The Encyclopedia of Us - Issue 2

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF @EOFUSHU3 JULY 2022

HOPE WITH TEETH

HU3 // CARE IMAGINATION POWER

FREE WHAT MIGHT IT MEAN TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE WE COULD REALLY FLOURISH, NOT JUST SURVIVE?

HELLO AGAIN & WELCOME ALL This is the second issue of the Encyclopedia of Us, a newspaper like no other, for HU3. What makes this newspaper so different? Let us tell you a little about how it works. this community, made with and by »Itthisis about community. We invite everyone to be part

of it. Most of the content in here is written and produced by people living or working in HU3.

The map on the back page locates the source of the articles. Hear from residents on a street near you and from groups and organisations working in your neighbourhood.

every article in here is accompanied »Almost by an invitation to act, be it a small act for you

and your family to enjoy, or a bigger act that contributes to the life of this community. These are called the You Cans, so keep an eye out.

are flexible in how we work so that we can »We involve people who live and work in HU3 in whatever ways are needed.

To do this we have

Kate Genever, our Artist Investigator - some of you will have already met her...and others surely will... she has a knack of seeing what’s hidden, interesting, challenging and beautiful, and she’s out and about on the streets.

Three Ways East – an arts and culture company who provide the back up support and do the fundraising...that’s Clare Huby and Deborah Munt.

The Editorial Advisory Group (EAG) – now this changes every time as we like to involve the people contributing to the paper, finding out how they think it should shape up. If you would like to join the EAG get in touch... you don’t have to have done anything like this before, we will find a way to make it work for you.

The EAG for this edition are listed on the back page.

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HOPE WITH TEETH

I’ve been thinking about hope …

In fairness, I’m pretty much always thinking about hope. Hope, love and freedom have turned out to be big themes in my thoughts, threads running through everything I do, and perhaps never more so than in the last two years when everything’s felt a bit upside down and, at times, desperate. And I suppose because, perhaps we need hope more than ever at the moment.

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When I talk about hope, I need it to mean something concrete and real – not a passive kind of optimism that sits back and waits for some kind of magic to happen, but an active, world-building hope that can transport and transform. I think about a hope that might be full of anger, driven by desperation and sharpened by frustration so that we can learn to “hope with teeth”, as the writer China Mieville says we need to if we want to make the kind of world we want to live in, where there’s enough, and we can all flourish. David Graeber, the American anthropologist/activist, reminded us last year that the world as we know it has been made by people, and so, as people, we can make it differently.

Here’s my ‘hope with teeth’ – that even with hunger, division, struggle and inequality, we can sharpen our teeth, the weapon of our hope, and rip apart the fabric of a world that doesn’t work for us in order to start remaking it to bring us all more and better ways to flourish, to really live.

What might it mean to live in a world where we could really live, not just survive? What could that world look like? What might it take to start creating it, on whatever scale we can, right now?

“HUNGRY PEOPLE FIND IT HARD TO HOPE”

One thing I know is that hungry people find it hard to hope, which is why I do what I can to make sure my community is nourished with good food. I bake good, real bread for paying customers, for a few local businesses, and for people in need locally. Those of my customers who can will ‘pay it forward’, and pay a bit extra to help me make bread to share in solidarity with people, either through Hull Unity Shop or directly to individuals and families who collect bread from my door – for free, as a swap, or paying whatever they can. We can support each other in ways that are equal and fair, and try to make sure there’s enough to go round. It’s not charity – it’s sharing between equals, people and communities looking out for each other and doing what we can to make life a bit better. Bread is what I can do, and I’ve sold or given away thousands of loaves over the last couple of years, or I’ve swapped it for home-made marmalade, allotment veggies, a child’s drawing, a bag of flour that was sitting in the back of someone’s cupboard, a plant, a smile, a thank you. All of those swaps are the things other people have been able to do, the ways they could take action to begin making a better world for us all.

I believe in people and communities. When we work together, and perhaps especially with a hope that’s sharpened on the hard edges of need, we can build a better world. Even when we’re struggling hardest, even when there’s no hope, we can still find small ways to take action – which includes asking for help, as well as giving it. For me, that’s how ‘hoping with teeth’ can begin to make a world that’s a bit better for everyone.

Catherine Vulliamy

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EofUs became curious about one of Hessle Road's famous businesses, Graham the Florist, as traditionally flowers are seen as something sold and arranged by women. So we called in to find out more.

KATE: Can I ask you some questions about being Graham the florist?

GRAHAM: No, not really. Maybe in the new year – we’re really busy.

KATE: OK. I’m just interested in whether you were ever worried about doing a job that many would think wasn’t for a man…being a florist?

GRAHAM: No. Lots of famous florists are men! Tommy, my son, he also works here and we’re training my other son, Mathew. We call him ‘the bearded florist’. Really, you can either do the job or you can’t. It doesn’t matter who or what you are.

TOMMY: People can do anything as long as they put their mind to it. I don’t care what people think.

KATE: Tommy’s clearly got it. He’s making that beautiful bouquet. He’s got a good eye, I reckon? So, how did you come to be a florist?

GRAHAM: I started working in a supermarket, in the warehouse, and then worked up. I started in a shop across the way selling fruit and veg before buying the shop next door. I started over there in 1971. I’ve been here fifty years and I’m still fitting in!

My dad was a fisherman and I was born on Division Road. The flowers just got more … I suppose I fell into it!

KATE: So you’re self taught?

GRAHAM: Yes. And I’ve taught Tommy.

We work hard. It’s a seven day week 24 hrs a day business. People think it’s about pretty flowers, but they want to try it. We worked 14 hours a day during Covid. Sadly, we had to say no to some people because we couldn’t do it all.

We were so busy. We’ve expanded customer wise, people have stayed with us. That’s nice.

trouble getting out of bed. Every day has its challenges, but I’m just happy selling and seeing people happy.

You don’t get this kind of service in a supermarket.

the dole and out of bed! No, seriously, it’s just family. One day they’ll have all this.

KATE: You also offer a service to people at a time of real sadness – funerals?

GRAHAM: Thank you. I like seeing people happy. I serve them for years. I don’t always know their name, but then one day you’ll think “I haven’t seen soand-so for a while” and I miss them.

GRAHAM: Yes. When they come in, I’m just sympathetic and respectful. I’m myself. They put their trust in us. That takes years to build up. People come in and some of its word of mouth. I’m always in the shop and this is how I am.

People pop in after funerals and say thanks, thanks for everything. That means the world to me.

KATE: Yes, I can see it does. What do you like about working with flowers?

GRAHAM: Seeing a bouquet finished.

Beautiful. I like looking at the flowers and the choice you have, then picking out the bits to go with them and making them up. That’s what it’s all about. It’s heart-warming then when you give someone the bouquet at the door. It can bring a tear to the eye. I think it’s about people realising someone thought about them. It cheers them up and makes them feel important.

KATE: What’s your favourite flower?

GRAHAM: Roses. There’s so many colours, but all of them I suppose.

Gerberas are good too.

KATE: Why is it important that it’s family working together?

GRAHAM: To keep them off

KATE: Are you proud of your business and your sons? You wouldn’t put all your energies into something if you weren’t proud. You’ve got to love it to be proud.

GRAHAM: I’ve always loved it. I should have been married to it! I’ve never looked at it as a job. It’s always a pleasure to come to work. I never have

"PEOPLE CAN DO ANYTHING AS LONG AS THEY PUT THEIR MIND TO IT"

KATE: You are always kind. I always love coming into your shop.

KATE: So, what’s your ambition, going forward?

GRAHAM: To keep going and change nothing. Oh, and go on holiday somewhere hot!

KATE: So…it seems I’ve done the interview!

TOMMY: He said he was too busy and he’s stood there talking to you, when all the while I’ve been getting on!

GRAHAM: I know! I could have made you a cuppa. Next time

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with our special flower workshop and architecture walking tour. See page 36

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GRAHAMS THE FLORIST

»344 Hessle Road »Open Mon Sat 8.30-5

We talked to Giroscope's Architect/Project Coordinator, Caroline Gore-Booth, and discovered there’s more to architecture than meets the eye.

As a cooperative, the work Giroscope do is firmly grounded, a million miles from huge swanky houses and extravagant budgets. They firmly believe people have the right to a decent home, the chance to work, and to participate in society.

Caroline wanted to be an architect from the age of four, when she used to draw old buildings. One thing led to another …

I studied architecture in Edinburgh, then in Sheffield, where I worked with a community group that was regenerating an old cutlery factory. If I hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t be doing this. I was looking for an architecture thing, but not in an office turning out drawings or working on fancy flats that were going to be bought for investment or silly money. I wanted to do a thing that involved the people and make things that were needed.

Hull has opportunities

It was never a long-term plan to be here.

But regeneration means you have to give a place time and you know areas will be hard. Hull has opportunities. Yes, there are challenges because of its history and deprivation, but there’s plenty of work to be done and people to do it with.

When I started in 2012 we had some government funding to buy 47 houses, which we regenerated and put back into use. In 2015 I headed off to do a timber framing course, taught by four architects. Back here in Hull, the team and I started digging holes in 2019, put

the first timber frame up in February 2020… then Covid hit. This meant we only had a small team, but we kept going.

Now, we’ve built three affordable houses, off Coltman Street, providing rented accommodation for three families.

The houses are wooden frames, on stilts, with timber cladding. The tiles are Humber clay and photo voltaic to generate electricity, and there are solar panels for hot water. All the houses are triple glazed, comfortable, light, warm, and nicely finished. The tenants are ones we already had, but who needed different houses. Some have been involved in building them. To be part of a team that’s built a house … well, it’s pretty good.

You have to start somewhere

Sometimes you have to do something or you’d just sit there and do nothing.

Then it becomes easier. We’re not abandoning what we do at Giroscope, but we’re trying an ecological thing, an unconventional approach, something important. I’d like to build more houses, but it takes time, getting the money and land.

When I started at Giroscope I was the only woman, then Hannah joined as one of our builders. Now it’s about 50/50.

Today we have a young woman who started as work experience from school, then as a volunteer and now she’s fitting a kitchen by herself and has decided to go into construction. We think “well, you have to start somewhere, so why not here?” Giroscope offered me opportunity and it’s important to offer it on.

There are opportunities for people to be apprenticed to me. Some trainees came and I said: “You can go and do those surveys - this is as glamorous as it gets”.

