Lost Villages of Hull: Drypool
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2022
- The history of the village of Drypool, and the genesis of East Hull as it spread along the Holderness Road, taking the community of Drypool with it!
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This whole area is lucky to have you. you give so much time and attention to the videos and the stories that they are a pleasure to watch. I come away from each video with a richer understanding of the area I am from which makes me appreciate this area so much more, your videos are genuinely brilliant!
That's awesome, thankyou! I feel the same as I'm learning and researching, and I just enjoy sharing what I've found, so I'm really glad if I get to pass on some of that excitement!
Amen!
My wifes from Hull, she's recognise all that you talk about, Personnal stories give contxt even life to places, hearing your story is as much interesting as the places you talk about. Looking forward to more.
I completely agree
Born and raised here, it was a great place to grow up.
My parents had a newsagency in Durham street and we lived in Durham street. We came to NZ in 1953 and I've been back several times. Our house was still standing but the one we were joined to had been demolished. This video brought back a lot of good memories for me, familar names and a familiar accent. My Yorkshire accent is still recognisable even though I've spent 70 years in NZ. You can take the boy out of Hull but you can't take Hull out of the boy. I'm living proof.
@Kirk M Much had been destroyed, the block and terrace where our shop was had gone, realistically it all looked ready to be re-developed. It certainly felt a bit weird but I would't say spooky.
@Kirk M When we were there it was a thriving, healthy community, lots of children from toddlers to teenagers. Raine club was after my time there.
My birth certificate is stamped with drypool so this video is special to me too. Jamie do not worry and think people are not interested in your family history it means we get to know you better and your roots.I remember a funny story about the rugby teams fc & rovers i was delivering new fords on trade plates in 1978 from king George dock and got a lift with a lorry driver just to break the ice after a short time i said i see hull fc won last night? Next thing the brakes went on and i thought we had hit a dog or person and the driver said right get out my family has been rovers fans for generations i thought he was joking but no he threw me out thats when i first knew about the rivalry between the two banks of Hull but i was born on the east side haha.
Oh aye, I've never been into sport stuff myself, but yeah, east and west Hull treat rugby with a kind of terminal intensity!
I come from Hull but left many years ago. Your films bring it all back, and your accent is wonderful!
I also left Hull many years ago, thankfully.
Couldn't agree more and from a similiar perspective.
@@davidsharpe7644 We're thankful too. Don't let us keep you.
I was born in a house down Newcomen Street, and moved to James Reckitt Ave when i was 10. My paternal grandparents lived down James Reckitt for many, many years, my dad having been born there. The house was originally owned by my great grandparents, with my grandad born there as well. My grandma being born down nearby Astoria Crescent. She is still alive today, and still tells a story of the old dairy farm that a lot of Ings estate was built on. One night, the cows escaped, and one found its way into their garden. My grandma saw it and told her dad, who didnt believe her and beat her for lying... only then to see it himself!
On my maternal side, my grandparents lived on Newcomen Street for many decades, with my mother, and grandmother being born in the house, having been owned by my great grandparents since it was built! My grandad told me stories of watching Savery and Watt Street being built on the old farm there. So yes, i agree, it is a big community for so many people. At least 4 generations of my family history all from one small area of East Hull, centred around Holderness Road.
Brilliant as ever. Liverpool lad (old man) been living in Hull for 20 years or so and I look forward to every one of your videos as they come out. You're everything UA-cam should be
G'day mate. Les Rose from Western Australia here. I do want to hear personal stories. Please don't hold back on your family history and experience. You have a wonderful documentary series that I have only just discovered.
The White house on Manet Street is where My Dad Lived Before the War & My Great Great Nana Wood Lived Down Balfour street which is no longer there which is sad as I can still smell the Coal fire. I am east Hull born Registered at Drypool and My brother once traced our family back to a small street in drypool just behind the Plimsoll ship Hotel from a census. Thank You for Your knowledge of these lost streets and Villages of Hull. I am 60yrs and sometimes can feel melancholy of the sad loss of a once great city. Hull is truly Historic of these lost places and a good job we have people like you dedicated to documenting these places. Thank You.
