Working with Untold Hull we have recorded around 100 oral history interviews connected with the former Hull Co-op, BHS and the building nightclubs. Interviews range from: thoughts on the building and Alan Boyson artworks; memories from building architects and construction workers; what it was like to work and shop in the former department store; the Co-operative movement in Hull; memories of the building nightclubs, the Skyline Ballroom, later Bailey's and finally Romeo's & Juliet's; and the strong connection the building has to Hull's fishing and trawling heritage.
Below are some of the memories collected so far. We'll be adding further memories to this page over the coming months.
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Below are some of the memories collected so far. We'll be adding further memories to this page over the coming months.
Mark your memories on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook by tagging, using the #MuralMemories hashtag, or emailing [email protected]
Pulling Pints in a Toga
Angie Wallace (left, flicking the 'Vs' in 1986) worked at Romeo’s and Juliet’s during the 1980s. Here she recalls working behind the various nightclub bars and as a lighting jockey. She remembers the notorious wet t-shirt competitions, staff friendships, rumours and scandals.
Image courtesy of Angie Wallace Listen to Angie's full interview HERE |
Boyson Blocks a Drain
Bryan Elletson recalls working on the Coop building as a plumber in the early 1960s where he believes he met muralist Alan Boyson working on ‘Fish’. Bryan remembers Alan being a 'messy worker' whilst cutting the marble for seaweed fronds in the Fish mural. Apparently it was Alan who’d blocked the pipe that Bryan had to track down and fix. Bryan also went rogue and saw the silvery Skyline Ballroom dome with it’s four unique corner fixings and the elegant sprung dance floor beneath.
Image from SHIPS in the SKY drone footage Listen to Bryan's full interview HERE |
Santa's Toy Dept. Grotto
Gill Scott took her children to the Hull Co-op Santa's Grotto every Christmas from the late 1970s, followed by tea and cake in the store cafe. She moved from London to go to University in Hull and remembers how different Hull was in the 1970s.
Image courtesy of Co-operative Society, Co-op Hull Courier Listen to Gill's full interview HERE |
Spinning Drumsticks
David shares some memories of the music scene in Hull scene in the 1960s of which he was a key part including drumming at and attending many gigs at the Skyline Ballroom. David used to knock around with Mick Ronson, and when Cream played at the Ballroom they went along as Mick wanted to learn how Eric Clapton bent the strings on his guitar. They met the band and Ginger Rogers loved how David was able to spin his drumsticks. The rest is history...
Image courtesy of David Harvey Listen to David's full interview HERE |
When Cabaret was KingMick Jones told us about being lighting director and DJ manager at Bailey’s nightclub. Originally from South Wales, followed by work in Luton's clubs, Mick moved to Hull in 1974 with his then sweetheart. The sweetheart didn’t last but Mick loved Hull so much he stayed. After being made redundant he got a job at Bailey’s. He tells us about his favourite acts (Tommy Cooper), the club’s cabaret and disco, chicken in a basket, the camaraderie between the close knit club team, and being the nominated driver of the Bailey’s double-decker promotional bus even though he’d never driven a bus before — yikes!!!
Image courtesy of Hull Daily Mail Listen to Mick's full interview HERE |
An Eyeliner Moustache
Mark Brady shares his memories of visits to the under18s nights at Romeo’s & Juliet’s nightclub in 1988 . It was £2.50 to get into the #club in the 1980s, but a bargain £1.50 if you had a club 'Some Like it Hot' card. There were two clubs inside — Romeo’s playing pop and chart music , and Juliet’s playing more alternative music with Acid House and later Techno dominating 1988 and beyond. Mark also told us how he grew a moustache to look older, and even added a wee bit of eyeliner to make it look denser — all a ploy so that he could sneak into the over18s nights.
