming from town?

  99. Dusty Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Here are a few more names that have disappeared over the years, Cornelius Parish, BMC car dealers (Darleys roundabout on Boothferry Road, Hessle. Welptons Garage, Hessle Square. VW Dealership on Boothferry Rd, Hessle, Green Arrow, Jim Bonsalls model shop, Southgate, Hessle (opposite the church ,now a wine bar. In the same row of shops there was a furniture store and a sweet shop/tobacconists but I cannot remember the names. On Prestongate, Hessle, Crescent Library a small shop on the LHS as you walked from the square to the Weir, many Hessle teenagers in the 1960’s listened to and bought their first records from the small room at the back of the sweet/ newsagent/ toy shop. On the Weir in Hessle, Leedhams toy shop and in the same row of shops at the back of the end shop, in the 60’s there was a coffee shop, a Saturday morning meeting point, as was the cafe upstairs at what was the old Plaza cinema just off Hessle Square.

  100. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I have just looked back over these postings and there is one company I can’t see. Redifusion.

    I am sure there was also another TV rental company but can’t think of its name.

  101. KimHeseltine Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I am a child of the 60’s (born in ‘60 so I missed all the best bits)and these are all bringing memories back. We used to go for my Easter Egg at Thornton-Varly’s, so were they something to do with the choclatier? We lived on Beverley road and used to go to Fountain Rd / Waterloo St every week for the ‘big’ shop and everyday to Fletchers and the little fruit and veg shop on the corner of Cave St and Beverley road. There was Strarkey’s Hardware as well. I can remember when Jacksons opened it’s first little supermarket on Beverley road, before that you went in and a nice man behind the counter got all your stuff for you and if you didn’t have a shopping bag you were juggling. And Reddifusion was on Beverley road, where Netto and the closed down Macdonalds are now.

  102. Seasider Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I don’t think anyone has mentioned Robinsons hardware or the old HDM buildings on Jameson Street where you could browse the photos around the doorway.

    STUHOLME: Was the record shop ‘Shakespeare’s’?

  103. jeffers Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    On Newland Ave near Goddard ave there was our Butchers shop called J.Wintie’s,then we moved to a shop opposite Monica cinema, Would love to hear from anyone who has any photo’s of Newland just before the war,Redifussion had thier first shop on Newland Ave near Sharp st. There was seven butchers shops on Newland ave pre-war. jeffers

  104. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The other TV rental company I was thinking of was Granada. I can sill hear their TV ad jingle:-

    "Rent Granadaaahh"

  105. HenryBurton Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I remember Mackmans and their bakery vans used to say " Our bread is often buttered but never bettered" Harry

  106. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I should maybe ask the site administrator to include all businesses not just shops. There are probabley loads of companies from the past that we can remember

  107. ChrisCross Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Ron, I believe the Greenhouse opposite Garden Village was called Darling’s Nurseries,Also Eddie Burbanks was,I think opposite Victor St, Just past Elephant & Castle Public House.

  108. ChiefDragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Willow – I remember Rediffusion,I worked there in the faults office and workshops from 1964-1969. Met my husband there we’ve been married 39yrs, that place has a lot to answer for lol. I think the other TV firm was Radio Rentals, their biggest rival at the time, Granada bought Rediffusion in the seventies.

  109. georgebarrett Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    What about Canty’s on Newland Ave, across from Sharp Street slightly to the north.they had the best pork pies.

  110. kath Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    what about cattles the furniture shop on charles steet and bennits the chemist and who remembers waterloo cinema on waterloo street 7p for a hard seat and one shilling for a soft seat,they used to come round with a flyspray while you were watching the films because of fleas and you all ended up choking and coughing because of the spray.

  111. bobsbar Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    there used to be a toy shop in the old bus station on the corner which became an amusement arcade also one between empress pub and burtons

  112. Barbara Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Hi. I’m nearly 70 and can remember Liptons, Cattles and Gladstone (the wet fish man) down Charles Street. Starkeys in Waterloo Street next to the post office. Used to get loose vinegar from Starkeys. ducker’s fish and chip shop corner of Liddell Street/Ripon Terrace. Wheelbands in Norfolk street. Does anyone else remember these?