A consummate storyteller. HHN makes history live. That last extended piece to camera was a tour de force for getting to the point and tying all the loose ends up without stopping and starting. That narrative could be applied to so many communities, but when it's your community that makes it so real and personal. I have lived in Hull only for 50ish years but your videos have really made the city live for me. Keep up the good work.
Thankyou! It's not often I do something completely adlibbed, I've usually got a script to reference, so I was a bit worried that it might come across as rambling and vague!
i love the past, i'm only interested in the past, 99.9% of everything now is sterile and souless, whereas the past, thinking back to childhood are the things that formed who i am. The buildings that grab my attention are the derelict, neglected or untouched.
I feel what yiz sayin bruv
Everything the 'property developers' touch turns to sterile, sameness, souless. I've just bought a very cheap place, but it's old and surrounded by older and some ancient, across the river in north lincs and i love the area, lots of quirky villages with wobbly walls.
I'm apprehensive about Hull and Grimsby but they have a rich history with lots of impressive treasures and plenty of neglect for me to search out and appreciate and make me think of better times
... I'm a little bit concerned about Immingham though .. it brings back horrific memories ..
Are used to have a shop Ron’s heel to toe directly opposite Wescott Street many many years ago
The excitement i feel when our favourite hull nerd uploads.... 🥰 more....
I'm from Hull myself, and its fascinating how much history is here, hidden or otherwise. This channel is a gem. Keep these coming.
Another excellent piece of history of my home town, I used to travel around that area as my grandparents live in Bilsby Terrace in Durham Street, Thanks for bringing back those memories.
You're getting better with each one. Fascinating.
A lot of people, like me, are East Hull due to Hedon Road Maternity Hospital (which means I have Drypool on my sixties' birth certificate), although I'm a Cott lad at heart. The Drypool birth certificate also means I can legitimately support Hull Kingston Rovers, the thinking man's Rugby League team.
Weirdly, I never even considered covering the maternity hospital as it's actually nowhere near Drypool, but instead between the wards of Marfleet and Southcoates! I had planned to include it in my Marfleet or Southcoates videos on the future, I had no idea it was once classed as Drypool!
@@hullhistorynerd Just looking at my 1964 birth certificate now. It says Registration District Hull, Birth in the Sub-district of Drypool in the County Borough of Kingston upon Hull. So it's more of a registration thing.
In the mid 60s I worked at Smith and Nephews at the the top of Hessle Road, and going just a hundred yards down that road to the sandwich shop was akin to crossing Check Point Charlie. I inadvertently stumbled into the Prince Edward pub at the rear of the Cecil Cinema, and was confronted by a sea of light blue suits with half belted jackets , and a bar teetering with empty drink glasses and a crowd baying for more drink. There was an animal energy that I don't think I have ever experienced before except possibly at a England Scotland rugby final. What a different town Hull was in those days!
You aren't alone bud. I, too... Used to call all of Hull as home. I grew up on Endike Lane in the Eighties :)
TELL Your stories. Share them... We wanna hear them!
I'm really loving your videos! I'm a Scot that lived in Hull 75-76. I've always had fond memories of Hull and it's people. I walked around a lot. Lived in 3 areas. Newland Ave, Anlaby Rd and Beverley Rd. Worked at Reckitt's on the Windolene lines. Great company to work for. The summer of 76 was incredible. Hull was like a dust bowl. The plague of ladybirds that stopped the work on the Humber Bridge was Biblical! I now live in Rawcliffe near Goole and get through to Hull from time to time. Oh! and just briefly, I was on the Sobriety barge out of Goole that got beached on a sand bank at North Ferriby back in 2004. The irony of being on a booze cruise on a barge called Sobriety with no beer was enough to make national news! LOL.
