albert smith

Hi I've found these two pics. in my album dated March 1955, memory is not too good but I do know the Trent was widened by the removal of the Lovers Walk side of the river in/about 1952-3 as 2 of my mates worked on the scheme. One of them , Jack Thompson, got his name in the E.Post when the Agent i/c authorised the removal of the bank before extracting the piles embedded in the river. As they couldn't be reached from the 'new' riverbank Jack "volunteered" to drive a crane down the Embankment steps onto a barge borrowed from the Trent Navi., first try he overshot the barge & finished up i

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Bilbraborns mention of 'aged' Colwick etc.' locomen struck a chord with me as it was the reason I left the footplate after nearly 16 years. The date you started as a loco cleaner was your 'Seniority' date and stayed with you as you progressed, very slowly up the ladder. First as a 'passed cleaner'you were available for firing duties then as vacancies came above you, you moved on into a link of 12 drivers/firemen with 12 weeks of alternate am/pm's.Initially it would be mostly 'round the castle' servicing the local pits up the Leen Valley then going further afield, P,boro, wellingboro, B'ham, Cr

Hello Colin Post 56, Bob Wooley followed his father onto the old Nottm. Corp. Gas Dept.as a gas fitter. Too good at his job to be promoted as numerous apprentices can vouch for. I think he stayed on at Woodboro' Rd. even after Emgas took over until he took early retirement in 1969. My son/his Grandson, Mike Smith, followed on as apprentice then fitter at Radford Rd. for several years before going self employed later taking a 1 year plumbing course at Basford Hall so he's qualified in both utilities. His Grandad would be proud of him!

OOps, a senior moment, it was 'Newbasforddad' who mentioned Emgas in post 10 not bilbrolad, sorry

PPS Further to the above post the price of the first rolls of wallpaper it pasted was about 3/6 a roll,I last used it last year with some heavyweight bathroom paper @ £12.00 a roll! Thank Goodness it was ready trimmed!

Back in 1953 we moved into our first proper home a private rented house badly in need of redecoration, my father in law told me to "get a good brush & don't let anyone borrow it", so I paid £2 12/6d. for a 7in. paperhangers brush, its paid for itself 100s of times over and can still slap the paste on with only half the bristles left. It was 'borrowed' when my children were setting up in their homes but, of course, I went along with it! PS Bilbrolad post 10 the father in law mentioned was named Bob Wooley, ring any bells?

Posts 27/28 bring back a happy memory, I had taken my 7 year old daughter to WHS in the Vic.Centre to spend some birthday money on adding to her Enid Blyton collection (Famous 5,7 etc). I left her to to look around myself when this childs voice echoed round the store" Daaad! they've gone up 5p and theres not so many pages in this one!" Have you ever tried to look as if you didn't know your own child. She still has the whole collection under her bed.

another picture, birthday card in this case but its one for the railway buffs. pre rebuild, 'cow bell' "express lamp" code but a mixed set of coaches for an express? Is it a photo? I know the engine is fact because I fired on it in the early sixties when it was a "Nottingham" engine, if I remember rightly "Derbyshire Yeomanry" still retained the straight boiler as original..

I was once given some "Christmas pears" (Williams ?) for helping out on one of the Aspley Lane allotments. Mum was quite pleased and put them away in a bedroom drawer to ripen, then had a 'senior moment' when she put some mothballs in the same drawer. She was nearly weeping when she found them beautiful to look at but Oh the smell!

Ooops, I've been trying for some time to post these pics& I'm not sure now how I've done but they're here prompted by a 'mention' somewhere in the posts to these excellent photos. (albeit a lot of LNER!) I have a particular memory of this engine as I was a Midland Fireman for almost 16 years either side of 1950s and one day in, I think, May 1956 my driver & I were sent to Derby Shops to collect No 1000 resplendant in her old Midland Rly. colours and destined never to return to general traffic, special excursions only & eventually to retirement in York Museum.The "before" picture sh

Sorry Deeps, mrs Cumberpatch was known as Nell, husband Jack, Sylvia was the second daughter married a John Boot, Doreen (the big girl!) tragically died in her late teens. John took on the greengrocers from Alan Frost who's Father Fred kept the grocer shop towards Meadow Grove & then at the corner of Grainger St. I have an article from the 'Bygones' page by one of the lads writing about going 'Ratting' in Bitto's! Just reading it brought the smell back!