They didn’t get it. The things that seem mundane can have a massive impact on someone’s life.

When I started here the only way to thrive in the cooperative was to do hard physical work. Collecting rents was not seen as the same. Builders like hierarchy – their industry is like that – and MAN hours on site was what it was about. But they were never against women doing those man hours. I’ve never found it hard with the building team, although sometimes they didn’t get what I did, no matter how many times I explained I was the architect.

At its most basic it’s about understanding money. Boring perhaps, but if you don’t have the money you don’t have a project.

Funding unlocks it all. It also brings control, because it commits you to deliver, and so it lets me drive the work. With a personality like mine, you need to work in cooperatives, because you exist in a structure that lets you be your own part.

Difficult women

There’s a whole load of important historical women in my family – Eva Gore-Booth for example – so inevitably there’s this ‘strong women’ thing going on. Some people say ‘difficult women.’

But no one ever says ‘difficult men.’

They’re just being men. They would call them ‘leader’ or ‘in charge.’ But there are women I look at and they don’t lead like a man, and that’s the only way to do it, do it like a woman. In my family there are strong women who’ve done hard things and I’m pleased to be part of that.

In the time I’ve worked at Giroscope we’ve doubled in size and we do more teaching, training, projects and support.

The houses are part of that and what we can do in a neighbourhood. We create jobs and some of that has long term future implications. When I look back on all this in ten or twenty years time, I’ll think: I made it happen and people wanted to be a part of it and got involved. The pandemic only added a little difficulty – we kept going.

My ambition for the houses is that people love them and that all the stuff you want to happen in a house happens – people grow up, have families. Good design doesn’t have to be expensive.

Everyone can have it.

»Giroscope Head Office: 69 Coltman St 01482 576374

GOOD DESIGN DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE. EVERYONE CAN HAVE IT. @ 5 EOFUSHU3

A WORLD OF BREAD IN HU3

CONQUEST OF BREAD

Arthur Street

You can travel the world though HU3’s bread.It feeds our minds, bodies, social connections, and bank accounts.POWER, IMAGINATION and CARE are writ large through seemingly small acts with bread, so read on to find out how. We even provide you with a bread map on the back page so you can have your own adventure…but you might want to loosen your belts! Nom nom.

ARTISAN BAKERY

202 Hessle Road

Polish Bakery where cheesecakes, rye bread and sourdoughs all feature and “the croissants are deadly”. See page 10

BREADBUNS GALORE

388 Hessle Road, HU3 3SD

THE MADRAS RESTAURANT

A Hessle Road institution. Andrew the Baker makes thousands of breadcakes and scones daily – done and gone by 8.00am – leaving Andy, Bernadette and others to sort, bag and sell those thousands of breadcakes and scones to walk-ins, and traders of sandwich shops, cafés, mobile tea vans, and truck stops.

249 Anlaby Road, HU3 2SE

Family run business, established 2004. Bakes traditional breads in a clay tandoor oven. “It’s important for us to bake the breads fresh, it’s more traditional, and eating naans fresh from the tandoor is nice. Yes we could buy in ready made, but it’s a bit like eating fresh cake – they just taste so much better.”

FEAST RISING

23 Arthur Street, HU3 6BH See page 8

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A microbakery that takes its name from the 1892 book by Pyotr Kropotkin and is inspired by his demand for ‘Well-Being for all!’. A loaf of my bread costs more than a standard supermarket loaf, but it's more filling, more nutritious, has no artificial additives or preservatives, is long-lasting and all-round excellent food made with care, patience and love! Read more about Catherine's ideas on bread on page 3

SUE AND CHERIE’S HOME BAKERY

192 Hessle Road, HU3 3BE

Sue and Cherie use rolls from Breadbuns Galore for their sandwiches, and bake a lot of cakes on the premises. Customers’ favourites? “Beef salad roll. But if I’ve had a drink the night before, then it’s definitely the breakfast in a bap!”

“Large bacon butty – lots of bacon and two quid … what’s not to love?”

Cream Scones are the best sellers!!

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FRESH MARKET EUROPEAN FOOD

258 Hessle Road

Kajzerka, are small round white bread rolls “good with eggs for breakfast or meat or in fact anything”.

Customers agree “They are just home” in that warm, safe, comforting way. Fresh Kajzerka can be bought 6 for a £1, along with a range of other North East European breads, every day at European market shop

REAL AID BREAD

realaid.org.uk

Volunteers work in Real Aid’s food warehouse, based just outside Beverley, collecting and donating goods and preparing food trays for food banks across the Hull area. To find out more about volunteering, contact: lindsay@realaid.org.uk

JACKSONS BAKERY

Derringham Street,HU3 1EW

Jacksons has been established since 1851 and is a fifth generation family business. The modern bakery facilities specialise in baking sliced sandwich bread along with many other sandwich carriers. Jacksons gifts bread to Real Aid and other local organisations for distribution.

VULCAN CENTRE

42 Heron Street, HU3 2SJ

You can call in and pick up a free loaf of bread.

GIROSCOPE

69 Coltman Street

You can call in and pick up a free loaf of bread. Read more about their cooking project on page 9

NOUH MINI MARKET

200 Hessle Road, HU3 3BE

Nouh sells Arabic flat bread. “It’s important to have Arabic food for sale for me and other Arabic people here. It reminds me of my family and our home.”

TIME OUT

281 Anlaby Road, HU3 2SE See page 8

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THE PLACE MINI STORE

319 Hessle Road, HU3 4BJ

Check out the tasty Ewa Agoyin stew recipe on page 11, perfect with this bread

SEE THE MAP

KARPATY BAKERY

241 Hessle Road, HU3 4BB 1st Polish bakery on area… with its its poppy seed breads described by one customer as "the best”. See page 10

You can find all these bakeries on the map on page 40

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RISE & REST

Patrick Crabtree was once an engineer, now he’s a bread maker and counsellor. Skills which seem to combine perfectly in his baked creations and the courses he offers from his bakery on Arthur St. The following adds depth to this combination.

Sprinkling some history and hard won wisdoms into this fascinating mix. It’s a portrait, of sorts, that aims to pay proper respect to that which Patrick has patiently crafted as an outward expression of himself. Kate Genever Jean Crabtree’s mixing bowl is now too heavy for her. Instead it’s been passed on with all its weight of history, tradition, skill and love. It is full in every sense. “I spoke to my Mum last night about the bowl she gave me, and her pulling hot cakes out of the oven as I’d come in the back door as a kid, and how there was continuity even now decades on. She laughed, telling me that she would bake on a Saturday afternoon (because my Dad was due home after a week away) and it would coincide with my mates visiting, to feast on the warm goodies.”

As an 8 year old Patrick loved looking at the many lives and lands in a giant atlas. Once upon a time, he waited keenly for a magazine that bought ideas of Land, Art and Spirit together. As an engineer he had a yearning to draw up something from the ground into something that would nourish him. This need grew with “a greater valuing of the materials of life. Materials, like good flours, that come together in the hand and transform, in so many ways, connecting us with a thing grown”.

More is less, less is more.

Bread Bread explores the common ground between art and science. It’s alchemy. Moulded into shapes that recall natural forms, from black holes and galaxies to sea shells and coils of DNA. For Patrick though, there’s more than science to bread and life - there’s important inner-over-outer exploration to be done. Work that, with warm welcomes, helps people relax and engage in letting things come and go. His compassion, empathy and acceptance is kneaded in to help hearts too. Why? Because Patrick knows “baking can provide possibilities that may just be endless once we learn the process of creativity.

And in our constant evolution that comes with investing today's learning into tomorrow’s endeavour a narrative can rise that’s sufficiently meaningful to hang your life on” Rise and rest, rest and rise.

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Check out artisanathome.com for private basic bread making courses.

LEARN TO BAKE

Join Patrick and EofUs on a free breadmaking course. If you're interested then see page 40 for more info on how to get in touch

Every day they’re open, Jimmy makes Time Out’s beautiful fresh bread rolls by the dozen. Using only the best ingredients, he rolls each one by hand.

It gives him a stiff shoulder, but the results are the best tasting sandwiches he and his wife and business partner Leanne sell.

Perfectionists by admission, Jimmy and Leanne laugh as they explain: “There’s no trans in our sandwiches, just PROPER BUTTER, and all the eggs are free range!” It’s a great combo. Jimmy’s career in boxing has taught him about nutrition and diet, while Leanne, as a mum and dental nurse, offers kindness. Both bring love to the banter that greets customers.

Jimmy and Leanne are quietly modest about what they do and how they offer care through good food, all made fresh. Customers come time and time again, from across the city, for best sellers like sausage baps or homemade burgers. ‘Repeats’ are their proof.

“We’re passionate about using good ingredients and serving only what we ourselves would eat. The area doesn’t seem to have anyone that caters in this way. Having the hospital just five minutes walk down the road, it’s good that we’re serving food we consider to be a healthier alternative to mass produced or pre-packed sandwiches and fillings.”

For four and a half years they’ve worked hard, setting the business up from scratch, helped at first by PBS and more recently by Govind Manocha. They describe how they’ve “had to dig in and stick at it” and how it “would have been easy to pack it in.” Even through lockdown Jimmy and Leanne searched the city for flour and ingredients to keep people going.

It’s now paying off … “We’re doing ok.” Deservedly so – we reckon they make the best butties this side of the bridge.

»Jimmy and Leanne were taught how to make such great bread by local artisan baker Patrick, who also features on this page, and they receive business support from Govind Manocha. See page 13 for more info on how he could help you.

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FEAST RISING

»Patrick »Arthur Street »Opens Wednesdays »Order online:

artisanathome. com

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PROPER BUTTER!

TIME OUT – SANDWICH SHOP

»Jimmy & Leanne »281 Anlaby Road »Opens 8.30 – 2.00 weekdays »Menu: timeouthull.co.uk »07722 868083

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Oscar is HU3 born – Gee Street in fact. He trained to be a chef at Hull Tech, apprenticing and then leading a kitchen for a good restaurant in town. Now with a young family and a desire to “make a difference rather than just working for money”, he’s back leading the cooking project out of Giroscope, which supports people into safe cooking and potentially jobs in catering.

In addition, Oscar creates two-course meals for some of Giroscope’s tenants that get delivered on Wednesdays and Fridays – an offer that began during lockdown.

