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Off Topic Hull in the 70's and 80's

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  1. DMD

    DMD Eh?
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    http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/70-t...d-hull-1970s/story-28948946-detail/story.html

    http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/70-t...hull-1970s-2/story-28950604-detail/story.html

    http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/80-t...d-hull-1980s/story-28724037-detail/story.html

    Banks
    Accessing your money from the bank was nearly as difficult as earning it. They closed by 3.30pm and 'hole in the walls' were rare.

    Bay City Rollers
    Bransholme
    Corporal punishment
    Cod Wars – 1972 to 1976

    Decimalisation
    Drought
    Flixborough
    The Gaul
    Hull Prison Riot
    NHS Glasses
    Rag Week
    Prospect Centre
    School Milk
    Slum Clearance
    Fish workers
    Strikes
    Unemployment
    Firemans Strike
    Inflation
    • 1971: 30-year high of 8.6%
    • 1974: 34-year high of 17.2%
    • 1975: Just over 24%
    • 1976: Reached 16.5%
    • 1977: Prices up by nearly 70% within three years
    • 1978: Inflation falls to 9.9%
    Lada cars
    Traffic around Queen Victoria Square

    Queen Victoria Square statue was extremely busy. There was no Mytongate or Freetown Way north, so traffic went through the city centre.

    Sculcoates Power Station cooling tower
    Supermarkets

    Scamps and Hoffbrahaus
    Platform shoes
    The three day week
    Pic n mix
    Syd Scarboroughs
    ABC
    Humber Ferry
    Goldfish at fair
    Roller disco

    Falklands
    Street Party - Royal Wedding
    Romeo and Juliets
    East Park Lido
    Rediffusion - Starview
    Odyssey
    Dingwalls
    Daily Mail men
    Computers
    YTS
     
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  2. Chazz Rheinhold

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    1973 school play my big moment. I brought Frankenstein...

    ****ing berated afterwards by the deputy head, my acting career stone dead right there.

    I coulda been a somebody
     
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    It was all a typo anyway, Mary and Joseph wanted to see the manAger.
     
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    Playing Liverpool on a Tuesday afternoon. Skipped work to go. Oh bring back the good old days.
     
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  5. Evington

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    Iggy Pop reckons the '70's was 'the' decade although he can't remember a lot about it. I'm with Iggy.

    You missed something off your list that a lot (some?) on here will recall. The 'edge' associated with watching just about every football match. You never knew what you might get embroiled in.
     
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    Skinheads on Bunkers and in the Kempton.
    In the 70s.

    Were the F have you all gone ?
     
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    They all became stockbrokers and accountants.
     
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    The legend that was 'Harry the Dog' Millwall nutter that featured in a documentary in 77 .. died in a doorway through drink related illness .. probably supporting the 'wall that drove him to drink tbh
     
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    Dog on the pitch.
     
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    C&A
    Pick a Dish
    Trinity House
    Decent Music
    Earle de Grey
    Voodoo Disco
     
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    Where have all the bootboys gone? Slaughter and the Dogs. Here's an interesting 70's one, New York Dolls first tour of England in 1972, incredibly they played Hull Malcolm's! (LA's) 4 days later their original drummer Billy Murcia died from a drugs od.
     
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    Never knew that - interesting.
     
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    Anyone know when the old hospital, where Prospect Centre is now, closed?
     
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    Can't believe that the apostrophe mods haven't been kicking off big style on this thread.
     
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    I know, 1972, the summer Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars came out, Hull must have been the centre of rock & roll.

    I hate ELO.
     
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    I find Jeff Lynne's head disconcerting.
     
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    1966. Shame, as it was a lovely building...

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    Though the Luftwaffe had already got rid of some of it...

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    Not anymore, I believe that type of thing usually takes place in secluded country lay-bys nowadays.
     
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    Lambretta's,Snetterton circuit.

    Days of Speed,Edwin Starr,Apprenticeship,Niggerbrown suits.

    Happy dayzz...R.I.P


    Allams OUT
     
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    I think the bootboy heyday was 1974/75 season. Bear in mind that they often rolled with kids in platform shoes also. The early 70s was skinheads, suedeheads, bovver boys, bootboys, soulboys, punks, casuals all in rapid fire succession. The normals outlasted all of them though.
    Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds and their seminal recording 'Kinell Tommy' on Tosh Ryan's Rabid Records was the first punk/football crossover record. I think 'One of the lads' by 4Be2s was the second one.
    It cannot be emphasized enough how loathed football was by the trendy Clash loving turds back then. Virtually no punkers would admit to liking football, as it was deemed deeply deeply uncool.
    Ditto Christmas: what was the official punk position on Xmas? Crass commercialisation and capitalist maudlin weep fest, totally unhip and conventional?
    Me? I got Never Mind the Bollox on Virgin limited edition with single that year (£2.99?) and the much sough-after 'Spunk' bootleg a few months later. Still got em both now. May well have got some new slippers too.

    70s: Floodlit Rugby League
    Keith Macklin
    The Indoor League
    Grob and Ducat
    Golden Goal
    Regent
    Selby Street
    London Weekend Television
     
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