I was only a toddler at the time, but even I remember that ladybird plague, I remember being really upset that my mum was just driving my pushchair over them and the constant crunching was making me cry!
It's great to watch your videos. Growing up just outside Hull in the village of Long Riston we often went shopping on Holderness Road. All the best 🇬🇧.
I'm a Sculcoates kid myself but love watching your superb history lessons covering our fabulous local heritage .... thank you
An old Beverlonian Fart replies, all the way from that London.. I just want to say what an EXCELLENT name you have there! I shall be checking you out; are you an U tube channel? 🌟👍
Love this, so interesting! As a 'Family History Nerdette' I was delighted the video took the ending it did. Born Arundel St, and still living elsewhere 'on Road and my ancestors rooted round Bucky Street for years it really resonated. Thank you, great job!
I am so thrilled to have found this video.
I have had in my possession for a long time, my great grandmas sunday school prize, a small book. The book plate says she was awarded it, a second prize, in 1893, at St Peter's Drypool. I have looked for the church a couple of times, and I now know why I have never found it! I also think she may have got married at St Peters.
Thank you so much Hull History Nerd mystery solved 😊
If educating is an important part of the rationale for your films then let me tell you, I learn something new with every film of yours I watch. Thank you again.
That's a wonderful thing to say, thankyou! I just want to share all the fantastic stuff that I learn about Hull's past :)
Love this video. I’m from Dunoon in Scotland and have lived in Drypool for 20 years now. I don’t know what it is, but yeah, T’ Road has got under my skin and I love it. I loved the story of grandma threatening the cyclist , I did much the same with a motorcyclist! I grabbed the back of his motorbike and pulled it over, threatening to knock his block off on Holderness road. I guess the spirit of Drypool has settled in my soul that much 😂 so glad you share personal stories, they give a very human perspective
Ha! Also, I just realised that I've made my mum's family sound like a right bunch of hooligans, with my gran headbutting a lad at school and *her* mum threatening to punch a woman for hitting her granddaughter with a bike!
Brilliant video and story telling , something you seem to do well so keep it going . Being born and growing up in east Hull there are so many things in this video I can relate to. My childhood was in Drypool and playing on Victoria dock was one of many things we use to do . Apart from the many corner shops , Holderness Road and its shops supplied us with nearly all the things needed . The most important thing to me , which you mentioned was the community . This community was was ripped apart during the house clearances of the 1970s . A big thank you to you and all involved in this production
I've never seen or heard of that St Peter statue. I never knew it existed. Great video.
another brilliant story, thank you. i was born down nonabell street and went to cortney street school,happy days. brian d.
My best mate lives in hull and I’m finally visiting after nearly 20 years of knowing each other what he does not know is I’m looking to move to hull as it’s rich with history and has everything my family and myself need :D
Another interesting video, some of my wifes family still live in the Holderness Road area, and her mothers birth certificate gives her place of birth as Drypool, so this video was of particular interest.
I've seen local history videos before, and they've always come across as dull, but this was fascinating, interesting, informational and funny. Very well written, and presented.
Now to binge the channel.
Brilliant! Hull FC forever!!
I don't know anything about football, is that good?
Thank you for this amazing insight . Lived down Holderness road (road) for past 30+ years brought my family up here .Great memories your doing Hull proud.
Another interesting history lesson about Hull, I loved the run through Hull when I was a delivery driver, the Avenues at blossom time were a sight to behold.
Thanks for posting
I'll be covering the Avenues on the Lost Villages: Newland episode!
Hi Mr Hull history nerd.... bumped into you tonight nr cottingham station and enjoyed our little chat, pleasure to meet you and hope you continue entertaining and educating us...keep up the great work!
Wonderful. Delivered with genuine empathy, which so many documentaries just can't match.
And still, very dapper.
I'm just grateful that my diet means I can finally fit back into some of my favourite clothes...
@@hullhistorynerd Well done! And they suit you well.