Image courtesy of Untold Hull Listen to Mark's full interview HERE |
Banquets Fit for Royalty
From Hull’s Hessle Road, Barry Cooper answered an ad in the Hull Daily Mail on leaving school and got his first job in 1963 at the age of 15 as an apprentice chef in the Skyline restaurant. Barry loved his job in the Skyline however, contracted for 40 hours a week, he usually worked up to 60 hours a week and was told by the finance department that no overtime was paid.
State-of-the-art kitchens allowed Barry and his team to cook for up to 1000 people between the Skyline Ballroom cum Restaurant, the Cafe de Paris, and the staff canteen. Barry told us about the revolving dance floor and longest bar in Hull in the Cafe de Paris, and the mixed cuisine he prepared, including Russian potato salad, meatballs, piped mashed potato, magnificent trifles, and fancy melon cocktail in champagne glasses sprinkled with coloured sugar. The team was led by Skyline manager Latila from Finland, who employed a chef from Sweden, Ingrid. Barry learnt a lot from Ingrid and in 1966 she helped Barry get a job as a chef on the Hull-Sweden/Ellerman-Wilson line passenger ships. From a weekly wage of £5, Barry went up to £60 a week and remained at sea for 5 years learning Swedish as he went along. Image courtesy of Barry Cooper Listen to Barry's full interview HERE |
Modernist Grand Designs
Architect of the former Hull Co-op building E.P.(Philip)Andrew, was a childhood friend of Alan Boyson and it was Alan’s father, manager of the Marple Co-operative Society, that recommended Philip for an apprenticeship job in 1951 to the chief architect at the CWS in Manchester HQ. After a period of national service, Philip studied at Manchester College of Art, School of Architecture, followed by work as an assistant architect in 1956. In late 1959 Philip began work on designing the Hull Co-op Central Premises, travelling by train from Stockport to Hull once a fortnight. Philip told us about Alan Boyson creating the interior ‘Fish’ mural in 1961 in the Hull Co-op Store, and also how he commissioned Alan to create a gigantic mosaic mural for the corner main entrance in 1963, the last section of the building to be completed. We were delighted that Philip showed us some of his original artwork for the building, including designs for the unique concrete handkerchief dome above the Skyline Ballroom; the only other similar structure in the world at the time existed in the Kremlin in Moscow.
Image courtesy of E.P. Andrew Listen to Philip's full interview HERE |
21st Birthday in the SkylineCarol Harraway told us about her four aunts working as waitresses in the Skyline restaurant and ballroom, an aunt that later became a manager in the Co-op, and her grandparents golden wedding anniversary in the posh function room. Carol spent time as a hairdresser in Hammonds but took part in hairdressing competitions in the Skyline. She went to many gigs in the Skyline Ballroom and Bailey’s. Carol remembers seeing Ike and Tina Turner, but her favourite gig was The Drifters in 1967 - the covert at which she met her husband Michael. Carol also recalls a relative playing the piano on the rotating stage in Bailey’s, and her aunt giving Jimi Hendrix his pay-packet when he played in the Skyline Ballroom.
This #MuralMemory is dedicated to Carol’s husband, Michael Harraway (1945-2020), who sadly passed away during lockdown. Image courtesy of Carol Harraway Listen to Carol's full interview HERE |
Meat Pie and ChipsDavid Treacher shared his memories of shopping at the Co-operative and how the divvy was a lifeline for many folk. A favourite dinner of David’s was having Meat Pie and Chips in the Skyline Ballroom dining room every Monday and Wednesday. David also recalled the period in which Co-op had financial difficulties and had to close the store. The building was sold to a Prudential insurance company with terms that included a peppercorn rent after 14 years. David describes the short period of time when BHS was open in the front section of the building underneath the Three Ships mural, with a small part of the former Co-op remaining open in the back of the building. He noted how the Co-op paid their staff fairly and did not ‘skimp’ on costs, and how many longstanding staff eventually lost their jobs when the Co-op completely shut down. Things he bought in the store included ‘an Alba TV’ that lasted years, a transistor radio, and his father used the store opticians and went to the Co-op dentist on King Edward Street. David’s parents were both Co-op members, and when they married, his father gave his mother some of his Co-op shares. His father felt the Co-op was ‘a Socialist shop, a Labour shop’, and strongly believed in these principles. For these reasons, his parents were faithful shoppers in the store until the central premises closed down, and they were both members of the Co-op until they died. David also believes in these principles which has led him to be a union representative. David talks about the potential future use of the building with a mix of retail, entertainment facilities and housing, and remarked how the Three Ships mural brings back memories for him and his time shopping in the store. He hopes the mural can remain for everyone to see and as a marker of Hull’s unique heritage.