Sorry Fynger, yes the lots gone and sorry again I mixed up my 2 daughters birthdates! it was probably 1977 when the girls arrived.

Going into Nottingham from Bulwell this am I wasn't the only one to give a gasp of shock at the site of Henry Mellish School on Highbury Rd. Sorry 'Old Mellonians' but your old school is now a heap of rubble! My daughter was in the first intake of girls when it went co-ed around 1968 ?

I was just going to post that I thought Derwent St was off Kirkewight St when I saw the map. "Poets Corner Pub" & the "Grove Cinema" at the end on K-W St. and Arkwright St. station on the viaduct above at the other end?

Quite right Michael, Jackie Pownall did have a large building on Meadow Lane, rumour had it that he was going into 'boxing promotion'? His Sneinton yard was just through the Manvers St. railway bridge and I understood he lived in the detached house the other side of the bridge on the Sneinton Hermitage. The goods yard above in the mid 50s was only used by the banana warehouse & Jackies wagons of ex WD surplus destined for his Bath St. store, I still have a hand drill & brace bought there for half a crown each(12 1/2p). Hintons owned the warehouse the bananas being ripened by the gas l

Hi a swap of computers means I'm just catching up on recent posts and this one really turns my mind back to 1942 as my first job on leaving school was at this bakery. The name is George Timson and if Rog's Grandfather served with him in the first world war he was in the Leicestershire Yeomanry,a cavalry regiment. John Turner, the trainee baker/roundsman I replaced when he was 'called up' to the army was unfortunately killed with the First Army in Nth. Africa. Private house deliveries were only allowed on 3 days per week so we were around Trent Boulevard area Monday, Wednesday & Friday and

Thanks & apologies Roger for getting the name wrong, the Stevensons lived at the top of Lees Hill St, one son Lawrence. Regards to Gladys, Sorry its 'Mum' to you CU Albert

Hello Deeps, just had a senior moment I thought I'd corrected you re. the Dodsleys in Brand St, Yes Arthur was a taxi driver he & wife Violet had 3 sons Sam, Walter (Jum) & Gorden (daughter?). If I'm the 'Albert' you remember I have to ask oo r yuh? Michael it was Alf Whiler not Len he was my brother. Albert Smith

Hi just browsing & spotted Sneinton Blvd. I think I qualify as an 'old boy' having left (aged 14) Xmas 1942. I've posted re. sledging in Top Field & was a Army cadet (Sgt. pti.) @ Jesse Boot school until joining the Royal marines, 2 years national service. I have good memories of the youth club beneath the Methodist church at the botttom of the boulevard. My pal Jack Thompson & I "pumped " the church organ when the motor failed. Taylor Close Beefy? remember the Gascoignes, Reg was engine driver son Barry followed him and we were in the LMR Rifle club together. Thanks for asking Lup

Hello Michael Sorry for the delay in replying, bisee bisee. I spent most of my childhood on Brand St. leaving in 1953, I recollect some boys in your backyard playing football with a 'dried milk' tin as a ball, I was on night shift at the time !!! We were @ No.10 & @ 14 (back 2 back with U) were the Frosts, my grandparents. Elder brother Len & wife lived with Grandad for several years, 2 younger sisters were Evelyn & Shiela. Mum & Dad stayed on till being rehoused prior to demolition 1970ish. Many memories but poor on names!

Phew, trying to catch up on some of the photos & comments re meadow lane area/railways. I was a Midland loco fireman 1948-63, know the area well as I lived on Brand St. I also walked past the 3 houses between the GN bridges 4 times a day to & from Sneinton Blvd. school. The Stevensons lived in the detached house with their 4 daughters Gladys,( now Iremonger, Beechdale) twins Margery & Margaret & Olga, the Kirks were nextdoor but one, son Stan was a school mate. The panorama Ashley has almost too much to take in, the severed goods line on the left ran over London Rd junction th