Bridlington - The Cliffs Prior to 1926. And Jelly Roll Morton.

            The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Bridlington using a 1d. stamp on Wednesday the 15th. September 1926. The card was sent to:

Miss E. Prior,
1, Hillary Street,
Woodhouse Lane,
Leeds.

The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Woodbine House,
Bow Street,
Bridlington.
We are having lovely
weather. We sat on the
sands - it was quite hot.
Going to Scarborough
tomorrow for the ride.
Love to you all,
E. B. Moss."

Hillary Street and What Happened to it

One of the deadliest incidents of WWII in Leeds occurred on Hillary Street in Little Woodhouse. The street has since been demolished to make way for the Leeds inner ring road. 

On the night of the 14th. March 1945, at least one high explosive bomb caused extensive damage to a row of large back-to-back houses on the east side of the street. 

The bomb lodged in a shared chimney stack which exploded and ricocheted into the terrace. The initial impact blew out the cast iron cooking range at number 63, causing a fire in the cellar kitchen.

The house was home to the Ure family. Three sisters, Patricia (aged 21), Madeline (aged 18) and Mary (aged 6), had been in the kitchen when the bomb fell. They had not gone to the shelter because Mary was recovering from measles. 

The force of the blast threw the three sisters from their chairs and jammed the door which led to the staircase. Thankfully, they were rescued from the smoke by their father, William, a printer who was on firewatch duty in the area.

Worse damage was caused two doors down the terrace. Civil Defence records show that six people were killed and a further two people required medical treatment. 

The dead were Kate Ingle, Beatrice Mitchell and Constance Mitchell from number 71, Theresa Ross and Rose Ross from the adjoining number 73, and Clive Rose from number 67.

Despite the terrifying incident, the Ure family stayed on in Hillary Street, moving into a house at the north end of the row and remaining there until the 1960's. The bomb site remained undeveloped until the street was cleared.

Jelly Roll Morton

So what else happened on the day that E. B. Moss posted the card?

Well, on the 15th. September 1926, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers recorded "Black Bottom Stomp" in Chicago.

Debits and Credits

Alsoon that day, the new Rudyard Kipling collection Debits and Credits was published. One poem, "The Vineyard", drew controversy, as it was interpreted as a criticism of the United States' late entry into the Great War. 

One stanza read: 

"At the eleventh hour he came
But his wages were the same
As ours who all day long had trod
The winepress of the wrath of God."

Although originally in favour of the Great War, Kipling became embittered when his son died during the Battle of Loos in 1915. He wrote:

"My son was killed while laughing at 
some jest. I would I knew
What it was, and it might serve me in 
a time when jests are few".
   

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