Oscar hates the idea that we live in an age of food poverty, where schools offer limited skills in food, and cooking is seen as difficult or an impossible thing. Rather, he is trying to make a change, in a small way, in a community he’s part of. Encouraging people to gain confidence, to try new things, develop food awareness and become “good cooks who can look in cupboards, see ingredients and go from there.”

We chatted to Stuart and Patrick, two of the food course participants working with Oscar at Giroscope. What did they think?

“We made a white loaf and it was easier than I thought it would be.”

“The smell of the bread … it was the best bread I’ve ever eaten!”

They liked being taught to cook in different ways: “Oscar makes it relaxing and chilled. He plays music and does things step by step.”

“I definitely learn better with Oscar – he’s more relaxed.”

JOIN OSCAR’S FOOD GROUP

by asking Giroscope about their two 10-week cooking courses. Each is 1.5 days a week.

The classes are open to all in HU3, but Oscar is particularly keen to welcome the under 25s. If you are interested in joining, contact Sarah Pearson, Giroscope’s Volunteer Support Coordinator: sarah.pearson@ giroscope.org.uk

MAKE OSCAR'S PIZZA

»Turn to page 11 for the full recipe

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GIROSCOPE

»Oscar »69 Coltman Street »Opens 8.30 – 2.00 weekdays »Menu: timeouthull.co.uk »07722 868083 @EOFUSHU3 9

BREAD SKINS

Like all the assistants in the shop, Martyna is Polish. She came to the UK as a seven year old with her parents, who were economic migrants looking for work. Martyna wants to become a dentist.

She has worked in the bakery serving customers during college summer holidays. She didn’t expect to like the job, but now she loves it and is sad to be leaving to go back to her studies.

She has a fantastic accent – half Polish, half Hull – and slips seamlessly into Polish when customers come in who she can “just tell are Polish people, even if I’ve never seen them before.”

Martyna likes the customers “mostly” that come in to buy sourdough loaves, poppy seed pastries and cheesecake and has enjoyed the funny conversations and the new people she has met. However, she doesn’t like the close-minded people who come in to complain about the Polish or blame them for starting the war. Martyna knows that her people have struggled too and wishes English people could see this. She likes how her generation don’t care if she is Polish or whatever. She likes how her friends are interested in the rituals and ceremonies her family maintain, “like the 12 meals we eat on Christmas Day.” Martyna is really glad her country and its bread are represented in HU3. In many ways she, she thinks: “It’s like a comfort, which keeps the Polish culture alive and offers a bit of home – here. It provides diversity on the street, giving people who are not Polish a try of our food.” Martyna shared a bread story (below), told to her by her dad, that might help promote greater understanding.

My great-grandparents met during the war, in spite of a wire fence that separated the men from the women in a work camp somewhere deep in Poland. They had been removed from their families and placed there by the Nazis for something, I don’t know.

They were strangers at first – from different parts. However, he kindly, lovingly, saved the ‘breadskins’ from his rations to feed her at the end of a long day. He knew both the skins and love helped keep her alive. When the camps were dismantled at the end of the war, they were separated. However, he kept her address, memorised.

At home, his family resisted his demands of “I’ve found my girl and I need to go to her. With no transport or money and hundreds of miles between them, he declared: “I will walk.”

Arriving in her village, at night, he knocked on her family’s door. Shocked and grateful, they took him in.

SEND US YOUR STORY They were married for Do you have a story for an 70 years and never artist to illustrate? If you were apart. do, see page 40 for

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RECIPES

OSCAR'S PIZZA DOUGH 400g of flour 300ml warm water 1 teaspoon of dried yeast ½ teaspoon of salt ½ teaspoon of white sugar

Measure out the warm water and add the dried yeast into it.

Stir together, the water should have bubbles on the surface, this shows that the yeast is alive.

Pour the water into a large mixing bowl 1st, add to this the flour salt and sugar.

Mix well together (this should take about 10-20 mintues) Add a little more flour or water is the dough is too wet or too dry.

Once the dough is smooth leave in the bowl and cover with a damp tea cloth.

Leave to prove for approximately 2 hours or until the dough has doubled in size.

Roll out into individual balls, then roll out again in the shape of your tray.

Cover with tomato sauce and cheese, and bake for 15-20 minutes at 200oC.

EWA AGOYIN STEW

THE PLACE MINI STORE

3 cups oloyin/honey beans

»Juliet »319 Hessle Road »Opens everyday »07466 347758

FAMILIAR FOODS

Juliet loves agege bread with Ewa Agoyin, a Nigerian and Togo stew that she believes is just made for dipping the soft delicious bread into. “It’s so perfect – you draw it out, dip it, or even add it in – delicious!”

Made in Manchester and regularly brought to Hull, the agege bread is, however, “not perfect like at home. The baker here is missing something – a secret ingredient – there’s something that’s different and it’s not to do with the weather…”

With this talk of home, Juliet knows how important it is for Africans to be able to buy familiar foods and come together in a community in her shop. However, she also welcomes in people from all over the world, helping them source products they’ve tried at African people’s houses or restaurants, wanting as she says, “to share her culture’s food and give ideas of what to use.”

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TRY AGEGE BREAD

»Join us for a stew and

bread event at Juliet's place.

See page 36 for more details.

Buy agege bread daily in the Place Mini Store on Hessle Road.

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2 cups dry whole chilli pepper 8-10 pieces dry shombo (cayenne pepper) 2 cameroun pepper 2 small onions (200g) 1 inch fresh ginger 5 cloves garlic ½ cup ground crayfish 3 cups palm oil 1 small onion (100g) sliced

Cook your agoyin beans

Pick through the beans to remove any debris.

Wash them and put them in a pot, with enough water to cover them well, then boil them until tender, adding more water if necessary.

When the beans are soft, add about one cup of water and some salt, then boil them some more until they’re really soft. Take the pot off the heat.

Using a wooden spoon, mash and stir the beans to create a thick puree. If you prefer, you can use a potato masher and then stir very well with a wooden spoon, or you can use a hand mixer.

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Add about one more cup of water, stir and boil for 3-5 minutes, and the beans are then ready.

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Cook your agoyin stew Rinse and soak dry whole chilli pepper, shombo and cameroun pepper in water overnight or in boiling water for two hours until soft. Use just enough water to cover them.

Prepare the other ingredients: In a blender, place two onions, peppers, peeled ginger and garlic, then add the soaking liquid and grind into a puree. Set aside.

Heat the palm oil in a dry pot until very hot.

Add sliced onions and fry until it floats on top and starts to caramelise, turning brown.

Pour your pepper mix into the hot oil. Add crayfish and seasoning cubes. Stir.

Reduce the heat and fry until it dries, stirring very often for about 30 minutes or more.

Taste for salt and sourness. Take off the heat.

Serve with the agoyin beans … and dip some delicious agege bread in!

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LIFE AND LOOM

Many of us know about the comforting qualities of craft and how wonderful it is to be around other like-minded people. Here at Life and Loom Textile Studio, we combine the two. Predominantly specialising in weaving, we encourage all sorts of craft activities for people to do in the relaxing atmosphere of our little yellow studio based on Boulevard.

The aim of Life and Loom is a simple one – to help adults improve their mental well-being through craft. Over the years, I’ve observed craft in all its forms inspire and instil confidence within people, and with Life and Loom I feel honoured to be a part of that process.

Although craft can be a hugely valuable activity, it can also be an isolating one, making it highly important that crafters find each other to socialise, share their work, gain new skills and see value in the things they make. This is especially true after the past two years, where people have been isolated more than ever before.

Often, learning a new skill can feel time limited and rushed, whereas learning new skills or improving on existing ones in the studio can be done at the participant’s own pace, where projects can be planned and discussed before application with myself and other studio members, making it a real collaborative learning environment.

For those looking to gradually feel comfortable around others again, we offer monthly membership to the studio, including evenings and weekends for those wanting to fit in some weaving around work or family, where you can use the equipment and materials on offer at your leisure, with help and support from the studio tutor. For those looking for group activities, we have workshops running, with everything from wild flower dyeing to tea towel weaving. If you love the idea of completing a weaving project or borrowing the studio equipment, we run a loom loan service alongside our other activities, where you can connect with the studio tutor via Zoom to get your project started from the comfort of your home.

I myself have benefited from the positive aspects of craft for many years, both as an amateur crafter and through completing a Textile Design degree at Derby University, where I fell in love with the loom. I have thoroughly enjoyed supporting people over the past few years at Life and Loom to find their way on their own crafting journey. Alix Haynes

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BE THE SOURCE OF WHAT YOU DESIRE

EofUs is the product of an expanding collaboration between many from in and outside of Hull.

We come together to produce this paper and shine a light on all the good that’s in HU3.

EofUs also knows that any community is made up of many specialists with many skills, that in combination are more than the sum of our parts – just like an encyclopedia.

We believe one of those parts/people is Govind Manocha a HU3 based businessman and entrepreneur with a passion to support local businesses, including Life and Loom.

When Eof Us talked to him at his Spring Estates offices on Anlaby Road he shared reflections and wisdoms. The first: The only thing to do when your cup is filled is to help others fill theirs, goes some way to explain his approach – an approach we see echoed across the area by many.

The second was his passion for collaboration expressed here in his analogy "One hot coal on its own will not stay alight but needs to be clustered together to form a fire." Which he went on to explain further. I have often thought that this same analogy can be applied to business and community, as it is impossible to operate in isolation and we need to cluster and collaborate to prosper.

No one person has all the skills. I figured out few years back that if I stick to what I do best and build relationships with people who have other skills then life becomes easier, and your productivity also improves.

Govind also knows that we all struggle sometimes to form good relationships, communicate ideas and build trust – particularly if we are trying to start of build a business. Going it alone can be lonely and hard but Govind can help.

He is currently working alongside Giroscope offering free business support to local businesses.

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Two clothing businesses share these premises, both run by amazing women who support one NADINE: "I’m from Hessle Road, and so is my family. We believe that community is important and we are trying to keep independent and good shops here on this street. I’m worried that the community feel is going. I wanted to create a shop that was nice for kids.

I’ve been a mum, a carer and a cleaner: I’ve never had a shop before. I never thought I wanted to be a woman in business. I always didn’t believe in myself, and I’ve been being a mum and supporting my husband. It was a massive step, but when I lost my son to suicide, I thought if you don’t do the thing you love what’s the point?

So my husband really encouraged me to do this, he helped me get going and believed I could do it. Then on the week it was opening he had a massive heart attack and died. I didn’t know what to do. Should I keep going or not?