Image courtesy of Hull Daily Mail Listen to David's full interview HERE |
Photographing the Stars
Danny Foster described himself as a Mod and told us how he, and his photographer mentor Alan, used to blag themselves into clubs to take pictures of bands. Danny then met a DJ called Rikki Dobbs who also booked bands for the Skyline and invited Danny and Alan to photograph gigs there, including the group Amen Corner, fronted by vocalist and guitarist Andy Fairweather Low who later worked with Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Roger Waters. Another group Danny photographed was Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon. Johnny bought many prints from Danny and asked him to shoot album covers for his soul band. Danny however, had a good job at a local shoe manufacturers, C Rosens & Sons on Hessle Road, so turned down Andy’s offer although now regrets this. Other groups Danny photographed include The Fantastics, Sweet Sensations, The Rival, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, and Tamla Motown singers Edwin Starr and Marv Johnson. Danny especially liked photographing the soul groups who played in the ballroom with their team choreographed dance routines. He also photographed bands in other clubs around Hull including The Four Tops, The Drifters, and The Ronettes, one of Danny’s favourite bands. Danny also recalled going to the Skyline ballroom as an audience member. One night in particular stood out to going to see Showaddywaddy play, when the lead singer, Dave Bartram, jumped up onto the table Danny was at, and started dancing in his fetching teddy boy brothel creepers. Danny also remembered Rosen & Sons having work ‘dos’ at the Skyline ballroom, and also enjoyed watching the spectacle of the ballroom dancers in the main Skyline hall. Danny described the Skyline gig interiors as being fairly plain but that it was the music that counted, “it wasn’t where you was, it was the music you were listening to.” Danny said he was a mod and went to gigs on a scooter. It sounds like he cut a fine figure wearing cuban heeled shoes with almond toes and a centre seam, a button-own collar shirt with a brass stud fitted into the collar behind the tie, a three button Italian-cut suit with 13 inch drainpipe trousers, and a knitted tie. In fact Danny still has his knitted ties to this day, including the one he wore to see the Beatles in Hull. As Danny was on the front row during this gig he said, “when John Lennon shook his head his sweat would fly over me…his DNA is still on my tie as I’ve never washed it.”