Loved the stories of your family. We can all relate and their blood still walks the same streets thanks to their efforts, Lovely 😊
Love the stories of old Hull was brought up in Pelham Street and still have good memories
wow...loved it...the history under our feet you would not know if not for this channel, thank you,
Another excellent video of the history of Hull. I use to deliver to all the Caravan Manufacturers there. Boy there was a lot. Use to call at the fish dock on the way back to Barnsley as our workers put their orders in on a Weekly basis for collecting on Friday.
The way you talk about the places, you can see you love the area. Good on you,as it is nice to see someone expressing themselves like you have done . Proud to be from Hull you can tell that a mile away. Keep up with the videos, I love them.
In the early sixties my dad cycled with me, on the tiny front seat over the handlebars, to see 'Brother Dring'???? who lived opposite Victoria dock on Hedon Road. He lived in a boarded up shop opposite a garage sort of building with the symbol of the Michelin man made out of tyres. While they stood in the hallway of the tiny shop jawing I, being rather bored, started messing with one of the bikes tyre valves. I got told off when their conversation was interrupted by escaping air.
Thank you for representing my family
I always think what comment I'm going to make as I progress thru my favourite YT videos. During the first part, it was commentary on the William the Conqueror and the Harrying episode - I never knew about this; next it was along the lines of 'I wish I had you as my history teacher'; then to let you know how I follow your film by having street view open on a second laptop to compare the 'then and now'; then something about 'Is that the "Reckitt" as in Dettol and other household stuff?' But I think the overall comment has to be: 'I'm so glad your mic broke down!' - or we may never have had that re-take... That last segment had me captured (I think some dust got in my eyes...) Your heartfelt pride and enthusiasm of your family background and history really came across. Whatever you set out to do, I really appreciated this piece of work. Apologies for the essay 😄
ps, would be great if you had a 'Thank you' tab - I'd happily contribute to your undoubtedly hard work.
pps. Ignore the above ps - just watched the credits and seen the gofundme info. I'll head off there now!
Thank you so much for your kind words, and I'm glad you enjoy the videos so much. And I think I just got your donation on GoFundMe, so a huge thankyou for that, too!
I'm actually planning a more detailed video sometime next year looking at the Harrying of the North; I realised I haven't done an Old Yorkshire episode for years, and this would be a perfect subject, so there's one to look forward to!
This is one of your best videos yet. I am new Hull so find these videos very informative. I especially enjoyed your reflections on your childhood home and 'the road'.
It's true - I don't get to Hull very often these days having left home in 1983. But when I show my kids the area where I grew up, around the park, Ings Road to Summergangs, it does strangely feel like coming home...
Your comments about your early life and that of your folks are entirely apropos HN. It's rather nice that you included something of your personal history, puts flesh on the bone. I enjoyed the last few minutes especially, partly because it so resonated with me.
This episode was a real good 'un....
Brilliant video! I especially the family history at the end. Hearing about people's personal ties to an area really makes history come to life!
Yeah, I realised that when I was out there reshooting that bit, the script as written just didn't have that and, it would seem, lots of other folk really liked that, so I'm glad I went with my instinct! Though I did accidentally manage to make my mum's side of the family sound like a bunch of hardcases...
Keep the whole social and family history content coming. I find it absolutely fascinating. Many of my family were from the area, particularly west Hull. Looking forward as always to your future videos.
Another great video very interesting insight on how the area grew, never knew that there was a level crossing where mount pleasant is today. Loved your back story
Neither did I! To think I've always had such a passion for railways ever since I was tiny, and my mum never thought to mention that there was a decaying old station just behind the car lots on that stretch of Road! I would have been absolutely fascinated.
Every time we were in range and heard a train we would run for the footbridge and bathe in the steam and smoke as the train passed under.
