Cine film made by my Grandma Maud Mellors, Landlady of the Lion Hotel, Redbourne Street. These films and many more recently discovered in my Mothers attic.
I remember all this footage I was twenty living in Hull just over a year.Came over from Rotterdam married a Hull girl.We are still together with three growing up kids.
That is the Hull I remember! My gran lived there and mum my sister and I stayed with her every school holidays. We lived on the Wirral and we would get the train from Liverpool Lime Street to Hull Paragon. Such happy days. Lovely to see the blue busses again!xxx
I would have been 1 year old when this was filmed, living one Road over on Hessle Road. It has bought back memories of when I was a toddler, especially the buses! Mam still in my childhood home!
OMG! I love this video! I remember the traffic policeman standing in Ferensway directing traffic as my late father was a car owner in the 1960s and I must have been about four or five years old in 1969. I even remember my father driving down Anlaby Road, although he passed away in 1969. How Kingston upon Hull has changed and not for the better, but maybe I am being nostalgic and sentimental about the good old days. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic! When all the streets were open to free flowing traffic! Now a days all the City centre streets are just about blocked off - with the Council not understanding why the City is dying!!
Brought back so many memories of visiting my grandma & grandad on Boulevard and that walk down Anlaby Road from Paragon. I am slowly putting all my grandad's cine films on YT and there's quite a few of Hull from the 1960s.
PS. I have found your channel, Joseph, and I am getting ready to immerse myself in bygone Hull et al. Hull, where I first met my Darling Mary, Autumn 1971 - at Pearson Park, at the junction of Westbourne Avenue and Princes Avenue. Thank you, J. Rab 👋 th-cam.com/channels/zfAp1SIDdFBUs_MG9D_5XA.html
Delightful! What a wonderful old film and how beautifully it has kept over the years as well. The motors of the day were mostly very stylish and it looks pretty busy for traffic in Hull considering it was 1969, 50 years ago.
Thanks for sharing this. I left Hull in 1971, so remember these sights very well. Was a choir boy in St Mathews church, the one on the left as you start going up the flyover in the final section.
I bet it was lovely down Boulevard, back in them days. Sadly St. Mathews does not seem to be in use anymore and the area is .. kinda rough. Though, I have seems some construction within the church grounds not too long ago..
This is interesting to see I moved to Hull from East London 3 years ago and I do deliveries here so I think Ive done thousands of miles in this city and know nearly every road so this was amazing to watch how the roads used to be back in the day
I was born in the tower block on anlaby road in 1970. Probably in a few months after this was filmed. Amazing to see what the area was like at the time
I didn't recall Whitefriargate still being open to vehicles in 1969, but clearly it was. More recently I remember when Jameson Street was still a busy shopping area, especially between Hammonds & Fletchers fountain, and remember doing Christmas shopping along there in December when all the little shops were still trading late in the afternoon, when it was dark outside.
Thank god we now have social media and internet shopping , so we dont have to go to town, or even out of the house to pay our bills at YEB, go to Syd Scarborough's to buy physical music, Woollies for some pic`n mix , try on clothes, meet up with friends and have a bite to eat. It`s so much better now. Said no one who was there, ever !
Many thanks for this upload - this is roughly as I remember it when I was 2/3/4. Priceless! They changed/upgraded all the street lighting in Hull in 1978 which can helpfully date a lot of street photographs
Oh Joy ! Over the flyover, past the Hull Royal infirmary, past Crystal of Hull (Ford Dealer), Triangle of Hull, (Rootes group dealer), MDC (Crystal tyre discount centre and largest 24 hour fuel station in the City), then into the city centre itself. Paragon railway station on the left, Hammond's of Hull on the right....everybody was White. No aerosol paintwork, even a traffic warden on 'point duty". In those days everything was clear, in black and white.
@@ABCDEFGHIKK Monochrome. And everybody was white. The only black person in the city at that time was Ray Harvey. So everybody being white was incorrect. Please don't presume what you think I'm saying.