Image courtesy of Danny Foster Listen to Danny's full interview HERE |
Part of the Furniture
Ivor Morton Halnofski told us about his days at Bailey’s nightclub. He started to going to the club when he was underage, becoming, “part of the furniture”, with him and his friends known as the ‘Bailey’s clan’. Ivor told us about those he saw perform at the nightclub, his favourite band being The Drifters. He said how he feels there are no similar nightclubs in Hull today showing bands as cheaply as tickets were for Bailey’s. The ‘Bailey’s clan’ liked their fashion with outfits including American GI uniforms, all bought from a shop down Spring Street in Hull, with footwear being ex-hire stock bought from S.M. Bass Gent’s Outfitters. He later wore punk outfits, including mohair jumpers, and he’d, “go to Leeds to buy a lot of our punk gear, and London…and punk hadn’t been heard of in Hull at the time.” On a holiday in Blackpool with a friend, they meet some girls from London who loved punk — Ivor then spent the following weekends for 6 months in London going to different nightclubs. There he experienced a mix of punk and mods and was one night chased by a gang of Teddy Boys and had to hide underneath a car for 2 hours in order to not get beaten up. Ivor still has a photograph in his flat of the girls he meet up with in London, Cathy Mohan and Janice Highman, who lived in Peckham and Wimbledon respectively. On the way he dressed back in Hull, “people were gobsmacked, they thought we were aliens..but gradually people got into it.” He described Bailey’s as having two doormen at the entrance with large plate glass doors, and then they’d go up in either one of two lifts up to the fourth floor where the nightclub was. There was a carpeted reception and cloakroom area, and Ivor described the interior as unusual for Hull as it was, “done out like a London nightclub.” There was a long corridor to the ‘discotheque', and another area with a dance floor and stage. Listening now to music that was played in Bailey’s brings back lots of memories for Ivor, and he said that he thought, “Hull nightlife will never ever be the same as at that time as when we used to go to Bailey’s…the nightlife now is totally…I think it’s a great shame…now culture with the youngsters is totally, totally different.” Ivor Ioved going to Bailey’s so much that he didn’t miss one Sunday night out there from between 1974 to late 1977.
Bailey's interior illustration courtesy of Hull Daily Mail Listen to Ivor's full interview HERE |
A Carpet of Drugs
Kristian Giblin told us about his weekly visit’s to Juliet’s when it was a rave club, and explained how Romeo’s was where, “people drank beer, and they played chart hits…Kylie Minogue that kind of thing.” Kristian told us that on one night when he and his friends were dancing and enjoying themselves, all of a sudden 100s of police burst into the club. A police officer went straight to the DJ booth and told the crowd over the microphone, “this is a police raid, please remain calm, please remain seated”. Kristian said that during this period Juliet’s was notorious for drugs. On the night of the raid everyone, including Kristian, threw their drugs on the floor and, “it was literally a carpet of drugs”. Kristian explained how the police put desks on the ground floor and that there was a queue of club-goers all the way from the third floor, where Juliet’s was, to the ground floor. Everyone got searched once they arrived at the police desk, but arrests were minimal due to people throwing their drugs onto the club floor. Unfortunately the police drugs raid led to the club being closed down a week later. Kristian remembered how a few weeks before the raid a couple of middle aged ladies were in the club asking people if they could, “get any ‘stuff’ ” — nobody used the word ‘stuff’ so clubbers where suspicious that the women were undercover officers. “In Juliet’s the music was underground rave music and it was really hot and sweaty in there” described Kristian, going on to say that the music was played by DJ Philip Hailstone, and DJ Fast T [Tim Yeomans]. Kristian’s nights out at Juliet’s would start in a nearby pub, “we’d all sort of meet up in a pub; we’d possibly take our drugs in the pub, it was ecstasy and amphetamine.” Drugs were taken beforehand to enable them to kick in later in the night at Juliet’s. Kristian described what he wore to the club in 1991 — T-shirt, jeans, trainers — as being appropriate to how hot the club got, “even the ceiling would sweat moisture, you’d feel it dripping from the ceiling…It got so hot and people were dancing so furiously in such a small space to loud music…it was dark, intense, strobe lighting…hardcore, to use terminology from those days.”
Image courtesy of Hull Daily Mail Listen to Kristian's full interview HERE |
Guitar's and Dancing
After school in Scarborough and living in Bridlington, Peter Alton Green moved back to Hull in 1962, and remembers the former Hull Co-op building being constructed. As he played guitar, he was excited to hear about the Skyline Ballroom and hoped to be able to make extra money playing in bands there. He was impressed by the huge dome on the building, and was amazed to hear that there was at the time only one other dome like it in the world, in the Kremlin in Moscow. From the windows at night school, Peter watched the dome being built and he said the construction took ages. When the ballroom finally opened Peter remembers how, when enough people where on the dance floor, “people would fall over because they hadn’t got the tension right.” Peter went on to tell us about the original resident band ‘The Skyliners’.