Wow, just wow, I'm67 now, but back in the ,fifties my mam, lived down foster st, her house was literally, opposite the Wilmington train station, and B O C M, was at the bottom my gran would take me on the locomotive. My dad lived off fountain rd , and worked at Reckitts, when they got married they moved to riley terrace, just off Stone ferry ( now a car repair centre), my dad worked hard, and got us an house down Whitworth st, it was a wonderful, having a plumbed in bath!, most my life was in east Hull lots of wonderful memories, thankyou for such an insight to our great town, you actually passed where my daughter now lives down Durham st, thanks again, and now I have subscribed I will be watching your wonderful vids, all the best, might see you on road....
You might enjoy the very first episode on the channel, about the Victoria Dock Branch line - there's a whole segment where I actually got to go inside and round the back of the cafe that is now in the Wilmington station building to look at the subway entrance! I also found a part of the old road bridge across Stoneferry Road that's now being used as a wall.
Glad you enjoyed this one, and you've certainly got a lot of videos to work your way through!
@@hullhistorynerd thanks I will certainly be binge watching!, just to mention of course Withernsea st, next to foster st was bombed flat,
@@stephengreen6338 Indeed it was, and my grandma lived down Withernsea Street when she was little! She recalls her mum being really annoyed that she couldn't hang washing out in the yard because the cement factory at the end of the street laid down a layer of fine white powder every day. Probably no coincidence that my grandma's mum and three of my gran's siblings all passed with lung or throat cancer, and my gran herself had lifelong lung issues 😞
@@hullhistorynerd sorry to go on, my gran too suffered the same fate, she worked at bag shed under the stoneferry rd bridge, there use to be pig sty's opposite, cheers it was nice to share the time
My Dad was born on the banks of the river Hull in Beverley near the boat yard in a house long gone, he was christened in Beverley Minster.
I have an Uncle & Aunt in Cottingham , a cousin in Preston and another in Sutton Park. He demobbed from the RN after the war and headed down under. He passed away in 2016. My wife & I have been to Hull twice and had a wonderful time, hope to get back again.
Fascinating. I know all the names as my family lived there for many years but me only for about 20 years, but we lived Hessle side so I would soon get lost east side of town. I shall be going onto maps now and getting my bearings.
Should have said lived in Hull...makes more sense!
Wonderful as ever! It is SO important that the history of absorbed or lost villages is tabulated and highlighted. To think that I, f'rinstance, who grew up only eight miles away from this place and now live hundreds of miles away can learn new things.. Thank you for this! 🌟👍
Another informative and engaging video. Your family history is important and interesting; it makes you whom you are. Thank you for sharing your videos with us
again many thanks for your fascinating history. I think I know more about Hull and its environs than I do my own town!
Awesome film as are all of them. I have a feeling I know but don’t know when from.maybe next time I am in Hull we could meet up for a coffee or beer what ever is you fancy. I am an East Hull lad the same as you, my wife is also from East Hull. Keep up the good work.
I'm from Mersey street 1962 till 1977, Manet street only existed because the top of Mersey and Severn streets were blocked due to traffic control late sixties to early seventies
Er ner, ner nerz, Seriously, thank you for this fascinating tour.
Wow loved this one, lived on Durham st for nearly 17 years, the poplars, loved it, love the area, weird how everyone’s connected isn’t it ? be it by a community, friends or family, proper east hull lad !
That's what makes Drypool so fascinating, and how many of those family strands ended up stretching out into the newer council estates of Longhill, Bilton Grange, Greatfield and Bransholme!
@Kirk M Nah, I'm not a believer I'm afraid. Nothing down there but houses and other people's memories!
Thank you for this movie. Wonderful and rich in historical information like all your videos! Thank you one more time xx
Thank you once again Mr. Nerd and greetings from Leipzig. My nana used to take me "on the road" (Hessle Road, Gipsyville) every day to do her shopping before the days of supermarkets.
Hehe, it is something of a Hull thing, the local main road shopping centre is always "going on road"! But for anyone in East Hull, going on road only means one thing :)
Excellent great to hear so in tune with their area.
