Great thread guys.



Some things I miss:

- Being spoilt for choice for sports shops in Hull (Arco, JJB, First Sport, Sports Division etc).
- Same with CD shops
- Winter rugby (in some ways!). Okay the game's moved on which is great, but there was a special close-knit feel between the die-hard people who turned up on bitterly cold days back then.
- Sports Mail
- Matchday programmes being a must-have for all your club info, rumours etc (not bought them regularly for about 14 years and they're pretty much redundant IMO).
- School days
- Doing a paper round every week for a fiver, and then consequently feeling loaded when you did a spare round and got a tenner that week.


- Pat Sharp and Neil Buchanan being the kings of kids after-school TV
- Car boot sales: loved being nowhere else from about 7-13. Magical places with a mixture of families earning some spare cash, Del Boy-wannabes, and people just looking for bargains. Got some great RL stuff in my time.
- EA Sports releasing great rugby games (on the Mega Drive for example).
- Games of slam
- Knock-off ginger, lol.


- Croggies
- RL shirts with proper collars and buttons.


- Boothferry Park (a magical place in Hull and I hate it when people knock it - a great ground doesn't necessarily have to be modern IMO).

And the train from town pulling in behind Kempton.

[iTip-toe, through the Kempton[/i
[iWith your Doc's on[/i
[iGet your head kicked in[/i
[iSo tip-toe, through the Kempton, with me.[/i

half a crown fry off fish dock

ferry to new holland from pier

Gaumont saturday minors

sex with my ex mates missus

scrap butty's
jr's burger bar after tower
bunkers hill (gordon street end)
horrendous away days (whitehaven etc)
town being full and lively on a saturday nite
new town after sunday rugby games...

Beano comics? Fred talbots weather map and beige coloured cars

[url=https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=boulevard+hull&ie=UTF-8&ei=u3mTUoOyMoqrhQeZw4GgBg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAgBoulevard still on Google Maps[/url, for now, at least.

([url=https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=boothferry+park+hull&ie=UTF-8&ei=63yTUprhBcWjhgf-6IDoCg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAgBoothferry Park pitch[/url looks a bit rough, mind you

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Walking to games from Rayners.
Taking my habitual place in the Threepenny on the 25 yard line at the back of the stand, Gordon St end. It was God given.
Tight close games when you could feel something special about to happen.
Derby games like when that red prat emptied a bag of grass cuttings in the centre of the pitch, fun times could still be had.
Proper refs, ones that took the banter and gave it back.

Before all day opening, getting on the ferry at 2.00pm on a Sunday and staying on it until opening time at 7.00pm. As long as you never got off the other end, you only paid one return fare. Spending the afternoon playing cards and drinking cans of Hull Brewery Export

Just remembered another magical place as a kid - 147 Club / Celebration Centre on Spring Bank!

British wrestling shows, Fun Junction, Laser Quest, Indiana Jones Assault Course - that place had it all.

police boys club in boulevard,next to the library,with the great johnny whitely keeping everybody in line.

George Best footy boots n Leeds Utd sock ties like flags how did we ever run
Mums chip pan
Bikes... Chopper,tomahawk and the Raleigh Grifter( it wouldn't ride itself like the advert but we kept trying)
Curly worlys were over 2foot long
7p bus fair to school

going to the the chippie and asking for a cut fish and three.for the youngsters who are reading this ,that means a piece of cod and threpence worth of chips.

Horror Bags ...

Fangs and Bones

10 Park Drive or sovereign,bread cake and and a bag of crisps instead of paying for a school dinner

Going to the Boulevard on Boxing Day

When the only players who wore gloves on a football pitch were the goalkeepers

you ate cod, out of choice?

Frys dark chocolate bar with multi coloured flavoured filling.
Mmmm.

standee,there was nothing wrong with a nice bit of cod fried in battter.most of the fish landed from the trawlers was cod.shelf cod and bulk cod.

Disgusting. You evil man

People carrying the grocery shopping home in boxes..

Seriously?
Think you can still get them with the plain peppermint centre but back in the day it was a segment compilation of strawberry, orange, raspberry, lime and pineapple.

Loved them.

Games of rugby on the oval behind the posts at Gordon Street end while the game was still on !!
If there where too may three wheelers a game of Germans & English on the hill at the back of Gordon Street Bunkers
Waiting for the fishermen and carrying their wooden crates of beer to 3d stand for 6d !!
The back seat of Tony Roberts bus trips and later my mams bus trips.
Punk Rock
New Wave
Hair
Super Alf
Stones Bitter
Juliets on a Thursday night when the nurses got in for 50p !!
Getting the first bus home and still getting to work on time !!

indeed the bulk was cod, and we flogged it to those daft enough to eat it, and kept the Haddock for ourselves, I cannot stand cod to this day, horrible wet slimy fish compared to Haddock

This has got to be the best post ever !!! I miss most of them !!!

hutchie and wolfie

Rum flavoured' ice lollies from the shop at the bottom of Dairycoates flyover.
Playing 2 a side rugby in Marmaduke Street with Arthur Malltby, Roy Bailey and John Piggott.
Asking players for their autographs in the Boulevard car park (still have my book).
My first Junior Pass for 5 shillings.
Constable Street School and Mr Elliot.
Classy loose forwards.
Watching the 'A' team (not TV).
Kingston High School.
Beer at 2 bob a pint.
Family and friends.
Being able to run.