Chat Thread 5

Quote: Mild Rover "Didn't Hull look gorgeous in 1903...

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We have more freedom, money and knowledge than our greatgrandparents - how come we've ended up with so much less dignity? Willfully ignoring the endemic domestic violence and even more entrenched class system, of course. Leisurewear, plastics and fast-food have a lot to answer for. Consumer society scunners me sometimes.

I have nothing to do with this company, btw.
Nice pictures but I think you need to take your rose tinted historical glasses off.

My grandma was born in 1910 and raised down Hessle Road, her father died when she was about six, lost at sea and her mother remarried a drunken alcoholic brute. They never had enough food and lived in slum housing, she suffered with malnutrition, by the age of thirteen she had TB. The abusive stepfather eventually committed suicide and her mother remarried, at fifteen the new step father threw her and her younger brother out and she went to work in the Needlers sweet factory to support them.
She met my granddad and things were better but still I suspect tough, although normal to them she led a fairly normal life from there on in and died in 1987.

I doubt her experiences were at all unusual.

My point is, that away from the offices of the big shipping lines and fishing companies responsible for some of the beautiful architecture I would say life was very much worse for your average citizen in terms of social and economic opportunity than now.

Preston Road is well known as one of the most disadvantaged areas of the city but has recently seen the opening of what looks a very nice school, the opportunities are there to be taken, yes, it might be hard, but at least they're there.

I'm generalising an awful lot and I admit to having little knowledge about Hulls current climite as i haven't lived there for a long time, but you get the gist.