@@ABCDEFGHIKK It ain't a bad thing considering what is happening to this country today. There is nothing wrong with ethno centric culture . We have so many problems now with forced diversity. Btw, i married an immigrant, but to much screws things up. Born and brought up in Hull and there was never any migrant related problems...because there werent any migrants. Hull was overwhelmingly Hull centric. I only knew of two full on black lads and one mixed race in the city.
Because I only ever really visited Hull when we went to see our grandparents, who loved just off Anlaby Pk Rd South, I would have stared out of dad's car several times at this very route. I was born in 1965, so my earliest memories are from 1968/9. Most of my visits to Hull were during the 1970s and this is all so familiar to me. My visits started to tail off after the early 1980s. Of course, this film is pretty much how I think of Hull, so when I re-visit, it feels like a shock that so much has changed (I still can't get used to Princes Quay)
69, year I left to join the RAF at 15 years old, I'd worked at Thornton Varley (now Debenhams) for a few months and went from 7pounds a week to 30bob a week, BUT 2 years later I was on 30 pounds a week, I used to cycle or walk everywhere (it save the bus fare) we lived past the flyover on Anlaby road down Melrose st.
Thanks thats a slice of history from a time when things were so simple but happy in our great city. We did part of that run again in 1976 when your dad dropped us for our wembley trip special moments gud stuffff.
Bloody hell Eddy, some memory you've got there, I do not recall that at all ,who else was in the car? Nice one. You lived in the area though, near Mike Weaver is that right? Hope you ok? and thanks for the kind words. Great bit of history and nostalgia eh?
No one else in the car mate... Gud day out a show... train ticket...match ticket and a meal a tenner...Yep.. Mike Weaver not changed much bump into him every millennium. In decent health yourself?
@@edgordon7322 recall the 2 trips for Rugby and a show. one show was Bruce Forsyth, the other show was Jesus Christ Superstar if memory serves. yeh all good here mate cheers, and yourself? you still postieing? weaver lives in thailand so i am told by Spud Spurgeon. you on facebook? there is an ex-Eastfileld group on there. big reunion for ally years in October, get yersen there. all the best Eddie lad
Bumped into Terry years ago stag do at Hullensions. Think he was doing a stunt behind the bar. Yep I know married a Thai girl . He was always popping out over there lol. Back in the day when we were young and virale Waterfront then used to bump onto Nige Adam's on the door in Stackis casino. Yep a life at GPO. Dont do facebook simply dont get it mate.. Correct on Wembley trips London Palladium B F One man show..Did you do any good with all them err "Whacky cartoons" art college? Reunion moi? Used to knock around with Stuart Quinn did u know him?
Wow, saw the garage I worked in but that was in the 1980s. I see the tower blocks on Anlaby road were present, they must have gone up in the early sixties. I left years ago, doubt that I would recognise it now.
I was two when this was filmed but remember a lot of the buildings and the route. It starts just near my grandparents house and follows the same route we did hundreds of times into town in his car.. lol. Funnily enough quite a few of my family on my Dads side used to live on Redbourne Street. Just asked my Dad and the Lion was their local..
A wonderful piece of history, thank you for sharing! It seems really strange to see people drive up Whitefriargate! And the traffic policeman in his box in Paragon Square. I like cars, and love seeing the old cars, both on the road, and the dealerships on Anlaby Road. Anyone want a new Austin Cambridge? Any ideas what car your grandad was driving, the angled wing-mounted mirrors are wonderful! You mention more films found - are you planning on putting any more online, or are they personal, family films? Thanks again for sharing this! I wonder if she realised it would be being enjoyed by so many people nearly 50 years later!
It was a cream Austin, sadly I can remember the number plate CB3 39C. sad indeed. There was about 7 or 8 cine films, some personal family, some were trips to Wembley from the pub my Grandma, then parents ran. thanks
Turning past the Cecil into Ferensway, I see The Model Shop where a man with immaculately Brylcreemed hair and a brown shop coat would sell me an Airfix Spitfire, and put it in a brown paper bag.
Great videos of Hull would you do a video of Buttermere House they was masanettes opposite the royel infermary hospital we lived there some good years thank you
Kingston upon Hull suffered the last bomber attack of WW2. Last surviving Blitz relic is the old Oberon cinema on Beverley Road on the corner of Waterloo St. May God bless the people of Kingston upon Hull.