Image courtesy of Peter Alton Green Listen to Peter's full interview HERE |
Glorious Evenings
Janet Gill who was a regular at the Skyline Ballroom in the late 1960s, and later frequented Bailey’s and then Romeo’s & Juliet’s. The first time Janet went to the Skyline was in 1967 when she was 17, and she remembered being shocked at having to wait in such a long queue. As a shy teenager, it had taken Janet and her friends 2 weeks to pluck up the courage to go to the club in the first place. Janet remembers the club interior as being, “pretty basic with a few lights strung up and a stage” but that, “it was the music we went for.” Janet remembers the touring groups from America who performed in the club, including Jimi Hendrix, The Supremes, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band; in additional to local groups such as The Rats. On seeing Jimi Hendrix Janet said, “he was different…I think he was very unique, I don’t even think you could put him into a category. He was a bit of a shock to us and I can remember thinking we were a bit cheated ’cos we didn’t have our usual music but we actually enjoyed it because he was very charismatic.” When the club became Bailey’s Janet thought it was more sophisticated. The club then had cabaret style evenings and Janet went on her ‘spinster night out’ to the club when she was 21. Bob Monkhouse was performing the same evening and pulled Janet up on stage. Other clubs in Hull such as the Locarno seemed ‘stuffy’ to Janet and her friends, however they did like another Hull club called The Gondola, where they first heard the music of Tamla Motown, and also The Gardener’s Arms pub on Cottingham Road where they found out about gigs at the Hull University Student Union such as The Kinks and Manfred Mann. Janet and her friends were purely interested in the music and atmosphere, and never went to clubs for the alcohol. Her group of friends also went for “copping off with boys”, and Janet remembers the crush she had on one particular boy who, “then went off and broke my heart.” Janet remembers how she wasn’t impressed by acts being famous but rather the music and the new dance moves that came with the music, “we loved to dance…just being teenagers really, learning to grow up.” At the time Janet went to the club she observed how she was part of a generation who had limited access to American soul music. In the 1960s you could hear soul music on pirate radio stations but it was rarely featured on the few music-dedicated TV shows such as ‘Top of the Pops’. Despite having a strict father, Janet remembered how she wore little shorts, mini dresses and short skirts to go clubbing, “you wouldn’t be seen dead in anything longer than 2 or 3 inches above your knee.” Many of the clothes Janet and her friends wore were bought from C&A who, “brought modern clothes at a price that that generation of working-class people could afford.” Janet went on to say, “I remember my father giving me some money and telling me to go and buy myself a dress, and, I think I was 16, and I came back with x2 pairs of bell-bottom flares and he went bananas, he went mad…we fell out over that for quite a while.” When she was 19, Janet bought a fur coat in the Co-op, “I loved the store, I always bought stuff from there…and it was slightly cheaper than BHS.” On nights at the club, “They were glorious evenings, we just used to live for them all week, really, just used to live to go there.”
Image courtesy of Hull Daily Mail Listen to Janet's full interview HERE |
The Essence of Hull
As a child from North Ferriby, Peter Draper had a friend in the mid-1960s who sometimes for his birthday his mother would take him into town for a treat, going to Hammonds cafe first, and then the Cecil cinema. Peter remembers walking through the centre of Hull and his, “eye being caught, even as a boy of 8 or 9, by that fantastic frieze of the Ships in the Sky, even as a child who knew nothing about art or architecture or anything, I thought that was the most amazing thing. And I remember standing in front of it and gazing at it. And still every time I go into Hull, I think it’s just the most beautiful thing, and I think it’s unbelievable that they should even think about taking it down or destroying it. It’s a fantastic iconic image and to me it just symbolises the very essence of Hull.”