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It could have ended there, he was such a massive supporter. But I just kept going, people kept saying I should go home, but I couldn’t stand being on my own. Having the grief, I just kept doing the shop. If I hadn’t had this shop I would have gone under. The loss gave me the strength.

buy from us. People round here like this style. It’s a style of the old Hessle Road, with the big Silver Cross prams and the kids all in the bows and hats and booties. I get things from Leeds and Manchester. There are only a few of each thing so everyone can be different. That’s important.

It’s been important talking to the customers and having them near.

They tell me how proud they are of me. This has made me proud of myself for taking the step and going for it.

The clothes I sell are what I’d put my daughter in. They are over the top for some. But we love a bit of bling bling!

I’ve embellished the jackets that a lady knits and the socks. We fancy them up.

People can’t sew and it’s so easy, but also we have the ideas.

It’s excellent to be here together.

We didn’t know one another before.

Jadine’s shop was next door and we just got talking and really like one another. So when my lease came up we decided to go in together, so we can offer the complete thing.. It’s good team work. I’ve got a million kids.

Jadine is good at the internet, but she has three young bains, so I can come and open up and we help each other this way. People don’t see that, but I like to be up early.

We sell to lots of people and lots of travellers and different cultures.

People come from across the area to

I know my husband is watching me, and still supporting me. The other day I

came out here and looked up and there the clouds were, shaped like angels’ wings. I just know he was watching. In fact I don’t know how I did it.

You have to keep trying, be in control of yourself. We know we have each other – women supporting women.

In summer we sit outside and people come and join us and we listen and talk, and this seems important about what we do for this community too.

People need someone to talk to and are often lonely. We like that we do this." Both women clearly have strong family values as well, and are both raising funds for charity. Nadine explained why.

"My son died of suicide and I wanted to raise money to help people going through the same. So I set up the Jarrad Foundation and we raise money for that."

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another. It’s such a good idea, both being in this one shop, and we went along to find out more.

Jadine started her shop just before lockdown, then went online.

JADINE: "Things certainly weren’t easy. At the same time, I was pregnant with my third child and I’d just thrown my partner out. I think I had mad hormones! I really like the community that gathers in the shop. It’s a nice place for people and I love talking to them. I have adapted and changed and I’m proud of myself. I’m only 27 and I’ve done this. My mam and I buy the stock together. All ages wear it, and all cultures. I’m proud of that. All my friends and the kids pose for the photos we use online. My sister is studying photography so she takes the photos – we keep it in the family.

It’s important to me that I show different sizes on different women.

Online you often don’t get a sense of what a thing will look like if you’re taller or larger. I love putting people’s look together and I always have leggings

and jeans in. They go with everything and people can try them out."

We wondered what advice they would both offer to others wanting to set up a shop or business: for it. Try it but keep adapting. »ToGosucceed, you need to know what you do and don’t want to do. Look at the competition and what might fit.

Technology helps.

in yourself and know you »canBelieve work around kids, and sad things.

Stop listening to all the others who tell you what your shop should be. People will always have something to say. But go with your gut, because people get in your mind.

Build trust and be nice. We let the »young girls from Academy use the loo

– they come in and look around and we know this is good, because they will come back.

"I sometimes think “I can’t do it any more,” but I have to because else I’d starve! My sister has anorexia and has been hospitalised for a long time – she is We feel it’s important to share experiences really unwell. At first, with others and help in any way possible.

I used to visit and say Jarrad Foundation: facebook.com/ “just eat something”, but JarradFoundation/ now I know that’s daft.

I’ve learned so much about https://seed.charity it from her being poorly. My dad is so destroyed by her illness. So now I raise money to support people and their families so they get the help we didn’t. The nurses are amazing, but we just didn’t know what to do. I’ve raised money for SEED (Support and Empathy for People with Eating Disorders). We are a group made up of ordinary Jadine and Nadine's shop can people who’ve had first hand be found at 406 Hessle Road experience of eating disorders in one form or another."

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NATURE NOURISHES The year 6 pupils of Chiltern Primary School visited Rayworth country park to explore the nourishing power of being in nature.

Luckily for EofUs, they captured some beautiful photographic images.

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This is our favourite photo that we took. It is some beautiful blossom.

Viktoria and Oliver Year 6 This is me Rhema, the photo was taken by my friend Ruby when we went to Raywell. This photo inspires people to look and breathe in nature.

We feel beautiful about nature.

Rhema and Ruby Year 6 This photo shows how beautiful the Earth is and how we should take care of it. Ronela Year 6 We did this photo to show people to just take a moment in their busy lives and take a look at the wildlife.

Lexi, Eliza and Kelsie Y6 I loved taking this photo, I want to so... go again and get off my game, it was memorable in the sunshine and forest. Lacey Karl Year 6

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Sun rays with the bear - This picture is of a wonderful bear statue at Raywell with wonderful sun rays shining down on the bear. It gave the picture a real glow and added a good shine to the colours in the picture.

Calvin with his partner Kaiden, Year 6.

We choose to take this photograph because it is really relaxing and it gives us a calm feeling.

Sarah A, Sarah E and Leya I Year 6 We both wanted to take this picture because to us it was calm. KEEP CALM! Enjoy the stillness. Maya Year 6

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In the autumn term Artist Simon Crook joined pupils from Boulevard Academy and parents from the Chiltern Chat & Choose group to introduce the art of Manga comic strip characters.

Manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan (style shown left). Below are just some of the characters that were created.

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JOKES What did one slice of bread say to the other before the race? You're toast.

What do you call a slice of rye with ideas above its station? Upper crust.

What did the bread say to the roll when they were playing hide and seek? Bready, or not here I crumb!

How do you say hello to German bread? Gluten tag.

Why did the two slices of bread run away from the bakery? They wanted to grow mould together.

What did the slice of bread say to his girlfriend? I loaf you.

What did the butter say to the bread? I'm on a roll.

Why did the bread go to the doctor?

Because it was feeling crumby.

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What is the best way to get a rise in pay? Ask for more dough!

What do you call a rabbit who has spent too long in the sun?

A hot cross bun-ny.

How does bread relax after it's finished baking? It loafs around.

Did you hear about the baker's lorry that spilled its load on the motorway? Police say to expect delays on the yeast- bound carriageway.

I don't know why, but whenever I take a photo of my loaf of bread, it comes out grain-y.

Why do bakers always work at the weekends? Because they knead the dough.

Why was the baker feeling anxious?

Because he was in a loaf or death situation!

Last week I saw a loaf in a cage at my local zoo - it was bread in captivity.

How does bread remember things?

It uses Toast-It notes.

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This group of talented Newington Academy students undertook some investigative journalism about their fellow pupils’ sports and hobbies.

Their research was certainly thorough – they carried out interviews, organised photos, wrote this article and even created pie charts.

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We wanted to know how active Newington pupils are, so we went and asked them what sports, hobbies and activities they do. We discovered that plenty of them get involved in clubs and activities. In our study we discovered the most popular activity among pupils is sport. The pupils who like sport do it in an after school club or a club out of school. The next most popular activity is art which is mainly done at home, we were very surprised that most pupils that do art do it at home. However, most pupils said they would like to take part in an art club.

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Clubs and associations

There are some clubs that don’t just focus on one activity. We asked Newington pupils what youth clubs they go to. The most popular is Hessle Road Network followed by the Girls Brigade. The Hessle Road Network runs youth clubs several evenings a week. Girls Brigade is an international Christian organisation.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU TAKE PART? More than weekly

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TEAM After school clubs

Newington runs five after school clubs every week. After school clubs are important because: ✔ they are close to people’s homes ✔ they are free, which is good if people can’t afford normal clubs ✔ you can do clubs with your friends, which is good if you are nervous about doing them alone ✔ some school clubs are attended by very young pupils, and a lot of normal clubs are only open to older children

Students said

Why I play trumpet “Because it is fun and I would like to be a musician, I would like to carry on in secondary school and I would like to go to the youth orchestra.”

“When I was young in Latvia I went to a club, where we did stories and acting. I really enjoyed the acting because I was one of the best. My favourite play was the Titanic because I was one of the main characters.

We also wrote stories, which was hard as I was quite young.” By Kate

What we do in Girls Brigade: “We do different types of crafts, cooking and games. Here we do different activities every week, for example, we make badges, play football, and cook things like chocolate sparklers.” by Kiera Why I do cheerleading and dance “Because it keeps me fit and I enjoy winning medals.

And I want to earn even more medals. I go to cheerleading three times a week and dancing three times a week.” By Mercii

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The Press Team Supported by Media teacher Darren Squires: Alxi-Rayne Ruben Mercii Marcelina Aya Destiny Freya Kate

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COLOURING IN

Flowers are for everyone.

This drawing was inspired by a bouquet at Graham the Florist... a florists run

by Graham and his sons.

You can read all about it on page 4

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SPOTLIGHT GEORGE NORRIS George started life as a ‘tatter’ in his family’s rag and bone business, then continued to work in and around Hull, including a long service on a North Sea rig. Between shifts he returned to the city and took photos of working class communities at work, rest and play. It’s a passion he continues to this day, amassing an archive of photos that’s now well over 70,000 and still growing.

There were two big events that sparked a major change in me and started the curiosity and then passion for the power of photography. The first was when me mam died. My heritage is of incredibly strong, hard working men and women, and I discovered a timeless collection of treasured family photographs, each one bringing precious memories alive.

The second big turning point was when I discovered the iconic images taken by Russell Boyce, a photography student who documented me at work on my horse and cart in the summer of 1983. I didn’t see Russell’s pictures much at first – he came, took photos, and vanished! – but he gave me some contact sheets and I had some enlarged a bit later. His powerful images of Hull along with other photographers’ work and the familiar faces I have encountered whilst growing up had a major impact on me. This is when I realised I had to document my community. Photography helped me to educate myself. I’m always hunting for pictures – snapping things up for the future.

Then, probably 10 years ago, Russell saw a YouTube film I’d made of my family history and he got in touch. He said: do you want some proper shots? Yes, because I wanted the History Centre to get a copy. I was taking pictures anyway by then, so we reconnected and now we’re doing a joint exhibition at the Lucy Bell Gallery in St Leonard’s on Sea – a real nice thing to do.

The first great recyclers

People in poverty are skint and trying to earn a crust. That’s why we do rag and bone.

