I was born in Hull in 1960 and my family moved to Canada in 1966. I always remember the stories my Father told me about living through the blitz. Makes me proud to say I came from such a strong spirited City. Thank you
@ChrisJohnson-cv4ot
11 жыл бұрын
Nice video mate. I'm a Hull lad with a huge interest in ww2. Great vid. We really took a pounding
@rebeccacross5388
2 жыл бұрын
Lovely video showing hulls past, my grandad was a child during the blitz he told me loads of stories that were heart wrenching, how I wish he could tell me his stories again💔
@normangrundy9034
9 жыл бұрын
Norman Grundy. 26.l. 2014. The pictures bring back memories of when I was a young lad in. Born in Hull and lived down Bean Street. The sirens started every night 6.oclock and the bombing started and spent the night in the shelters until all clear after the raid ended. Our house was bombed out. In 1943 I was evacuated out of Hull. Even today the smell of soot,gas and burning brings back memories of living through the raids. Thanks for the photos of those days
@FingerANumber
9 жыл бұрын
norman grundy thanks for that norman ,glad you made it out safe [ish] o)
@angelastrid7802
10 жыл бұрын
What an amazing film of Hull devastated during WW2 - bought tears to my eyes, seeing the bombed tech college where my dad learned his basic building skills, and bombed out Thornton Varleys, where my mum used to work, and Jordan's in Story Street bombed (my dad rebuilt the Jordan's store after the war and we all received bicycles as a thank you). What beautiful buildings were wrecked, like Edwin Davis, but maybe that resilience of all our parents and grandparents who lived (& some sadly died) during it was passed on to us children of Hull. I knew Hull suffered terribly but to see so many pictures, and to hear Vera Lynn singing 'There'll always be an England' made me proud of Hull and East Yorkshire - a very special place.
@Churnytorch
9 жыл бұрын
I lived in Mersey St until I was evacuated to Garton, near Driffield, and well remember being stood with my mother listening to the thrum - thrum of the german bombers before dashing to the shelters which lined the street.Many years later I wrote a poem in recollection of those days called "Bombers Moon"
@popsmikehull
9 жыл бұрын
Just watched this video and it was very enlightening. i know a lot of these streets as i've been around the city quite regularly. I was born and bred on park street in the 60's and used to play in the bombed buildings in park street and Clarendon street when i was a kid.
@susanpalmer-jones2281
10 жыл бұрын
I was moved to tears by this. My father (a Hull man) had his consulting room in Albion Street - the car-park opposite had once been houses. Your film made me appreciate the Hull spirit.
@FingerANumber
9 жыл бұрын
Susan Palmer-Jones thanks for your comment susan :-)
@christopheroliver5611
7 жыл бұрын
As the son of two folk who lived in Hull during this horror , it brought tears to my eyes. Father worked in the City Engineer's Department at the time - a protected job - until my mother lost her baby during a raid and he insisted on joining the Army to do something to the Third Reich ( actually went to Burma , though ). Thanks for posting , very well made. Unfortunately he missed this film by 20 years.
@davejohn2964
9 жыл бұрын
The tower at 4.00mins in the town centre is the old prudential building where many people died when it was bombed during the war. Hull is in the process of raising funds to place a peoples memorial to remember those people of Hull who died and lived through the Blitz. It was vital for the war effort that the level of destruction in Hull remained a secret. Secret it remained then, right up until the mid 1970s - which is why Hull appears in so few books and documentaries about the war. Most of them were written before the secrecy was lifted. Some documents remain classified as secret right up to this day and will not be released until 2020!
@ynotnilknarf39
9 жыл бұрын
Indeed, there seem to be no releases of aerial photographs of the bomb damage available to the public of the city, even in the book "A North East Coast Town" Ordeal & Triumph only street view photographs are shown
@SpeshulDan
9 жыл бұрын
It makes me sad to see how badly my wonderful city was damaged I would love to be able to go back before the war and walk the streets looking at all the beautiful old buildings before they were destroyed.
