These pictures brought back many vivid memories for me. As a youngster I was often taken into Hull by my mother during this period. The city center had been devastated. Amongst the ruins I can remember a ruined church on King Edward Street and the bombed remains of Hammonds. Very few shops were still trading. The picture at 8:10 of the bombed Barclays building is particularly poignant as 12 years later the building had been rebuilt and my girlfriend started her first job there. By then the city center had come back to life and was a vibrant place to live and work.
What an enormous amount of planning and organising must have been entailed in the reconstruction. Gotta doff my hat to all those involved, cos it's so easy to take it all for granted. Though they still haven't fixed the National cinema in Beverley Road...!
Decades of Labour council just building council houses making it the largest council estate in Europe. Demise of the docks including the fishing industry. Major companies moving south. Little investment. Location is not useful you don’t go there unless you need to it does not lead to anywhere. Very sad but no real future it’s a hollowed out city.
I remember visiting an "aunt" who lived on Eastmount estate in the 90's and she said that the place had been open fields and informal pasture before the war, she grew up in a house not far from there on "Holderness highroad" I used to be cheeky and just called it "Holderness road"
@@tedthesailor172 apparently from the junction of Ings Road and Maybury road out eastward to Bilton and Ganstead it was considered higher ground because it didn't flood out as often as the stretch between Somergangs and the railway bridge.
See that Steamroller? Me Gran drove that with all the local kids on it to Witherensea in 1948. She accidently left it rolling on the seafront one time and ran over her false teeth with it.
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These pictures brought back many vivid memories for me. As a youngster I was often taken into Hull by my mother during this period. The city center had been devastated. Amongst the ruins I can remember a ruined church on King Edward Street and the bombed remains of Hammonds. Very few shops were still trading. The picture at 8:10 of the bombed Barclays building is particularly poignant as 12 years later the building had been rebuilt and my girlfriend started her first job there. By then the city center had come back to life and was a vibrant place to live and work.
A marvellous look back, thanks for sharing...
What an enormous amount of planning and organising must have been entailed in the reconstruction. Gotta doff my hat to all those involved, cos it's so easy to take it all for granted. Though they still haven't fixed the National cinema in Beverley Road...!
Loved in hull from 1945
Everything looked so rosy. A bright future ahead. Where did it all go so wrong...?
Decades of Labour council just building council houses making it the largest council estate in Europe. Demise of the docks including the fishing industry. Major companies moving south. Little investment. Location is not useful you don’t go there unless you need to it does not lead to anywhere. Very sad but no real future it’s a hollowed out city.
I remember visiting an "aunt" who lived on Eastmount estate in the 90's and she said that the place had been open fields and informal pasture before the war, she grew up in a house not far from there on "Holderness highroad" I used to be cheeky and just called it "Holderness road"
It is only Holderness Road, though my mother referred to it as Holderness High Road out of snobbishness, I suspect...
@@tedthesailor172 apparently from the junction of Ings Road and Maybury road out eastward to Bilton and Ganstead it was considered higher ground because it didn't flood out as often as the stretch between Somergangs and the railway bridge.
Enjoying these videos 👍
I lived in Pearson Park....lovely place to live
3:26 Does anybody recognize what street this is?
Fab! 🏙
CRAP
See that Steamroller? Me Gran drove that with all the local kids on it to Witherensea in 1948. She accidently left it rolling on the seafront one time and ran over her false teeth with it.
Brighter future my arse.
No hull like back 7:04
Gonna be 2stroke scooters and rickshaws in 20yrs.
Brilliant!