It began with me dad, who started with a hand barrow collecting cardboard, before he got into scrap.

After the second world war, before the motor industry took off, my grandad George saw an opportunity to provide and serve his city in the trade of horses. The country was depleted of them, because they were commandeered for the war effort.

Everyone needed horses, from dockers to hackney carriages. Fruiters needed them for their wagons, and solicitors needed them to get to work. Many of my grandad’s

clients were traders or gentry. He wore a smart suit with a brown jacket. He also dealt in fruit and then second hand goods.

My grandma Annie didn’t want her sons to go to sea, because of the risks involved, so my dad just got on and found something to earn some money in. This is when the Norris clan took alternative employment in what we like to call the first of the great recyclers – in other words, the rag and bone men.

I try to think of their lives and what they lived through – the First World War, the Great Depression, the Second World War – just trying to make money. Everyone here seemed poor. Some of the fishermen perhaps had money, but everyone else had nothing. A man who ran the ice cream shop after the war had no produce, so he chopped and bagged firewood. Take my grandad – there he was, born in 1910, at 28 lost his father, started a family, served in the Second World War, and by god he had it hard. My dad had no education, left school at 14, doing cardboard because my granny had them all out working.

They got self-worth from working. My grandad had 50 horses at one point. What a work ethic. I don’t have that work ethic. I see it in my family: if you have nothing, you adapt and find creative solutions … shows you haven’t given in. You become inventive ... wheeler dealer, improvising, not reliant.

But then there were penny rents for shops, all the stuff that went through that place.

Imagine, my dad had these cards made that said: we collect brass, copper, lead, old furniture. He’d have us out every day after school or in holidays posting out cards, and then we’d go next day, collecting them in along with anything people wanted to sell. He bought timber and then sold it in Beverley market to farmers. All that and he was still suited and booted – doing scrap looking professional and never like a hobo.

When I was at school I worked for my dad in the holidays and weekends and I was taunted – “you’re a tatter” – but I was always in good clothes. I suppose now they’d say I was bullied. But my education was shit … Then I went out clubbing to Spiders and met people and others’ ways. I didn’t want to be just a tatter. I thought “there’s no future

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in this.” There was a stigma, people were projecting things on me.

I got some jobs with the council doing grounds work and that, then went offshore when I was 23. This first time was for seven years. Then I came back, met a girl and did theatre studies. She said I would be good at it. I didn’t want to do rigs, so I gave it a whirl.

I worked at the New Theatre backstage putting sets up. It was a lot of money when it was busy, but during panto it was poor.

I was living in the Old Town and had my daughter and needed to earn money, I was doing bit and bobs. Then my friend Budgie inspired me and got me connected to the firm Diamond Drilling who paid for my tickets [to work at sea]. I first worked on deck in all weathers. It was soulless, so I went into the catering section and stayed in that for 30 years.

Working offshore, when I came home I was like a tourist, and could see things that were changing fast – people vanishing, industry vanishing. Even now, the Kirkella ship coming back to Hull, not going to sea, because of Brexit, and people are now out of work. I used to walk round the docks when you could do that. Now you can’t go in there. It’s like my photo of the Artic Corsair: it moved from one week to another week.

Everything is shifting, life is shifting …

Being offshore means I’ve had a lot of solitude in my life, time to think. I was born old and before my time, but think some of that was due to family dynamics. My mam was bright and had a brain and was stopped from working, but she went on to work in a good job for Smith and Nephews. My dad was born under a table in the war and had to accept what was given or available. My sister escaped and I felt that I had to. But I’m back now. I’m 57.

I rang my dad the other day. He’s 81. I said: “What you doing?” He said: “I’ve been out …

I’ve got half a ton of scrap on!” He does it so he’s not in god’s waiting room – he’s feeling his life.

I think once my dad and my generation goes the rag and bone trade will vanish. It’s like coal, steel, fishing. There will always be a need for recycling, but it won’t be my lot.

Everyone has a story

History is in my DNA. My mam was good at history, my sister did her degree in history. I never had the opportunity to go to university. But I’m also living in a historical family and that’s the key, why I’m taking the photos that I take. But also being proud of your roots. There’s a judgement made about working class, rag and bone scrappy boys; a stereotype. It’s because of how I’m wired, I’m the archivist. My sister has done the family tree. They will think thank god in future. Bizarrely, on my mam’s side, her grandfather had a photo studio on Anlaby road. Weird!

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Hull’s always had bad press of being a crap place to live and not being a top ten city by people who’ve never been here, and that’s grated on me over the years. Before the cod wars, when you walk around, it’s got great buildings and amazing history. You know that in many ways the Labour Council have been good to Hull. We was lucky – we could have been swamped with high rises. Yes we have lost amazing buildings, like the warehouses, but that’s as it is. Now they are doing lots on the maritime part and they get it.

My ambition is to show our beloved city how I see it. My images are my love letter to Hull. A very proud moment for myself, family and friends was the opening ceremony of City of Culture 2017, where a selection of my images were chosen and projected onto my favourite building, Ferens Art Gallery. This reaffirmed to me what a great city I live in.

I’m rooted here in HU3. I’ve lived on Avenues and felt part of them but it was more sterile, not the characters.

Then five years in Old Town, nice location but sterile. Then Beverley Road, sterile. This area’s not sterile – it’s home. But older people are fading away. We are the last generation. We can’t harp on about fishing though – them days are gone. My sister says it will take a generation to syphon through … and now many kids on here will stay, be like me and go but come back and stay. I know if I was still living on Avenues, I wouldn’t be having these conversations.

People from this area are told they are worthless. It’s vital that you can see what your history is and how brilliant and important and then share this with others. I’ve had several exhibitions in Hull celebrating its culture. Many of the people who came to see them had never been in a gallery before. This makes me proud. I think creativity is infectious. I like to think my work will in turn inspire others to follow their passion. I hold a mirror up to the area and say look at this and that. It’s amazing – there’s massive change all the time. In Hull there’s always been negative energy, but that’s being changed. I began by taking photos of architecture, but the real stuff is getting amongst people and getting to the nitty gritty and getting their stories – the untold stories sotimes. Everyone has a story. Everyone I’ve studied says you’re invisible, but you’re not. It’s only looking back on 20 years of work that I can see this.

My photos are about celebrating people who are overlooked, or who don’t have a voice or will never have a voice, and if I can get them in their day to day, holding a goose, sat outside their houses, doing their thing – let’s have it. The generosity of people giving me access to their lives, even for a few minutes, is priceless. I capture what I can capture. You’ve been gifted these people.

Most are ok, but you’re not always lucky. I went with my dad to a scrappy’s [a scrapyard] and, no matter what I said, the man wasn’t interested in me taking photos. I said “I’m taking photos of my dad.” But he was cagey.

Then my cousin Sam drove in and when he went to weigh in he said: “He’s not here from tax, he’s not like that.”

But no. So I sneaked a few photos …

Other scrap yards are happy to have me there. When I get a good shot – of anyone, anywhere – I feel elated. It’s what I spend hours and hours doing.

Art can take you away

Looking at other people’s photos is my enjoyment … I love it. I’ve got an addiction. There’s no cure for it. British culture: Colin Jones, Tish Murtha, Chris Killip. I see myself in the photos – I’m dreaming I’m there. I look at the work and take myself away from crap in life. That’s what art can do – take you away. I went to London and saw this other world. I think of Steven Berkoff photos of the vanishing East End. I thought Hessle Road was like that ... pub culture, changing locals, the people. It’s all the locals, the long standing people making it unique, building a community, having connection.

I stumble on things, I trust what I find and then I’m just interested. Like the Tannery on Beverley Road. There’s an antiquated industry, processing 7000 hides a week, and when you go in everyone’s smiling and happy. It’s an important part of our town’s history.

Like my granny said, we’re surrounded by treasure. My interest in it all comes from family, being community orientated. I want to be the best of my generation and have pride in myself and have self-worth. Some days I have doubts, but then you have to go for a walk and shake yourself up a bit. We all have insecurities.

People are interested in my work, which is brilliant, but I don’t see myself in that way – I’m not the big I Am. It’s good I suppose that people know me because of what I do. I like to think they are looking at me and thinking about life. I love the fact that my photographs appear in frames on walls and on people’s mantle pieces, are carried in wallets and sent overseas.

Take pictures of your family and community, things My relationships in that only you see, people you feel comfortable the community have around. Talk to people. Some might say no and with a grown so much over phone you can just keep going. In 20 years they will be the years that people different – the hair, the clothes and so on. expect me to always have my camera, and Find what makes you tick: for me, that’s taking photos often call me over. I’ve of working-class people. taken the same two Be curious. Just look at stuff. It might inspire – sisters smiling at their everything influences and inspires. gate a few times over the years and it’s one of the most popular pictures when

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I share it on Facebook Hessle Road sites. People know them and it’s like saying “hiya!” People love a witness to their lives, something to show future generations.

Photography brings memories and build memories. It reminds us of what happened and what we missed. People will remember conversations from when a photo was taken. Lads that are now old say “Look at my hair, look at my belly! What happened to our life?”

We can talk about how life turned out through photos. It’s like at Boyes, when someone was retiring. I got them all outside the shop, took photos, and they were thankful … who else would do that? I gave everyone copies. It’s nice. In 30 years’ time, when we’re not around, people will look at them clothes, the faces, that Boyes sign and think: what did it sell?

I’m not looking for the perfect moment.

I’m looking for the everyday that becomes something, the everyday moment we walk past that don’t mean anything now – it won’t be there for ever. I’m making far more work now, it’s even more interesting to me. There’s new people and new cultures and I’m documenting the shift and what’s left and how it’s changed. Perhaps we can’t see the importance of it all yet, but I do have hope.

My big project is to select a few hundred of my best photos for a touring exhibition and the publication of a book. A major task, as you can

imagine, but so rewarding to think my images will live on, long after me.

Alec Gill took photos of the 70s and 80’s. My archive is of this time, my time on the planet, and I hope people say: George gave people a sense of place and this was what was here and now, and let’s celebrate it.

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found on Instagram @roving_ eye. He’s contributed to the East Riding Museum exhibition (What have the Italians done for Hull) and shown work at The Hip gallery (The Ragman’s Son), Hull Central library (Made in Hull), Streetlife Museum (about Hull Fair and the travelling community) and at The Museum of Club Culture (Only After Dark and No Ordinary Love).