@None-zc5vg
4 жыл бұрын
Winston kick-started the Blitz by ordering the R.A.F. to start bombing German cities indiscriminately in 1940: this gave the Germans an excuse to start their retaliatory raids. When the extent of the damage done by the R.A.F. and by the U.S A.A.F. to German towns and cities was revealed after the war, Winston was quick to show how 'shocked' he was, and he conveniently forgot the massive losses of R A.F. men incurred during the bombing campaign that he had championed.
@richardshepherd722
9 жыл бұрын
The spirit lives on and always will.
@darranhull1
10 жыл бұрын
I'm a Hull Born lad, work with elderly people. Its great to hear all their stories from WW11 All the people who lived through it all will soon be gone, Makes me feel so sad :(
@bowersgangg
10 жыл бұрын
There was no WW11, do you mean WW1 or WW2?
@darranhull1
10 жыл бұрын
WW2
@bowersgangg
10 жыл бұрын
I thought you meant, the last time, world war eleven but you meant world war two
@jeffleake1960
Жыл бұрын
as i walk these streets today i cant believe the damage they took and i'm shocked i never learnt anything about this at school . i'm in my mid life and this is really the 1st time i'm seeing these pictures. like this stuff happened in Coventry and London no ones ever said how much Hull suffered , the shop down Goddard Ave with the huge crater is somewhere i know very well as its still a shop today and i simply had no idea at all. 92.000 pre war homes = 6.000 undamaged end of war
@2buster999
8 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1953 and only know from my mothers memory about the suffering of the civilian population of Hull . These pictures bring to life the stories my mother and father told me . As hard as I try I cannot imagine the terror they and so many people like them faced . I am in awe of their courage and hope with all my heart nothing like this is ever visited upon Britain or indeed on anyone else ever again !
@GavinScottEnterprise
9 жыл бұрын
Terrific film, Don, and great music. A moving tribute. Well done.
@FingerANumber
9 жыл бұрын
Gavin Scott thanks very much for your comment gavin
@thebandfromhull
10 жыл бұрын
great slide show especially with locations on screen
@maureenfrances100
10 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for your passion and your patience in compiling this excellent insight into some of the damage done to dear old Hull in WW2.
@FingerANumber
10 жыл бұрын
thankyou for you kind words maureen
@AldbroBev
12 жыл бұрын
very well made video and fitting audio and nice music to suit. One of the better Hull blitz vids on YT and more hard hitting and brings the realism of the moment out in the images, thanks for sharing
@terencekreft482
8 жыл бұрын
I live on Blenheim Street although not originally from Hull. I suspected the little group of 50's housing in the middle of the lower half of even numbered houses may have replaced some bombed out houses. This video confirms that. Having seen the video I'm amazed at how little damage this area received compared to the rest of Hull and how much restoration has taken place in Hull.
@firstclassgaming1079
9 жыл бұрын
Great video don .after my mother cousin did the family tree we discovered that we had relative's that died on scarbough street and looking at the damage caused I'm not surprised I haven't lived in hull for nearly 10 years and can still recognise some of the places shown . great video . just to let you know hull was one of the first places in England to be bombed by the ARdo blitz jet bomber
@FingerANumber
9 жыл бұрын
Byron Towner Mudd yeh hull was hit hard unfortunately , thanks for watching and for the comments Byron get one free ? lol ignore me ;O)
@marymary5494
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading.
@hullbloke11
12 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. It shows in 10 minutes just why Hull has such a varied collection of buildings, both new and old, without the pictures highlighting just what fellow Hull folk had to go through so i can sit here today.
@libraiis
7 жыл бұрын
thank you for posting this. Many of them I have never seen before. We had lots of bombed buildings on our street.. mum always read the riot act if I was going outside as a kid to stay off them.. kids liked to play there. No wonder so many of them died in their 50's. living in that hell. We were told it was the docks they went after that was why it was so bad.