Wow I remember being about 6 and going to town and seeing it like this .. filmed in the old cini camera. We had cini nights where we got the projector out and the whole family came around to watch it lol..
In the 1950s Maud banned my Dad from Lion for 'making a good lad' of a bloke in there. 20 years later me brother took him in for a pint. She was retired then but soon as she saw me Dad it was "sup off and clear off". or words to that effect.
The year I was born, and just shows you had bad things had gotten by this point already regards car use. 1949 bicycles were used for a third of all journeys across the country, in places like Hull it was probably much higher, even in a place like Hull were cycling to get places within the city boundary is far easier and often quicker than by car it's only 6% modal share. Just think how much better the city would be if 30% of all the work, shopping and trips to see friends etc were by bike and that took a huge chunk out of motoring use. The whole BS surrounding Castle street and the insane costs for that wouldn't be needed, the death and injury toll on the roads would be significantly less and the respiratory ailments/deaths as well as obesity related illness would drop massively. As someone who left Hull to get away from all the woes it was going through in the latter part of the 1980s when I come back it's as if things have just got worse each time (I use the train then cycle around to see the relatives/friends).
Great video I was born in Hull the old cars and the old bus how cheap it was in those days I love to live back in them days my mum has a old ration book since 1920 now life is crap to me with technology.i hate it in years to come it won't be money notes and cash it will be cards hope I don't live to face it all get out of it great video of Hull
@@nickmellors6288 happy days ,The lion was was my local for many years even when i moved to east Hull i still treked down there most days a week when i was on leave great memories
@@scotexscarrier8461 nice one, it was a very friendly local. My Grandma Maud ran it, then we took over when she retired. What’s your name as i ask Kath if she remembers you. Cheers
britiw yes it was driveable until it was pedestrianised in the late 80’s as a guess, with shops either side and one pedestrian crossing in the middle of the street
That's interesting solution and I think right one. Considering changing shopping patterns you don't really need cars there, all shopping done there these days is something really special you can't get in supermarkets and something you can just carry away. Also this creates more restaurant/cafe friendly environment
Not only Driveable, but it was 2 way traffic. Trolley buses used to travel up and down Jameson St. (A Trolleybus is a large blue and white bus, with antennae sticking up above it's roof. They engage on high voltage wires tunning overhead along it's route).
Was Jameson st still driveable??? My goodness everything going east to the docks went down there!!! it was so busy and bustling and ful of life...Hammonds, Daily Mail, then up comes the very futuristic coop shop,,,, looking back Hull was great back then...
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I remember all this footage I was twenty living in Hull just over a year.Came over from Rotterdam married a Hull girl.We are still together with three growing up kids.
That is the Hull I remember! My gran lived there and mum my sister and I stayed with her every school holidays. We lived on the Wirral and we would get the train from Liverpool Lime Street to Hull Paragon. Such happy days. Lovely to see the blue busses again!xxx
This old film is an amazing time capsule from a totally different generation, incredible how it was then and now. July 2021🙏❤🏴🏴
I would have been 1 year old when this was filmed, living one Road over on Hessle Road. It has bought back memories of when I was a toddler, especially the buses! Mam still in my childhood home!
OMG! I love this video! I remember the traffic policeman standing in Ferensway directing traffic as my late father was a car owner in the 1960s and I must have been about four or five years old in 1969.
I even remember my father driving down Anlaby Road, although he passed away in 1969.
How Kingston upon Hull has changed and not for the better, but maybe I am being nostalgic and sentimental about the good old days.
Thanks for sharing.
It aint changed that much.....a lot of these streets still recognisable today 50 years on....nice footage thanks for posting....
Fantastic! When all the streets were open to free flowing traffic! Now a days all the City centre streets are just about blocked off - with the Council not understanding why the City is dying!!
wow 20 years after the second world war .. wow .... this is not just a short film. . . this is a real treasure.
Thank you for this. It was fun trying to spot all the landmarks... those that are still there and those that I remember from being little...
