It's getting the odd mention here as some people have been without power for 6 days and one entire town has been washed off the map. (Kaeo)
OT - Hull needs help
Jul 16, 2007
58 Replies
It's dairying country - the sheep live on the lumpy bits.
Hey! We'll have no rude words about Bristol! Some of my ancestors came from there.
So there.
I've always been big on bristols!
Bristol used to be Bristow, but the locals couldn't pronounce it.
Have they got rid of those phones that take threepenny bits yet?
Rather appropriate, don't you think?
"Raised in 1734, Hull's statue to King Billy now sits in state over ornate Victorian public conveniences: more 'great reliever' than 'great deliverer'." LOL
Queen Victoria Square has a statue of the Empress of India sat on the loo.
MartinS said the following on 18/07/2007 03:45:
You're thinking of the darts player. It used to be Brycgstow - something to do with bridges.
And yes, it is a place to be avoided, and I've hopefully finally managed to leave the place.
In message , John Turner writes
"From Hull, Bristol and Cardiff, good lord, deliver us" doesn't have the same ring about it!
that and Cardiff and Bristol might be bad, but Halifax and Hell (Yorkshire term for anywhere not yorkshire) are still worse.
Well at least one other person shares my views about religion then ;-)
Richard
"MartinS" wrote
Didn't know they ever had them, but then I was raised in a land where the GPO ran the phones and where four old pennies (4d) from memory were needed to make a call in a red box with buttons A & B.
John.
"Greg Procter" wrote
Me too, every man should have at least two to play with.
John.
LOL, Only half of my family are Welsh speaking and during my young years Bristol had more Welsh speakers than Caerdyff!
Apart from the rabid socialists, Bristol is probably the fairest city in England.
I enjoyed my time in Hull during the 1958/9 cod wars.
Actually Brigstowe = crossing place.
In my home town, there was no dialing - all calls were via an operator. She (normally) would identify the coins put in by the sound of the bells hit by the coins. IIRC, there were three coin slots for pennies, sixpences (I think) and shillings (I think). There was a different pitched bell under each slot.
Also it was one of the first exchanges to go STD - so straight from the earliest form of exchange to the latest all singing, dancing version ;-)
Jim.
My first (electric) train set came from a shop in Bristol. It had a Tri-ang prairie tank and some wagons. I think my father chose it as it looked most like the trains that ran on the line (Clevedon to Yatton) at the end of the road (though they were in fact ex GWR). I also got a hamster so I must have been very good that year! Tony
In message , John Turner writes
What, like this?
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