@greenmoose_
10 жыл бұрын
Sad to see Hull still paying the price for this architecturally so many years on.. were other places got rebuilt bigger and better, Hull was left to languish and make do - to the extent that Beverley Road has the dubious honour of having the last blitz damaged building still standing in the UK in 2014!! (its an eyesore)
@user-fz6bj8us4v
8 жыл бұрын
oh really, which building may I ask? thx
@greenmoose_
8 жыл бұрын
The old National Picture Theatre!
@chelseahulmston9056
5 жыл бұрын
........then youve never heard of the famous bombed our church in liverpool city center. Its been left as it was that night in the blitz. Its still known as the bombed out church and is still standing there today.
@None-zc5vg
4 жыл бұрын
@@chelseahulmston9056 ...and the town hall jobsworths have set about cutting down the trees which decorated the site of that bombed church in Liverpool.
@colindunn3249
10 жыл бұрын
interesting im hull born but now live in colchester so always keen to hear and see history of ull nice one
@Pepperhouse1
10 жыл бұрын
A beautifully presented - and very watchable - slideshow proving that you don't have to 'go to war' to be a hero ..
@performingsys
10 жыл бұрын
So very sad to see the horror people endured for so long. Americans only know such horror and tragedy on 9-11, in NYC. It seems so very sad.
@colindunn3249
10 жыл бұрын
oh and all i hear down south is about the east end of london well i believe hull took more punishment than them
@DaleTurrell928
7 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, loved it
@FingerANumber
11 жыл бұрын
Hi dedweird the 1st song is moonlight serenade by glenn miller orchestra the 2nd is Get in Your Shelter by Arthur Askey & 3rd is there'll always be an england by vera lynn. tx for watching glad you liked it .
@Cripianbrigham
9 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, thank you. For myself, who wasn't born in Hull, but live in a nearby town. I find it an advantage to be able to put the street names into google maps to illustrate to me how the City has altered, due to these sad days of world war two. The info on each image has made it easy for me to use google maps to bring these into perspective. Well done and again thanks.
@dodebrigham1359
9 жыл бұрын
Yes very interesting
@ynotnilknarf39
11 жыл бұрын
Hull sustained horrendous damage during WWII due to the bombings, only London fared worse. Of the 92,660 registered houses in Hull only 5,945 were left undamaged leaving 152,000 temporarily homeless & provided for. 1,200 lost their lives and 3,000 injured during the bombings Hull is rarely if ever mentioned on historical doucmentaries & never did get the recognition of the turmoil that the citizens went through, much due to it being described as a 'North East town or Northern coastal town'
@FingerANumber
11 жыл бұрын
thanks for your comment , you are very welcome to use my video for any of your future events ,oh & thanks for watching ;o
@Lytton333
11 жыл бұрын
A wonderfully evocative video.. very well done! I do home-front re-enactment, and I think I'll share it with my fellow re-enactors on Facebook. I wondered if in the future at one of our events I could also possibly use it for showing?
@ashbytimuk
11 жыл бұрын
My Mum was brought up on a Market Garden on the east of the village of Skidby, overlooking Hull. On the first night of the Hull blitz her Dad got her and her brother out of bed to watch the bombing saying "You will never see anything like this again". Sadly he was proved wrong, time and time again. As has been said Hull was the second most blitzed place in Britain after London but rarely got mentioned by name just described as a 'North East town or Northern coastal town'.
@susanamaffin7804
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great video...xx
@FingerANumber
9 жыл бұрын
Susana Maffin Thanks for this great comment :o)
@mrsramsden
11 жыл бұрын
made me cry...I grew up in the 50s down Regent Street and our playground was "bombed buildings"
@raquelps6971
3 жыл бұрын
In school we have to read diary entries from kids in the war and regent Street was mentioned!
@annlongthorne7482
2 жыл бұрын
I always listen to my parents about the war. My dad was.saying about my uncle Peter wilson. Ran out the shelter.shouting come.down you batards and fight like men he was.a boxer
@mellowyellow4902
11 жыл бұрын
I remember playing in the bombed out houses as a kid in Hull. Lived their until 18 left in 1967 attended Wilberforce high
@poppy7629
7 жыл бұрын
OMG my home town I can't imagine it
@FingerANumber
12 жыл бұрын
@hullbloke11 thanks for your comments mr & for watching im really glad you liked an appreciate it
@janerichards7260
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing..my home city..my mum lived on Scarborough Street
@eineweitereratselhafteseel8801
2 жыл бұрын
Everytime I'm hearing these sirens my head goes party mode 🙃
@philipebear8161
10 жыл бұрын
Well done lad!
