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The Spinners Arms was situated on Cumberland Street.

Source: Richard Payne

In the early to mid 1950s my mother and father ran the pub for a couple of years (Marie and Ernest Laverack). The family - parents plus 3 boys - lived there for the duration. I recall the address was 122 Cumberland Street and, believe it or not, we lived immediately next door to another pub - the Kingston. Spinners was a Moors and Robsons pub and the deliveries used to arrive by horse drawn cart. The next door pub, I believe, was a Hull Brewery pub. Unfortunately I have no photographs of the pubs, but I recall that we had a radiogram in our upstairs living room which played 78s to a speaker down in the bar/smoke room (perhaps David Whitfield and Alma Cogan?). The bar itself had an old stove with a smokestack for winter warmth. As far as I recollect we had a bar, a smoke room and a snug which functioned as an off-license and where the home drinkers could order their gill of beer for taking out. My mother was a keen darts player and she claimed to have established a ladies darts team to attract customers. As kids, we used to play in and on "bombed buildings", next door to us being an ideal bombed building. I read that there was a massive air raid in 1941 which took out a hotel which used to be next door to Spinners Arms. Apparently, across the road which, when we lived there, was a Co-operative Wholesale Society Warehouse and had previously been a cotton mill - hence the hotel and pub across the road. My mam and dad used to tell us that the yard and its sheds were former pig-sties, but whether they were teasing us about that, I don't know, but I do know that people would sometimes keep pigs just like they used to keep chickens.

Ted Laverack (October 2024)

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