I live in outer East London and have have lived in this flat for over 30 years but i was actually born only 200 yards away in a Flat which still stand I was born in 1954 and left the area when about 8 years old and moved to a near by area and twice more before leaving to live in inner London not far from Docklands but eventually moved and where did pick the area I was born in as it does and always had felt like home.
It has changed a lot but is still the
Place I love near to the edge of London and Epping Forest
It feels like Home I often surprise neighbours when i.explain names and whatvwas once in the local area.
Example is said to one new neighbour why don't you go Wanstead Park with the Dog..
They said it was very nice park and said handy for shops I looked surprised that is not wanstead park that is the little park in wanstead. I took them to the real Wanstead Park, which was a huge estate rivalling. Versailles of which 600 acres are now a superb park with lakes and ponds and cattle old english long horns and deer and cafe.
They were stunned at such a place so nearby and totally unknown to them as London residents but not London born and bred...
Great as ever, thanks. This one proper hit my patch, went to Mersey, grew up playing out around Durham St playground... looking forward to the Garden Village one when you get to it, Beech Ave was a lovely street to grow up on, proper community around the shops there
Thanks for the Redpath pointer. I'm a massive Larkin fan, myself.
Hope you enjoy!
I was born in williamson st in 57, it still says drypool on my birth cert, we moved to bucky terrace in 62, and as the Pythons said, you were lucky, a 2 up 2 down, ours was 1 up 1 down and there where 5 of us.
1 up 1 down? Luxury. We never even had a downstairs, and our mam would chuck us out of the window every morning to go to school because we couldn't afford the staircase, and we'd thank her for the privilege!
Love a random 4 Yorkshiremen sketch every now and then!
Another amazing video, would love to see a live gig at city hall 👍
fasinating presentation Its amazing to see the sequence of historical events that bring to life the names of streets and roads! I was born in Sutton 1960, mam was from Bilton, she worked at smith and nephews (and distillers??) in the typing pool. her dad ran 2 grain mills which were bombed several times. He was a fireman during the war. Her mam (a formidable lady with a heart of gold) ran a shop on James reckits avenue "the wool corner" I remember as a wee lad of 5 or 6 my grandad taking me to see some place where they made parts for ships. I still recall seeing men hand hammering copper fittings and also drop forging huge steel propeller shafts (not sure whereabouts that was?) Everyone seemed to ride on bikes even joiners carrying planks of wood. also I recall some other place where they renderd animal fat and it "smelled" quite a bit again no idea where that was? When I stayed with grandma and grandad they would take me to holderness road. There was a posh establishment all elaborate marble if I remember correctly, where they sold meats on one side and bread and cakes the other. Grandad liked to look in sellit and soon's (like cash converters).dad was from Willerby road, his dad worked for ellerman shipping. My uncle was a ships electrician, his son in law repaired ship fridges, both lost that with the onset of the eec and destruction of fishing fleet
Lovely recollections, although you'll see when you watch my video on St Andrew's Dock, it wasn't the EEC that destroyed the fishing fleet, but the USA and their unwillingness to let Britain endanger their early warning posts in Iceland during the Cod Wars.
Good point well made. I've lived on a couple of streets off Newbridge and on Brazil street. One of my first jobs was at 1 Holdeness Road and more recently the beginning of Hedon Road. I really enjoyed this sir.
Another cracking vlog HHN . Really look forward to the next one !
Brilliant video as always Jim, especially your own personal family reflections at the end. Really interesting. Every one, we learn some more about the fascinating history of Hull. My mother in law grew up down Franklin Street, went to Williamson Street school and also lost a couple of relatives in the bombing of the Ellis Terrace shelter, so the history is relevant to us as well. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to the next video 👍🏼😁
The war was a terrible time for the Drypool community. In the worst bombed city in Britain, that area bore the brunt of it. My grandad's family ended up needing to be dug out of their bomb shelter down Nornabell Street when their house was hit. They moved to Buckingham Street and then *that* house got hit too.