Image © Esther Johnson Listen to Peter's full interview HERE |
Plucking and StuffingCatherine Foster remembers her sister going to a Romeo’s & Juliet’s ‘Plucking and Stuffing’ party where you had to pluck chickens and then stuff them with different things for a prize!!!on another night, marking the launch of the EU, you got a free T-shirt if you showed your knickers! Catherine and her mate had long big knickers on so they didn’t show much to get a T-shirt.
Image Romeo's & Juliet's mug and mixing desk © Sean Bell Listen to Catherine's full interview HERE |
Baby Knits
Denise Gibson remembers her sister-in-law having a baby clothes stall when there was a market in the former Hull Co-op/BHS building. She thought that although the market was very clean and spacious, with stalls spread out, the market was never very popular, so it didn’t do very well, “The footfall wasn’t great and I can’t imagine it was there very long”.
Denise loves the mural as it, “makes me think of Hull, and I love Hull”. Image of vintage baby knitting pattern © Unknown Listen to Denise's full interview HERE |
Chicken in a Basket
John Bark remembers going to Bailey’s nightclub in the early 1970’s (psst when he was underage) when it was a cabaret club. John loved his ‘chicken in a basket’ whilst seeing the one-hit wonders ‘The Peddlers’. John also went to Hull’s Beer Keller regularly. John remembers the mural from his club years and sees it as emblematic of Hull. Although he didn’t work at sea, John says the nearest he got was working in a ships chandlers and working on a trawler in the dry dock as a student. He reminds the Co-op and BHS and going in the restaurants and cafes as a treat. Although a massive music fan, John doesn’t remember purchasing records at the co-op specifically.
Image © Unknown Listen to John's full interview HERE |
View from a Honda Prelude
Sarah Mole remembers as a child of around 7 riding in her mum’s car, a white Honda Prelude, and when they drove past the mural there where traffic lights there in the past, and Sarah, “would really look forward to being stuck in traffic at that point because I’d lay on the back seat and look up at the mural for ages”. Sarah is now an artist and thinks this is one of the reasons she appreciated the mural so much. Today the mural reminds Sarah of her childhood and coming into Hull from Hessle with her parents. Her parents sold antiques so the mural was a distinct shift from the Georgian and Victorian items that surrounded Sarah at home, with it being abstract and modern. Although too young to go to Romeo’s & Juliet’s, Sarah has always been fascinated with the life of the building. Sarah visited the ground floor market and used to visit it to get vintage clothes. One time she was able to sneak up to the top floor and saw an empty Romeo’s with everything taken out. On telling us about her adventures Sarah said, “don’t tell me mum…this feels like a confession”. Pssst, don’t tell Sarah’s mum about her naughty roams.
Image © Esther Johnson Listen to Sarah's full interview HERE |
Spinster night out
Sheila Walker had her spinster party at Bailey’s, and for her, “the thing that stands out the most to me is the stairs, and how they wound round. It was absolutely wonderful. But then a while later I read something in the paper where someone had fell over the banister so that was a bit frightening…they’d probably had too much to drink.” Sheila has photographs of her clubbing years and remembers the clothes she wore in 1972 — a blue and gold flower patterned midi dress with long puffed-up sleeves. She remembers the music being Motown and The Beatles. She also said she couldn’t, “remember what we drank, but I’m sure it was plenty.” Sheila also remembers Alan Boyson’s murals, “I can remember the Fish mural. It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful.” Sheila went on to say, “Looking back now you didn’t appreciate it then because you were too young. But now when you look back you think how wonderful it was, and how well done it was made…it was special.”
