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In fact I seem to remember you didn’t even technically need a passport, that you could sometimes sail using a UK driving license or similar (this might not be official practice but I definitely heard of people doing things like that around that time. Even flying, pre-9/11, was far laxer.)

I travelled from the UK/Europe by ferry a few times in the late 90s/early 00s and I can confirm that immigration was very “light touch” - they often just glanced at your passport. Far far easier than flying or even the Eurostar (which has airline-style security). Once travelling by car they did...

I really agree with the difference in manners with the FR encounter - I’m from the UK and lived in Belgium for a while and found the manners thing really hard. Australia is less formal than the UK so I think it would be even harder for them. There really was a “set” way of doing stuff, a set way...

Whoever asked if you could cycle to Raglan Street and drive back to Haworth Street in 20 minutes, yes, easily, especially at night with light traffic. It’s a very flat area and it’s straight down Cottingham Road so you’d be home in five minutes, well a young fit lad on a bike could be no problem.

In terraced houses I’ve lived in that wasn’t dead space, it was part of a room. My bedroom used to be bigger than the same front bedroom next door because we had the “flying” space over the shared passageway between the houses.

Newland Ace wouldn’t be the logical route to the Welly, it’s straight down Beverley Road from there...

We used to sit in the front seat of cabs in Hull/Eaat Yorks. Not unusual at all. Also not odd for drivers to get out and help you with bags, maybe open the door for you too. It’s a friendly area.

Yes, they’re just paddling pools, very shallow and probably drained for winter now anyway.

Personally I’d say no. I lived near there as a student and never knew the playing fields were there until years after when I visited a family who lived nearby. I was gobsmacked that this had been there all along! But it just wasn’t the kind of place we’d have gone back then. Libby lived nearer...

I’ve just realised I’ve been here and walked around this pond - I remember thinking how wild it was even though it’s in the middle of the city - it was summer but all the edges of the park etc were very overgrown. It isn’t a well- manicured Park, it’s quite rough and ready and with lots of...

Also, I know he has a car but these factories often bus workers in on minibuses. That corner would be exactly the sort of drop off spot they would use. Just one theory.

If he works at Malton as FB says, he probably works in one of the bacon factories there, as opposed to being a butcher in a small shop. Not sure what, if any difference that makes, but it does mean that he wouldn’t have any equipment etc at his home or near it, I don’t think.