RUSSELL BOYCE In 1983 Russell Boyce spent three weeks photographing George as he went about his work. One of those photos is shown here [image 000199 © RB] and others can be seen on Russell’s website: www. russellboyce.com/ragbone.html George, 19 at the time, is pictured travelling the streets of HU3 with his horse and cart collecting rag and bone – a trade that had been in his family for three generations. This act of recycling saw George pick up discarded things or collect and pay for items from residents, before he sorted and sold them to a local second hand shop or the scrap metal dealers.

Russell was a student in Hull at the time. He photographed not just George but other working class communities and events across the city. He followed his studies by photographing youth cultures across the UK before working for Reuters as an international news

“ANY RAG BONE?”

The Rag and Bone industry began during the Great Plague of London (1666) when teams of men would collect the rags of the dead and dying to burn, and gather the bones of animals to turn into glue. This ancient act of collecting unwanted items, often using horse drawn carts, has almost disappeared. But not quite. Sometimes you can still hear the loud call of “any rag bone!” or “any old iron!” booming down the street, inviting people to get rid of their old washing machines and other unwanted goods.

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NOISE A LOT OF

Our collective, An Untold Story-Voices, is a small group of women with lived experience of sex work and allies. We believe there needs to be a complete shake up of all broken services affecting women who are facing multi-disadvantages (like poor mental health, poor physical health, homelessness, addiction, domestic violence, etc: the list goes on). Street based sex workers are some of the most marginalised and stigmatised people who face these challenges.

In 2014 Hull City Council decided to clean up the streets in order to better Hull’s chances of becoming City of Culture 2017. They didn’t want street based sex workers visible to anyone, they wanted to have a ‘prostitution-free zone.’

After consulting with some local residents’ understandable concerns, they devised new legislation and came up with the misguided solution of giving street based sex workers a banning order. This meant they could take these women to court, resulting in either fines or a short prison sentence. Our small collective didn’t believe this was a justifiable action. As women with direct lived experience, we understood how dangerous this was, and got annoyed about the whole situation.

We had several meetings with the Council and Police, to ask them if there was any other way they could in fact protect and better support these vulnerable women instead of persecution. One response was that they thought we were just “a small group making a lot of noise” (Darren Hale, Hull Daily Mail).

As women with real lived experience of just how broken our systems are, we have pushed and pushed to be heard. So we pursued our own legal advice from the charity: Public Law Project, supported by our allies at the Lankelly Chase Foundation. Lots of women had been given banning orders, some even banned from

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areas where they actually lived. Life for women in this kind of situation is really hard enough without the extra pressure our Council was putting on them.

Following advice, in 2020 we finally decided to take the Council to court. The Council regarded their actions as civil, but the banning orders were handed to the girls by Police, the girls would need legal representation in front of a judge. Their actions went against National Police Guidelines (2016; 2019) and disregarded their Public Sector Equality duties.

These banning orders affected around 70 women. Our local paper made much of the Council’s success, at the same time naming and shaming women who were already struggling under so much pressure.

As we are ordinary women with direct experience, our fight was successful. Our local Council were informed that they needed to work alongside the voice of lived experience. What a result. We are now regarded as pioneers, as we have a seat at the right table, helping others to understand the complex difficulties faced by so many young women in our society today. We are part of shaping policy and creating better practices that aim to work for everyone, via a multi-agency group we call ‘FLIP’.

Suzie Winters, Emma Crick, Anna Hembury, Amanda Hailes.

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Orts is a group of women who gather to sew and talk and support one another. They meet in St Matthews Church Hall every Wednesday morning.

One of the women who support Orts told us:

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EofUs visited Orts one week in search of wisdom. She’d called in there before and instinctively knew that these wise Orts women would be able to help. What she wanted to know was what they thought about something she kept coming across, and in particular an ancient story she’d recently read. The story was about a clever and funny Greek woman called Thais who had been accused of causing a fire and leading a man who ‘liked to keep her close’ into trouble. Thais was also described as ‘two timing’ this man with another and being generally bad. History then only records that she produced three children and got married to the lover. There’s no record of how or when she died.

So we told the Orts women Thais’ story and then asked why they thought so many women were/are oppressed, misrepresented or forgotten, because it seemed that Thais was being described as stupid, difficult and a whore. Between them, they told her: It’s how women are seen and used and dumped. This is ancient and also in the general information we read. It makes women look shit. But we are not. This is the male portrayal.

This story in a way doesn’t make me think anything. I respect people’s opinion, but at the end of day I don’t want to be told this male opinion.

SO MANY WOMEN WERE/ARE OPPRESSED, MISREPRESENTED OR FORGOTTEN

She sounds like she’s canny and is kind of being used, but is using her power too. She knows how she’s being portrayed, but is exerting influence in her own way. She is being slagged off and written off. She has a strength though and is perhaps more in control of the situation than many give her credit for. But also, in another way, she’s not in control, because the men are saying it like it is and what she gets to do or not get to do … it’s both at the same time. This is also right for women now – until we wake up to what’s going on to us and around us. We are pretty much controlled in one way or another or written off. But if we wake up to this, and see we are part of a soup of culture from which we have to wrestle for our own truths, narrative, story.

But if she had told her story she would have said: “I messed up, I didn’t like him, he was your friend I didn’t know. I didn’t have matches, I had a bad day. Or I needed to do this and get more control or my sister messed up last time and I didn’t want to do the same thing she did!!”

This story you’ve read is HIStory, it’s not HERstory.

All the painting and stories and things about her are by men – they make the story worse.

We are not encouraged to look at the story and reverse it for our point of view. We never reverse it, asking ourselves what we think.

Instead we should write things and think of these stories from the woman’s eye.

It’s a story in relation to a man. Instead could it be that she was powerful and liked sex and demanded freedom and over time it’s been rewritten to control other strong women?

Not just control, but to pin them down so their names don’t appear above men. So it stops the names.

I think it shows we [women] must be really powerful. Men are so scared …

I believe that. I have experienced that with my name being spoken and when I hear it I always say: “You still talking about me? I must be interesting”? I take it and carry on.

Does it bother you?

NO. I have learned the art of alchemy, transmitting one energy to another, turning negatives into positives … “You are talking about ME” means I must be significant.

I agree, I used to think everyone’s talking about me, never come out the house and be worried. But now I know I must be something.

Coming here has helped me see this.

Yes, your light is shining.

Yes I’ve even put the candles in my windows.

We wondered what advice they would give this person, given this story and what these brilliant Orts women all knew?

First, stay away from rubbish men. Give them a wide birth and don’t be blamed for something that’s not your crime.

Keep your head up and keep going. Don’t give in.

I would ask her what’s her story … “Tell me your story. We have allowed men to depict you that way. We have not as women helped and now we need to find out.” If this was a person who came to me, I would say tell me your story, let’s write it down … let’s change what’s been written before by men.

We need to read and write more stories about women, good and bad. We need to see we always have choices, and we need to help each other. The more stories that are out there, even if they show we made wrong or poor choices, the more we read them the more others will see them and think: “Oooh, I thought this never happened in my community. I thought I was the only one.” Then this gives them power to think “I do have a choice, I’m not alone and I can do whatever regardless.”

»With thanks to all the Orts women and their collective wisdom.

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Diana was born in Latvia, trained as a tailor and runs her own business on Hessle Road, where she specialises in clothing alterations and dressmaking. We discovered though, that she doesn’t only create bespoke wedding dresses and theatre costumes, she’s doing a lot of repair work behind the scenes. Here’s what she had to say.

FINDING THE RIGHT FIT

I needed to leave Latvia to find work. I was looking for the right place to come to in UK. In Hull or near Hull there’s lots of jobs.

When I first arrived I was on minimum wage. I worked for lots of manufacturers and producers on farms and metal workshops. I always knew I wanted my own shop, but I didn’t have the language, so I learned English. It took a year and a half and to save for a deposit.

This is my second shop. It’s bigger, but price good and I love this corner. I’ve been here seven years now. In Hull there are only a few seamstresses that are professional. I’m old style. It’s a pleasure to make one outfit. I like to make women feel good and help people look good and clothes fit perfect. It’s also important for them to have things that fit right. Men seem to buy less but more decent clothes and want to look perfect. Sadly, fashion changes and we discard things fast. Some clothes women buy are reduced quality and so not worth altering.

Lots of different people come into my shop. English mainly and all way from Grimsby and Leeds as well as from Hull. I have six languages, I use them to help people feel comfortable when they are trying or showing clothes. This is an intimate thing. I have to touch on the inside and outside of clothes and so my languages can help this and for people to be able to trust. People trust because I have been here long time now.

People can’t always explain what’s in their head and so they bring ideas from magazines and I design and join together all their ideas and make changes to fit their body and body shapes – their characteristics. My daughter and I go to wedding shows at NEC to get ideas, and I get my specialist pattern magazines ordered from newsagents along road. Costume doesn’t lose main line or idea of what they wanted, because we work it out to be good. It’s not street style, it’s special style.

THE GRAND DESIGN

I have my own business and do what I like. I’ve always wanted to do this. It’s not work – it’s my hobby, my education, my dreams and my business. It’s me. It’s good to be a woman in business.I would like to grow handmade and made to measure work, but I am so busy with alterations too. I would like for made to measure to be more affordable, but this is difficult part, as Hessle Road not richest part of Hull. People deserve to have nice things, but nice things are expensive, because of costs – shop rent, time, materials, living expenses, taxes.

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Good fabric always looks better and is more individual, but it makes the outcome expensive. It doesn’t matter if it’s simple top or posh going out dress – time is expensive. I would like to expand the boutique bit. This is in Dreamsville … We’ll see.

When I was training and would say I couldn’t do something, my old Russian teacher used to say: Everything is possible to do, apart from taking trousers over the head and fit nicely on the bottom.

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On the outside, Diana is a successful business woman with a soft appearance and nerves of steel, who knows how important it is for women to look and feel good. But she often feels invisible.

I am foreigner in UK. No matter where I from, always a foreigner. Here, and now in Latvia, I am from neither place properly. Here I have no vote and yet I pay tax and work hard and support system. I wanted to do better for my family and do better for self. There was work and UK offered me menial jobs as part of EU. My children both in UK – daughter in Birmingham and son in Hull.

I am invisible to most people. I’m not valuable. For example, one day during lockdown I was in my shop alone sorting receipts to take home and do. Shutters were half down and Closed sign up. A man still came in and shouted at me and said I could be fined. But when I was making scrubs for weeks on end for NHS, I was OK and people thought I was OK to work.

