The North East Coastal Town, A short Hull Blitz documentary film 2022
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2022
- A short documentary I have made for my assignment at University. I hope you all enjoy. All archive footage goes to their respected owners and not myself. For educational purposes, information and in loving memory of my beautiful late Grandma Christina Taylor 1942-2021 ❤️
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I was born in 1939. One of my earliest memories is being at the door of the air raid shelter as the adults tried to work out where the bombs had fallen using the fires from imcendiaries as a guide. My dad was a shipwright, worked during the day then manned the anti aircraft guns at night. I live in N.Z, been back to Hull five times, still feels like home.
After serving 24yrs in the British Army, 1 P.W.O, I settled in Germany, ironic eh, I was brought up down Gordon Street, Boulevard, Hull East Yorks. A very well put together and informative film, well done and thank you. May your Grandma R.I.P ................ X
Thank you for making this makes me proud to be from Hull
My Dad was a Air Raid cycle messenger boy (15) during the Hull blitz- and got a commendation. His job was to report back on the location of fractured gas mains, incendiary fires etc. He had a cast iron bell shaped shelter to hide in if it got rough. He never spoke about it much. My Aunt and Uncle were bombed out of their house - he was on leave from the Merchant marine (torpedoed twice). I remember during the late 50's as a child visiting my grandparents in Hull and seeing so many gaping holes in the rows of houses. The church at the end of the road was just a shell.
I didn't know that the bombing was kept secret in the early years of the war.
Thank you for doing this Tyler. My Dad was 9 during the blitz and he told us quite a few shocking stories of his and his family's experiences. They lived at the time in central Hull in Londesborough St.
Great work Tyler. My great Gran was evacuation from Hull and moved to Scunthorpe due to the damage Hull sustained, we all ended up growing up in Scunthorpe due to this. Funnily enough ended up living in Hull years later
Thank you for the comment I'm glad you enjoyed. My Gran evacuated away to Nottingham for a short time I believe, and then moved back
Great piece of work Tyler, Your Grandma would be so proud of you mate.....Well done!!
Thank you very much! , I really appreciate your comment it means a lot all the best :))
My dad dug out many of the bodies from those ruins in the Town Centre. Mam told me of an occasion when dad returned home after a nights work recovering folk, that he screamed at her to remove her stocking. He then told her he had just pulled out of the rumble a pair of legs with the same coloured stocking on. You cant imagine what our families went through in those dark days. Being bombed night after night and not being able to fight back. My Uncle paid them back. He did 3 tours in the Halifax bombers and survived.
Can't even begin to imagine the terrors, must have been such an awful experience to go through :(. But thank you so much for sharing I hope you found some comfort in the video I made and enjoyed it, The efforts of the heroes of our city will never be forgotten.
My parents and their families were raised in Hull. My mom and aunt told us stories of their experiences during the war. Fortunately, no one in the family was killed.
Loved it Tyler… thanks for spending the time to make it x
Tyler, thanks learnt alot from this, when I move to Hull from London back in 1986 I was amazed how much bomb damage could still be seen. Hull people are so resilient. Well done.
Thank you so much for your comment. I'm really happy you enjoyed! :)
Well done Tyler , I was born 6 years after the war ended and still remember playing in the bombed buildings that were our playground...Carry on the good work.
Wow, that is crazy! Really glad you enjoyed watching and thank you very much for the comment much appreciated :)
Hi Thank you for taking the time to do this , it means a great deal for me ,, i was born in ULL in 1956 and 35 years later moved here to Canada i love hull very much ,, i can show my Canadian friends this ,, -- ty
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed watching :) really appreciate the support and I'm glad it's managed to reach people like you :) thanks again man:))
This was lovely Tyler. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am sure that your Grandmother would have been very proud of you. I remember stories from my own parents too, especially as they both were evacuated as young children.
Thank you very much that means a lot :)
Greetings from Essex!
Oh wow!
What a wonderful and truly inspiring video!! .... with Yorkshire Great-great grand parents, great-grand parents, grand parents and parents, I think of myself as a true yorkshireman 😊 ..... I grew up in Hull off Endike Lane and went to Endike school... so I'm a proper born&bred "Hull Raiser" 😉
I grew up hearing stories of the Hull blitz from my grandparents but until watching your video had no idea of the severity of the bombing or the importance Hull played during the war. Your video has rekindled the proudness of my heritage!!
Thank you so so much for posting❤
04:20 PS I remember eating a sausage roll sitting outside BHS (where the ship murel is) whilst my mother was shopping inside
Thank you so much for your comment:) I'm really happy you enjoyed the video, it's been so amazing reading all these comments it does not go unnoticed. So thank you honestly.
Thank you Tyler for sharing your video. I was born in Hull but now live in Plymouth. Xx
Thank you for your comment :) really appreciate it
RIP Christina 🙏🏼
(You did her proud)
Thank you so much, that comment means so much honestly:)
i know live in Canada ( originally from ULL ) i show this video to my Canadian friends and it shocks them the USA and Canada never saw damage to this extent as a kid i would visit my my grand parents down Woodcock st and the would tell my about it , as a kid 10 years old , i would play on a bombed school play yard across the road -- it is important for me to tell you what a great thing you did making this film ,, THANK YOU for doing this it helps me show others what Hull and the UK went though and a Lady sat on a bombed home drinking tea - says everything about the Hull people character , sorry about the long text , but again thank you Earle Gilgeous
Thank you so much for leaving this comment I'm really glad you found this video and have shared it around the globe it means a lot! :) thank you again your message is really appreciated
Hull was the bombed city outside of London. Though it hardly seems to get mentioned. 95% of buildings were damaged and 152,000 out of a population of 320,000 were made homeless.
An interesting video history. Online there are detailed maps showing the location of every bomb dropped on Hull during the war. I still have a page from the HDM published after the war detailing the city centre destruction.
I remember in the late 1950s playing on a big AA gun emplacement in what is now Costello playing fields.
Fantastic, thank you,,,
You’ve done an amazing job covering this subject, proud of you mate!
Thanks mate :) appreciate it
Enjoyed that 👌
Nice work.
Thank you :)
Great Video ty for taking the time to do it
What was the date of Hull being bombed for the first time? I visited Hull in 1961. My uncle lived there.
Hulls never recovered from this where did the money for the rebuild go. 🤔
Hi please can i share this on my Facebook page if i credit your youtube channel and credit you?
Of course you can:) much appreciated. I will be making an updated version of this video soon also