Ye Olde Tat Shop

Tucked away on Alexandra Road is this second hand/junk shop. It sells just what it says on the sign. These places have an undeserved reputation for selling stolen goods. I was there once when a couple of likely lads tried to off-load bikes that were clearly out of their pay league shall we say. The owner mentioned he'd had the police round just the day before and demanded identification from this pair which, of course, they couldn't provide, that is until the least bright of the pair offered his prison release form as ID. I don't think they made a deal somehow. 

Bikes and Trikes

As promised yesterday a selection of the motorcycles on show at Cottingham day. Now I know even less about these things than I do about cars so I'll leave you to look at them without further comment.

If you are a Facebook user I've posted an album photos of Cottingham Day on the Hull and Hereabouts page here.

Cars

One of the mainstays of Cottingham Day is the display of old ( I won't say vintage ) cars. Here are a few of those on show. I don't know much about cars, however I do recognise the Ford Consul as my dad had one back in the early, very early sixties, it was red as I recall. If you're into two-wheeled vehicles I have motorcycles lined up for tomorrow.

Ain't No Cure for the Summertime Blues ...

The parish council website informs us that this year's Cottingham Day will have a distinct 1950's feel. So on stage we have what is described as a jive band complete with Elvis. Well, actually they were better than Elvis, but then that wouldn't take much. They went through a whole bunch of fifties and early sixties stuff, I left when they attempted Summer Holiday, the human body can only take so much pain.

I put my little Fuji to video mode and came up with a short video.

Playing with fire

It's that time of year again, when the main streets are closed and people come from all around for the thrills and spills of Cottingham Day. Here a unicylcing juggler entertains. More tomorrow.

The Holderness

Next door to yesterday's offering is the Holderness, a public house. It's a fairly old building appearing on maps going back to 1830s. However it is most certainly not a Tudor building as the external appearance might suggest. Apparently there was a fashion to decorate pubs in this mock-Tudor style in the early years of the last century (see also the Rose and Crown, Beverley).

Holderness, in case you were wondering, is the name given to an area of east Yorkshire running roughly from the river Hull to the North Sea. Click here and let Wikipedia tell you more. 

Hull's Angel

Came across this odd little figure above a workshop doorway on Dansom Lane. The windows suggest that the building may have had a religious function but I can find no information about it.

Update A friend has suggested that this building was once a Foreign & British school or to give it its full title British and Foreign School Society for the Education of the Labouring and Manufacturing Classes of Society of Every Religious Persuasion built sometime in the early 1800s. [ 1 ]