I am only any good if I am working for others. I am not valuable otherwise.

THE RIGHT SUPPORT

I have experienced coercive behaviour and violent domestic abuse and I tried lots of places to get support. It was really hard and I have internet and phone. But if you are on your own with none of this …And when person was at my door trying to break in and get to me, police took ages. Yes, they stayed on the line, but it took an forty minutes to get someone to me. I’m a woman in my early 50s and I am not seen as important or most vulnerable. If I was young woman with children there, they would have come straight away, as they should. But I am invisible and it makes me sad, all these other invisible women who no one helps, or they help but slowly.

We need more visible help and support for people. Places and things for them to do and know. Also more information to help women like me. When you need help you need to know what these helplines are going to offer. In crisis you don’t have time to work stuff out.

I need to tell my story, we need to know stories like mine. To not hide that a man, because he can, wants to try to destroy me. He will keep going because he has the means. I have to keep working and pay for solicitor. He will keep going to take shop and house. But since Covid less weddings and less money for people. There is less work. But I have to keep fighting. He even does cyber crime and gets into my emails and website.

Why? Why? I have to keep fighting, but it’s hard.

Domestic abuse happens to anyone.

It's drip by drip and you only start to see it when the bucket is nearly full.

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WHATEVER YOU GIVE IS TRULY YOURS Nelly moved to Hull as an economic migrant from Southern Bulgaria. Looking for a way of ‘giving something back’ to her new community, Nelly discovered she could use her hair, which she grows long, cuts, and donates to charity. She told us why this continual round of giving means so much to her.

Every time I receive something of value for me, a treasure, I feel guilty that I just take. I’ve lost people, family members, friends, sometimes the echo of someone's life story trickle via internet, TV, in conversation with friends, and sometimes those stories make me feel endlessly helpless. So I give something away.

I'm not so clever to be able to create a medicine to cure cancer. I'm not strong enough to be able to take the pain away from people. I'm not wise enough to discover the way of happy, no trouble lifestyle … but I have hair. Not the best hair, but I look after it well, grow it long as I can and then shave it, donate it to a charity for wigs for little brave fighters and hope this will make them smile even for one precious moment. I love giving. Same as blood donations, same as smiling to people, same as to pick up the key someone dropped in front of me. There is this saying: Whatever you give is truly yours.

I turned to philosophy and psychology around my 20s. All my beliefs and principles, everything I knew about friends, family, university, learning, life, started crumbling. I needed help. I started going on therapy, later transformed in counselling and I’m keeping it till today. Because these issues have the bad habit of reappearing.

To pay for the mortgage and the lovely lattes, I do bookkeeping and work toward an accountancy qualification. Work with numbers grounds me. It is stable, easy, safe, and it is objective: 2+2 is 4. The job helps me pay bills, and psychotherapy and philosophy help with living life. Together they help me be in the present and a dreamer.

People don’t like to talk about both – no one like to talk about their money and neither about their true emotions and mental struggles.

I do love to learn about people, what makes us who we are. My only way to be happy and feel fulfilment is to contribute to the happiness and wellbeing of someone else. Maybe one day I will be able to help people to heal or maybe I will help them reach their dreams, develop their potential. But for now I think it is enough if I don't hurt them or contribute to their pain.

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RADICAL HELP

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It's nice to be nice, to be helpful, to be of some use to others, aye? It seems we're wired up to be kind and helpful to each other. The feel-good chemicals get released from the brain and it's like we've also benefited from the interaction.

Brill. Although it's not always that simple, is it? Helping others can be full of dilemmas, be challenging and painful to us, like it's actually going against our grain, stirring emotions far from what we might consider good.

Is it helpful to bung the young homeless person some coins as we walk by, or would it be better to buy them some food? Is this helping or deepening a crisis? Would it be better to give them a few minutes of our time to listen to and try and encourage them in some way? Maybe that's just what they need. Someone to listen, to say some positive things to them.

Or the traumatised single mum buying scratch cards. Do the kids' grandparents keep toppingup her shopping, or do they give a bit of so-called tough love? Making sure the kids are nourished is the obvious one. But how would this help the mum change?

Thankfully, lots of people bimble along in life without too much hassle other than the usual with the kids, bills, the Tories and the odd health scare. But increasingly more and more of us are finding ourselves in crisis, and the networks which we once accessed to help cushion and even actually prevent these crises in the first place, our communities, have eroded as capitalism has broken us down into smaller and smaller more profitable units, from the community to the family, the family to the individual. This has brought about our very modern destroyer of souls and silent killer: Loneliness. A lack of connection, of relationships, makes it harder for us to find meaningful work, express our creativity, to live our best lives, and in turn encourages alcohol and drug addiction, over-eating and many other obsessive behaviours as we seek ways of soothing ourselves, creating illness and placing a massive, and largely unnecessary, burden on our health care systems.

It's at these times of crisis that we often need to access the welfare state: social services, benefits, health care. And it's this very system and the interventions it brings that, despite some well meaning people wanting to help, at best prolong and at times even make situations worse. Families, young people, the elderly, disabled and those out of work accessing this giant billions of pounds bureaucracy are ever increasingly put into categories, boxes are ticked and situations managed rather than resolved.

In her book Radical Help, Hilary Cottam tells us that an average social workers spend 80% of their time servicing this bureaucracy and a mere 20% of their time with those in crisis.

That 20% will usually be taken up asking questions in order to fill out a from before going back to the office to input this data into the system. There was no meaningful

interactions. No relationships built.

Turning this on it's head, Cottam's team came up with a plan and persuaded a local council to let them carry out experiments to see if things would genuinely change. Several 'problem' families accessing social services agreed to take part and interviewed and chose individuals from social services, the police, youth workers etc to participate and work with them. The experiment had workers spending 80% of their time with the families, and 20% in the office. They asked the families how they may be able to help them. In short, change happened. The kids went back to school, mum got a job and some level of calm and normality came.

The team also worked with disadvantaged young people and those accessing a job centre. Most work comes through connections, relationships, as opposed to ads at the job centre. But unless we're a part of these networks, we don't get the breaks. So the team built a broad network of different people from many walks of life, themselves with lots of other connections, to spend time with the young people and those out of work, meeting up for creative sessions, work experience, a meal or cuppa in a local cafe and eventually, through these relationships and willingness from participants, change came. People made connections and found meaningful work.

The young people had chances to spend time with people who could help them realise their dreams. Sadly, although risk was taken very seriously, safe guarding policies were followed and adult participants police checked, the council in question shut down the young peoples' experiment, says Cottam, because they couldn't get their heads around allowing young people to hang out with adults. It was too risky they said. It's a tricky one, especially when it's at times vulnerable young people, but how are those disadvantaged young people supposed to get a leg-up into something if the only access to the adult world they have is through their social worker?

Reading the book, it seemed that a lot of the social issues talked about were very relevant to us lot in HU3, but one thing felt was that there's a fair amount of awareness of this and work towards combating it in our area. In fact there was recently a day long gathering of minds and ideas looking at the Radical Help approach.

It may not be big systems change stuff, but organisations such as Giroscope providing good low cost housing to people and helping

them with training and employment, and offering struggling tenants genuine support with underlying issues such as a counselling service; Hull YFC with breakfast, youth clubs and families work plus a gardening project employing local young people, all go some way to addressing this stuff. But crucially again it's the connections, the relationships, built within these organisations which make the difference. And there's also another fundamental element to this: we're all in it together, as opposed to the detached us and them approach adopted by the welfare state.

This seems vital to creating something that all can feel a part of, rather than detached from, and in turn helps to cement genuine relationships and build communities which can support and help each other to live their best lives.

Here's a nice quote from George Eliot: “What do we live for, if it's not to make life less difficult for one another.”

Amen to that.

If you don't have the time to read the book, Hilary Cottam does a 15 minute TED talk on YouTube. If you do wanna read the book, we've got one you can borrow. For this and any more info, get in touch at EofUs.

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Find out more about what Hilary has to say in her Ted talk Social Services are broken. How can we fix them? Just visit Ted.com and search for Hilary Cottam

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ARCHITECTURE IN PLAIN SIGHT: WALKING, SKETCHING AND EATING TOUR

Inspired by our Challenging Stereotypes article (p.5) our walking tour will explore the stories of architecture that are hiding in plain sight, right under our nose.

It’s easy to stop noticing when we spend long enough in a place, so why not join Kate (artist) and Caroline (architect) for a walking tour to find out what they have spotted and what you know. Let us all see what we can learn about the people, the place and our buildings. For anyone who feels inspired to sketch, we will bring along pads, pencils and drawing pens, and we will end with a bread related picnic, picked up along route from our wonderful ‘world of bread’ purveyors. Nom nom.

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Date and time:Saturday 10th September 4-6pm Location: Meet at the fountain on Boulevard Join us: book your place by dropping us a line at hello@ threewayseast.co.uk or message Kate on 07713 647 715 Cost: Free Who for: 18+ or 14+ if accompanied by an adult

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HUMBER STREET GALLERY VISIT

Join us for a special trip on the opening day of the Young Contemporaries exhibition at the Humber Street Gallery. This will be an exhibition with a wide variety of work from young artists and we have organised to be taken on a guided tour by the gallery team. To top it off we'll provide a spot of free lunch in the gallery's cafe....so if all in all you fancy a lovely day out, we'd love to see you.

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Date and time: Thursday 29th September 10.30am-2pm Location: Meet outside Chiltern Primary School gates Join us: Book your place by dropping us a line at hello@threewayseast.co.uk or message Kate on 07713 647 715 Cost:Free Who for: 18+ or 14+ if accompanied by an adult

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As the weather improves, we will also be planning some pop up and wandering activities out and about on the streets, to interrupt your daily comings and goings.You might see puppets or poets, musicians or magicians, photographers or caricaturists.

Who knows? You’ll just have to wait and see.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT, A SOCIAL OFFERING

Our focus on bread in this issue has helped us meet so many people we would otherwise never have known.

That’s the power of bread, of course. It’s staple of life around the world, with the power to nourish, sustain and connect. There are bread projects springing up in communities up and down the country, as people remember its power and go back to old wisdoms.

It’s made us think about the wider food offer on HU3 and what we might collectively do to make it good and more equal for everyone.

