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He's lucky to be alive. "A hearse, a hearse, my kingdom for a hearse."

A gentle bump - one for Carni! I can't copy the photo over, but if you go to this link you'll find a great picture of St Anns with Vicarage St & the surrounding area on it, including Raywarp etc. Taken in 1949, so should be as you remember it. http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw025944 You'll have to sign up to use the zooming in tool, but if you do the detail is amazing! I was able to find my old house, my grandma's, and lots of other buildings I recognised. If you go right in, you can even see your Minerva Garage!! I couldn't resist putting a few markers on it, but you can swi

Very reassuring to read of so many people who also remember "whips and tops". The "Library" on Alfreton Road (alias Mrs Green's shop) sold a great many wooden toys. I also had a "diabolo"- a diabolical thing you had to balance on a rope. Now, that I couldn't get on with. She also sold tins of "bubbles" which came with a circular "wand". I enjoyed those when I was very small. I suppose it was only washing up liquid but I don't think we had washing up liquid in those days, did we? I don't really know whether I am old enough to remember packets of "Rinso" or whether I just remember my parent

funny thing lizzie piggy played rugby for cotto school team and had a trial with notts rugby club but then got into the motorbikes

Thanks for the link 'liked'..

Sorry Carni, but no, it's not the garage. What you're looking at here is where the bottom of Vicarage St met Alfred St North. In your own pic of Vicarage St you can see Minerva Garage directly opposite the bottom of Vicarage St. The Parish Hall was the next building up to the left of the garage. If Minerva Garage was still standing (it isn't) it would have been a bit further up than the tree in my #128 photo. The road to the right of the hall in #124 wasn't there in the '50s. See Cliff Ton's map in #107 - there's no road opposite the bottom of Vicarage St. The red door you refer to is part

Here it is LizzieM. Kings Picture House, latterly Woolwoth store on Front Street.

Not one building, but a group of them. Drury Hill. Went up and down there hundreds of times when it existed, getting to and from Broad Marsh bus station.