Brought back so many memories of visiting my grandma & grandad on Boulevard and that walk down Anlaby Road from Paragon. I am slowly putting all my grandad's cine films on YT and there's quite a few of Hull from the 1960s.
Thank you for that, Joseph. Can you please supply your YT channel name?
All the best. Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎 🕊
@@RHR-221b Rab it is: Joseph Wilson & His Wonderful World of Cine.
PS. I have found your channel, Joseph, and I am getting ready to immerse myself in bygone Hull et al. Hull, where I first met my Darling Mary, Autumn 1971 - at Pearson Park, at the junction of Westbourne Avenue and Princes Avenue.
Thank you, J. Rab 👋
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Delightful! What a wonderful old film and how beautifully it has kept over the years as well. The motors of the day were mostly very stylish and it looks pretty busy for traffic in Hull considering it was 1969, 50 years ago.
Thanks for sharing this. I left Hull in 1971, so remember these sights very well. Was a choir boy in St Mathews church, the one on the left as you start going up the flyover in the final section.
I bet it was lovely down Boulevard, back in them days. Sadly St. Mathews does not seem to be in use anymore and the area is .. kinda rough. Though, I have seems some construction within the church grounds not too long ago..
Thank you 😊 A good year for me met my wife .
This is interesting to see I moved to Hull from East London 3 years ago and I do deliveries here so I think Ive done thousands of miles in this city and know nearly every road so this was amazing to watch how the roads used to be back in the day
I was born in the tower block on anlaby road in 1970. Probably in a few months after this was filmed. Amazing to see what the area was like at the time
I didn't recall Whitefriargate still being open to vehicles in 1969, but clearly it was. More recently I remember when Jameson Street was still a busy shopping area, especially between Hammonds & Fletchers fountain, and remember doing Christmas shopping along there in December when all the little shops were still trading late in the afternoon, when it was dark outside.
I lived a few doors away from Red Lion,it was always packed,I loved it and your Grandma always dressed so nice,she was lovely x
Great sing song nights in there too.
Thank god we now have social media and internet shopping , so we dont have to go to town, or even out of the house to pay our bills at YEB, go to Syd Scarborough's to buy physical music, Woollies for some pic`n mix , try on clothes, meet up with friends and have a bite to eat. It`s so much better now. Said no one who was there, ever !
Many thanks for this upload - this is roughly as I remember it when I was 2/3/4. Priceless! They changed/upgraded all the street lighting in Hull in 1978 which can helpfully date a lot of street photographs
Oh Joy !
Over the flyover, past the Hull Royal infirmary, past Crystal of Hull (Ford Dealer), Triangle of Hull, (Rootes group dealer), MDC (Crystal tyre discount centre and largest 24 hour fuel station in the City), then into the city centre itself. Paragon railway station on the left, Hammond's of Hull on the right....everybody was White. No aerosol paintwork, even a traffic warden on 'point duty".
In those days everything was clear, in black and white.
So ur saying everyone being white is a good thing?
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Monochrome. And everybody was white. The only black person in the city at that time was Ray Harvey.
So everybody being white was incorrect.
Please don't presume what you think I'm saying.
@@ABCDEFGHIKK It ain't a bad thing considering what is happening to this country today. There is nothing wrong with ethno centric culture . We have so many problems now with forced diversity. Btw, i married an immigrant, but to much screws things up. Born and brought up in Hull and there was never any migrant related problems...because there werent any migrants. Hull was overwhelmingly Hull centric. I only knew of two full on black lads and one mixed race in the city.
Intresting to see how busy Whitefriagate was back in the day lots of footfall & shop's plus open to traffic
Brilliant. Taken 10 years before I was born but still great to see
Because I only ever really visited Hull when we went to see our grandparents, who loved just off Anlaby Pk Rd South, I would have stared out of dad's car several times at this very route. I was born in 1965, so my earliest memories are from 1968/9. Most of my visits to Hull were during the 1970s and this is all so familiar to me. My visits started to tail off after the early 1980s. Of course, this film is pretty much how I think of Hull, so when I re-visit, it feels like a shock that so much has changed (I still can't get used to Princes Quay)
69, year I left to join the RAF at 15 years old, I'd worked at Thornton Varley (now Debenhams) for a few months and went from 7pounds a week to 30bob a week, BUT 2 years later I was on 30 pounds a week, I used to cycle or walk everywhere (it save the bus fare) we lived past the flyover on Anlaby road down Melrose st.