@@hullhistorynerd That’s awful. Just can’t begin to imagine how frightening it must’ve been at the time. We’re so lucky nowadays 😌
@@NickB_Yorkshire He was surprisingly well adjusted, considering he was only a small boy when it all happened!
thankyou for all ur work sir, very informative & well presented as always ur a real credit to hull🙏
Another great video. I enjoyed the personal reflection; it made me reflect upon the part of my family history on Dansom lane. Not many houses are left there though. It's easy to forget that these developments once represented an exciting new start for our forbears. And maybe just with more investment, environmentally progressive planning, and care, they can become places where people want to move to again instead of gobbling up the countryside and building more roads. But anyway, great video and I love the history. and the way you present.
Excellent provision of local information, thanks
My dad's family lived in Stepney for a long time and when his brothers and sisters moved out to Brandsholme and Orchard park estates he moved to Preston road estate with my mother and little 6 month old me in winter of 81, apparently the houses on preggy road were posh compared to the newer rabbit hutches on Brandsholme estate lol
I like your stories, and your storytelling, Mr. Nerd. I hope you'll keep at this.
Don't worry, there are plenty more videos to come yet! No end in sight at this point.
this is your best one yet, and i say that as someone who has never felt at home in east hull. i loved hearing about your personal history/links to the area.. it really brought it to life..
im from ull and these videos are great. interesting to find out some history about where you're from. you're a cool guy, keep it up 🤙
Great to see you back lad,thanks
I really enjoyed listening to the history of your own particular area. I admire people who don't criticise the place that formed their own character.
Part of the reason I do what I do is because Hull has already been the butt of the media's jokes for decades. Hull is no worse than any other city, they all have their rough sides, and many of them are far worse than Hull. But we've internalised this constant mockery, and so many Hull folk hate their own city.
My goal is to restore a little bit of the pride in our amazing history and our fantastic, tenacious, hard working ancestors who ran a city that the North absolutely depended on, and to make people understand their heritage better instead of hating it.
I think you have managed to show the side of your city that's often absent.
I'm not from Hull yet I have a much better understanding of it from your channel.
I have visited Hull and the one thing that struck me apart from it's unique character is that the people are unpretentious.
It's got all this history, architecture and culture like the several free museums and the Philip Larkin's yet it doesn't pretend to be York.
It's comfy in its own skin deep down
@@hullhistorynerd
I've attached a link to someone that I thought you might like.
ua-cam.com/video/ZkeEQ01bWAM/v-deo.html.
It's a work of a local man and although he does a motorcycle channel I think it's a good item of history about your city.
Regards Jim
@@jpdennis1008 Cheers, though historical crime isn't really my area, I find it all tends to be highly speculative. I prefer more concrete stuff about industrial and social history!
Around 5:30 minutes in it shows Marfleet train station and I think
Thanks for the video I genuinely look forward to your videos.
Great Video, I spent a good part of my 20s at a friends on Holland Street.
another brilliant video. thank you
cool...I'm only on New George steet myself ,facinating stuff knowing the type of drama I would have seen while chilling on my balcony going back a year or 500...
My dad was the vicar of DRYPOOL an exiting place to grow up. 26,000 people in his parish. At one time the biggest CofE parish IN THE UK!
I can believe it, it's growth was huge, but also at a time when the church was, generally, on the decline, so there was no rush to set up new parishes, allowing some, like Drypool, to grow to crazy sizes!
Excellent. I was born in Welly Lane in 1950. I am glad to see such a well researched and presented video about an area I used to know very well. I could never get around the division I made for myself between east, west and north Hull. It seemed obvious to me. I will be watching all the other videos soon.
Very interesting, Jim. This was also where I grew up. Keep them coming 👍
Cheers! And don't worry, I haven't forgotten, I did record that vlog but it looked a bit rubbish, so I'm going to do it again over the next couple of weeks and take more time over it.
Thumbs up,do you remember Madness with their song 'our house'....in the middle of our street.Happy days.