Image from 'Co-operative Architecture 1945—1959' Listen to Sheila's full interview HERE |
Fear of Ballroom Dancing
Sue Clark has lived in Hull since the age of 11 when her father came out of the RAF and they settled in her mother’s hometown. Sue’s husband’s father worked at the Ellerman Wilson Line. Every Christmas the company had a big do in the Skyline ballroom. Sue was invited now year but before she went, she had to learn how to waltz. Her future husband’s parents were really into their ballroom dancing so Sue had to make sure she was up to scratch, "I found it quite traumatic, because waltzing isn’t easy, and I was 5ft and my future husband was 6ft 2inches and he didn’t dance, he was a rugby player…I remember feeling really anxious because I knew his dad would say, ‘come on Sue, let’s go and do a waltz’, and I’m thinking ‘Oh No!’” Sue remembers wearing a Maxi dress to the dance, and eating, “Scampi in a basket, what could go wrong there. Once Sue was engaged, they used to go to Bailey’s and had a tremendous time there. On a Saturday the Co-op was the place to go, especially the Hat department which was, “such good fun trying all the hats on.” Sue also remembers the heavenly ice-cream, “they sold the most amazing, really yellow ice-cream. It was vanilla, but it was thick and creamy and really stood up in the cone.” About the mural, Sue said, “I think that it’s part of Hull, and the fact that it says Hull and it depicts the fishing industry, we’ve got to keep it, it’s part of our heritage. We really, really must, make the effort to keep it.”
Image © Esther Johnson Listen to Sue's full interview HERE |
Lift adventures and Football
Tony Benson has great memories of Alan Boyson’s Fish Mural. His grandmother was disabled and was limited to the work she was able to carry out. However, she was able to work as a lift attendant in the Co-op. Tony remembers at weekends her mum leaving him with her gran whilst she did her shopping around the town. Tony said, “after going up and down in the lift for half an hour, she would let me out on the floor where the Fish mural was because it was an enclosed area, and she knew I couldn’t come to any harm. So I remember playing in there with a football, kicking a football around, and when I’d had enough I’d simply press the button, and my gran would come up in the lift, and I would get back in the lift and go up and down again for another 15 or 20 minutes.”
Image © Esther Johnson Listen to Tony's full interview HERE |
The Three Musketeers
Ann Day, Sandra Hare and Carole Murray all worked at the Co-op whilst the store was gradually being rebuilt. They were a part of a team of Display Artists responsible for dressing windows and merchandising the store. The three girls and the other ladies in the team worked hard to make sure they had the best shop windows in Hull city centre; Hammonds was the one to beat, apparently.
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Co-op Display ArtistsWhen the arty trio weren't getting busy with swathes of fabric and papier-mâché, they took plenty of photograph's of themselves at work - so when the Fish mural was completed in 1961, they enjoyed posing in front of it in their lunch hour.
Above is the display team Ann, Sandra, Val, Carole, Carole & Gillian in their uniforms. Staff had to line up every morning for inspection by their manager. |
Forever FriendsAnn, Sandra and Carole remain firm friends who chat and meet up weekly. Here is Carole (73), Ann (80), and Sandra (76) photographed in 2017 at Ann's sons wedding.
They've been wonderfully supportive of the Ships in the Sky project, and we're looking forward to hearing more from them and looking through their boxes of photographs. |
Go to the CONTRIBUTE page to tell us your story.
– Do you remember the Co-op before it became BHS?
– Perhaps you shopped in BHS and remember the dramatic closing down?
– Does the beautiful Three Ships mural by artist Alan Boyson – the largest mosaic in the UK – have a special meaning for you?
– Alternatively you may have a story to tell of the buildings club history – the Skyline Ballroom, Baileys, or Romeo’s & Juliet’s?
– Do you remember the Co-op before it became BHS?
– Perhaps you shopped in BHS and remember the dramatic closing down?
– Does the beautiful Three Ships mural by artist Alan Boyson – the largest mosaic in the UK – have a special meaning for you?
– Alternatively you may have a story to tell of the buildings club history – the Skyline Ballroom, Baileys, or Romeo’s & Juliet’s?
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The R&D project phase has been funded by James Reckitt Library Trust
in partnership with Untold Hull at Hull Libraries, and with the support of the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University and Hull Trinity House Old Boys' Association |
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