Thanks thats a slice of history from a time when things were so simple but happy in our great city. We did part of that run again in 1976 when your dad dropped us for our wembley trip special moments gud stuffff.
Bloody hell Eddy, some memory you've got there, I do not recall that at all ,who else was in the car? Nice one. You lived in the area though, near Mike Weaver is that right? Hope you ok? and thanks for the kind words. Great bit of history and nostalgia eh?
No one else in the car mate... Gud day out a show... train ticket...match ticket and a meal a tenner...Yep.. Mike Weaver not changed much bump into him every millennium. In decent health yourself?
@@edgordon7322 recall the 2 trips for Rugby and a show. one show was Bruce Forsyth, the other show was Jesus Christ Superstar if memory serves.
yeh all good here mate cheers, and yourself? you still postieing? weaver lives in thailand so i am told by Spud Spurgeon. you on facebook? there is an ex-Eastfileld group on there. big reunion for ally years in October, get yersen there. all the best Eddie lad
Bumped into Terry years ago stag do at Hullensions. Think he was doing a stunt behind the bar. Yep I know married a Thai girl . He was always popping out over there lol. Back in the day when we were young and virale Waterfront then used to bump onto Nige Adam's on the door in Stackis casino. Yep a life at GPO. Dont do facebook simply dont get it mate.. Correct on Wembley trips London Palladium B F One man show..Did you do any good with all them err "Whacky cartoons" art college? Reunion moi? Used to knock around with Stuart Quinn did u know him?
Stint behind the bar...
I remember sat with you when we recorded this, fond memories x
Wow, saw the garage I worked in but that was in the 1980s. I see the tower blocks on Anlaby road were present, they must have gone up in the early sixties. I left years ago, doubt that I would recognise it now.
I was two when this was filmed but remember a lot of the buildings and the route. It starts just near my grandparents house and follows the same route we did hundreds of times into town in his car.. lol.
Funnily enough quite a few of my family on my Dads side used to live on Redbourne Street. Just asked my Dad and the Lion was their local..
Hull ABC Cinema ... " The Wild Bunch " ... I was 11 years old 1969
More people yet the traffics flowing better than now
No problem, pleased you enjoyed it - thanks
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What a damn shame how it has changed😢
Brilliant movie, I can tell you not a lot had changed apart from the cars by 1984
A wonderful piece of history, thank you for sharing! It seems really strange to see people drive up Whitefriargate! And the traffic policeman in his box in Paragon Square. I like cars, and love seeing the old cars, both on the road, and the dealerships on Anlaby Road. Anyone want a new Austin Cambridge? Any ideas what car your grandad was driving, the angled wing-mounted mirrors are wonderful! You mention more films found - are you planning on putting any more online, or are they personal, family films? Thanks again for sharing this! I wonder if she realised it would be being enjoyed by so many people nearly 50 years later!
Not a traffic policeman by 1969 but a traffic warden. As I remember one at end os Spring Bank as well.
It was a cream Austin, sadly I can remember the number plate CB3 39C. sad indeed. There was about 7 or 8 cine films, some personal family, some were trips to Wembley from the pub my Grandma, then parents ran. thanks
Turning past the Cecil into Ferensway, I see The Model Shop where a man with immaculately Brylcreemed hair and a brown shop coat would sell me an Airfix Spitfire, and put it in a brown paper bag.
Great videos of Hull would you do a video of Buttermere House they was masanettes opposite the royel infermary hospital we lived there some good years thank you
more like a real town center then,just a ghost town now
What the Luftwaffe couldn't destroy, the Town Planners had a go at the rest.
Kingston upon Hull suffered the last bomber attack of WW2.
Last surviving Blitz relic is the old Oberon cinema on Beverley Road on the corner of Waterloo St.