@paulvallance4347
4 жыл бұрын
I moved to Hull recently and was very moved by this film. So much trauma for a city to endure, so many lives lost and wonderful buildings. This trauma must still resonate today and added to this there are the consequences of deliberate political neglect under Thatcher and more recently with Tory 'austerity' medicine.
@FingerANumber
12 жыл бұрын
@AldbroBev thanks very much for your thoughts & tx for watching
@mikebinns4372
10 жыл бұрын
do you have any photos of Chilten street ?
@dgrando202
Жыл бұрын
My great grandmother lived on Sidney street Sidney terrace(lime street) in June 1943 when it was hit with a large parachute b**m. Trying to find info about that street is hard!
@FingerANumber
Жыл бұрын
Bonjour , the only person i can think of that may have knowledge of that area is a guy on you tube called Hull history nerd . .. really good channel totally recommend him for lots of varied local historic info and he's a decent bloke , try giving him a shout and definitely worth subbing 👍
@dgrando202
Жыл бұрын
@@FingerANumber thank you for taking time out of your life to respond! I will defo contact them!
@ConstanceMarkiewicz
11 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. There's a great group on facebook 'Kingston Upon Hull during the war' so please join if you have an interest!
@darlenepotts6158
4 жыл бұрын
what year was this?
@dedweirdo
11 жыл бұрын
Oh and Great Video by the way. May i ask what music you used?
@patrickstarphish2972
4 жыл бұрын
Ded Wenn I guess not
@kilindini
8 жыл бұрын
You would not have heard the sound of a V1 rocket in 1941. The first doodle bug fell in 1944 after D Day. A great compilation though. Nice city.
@None-zc5vg
4 жыл бұрын
The sound of bombers' engines came from British Merlin engines instead of from the German 'Jumos' used on their "Heinkel 111" planes.
@lukesage3296
11 жыл бұрын
It's a shame all those buildings were destroyed only to be replaced by these vile glass buildings ...i think i'm the only 24year old who HATES technology and modern things :)
@dedweirdo
11 жыл бұрын
Well besides the point they'd want to focus on london etc. it was never revealed in media at the time, it was always referenced as North East to avoid giving away damage information to the germans as Hull was a Major target due to ease of location, amount of Docks, The fact hull was and still is an industrial city and originally bombed in WWI due to being mistaken for Goole.
@michaelh.6142
7 жыл бұрын
yes, why never no mention of hull when it comes to world war 2 bombings . think hull had more than 80 raids on the city .A north eastern cost town??
@themostrandom3425
7 жыл бұрын
I live on orchard park I wonder .what it looked like in ww2
@aOa0a0
7 жыл бұрын
Orchard Park was just fields during WW2. It was built in the early 1960s.
@homiedolphin9280
6 жыл бұрын
I live one town away from hull
@nickstevenson92
3 жыл бұрын
HomieDolphin Called?? Plz😀
@eddietwang
11 жыл бұрын
As a young Hull kid in the early seventies our playground was the Bombed out area of ho[lmnbvcfdxsdrftgb
@bilalahmad4558
8 жыл бұрын
i live in Hull
@scarlett020202123
9 жыл бұрын
My dad lives on newbridge road
@emreaayd
8 жыл бұрын
I live in hull
@sahhull
5 жыл бұрын
The hammy fake bomb explosion sounds and the screen shaking transitions made it unwatchable for me.
@abbielewis4380
7 жыл бұрын
omg terrible ! why dose this happen to hull ! I bet the Germans did this to hull !😓😖😥
@maproductions9945
7 жыл бұрын
Nowhere near as bad as the London blitz - but still terrible.
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