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Hopefully this shows everything mentioned in the last few posts, including Ben's and Hey Arnold's memories. Park Place (as in the old photo) is the double-headed arrow, leading out on to Park Lane The building arrowed on the far right is Standard of England (?)...if not it's the next building along just out of shot. The curved road on the left is Saxondale Drive. At the top centre is the railway embankment, with a bridge leading to Andover Road which hadn't been built yet.

It was with great sadness that I heard of the death of Judith Durham of The Seekers, she was aged 79. She had a voice that once heard was never forgotten and now sadly The Carnival is Over but we have the enduring legacy of many songs. My abiding memory of her music is 4 twenty year old blokes in a Hillman Imp hammering down the MI on the way to a Forest away game listening to Childrens Favourites and belting out Morning Town Ride at the top of our voices. The soundtrack of our youth grows ever more silent. RIP Judith and thank you for the music.

Back in the day I thought the Seekers were old-fashioned and for 'squares', but in later years I rediscovered them and realised Judith Durham had one of the best voices ever on record.

The photo is of the old terraced houses that we called the ''Jitty'''in the late 40s and 50s.. which ran from Paton road off Hucknall road.....over a railway bridge the down thru Allotments ''' that are now where the houses of Gayhurst green/road stand...then down to Park Lane past the terraced houses... I had a friend whose Grandparents lived in one of them.........turn left onto Park Lane and the ''Standard of England'' was about 100 yards on the left... The standard'' was very popular with many people off the old Bestwood estate and the Jitty'' was the regular route...my

That was when kids were allowed to be kids and enjoy a childhood. These days many are just fashion accessories to be farmed out to anyone who will look after them while the parents live their lives as they did before parenthood.

Not every day we see a photo of someone who has recently posted on Nottstalgia !

An article today on tailor Graham Rogers, mentioned above. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/tributes-paid-one-nottinghams-last-7405527?fbclid=IwAR0IHT1zXpK3pNodMw40HLbXsu04RNcYvx99-NKMTYbNyg1g5E6TbBkGf0k

Very sad news. Her voice was beautiful. She was a classically trained pianist too. RIP Judith

Going off topic abit , i stumbled across the creation of Jackanory on youtube tonight , how many off us sat down to tea and listened to the likes of Bernard cribbins , james robert justice, and hatty Jaques tell us a story , brought back happy memories !

Great photo, as with Ben shows the area which I remember with great fondness. The bridge arrowed leads through to Andover road and Marsdens which we have been told a lot about. The Bridge was locally known as Marble Arch go through there from Bestwood Estate and onto the great wild world of Bulwell and Basford, great memories.

Park Place (most likely Dob Park Place) was roughly where Gayhurst Road is now. There appears to to a pair of houses, the white ones, which were probably on Park Place still left amongst modern housing. Modern layout over 1913 map

Mrs B, funny you should mention that you prefer Imperial measurements. Everything here is made to metric measurements, if you work on a car you need metric tools. Our gallon is smaller than the UK gallon, sometime in the 1800's the UK changed the bushel to gallons, it was the same as the US back then, we stayed the same, why alter something that works?? UK adopted a liquid measurement. All scientists work in the metric scales. I still prefer Fahrenheit to Celsius, Miles, pounds, gallons etc.. Although the money system has been metric for over 240 years, all soft drinks are

Picture of Dob Park Hall apparently https://picturenottingham.co.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/ntgm006070/posterid/ntgm006070.html

@Beekay My maternal grandad used to be a collier at Bestwood pit walking to work daily from Arnold. My mum used to tell me that one day, taking a short cut across Bestwood Lodge grounds, he was accosted by the Duke of St. Albans and his gamekeeper who asked him what he was doing on private lands. When he explained that he was on his way to work, and the shortcut saved him considerable time, apparently the Duke granted him permission to walk across his land henceforth. This was reported in the Arnold Echo (local paper) at the time.

One of my earliest ever posts..........bus and trolleybus routes in the 1940s....at hi-res. https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/7151-nottm-bus-routes-1940s/?tab=comments#comment-91118

Remember that bottled orange of the milkman ? I love that stuff !

A brief update. Rang the GP surgery at 8am. Start to finish, the call lasted less than five minutes. Got called back by the GP ten minutes later and by 9:15 I was sat in her consulting room, being tested. She’s prescribed the medication she thinks will help resolve the problem and is confident that the surgery can go ahead as planned. Got to say I love the NHS!

Nottingham City Transport......Best job I ever had !

Yep, remember it well Ben. We used to often go that way to get to Osborne's Barber's shop just by the junction of Park Lane with Brooklyn Road. Looking at this map, the old area of allotments is now all housing and what remains of the path from Paton Road now emerges as Gayhurst Road. I'm fairly sure the last house along the row in Park Lane is what was Osborne's. Looking at that whole area now you'd hardly guess it used to be a mass of railways, but if you zoom out a bit it's easier to make out how there are 'corridors' of new build where the old railways used to be. https://w

Went in there some years ago before it closed. It was grim then too. But I've been thinking Ben. If it was early 1950s, it's no surprise that 'Bestwooders' would be in there. There was no pub actually on ( The proper) Bestwood Estate. So the nearest, depending which side of the estate you lived on, would be: Oxclose on Oxclose Lane, The Heathfield on Heathfield Rd and the Park Tavern a bit further down Arnold Rd. then maybe the Newstead Abbey on St Alban's Rd and that's yer lot. The first and only pub ever on Bestwood Est proper was the Deerstalker, built sometime in the mid 50s. I remem

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