May God bless the people of Kingston upon Hull.
WOW, nothin' has changed!
Well aside from the cars lorries and buses
Wow I remember being about 6 and going to town and seeing it like this .. filmed in the old cini camera. We had cini nights where we got the projector out and the whole family came around to watch it lol..
Never knew you could drive down Whitefriargate , assumed it was always pedestrianised.
City centre looks so different now
Amazing! Don't suppose you have any photos of Blundells Corner and Vane St?
In the 1950s Maud banned my Dad from Lion for 'making a good lad' of a bloke in there. 20 years later me brother took him in for a pint. She was retired then but soon as she saw me Dad it was "sup off and clear off". or words to that effect.
What does - " 'making a good lad' of a bloke" - mean ? - Did he bash him up ? - At least she let him "sup off" !
Nice vid of times gone by - did i notice a foreign car on the texaco forecourt @1:08...fiat 128/lada?? (and the Beetle too)
Cool....
The year I was born, and just shows you had bad things had gotten by this point already regards car use. 1949 bicycles were used for a third of all journeys across the country, in places like Hull it was probably much higher, even in a place like Hull were cycling to get places within the city boundary is far easier and often quicker than by car it's only 6% modal share. Just think how much better the city would be if 30% of all the work, shopping and trips to see friends etc were by bike and that took a huge chunk out of motoring use. The whole BS surrounding Castle street and the insane costs for that wouldn't be needed, the death and injury toll on the roads would be significantly less and the respiratory ailments/deaths as well as obesity related illness would drop massively.
As someone who left Hull to get away from all the woes it was going through in the latter part of the 1980s when I come back it's as if things have just got worse each time (I use the train then cycle around to see the relatives/friends).
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to drive in the town center instead of having to walk ?
Great video I was born in Hull the old cars and the old bus how cheap it was in those days I love to live back in them days my mum has a old ration book since 1920 now life is crap to me with technology.i hate it in years to come it won't be money notes and cash it will be cards hope I don't live to face it all get out of it great video of Hull
Yep WatsApp Nick not sure about posting No.on here tho. ✌😎✌
October 21st is the reunion probably in Green Bricks get there, few faces you'll know
@@nickmellors6288I hope you’re all having a good time! 21st October today
Thanks Diddledum, the Lion was a very friendly pub and ran very well by both Maud and then Peter Mellors
was pete and kathy mellors related ?, could have sworn they had a son called nicky.??
@@scotexscarrier8461 yup, that’s me and Pete & Kath are my parents. still called Nicky to this day by some!
@@nickmellors6288 happy days ,The lion was was my local for many years even when i moved to east Hull i still treked down there most days a week when i was on leave great memories
@@scotexscarrier8461 nice one, it was a very friendly local. My Grandma Maud ran it, then we took over when she retired. What’s your name as i ask Kath if she remembers you. Cheers
@@nickmellors6288 steve ,i use to date the barmaid tracy for 30 yrs she,ll know who it is..lol
Sorry I meant the Lion Hotel
1:42 car turns right to city centre? Was Jameson street drivable back then?
britiw yes it was driveable until it was pedestrianised in the late 80’s as a guess, with shops either side and one pedestrian crossing in the middle of the street
That's interesting solution and I think right one.
Considering changing shopping patterns you don't really need cars there, all shopping done there these days is something really special you can't get in supermarkets and something you can just carry away. Also this creates more restaurant/cafe friendly environment
Not only Driveable, but it was 2 way traffic.
Trolley buses used to travel up and down Jameson St.
(A Trolleybus is a large blue and white bus, with antennae sticking up above it's roof. They engage on high voltage wires tunning overhead along it's route).
Was Jameson st still driveable??? My goodness everything going east to the docks went down there!!! it was so busy and bustling and ful of life...Hammonds, Daily Mail, then up comes the very futuristic coop shop,,,, looking back Hull was great back then...
Is this 60s or 70s
Nice bit of film , however far too much movement of the camera. Could have been a real winner.
...sound like Maud to me
Do you mean me, Janet. Not sure what that comment means?