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The Hope & Anchor was situated on Cleveland Street. This pub opened c1840 and closed c1970 when it was amalgamated within a new club called Spiders.

Source: Paul Gibson

As children, my sister and I lived in this pub just after the war. We lived there with our Aunt and Uncle (George and Nellie Cripsey) as our parents divorced at the war's end. Hope and Anchor was a relatively new pub, having only been opened a year or two before WW2 and our aunt and uncle were its first managers. It had the distinction of being one of only two public houses in Hull which had a singing licence . A distinction of which my sister and I were only too well aware, as we never got to sleep before "Time Gentlemen Please!" was called at 10pm below our bedroom. We adored listening to the old Music Hall songs issuing from below our bedroom though and were word perfect in most of them. Hope and Anchor was a Hull Brewery pub and we used to get deliveries of bottled beer by horse and cart - much to our delight. The On Tap beer came by a tanker, delivered through a trap door in the front yard . Most of the buildings in the area had been flattened by bombs as the pub was quite close to the River Hull, where there had been (and still were a few) oil crushing mills. We left the pub after our Uncle died in 1948 - I have never seen it since - it is always said "You should never go back." and we didn't - though our daughter did visit Spiders and was fascinated to know that her Mum had once lived there.

Mina Caulfield (November 2019)

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