Join us for this special social event celebrating the HU3 bread offer.There will be bread related goodies to eat (it would be wrong not to). There will also be the chance to find out about some inspiring food projects and to chat about what we might like to see on HU3.

»Date and time: Wednesday 13th July 3-pm »Location: Lonsdale Community Centre, 8 Lonsdale Street, HU36PA »Join us: book your place by dropping us a line at hello@ threewayseast.co.uk or message Kate on 07713 647 715 »Cost:Free »Who for: 18+ or 14+ if accompanied by an adult

A NIGHT OF NIGERIAN STEW

Juliet’s ewa agoyin stew and agege bread (p.11) has our mouth’s watering. Keep your eyes out for news of our special event over the summer at Juliet’s brand new gathering space...a not to be missed event for all the family.

»Date and time: 13th July 3-pm »Location: Lonsdale Community Centre, 8 Lonsdale Street, HU36PA »Join us: Book your place by dropping us a line at hello@ threewayseast.co.uk or message Kate on 07713 647 715 »Cost:Free »Who for: adults and children (accompanied by an adult)

POP UP PUPPETS

Murmurations bring you a joy rummage. A prank of Puppets, a mish mash of musicians and a curiousity of clothing, come and make and move with us.

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OTHER WAYS TO WALK – GRAB YOUR CARDS FOR DIY NATURE WALKS

The year 6 pupils of Chiltern Primary School have whetted our appetites for connection with nature. It can reduce stress, improve sleep & boost the immune system so, we have partnered up with artist and wellbeing practitioner Rachel Howfield-Massey to bring her Other Ways to Walk cards into your life. These beautiful cards provide prompts, guides and invitations to boost wellbeing through better connection to nature, and her quirky and unusual ideas aim to help you bring a sense of adventure to your walks. We will give the schools in the area some packs of Rachel’s cards to use with pupils, and we look forward to hearing how they get on.

»Giveaway: For anyone else who fancies grabbing a pack and giving us a little review, we

have 8 lots to give away! If you fancy giving them a go, drop us a line on any of the usual ways.

Rachel is also making a special free shipping offer to any Encyclopedia of Us readers who would like to buy a pack of cards before the end of August 2022.

Use the code FREESHIPPING via her website shop at www.otherwaystowalk.co.uk

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SECRET LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS BOUQUET WORKSHOP

Our Flower Power piece on Graham the florist (P.4) has inspired this special workshop with our Artist Investigator, Kate Genever. Kate is fascinated by the secret language of flowers, which has been used in cultures right across the world, for thousands of years. Flowers have acted as symbols and emblems and have even been used for passing secret messages between lovers, when words could not be spoken.

For this workshop we’ll make a visit to Graham at his shop, pick up our bundles of flowers along with some top tips, then head across to Rayners where we will create our own bouquets…and of course enjoy some refreshments.

»Date and time: Friday 23rd September 4-6.30pm »Location: Meet at Graham the Florist, 344 Hessle Rd »Join us: book your place by dropping us a line at hello@threewayseast.co.uk or message Kate on 07713 647 715 »Cost: Free »Who for: 18+ or 14+ if accompanied by an adult

THE AIMLESS ARCHIVE

Look out for Tom and The Aimless Archive. He will be hanging out around HU3 in public spaces, ready to talk to you and collect your stories.

LOOKING FOR LOVE

Kate Genever will be drawing things that you love and collecting your stories for the next issue of EofUs

GEORGE NORRIS PHOTO EXHIBITION

George has taken thousands of photographs of the area of the years...look out for some of them popping up over the summer.

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Encyclopedia of Us is brought to you by the Community of HU3 in collaboration with Three Ways East Ltd. hello@ threewayseast.co.uk @eofushu3 @eofushu3 @eofushu3

EDITORIAL TEAM

Our editorial advisory group changes shape for every edition as the people included in the paper help us shape it up. The people chipping in this time were: Paula Chearman Graham the Florists Kate Genever Clare Huby Martin King Jacqui Marshall Deborah Munt Patrick Crabtree Diana Nadine Jadine Glynis Charlton Caroline Gore Booth George Norris Time out Anna Hembury Suzie Winter Becky Winter Amanda Rigby Thank you to everyone who has contributed. Your efforts are very much appreciated.

If you would like to be part of the Editorial Team, just let us know.

DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT

Contributions of thoughts, ideas and creative works are always welcome and are accepted as being the original work of the person supplying them. If you are contributing things on behalf of someone else, or work created by someone else, please make sure you have their permission and let us know how they wish to be credited.

We only record and process personal information in order to credit contributions to the EofUs and keep you up to date with the project (if you wish). We do not share any of your personal information with third parties without your permission.

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One way or another we want to hear from you... so whether you contact us or we find you... we look forward to meeting you. See page 40 for all the ways to contact us

p4 JOIN IN

with our special flower workshop and architecture walking tour. See page 36

p7 SEE THE MAP

You can find all these bakeries on the map on page 40

p8 LEARN TO BAKE

Join Patrick and EofUs on a free breadmaking course. If you're interested then see page 40 for more info on how to get in touch

p9 JOIN OSCAR’S FOOD GROUP

Ask Giroscope about their two 10-week cooking courses, open to all. Contact Sarah Pearson, Giroscope’s Volunteer: sarah.pearson@giroscope.org.uk

p9 MAKE OSCAR'S PIZZA

Turn to page 11 for the full recipe

p10 SEND US YOUR STORY

We are looking for some stories that can be illustrated by artists and illustrators. Could yours be one of them? See page 40 for ways to get in touch

p11 JOIN US

for a stew and bread event at Juliet's place...see page 36-37 for more details

p11 BUY AGEGE BREAD

Available daily in the Place Mini Store on Hessle Road

p12 VISIT HUMBER STREET GALLERY

64 Humber St, HU1 1TU. 01482 323484. Closed Mon & Tues.

Visit absolutelycultured.co.uk/ humberstreetgallery

p13 VISIT THE STUDIO

for an evening of weaving (weavenings, get it!) and refreshments and chance to simply have a go. Free but booking essential. Visit the website at lifeandloom.co.uk/weavenings

p13 GET FREE BUSINESS SUPPORT

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If you are someone with a business idea or just getting started Govind is offering 12 hours of FREE, bespoke support via Giroscope. Contact govind@giroscope.org.uk 69 Cotman Street, Hull, HU3 2SJ

Join us for this special your and picnic.

See more details on how to book on page 36

p15 DONATE TO THEIR ONGOING FUNDRAISING EFFORTS

Join is for this social evening with a chance to consider the food offer of the future on HU3. See more details on how to book on page 36

We feel it’s important to share experiences with others and help in any way possible. Donate at Jarrad Foundation: facebook.com/ JarradFoundation/ and https://seed. charity

p15 VISIT FLEEK BOUTIQUE & NANNA NADZ WITH LOVE

Jadine and Nadine's shop can be found at 406 Hessle Road

p21 GET EVEN MORE INSPIRATION

by checking out the online gallery for Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the National History Museum https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery

p26 GET MORE COLOURING IN

Download a free Hull A-Z colouring in booklet, by artist Tim Wilson, from the Form Shop and Studio, by visiting https://bit.ly/3w69pwp

p29 FOLLOW GEORGE’S TOP PHOTO TIPS

See page 29 for his photography tips

p30 DOWNLOAD A COPY

anuntoldstory-voices.com

p33 GET IN TOUCH

For Diana’s support recommendations for people experiencing domestic violence see page 33

p36 FOOD FOR THOUGHT, A SOCIAL OFFERING

p36 VISIT HUMBER STREET GALLERY

on a special trip for the opening day of the Young Contemporaries exhibition… followed by a spot of free lunch in the gallery's cafe. More details on how to book on page 36

p36 BE INTERRUPTED

Look out for our pop up and wandering programme over the summer including puppets, aimless archiving, drawing the things you love, a special event to enjoy Nigerian stew and the photographs of George Norris.

p37 GRAB YOUR CARDS FOR DIY NATURE WALKS WITH OTHER WAYS TO WALK

Free pack of cards for up to 8 people who would like to try these and give us a review. Contact us via details on page 40. Or if you just fancy buying a pack before the end of August 2022 you an get free shipping using the code FREESHIPPING via her website shop at www.otherwaystowalk.co.uk

p37 JOIN OUR SECRET LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS BOUQUET WORKSHOP

Learn about the secret language of flowers and make your own bouquet.

See page 37 for booking details.

p39 BE A FRIEND TO WEST PARK

p34 DONATE YOUR HAIR TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS TRUST

To find out more search 'Friends of West Park, Hull, UK’ on Facebook and add your memories and photos. Or join the group and add your support that way and thenewingtonplan.co.uk.

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p39 SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE

For more information visit littleprincesses.org.uk/donate-hair

Find out more about what Hilary has to say in her Ted talk Social Services are broken. How can we fix them? Just visit Ted.com and search for Hilary Cottam

Whether you like writing, organising, thinking, drawing, talking to people or just joining in, do get in touch with us.

We want the Encyclopedia of Us to be by and for everyone. Find out all our ways to get in touch on page 40

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BE A FRIEND TO WEST PARK West Park offers HU3-ers a huge green space to play, walk and breathe. We know how lots of you love to walk the dog, watch the animals, take the kids, meet up with friends, or just sit and watch the world go by. But we also know it needs a facelift.

Lots of other people feel the same.

Friends of West Park believe bringing its forgotten or under used spaces and facilities back into use will be great for the park and make it more enjoyable for everyone. E of Us wants to help and, given the conversations we’ve had with lots of you, we know you will too. All our efforts will help those trying to get funding and council support for a re-development.

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Hull, UK’ on Facebook and add your memories and photos. Or join the group and add your support that way. thenewingtonplan.co.uk.

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Whether you like writing, organising, thinking, drawing, talking to people or just joining in, do get in touch with us. We want the Encyclopedia of Us to be by and for everyone.

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Whether you like writing, organising, thinking, drawing, talking to people or just joining in, do get in touch with us. We want the Encyclopedia of Us to be by and for everyone. We are experts at revealing interests and superpowers!

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If you want to respond to any of the You Cans in this issue, have ideas for future issues or just want to get in touch you can: Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: @EofUsHU3 Email: hello@threewayeast.co.uk Don't do technology? Drop your thoughts, ideas and artworks in one of our postboxes at Constable Street Allotment or Ground Gallery at 60 Beverley Road

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