  113. Barbara Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Forgot about Hancock’s sweet shop corner Liddell Street/Waterloo Street and grindells, pet shop same area. Oh gosh I seem to be getting in my stride, sorry.

  114. wedge Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    anyone remember the pounders in Beeton street who also attended courtney strreet school. There was turners pawn brokers, Minns bakery, the arcade in waller street. Remember the carousel at the top of Beeton street and the coalyard.

  115. wedge Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    remeber how beautiful east park was, picnics on the grass, Mackmans for vanilla offcuts at 2p a quarter. Woolies at the corner of Holland Street, all the schools seemed to have different names and mersey junior high , with mr kelly, mrs knox-dick, midi, miss wilkinson, miss conyers, mrs taylor for fren ch , mr partridge, mr burrel, mrs mace, to name a few

  116. JohnTurner Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Pioneer Cafe in Jameson Street…known for whipping your plate away before youd even finished…Phillip Science or his brother ran it…..Yankee Burger…as well

  117. JohnTurner Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    hagenbachs the bakery in Town I think and Bransholme Centre (Northpoint)

  118. wedge Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Iremember Mary Taylors at the corner of St Marks Street and the newsagents on the opposite side. there was also a sweet shop around the corner of kent street in damson lane who a Mrs and Mr Davidson, i went to school for a short while with their daughter Sandra . Mr Argent owned a food shop opposite the Punch Bowl. Mumbys sweet shop used to be down Derwent Street and Cherries sweet shop at the corner of Berkshire street opposite Mersey Juniors. Wallis’ was renowned for the mice in the shop running over the assistants feet.

  119. Roberto Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    wendykay, I remember Mumby’s sweet shop when I was at mersey school. My dad used to send us for his ciggies when he was on leave and they would know who they were for and still give us them. Mr Kelly’s dodgy tracksuits aaah the memories are flooding back.

  120. Tiger2000 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Anyone remember the small Shopping Arcade on Holderness Road located on what is now the site of the JJB Sports Superstore?. I can’t remember the names of the shops in the arcade, but there was a barbers and a fruit shop as well as a Decorators Supplies shop at the front. The was also a Bingo/ Amusement arcade nearby in what eventually became ‘The Craven Park’ pub. There also used to be a travelling Bingo that used to stay the winter on some wasteground that is now the Mount Pleasent road.

  121. ChrisCross Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Tiger 2000, I think the arcade you refer to is the Holderness Arcade, it did indeed have a barbers & fruit shop as well as a cafe at the bottom, The Decorators you mention was Direct Decorations. There is on the Hull City Council Website under "Historic Photographs" many old photographs of Hull, including one of the arcade & Decorators you mention,i believe it is from the late 60’s.

  122. Willow Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    On that same area which is now Mount Pleasant there was a secondhand car sales site. I seem to think it was John Ainsley’s. I remember going there and getting bitten by a dog. I still have the scares.

  123. ChrisCross Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Soda Fountain Cafe corner of Jesmond Gardens, Cleveland Records corner of Hornsea Parade,think they had another shop in Hull not sure where,and i seem to remember an Undertakers underneath what was until recently the Cornmill Hotel, but maybe thats just my imagination.

  124. Soupdragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Bob Carvers Fish and Chip stall on the ‘open market’. The smell of fresh ground coffee from the Kardomah on Whitefriargate. The Model Shop by Burtons until it moved to Ferensway. Suggs Sport Shop on Paragon Street. I thought there was 2 ‘Stardisc’ shops, one on Silver Street on the corner of the Arcade and the other on South Street, sort of opposite the Chicken Shop. Anyone recall James Reckitts swimming baths on or around the Dansom Lane area ?

  125. rocky Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    what about the citra lemonade truck that used to come onto the estates selling fizzy pop in the glass bottles which you had to return each week to get your deposit back and peggy’s sweet shop on greatfield and electricades (think that was the name) which was a toy shop on greatfield

  126. Colombo Submitted 3 months ago