Cheers.🎄
I remember watching them perform it on The Young Ones on my little black and white portable telly when I was about 9 or 10!
Your videos are amazing but the personal touch at the end x brilliant x you are a very talented man thankyoue xxx
I stumbled across this video by chance and clicked on it through curiosity more than anything, yet I ended up watching the whole thing due to the amazing presentation and work that's gone into it. Really impressive work and a very engaging way of presenting which is on par with some of the best history channels / documentaries out there in my opinion. You deserve many, many more subs (which I'm sure is on the way with this level of content!). Thanks for uploading.
Why thankyou! It's very kind of you to say so, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Hopefully you'll stick around and enjoy the others on the channel too!
Well done! I really enjoyed this documentary.
Thankyou. Well made very informative and well
Presented.
Btw, brilliant video. Love this city.
I’m from newbridge road my dad had a green grocers down there in the 70s. Went to David lister loved it in east Hull. Happy days
You might remember my stepdad, he used to teach art at David Lister in the 70s and 80s!
@@hullhistorynerd t’was a very long time ago. All I can remember was that our art teacher was a bit of a hippie! (No offence intended! )
@@martynsmith2369 That would have been him, longish hair, corduroy jacket, liked Pink Floyd. Absolutely lovely chap.
@@hullhistorynerd that’s him. Yep he was a good bloke apart from calling my o-level art project “derivative”! Not that he was was wrong 😑
One village you may wish to consider is Bilton. Lived there after newbridge rd. but was a v quiet place so may not be that interesting 🤨
@@martynsmith2369 Bilton is on a long list of Hull's suburban villages that I have videos planned for, as well as Hessle, Anlaby, Willerby and Wawne.
As always so interesting. Thank you.
Another superb video ,as for the personal touch at the end .we DO care as it put's the icing on a nice cake to a great history story ,as for your Gran butting some one ,some things never change with Hull lasses lol
I realise I've made my mum's family sound like a right bunch of hooligans...
@@hullhistorynerd Not in the slightest . just good decent working class folk
Always enjoyable...always takes me back home and always teaches me something... Not sure about that tie though :)
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Thank you!!! Great content as always😁
Absolutely brilliant! I live Birklands Drive so further into a new area of East Hull with a very different approach to housing.
Thank you keep doing what you're doing its ace... And appreciated!
Ah, Sutton Ings! I'll be looking into that area when I do the Lost Villages episode on Sutton!
I know very little about East Hull, other than it was that dark scary place my Hessle-Road-born-mother told me never to go to..! (And I ignored her anyway, my wife is from Spring Cottage Estate!)
I had no idea that garden existed where the old church was, so now I’m going to have to take a look when I’m next in Hull, aren’t I? Great video as ever, thanks for making it.
As an East Hull child, I was wide eyed with wonder every time I was in the other side of the river; Pearson Park was a place of strange mystery to me, and the Avenues were fascinating and full of trees and what I thought of as mansions! I ended up living in a flat down the Avenues for over a decade, and "mansion" certainly wouldn't have been the word that grown-up me would have used!
There's just a real mystique about the Land Across the River when you're young, whichever side you're from!
@@hullhistorynerd Oh I agree - there still is that mystique I think, watching North Bridge raised still gives me a bit of a buzz! And we had a flat on Marlborough Avenue for a bit - ‘palatial mansion’ didn’t apply to that, either 🤣
@@hullhistorynerd yup, the trees everywhere where amazing to me too. we had to walk past the black hills (the gas works slag tips) on St Marks street to the only decent tree in the area. A gnarly mostly dead thing covered in bent nails hammered in with half bricks by generations of young climbers. Had to get up road past east park to find better. Good conkers up that way.
@@chrisatye The rising of North bridge was one of the most exiting memories of my very young years. A man user to come out and drape what looked to be a very flimsy chain across the path to a hook in the wall. That was all that protected me from those massive greasy teeth that engaged with the rack to raise the bridge.