DJBrenton

I worked at the Palais in the late 70's,mostly on the bar and once in a while dj'ing. My abiding memories of the house bands are 2-4-6-8- motorway and Float On. Other memorbale events were the European Elvis convention taking place a couple of weeks after he died. The Bali Hai was filled with middle aged guys in batwing costumes sobbing their hearts out. They had planned to show 'Love me tender' but realised that, as the only film Elvis died in, they'd have a riot on their hands so had to delay the film for an hour or so as a replacement film was sent from Germany I think. The other big event

The peniclled in its are really odd. 'm wondering if they're bus routes or something as they follow odd paths. I'll scan the whole map and you can see where they end up.

I agree. I'm quite happy to donate it to wherever it would best be stored. That's interesting your spotting of Goose Fair. So the earliest the map could be is 1928 and by 1929 the City Hospital should have been shown so that seems to suggest it is from 1928 or 1929. The Geographia Map Company are still around so it should be easy enough if I contact them.

I would keep very quiet about that if I were you.

Maybe it's Lucy Tinslop in 1969 Murdered on 4 August in St Mary's Rest Garden on Bath Street, Nottingham. Became known locally as the 'Birthday Girl Murder' as it took place on the victim's 21st birthday. She left home after a birthday party at her parents house. Screams were heard coming from the rest garden. Lucy's body was found strangled. She had been raped and her killer had ripped her abdomen open and stabbed her vagina over 20 times. Some speculate that the killer was Arnold Booth, a resident of Sneinton in Nottinghamshire, though it is unclear whether any evidence exists to link Booth

The map is actually of the whole city ( I didn't scan it all) but only shows the police information for 'B' Division it seems. A dating point is that Bagthorpe Hospital and the Poor Law Institution are shown off Hcknall Rd/Valley Rd. They became City Hospital in 1929. Also absent is Western Boulevard so it definitely dates from before 1929. Interestingly it also shows Aspley Halll and Aspley Lane spelled aPSley which was a variant used by the Willoughby family.

Thanks.

So Rock City used to be Alexandra Skating Rink. Who knew!

They could also have noticed that the sign they chose for Headquarters is the same as the one for railway stations. So what would the 'Points' be? Traffic control positions?

I wondered whether it was police or some sort of WWI fire warden one.

In the attic I found a whole pile of old maps. Amongst them are a couple of old ones of Nottingham. The really interesting one is a Geographia from sometime before 1929 ( it shows the old Poor Institute that became City Hospital). Someone has marked in areas of Sneinton and the Meadows in coloured zones with HQ, Stations and Kiosks and also 'points' rnning from Trent Bridge to Broad Marsh and also a couple in Sneinton. I am intrigued as to what they were as it looks like an official map of some sort. I have a large scan of it (1MB) which can be downloaded from the link. http://img515.imagesh

I found a 25.344 inches to the mile map of Nottingham South from 1915 and was intrigued to see Princess Skating Rink on Castle Boulevard opposite. It occupied the land which later became the right hand end of the Labour Exchange and the whole of what is now New Castle House. Does anyone have any knowledge of this?

That rings vague bells.

1977, Rediffusion was run by a guy called Stan. He told me that he had replaced a manager who had been selling loads of bootlegs 'off the books'. Stan and the area manager had gone through the stock when he took over and made a massive bonfire of the records that were nothing to do with Rediffusion. He missed a few which he gave me, a white label of the Stones Live in Detroit and a Hamburg recording of the Beatles, again on white label.

The Rediffusion shop near the Odeon was managed in 1977 by a guy called Stan. He was brought in when the area manager discovered that the manager was selling as many bootlegs on his own account as Rediffusion stock and sacked him. They had a bonfire with hundreds of bootleg albums although Stan managed to hang onto a few. He gave me one of them, a live recording of The Stones in Detroit ( the gig where Jagger forgot what town they were in).