Ashley
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no.1 def not canal street, that was a lattice type girder bridge but certainly GCR over meadows area, heading south from victoria first proper bridge was canal street, then bridges over station st, queen.s rd, crocus st, arkwright st, kirk white st west,and then over victoris embankment so take your pick! The only Midland bridge in the meadows was over meadow lane (leading to what is now LadyBay road bridge) and The GNR and LNWR ones over meadow lane west of the level crossing were nothing like that nor The Nottingham Suburban ones Trent Lane area
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oops! was going to say was that shelter under the factory the one on Dakeyne St? was told it ran under park there and they never made any recovery attempt, just filled it in, the two "new" council houses next door to library further up carlton rd replace a direct hit one, maybe a vicarage?
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Nice to see members puttin a picture in their profile.
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Just tried to reply to an old message from you, but it said you can't receive any more, doh.
So here it is, Hello Ashley,
I was going through my old messages on here just a few moments ago, and saw the one from you, as I've not been on here for several years, as I forgot my log in details.
Anyway, you sent me a message about Ken Smith & him possibly being in Churchfield Terrace in Basford. (a care home of some sorts)
I never did check i...
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I never did check it out, to see if he was in there! As life got in the way.
Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to telephone them and ask if he is indeed living there.
Ken Smith in the 80s lived in the flat above the cafe on Bentinck road, and he was still living there in 1985 when he wrote a letter for me, which I still have today.
As I was adopted back then, and he is my biological father
I was adopted by the parents I know and love today.
You...
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You say he was a boxer? I'd love to know more, as I dont know anything about him, thanks to the social services not telling me anything lol
anyway, I hope you see this message. Thank you!
From Sam
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you can get me onXXXXXXXXXX what got you into this nostalgia thing? I finished up having to pack up work, as monsewer alfonse would say "dicky ticker" and started exploring all my old haunts inc railways, wrote a book on them, yet to make any money though!
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I doubt those alms houses were bombed, there has to my knowledge never been any mention of them getting hit, they were on the fringe of the main bombers route in what became known as The Nottingham Blitz May 8/9th 1941 but most of the bombs that fell in that area were to the east, only hundreds of yards but enough to be "safe" On a map you can see that route, starting in west bridgford, missing forest's ground but hitting notts and of course the co-op bakery at the other fringe to the north east the former Suburban Railway embankment that crossed Colwick Rd near the crossings was hit and of
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no relation sorry
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yes the bang,boom etc was what alerted us, I too haven't found any mention of it anywhere on net but I do recall either seeing article in evening post like "25 years ago today" type of thing or maybe in "bygones" magazine? Some years earlier also saw the canberra that crashed on bulwell common minutes before, again flying over claremont rd but this time I was in primary school, flying low with black smoke trail and not "sounding right", it tried to land at hucknall but stalled so pilot tried going around for another attempt, engine failed and he hit house roof on St Albans Road (impact repair
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The one and only!
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cured it with your help firefox did the trick, thanks
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Yes craig, I knew your house, remember I phoned you when one next door was empty? Slasher Banham's was on corner of Zulu Rd opp gasworks gates, his son played for forest though think reserves etc, remember when all the stored bonfire rubbish at fern terrace went up in flames?
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NCT did stop buses in fog, I recall having to walk home from town after announcement by loud speaker that 44's were stopped due to fog in bulwell. Also recall a Notts County match being stopped (sat afternoon) after fog or rather smog came down, Mam said far worse in the war with blackout, one night she went to phone box or so she thought, turned out she had mistook petrol pump at roper's garage for such!
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I have said crash actually a derailment, but quite dramatic. Was I guess about 1955? Every night on the former Great Central Route Nottingham Victoria north to New Basford, Bulwell Common etc a loco would take carriages from the Vic up to the carriage sheds that stood between Haydn Road and Perry Road, As I understand it to get into those the train had to back up and cross the "up" (to london ) line, before that crossover some switch points had to be made safe, these were there to derail any runaway wagons etc on the incline before they ran back into victoria station. Rumour had it that a well
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Re aircraft noise from Hucknall, could certainly be heard in New Basford, North Gate area, That Vulcan that crashed at Syerston flew over our house sometimes twice a day, around same time there was also a FIVE engined Lancastrian (civil version of Lancaster, which we all thought in was) with extra engine on test in nose and a twin engined turbo jet (type on tip of my tongue but can't recall) that regularly flew over, I had an old valve radio in my bedroom and could pick up morse on short wave inc a repeated over and over HU which I assume some beacon signal?
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Think you'll find it was 2 jet provosts over the colwick area, I was in playground of Claremont Seniors so post 1957, we heard a boom in distance, looked and saw what looked like a round cloud, did not see any planes/wreckage falling as good few miles away, seem to remember engine from one crashed through glass roof of factory in netherfield killing a woman? may have been Lawrences Furniture Factory? was also at the battle of britain display at syserston when that vulcan crashed, there was a fire on impact which was maybe half mile away from crowd.
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Have had to start new topic as if I try to respond to existing I get pc fault message! The Valve Shop was started by present owner's late father in the late 1950's, I believe originally in a workshop back of his house on Egypt Road New Basford (we got loads of tv cabinets as bonfire rubbish every november) As far as I know his first shop (nothing like the modern one just sold s/h TV's) was other side of Radford Rd where the police station now stands and next door to jackie clayton's bike shop. The reel to reel video recorder was "invented" (or worked on, developed etc) on the top floor of Wyc
