Cliff Ton

People pushing supermarket trollies who just stop dead in their tracks to look at something, oblivious to everyone behind who all come crashing to a stop.

Annoying habits...? People who have the annoying habit of taking any thread on any subject and coming out with the same attitude.

Quite a few Garfields on PTP. One of them must ring a bell. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM019423&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM019421&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM000463&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM011958&prevUrl=

I detect a bit of a misunderstanding. What Ashley was saying is that #70-76 mentioned the fact that Dyggor Gaylord used to occupy the site where ikea is now. briyeo in #78 referred to another company called Bonser Engineering who were "near where Ikea stands today". Possibly two different things.

This. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Third_Division_North http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Third_Division_South

Not a photo, clearly, but it might remind you of a few points.

Done. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12186

The thread about Colwick Pleasure Gardens has led to a place which was almost next door to the gardens, White City Stadium. I never went there but it was the home of speedway racing for quite a few years. It no longer exists and is buried under an industrial estate. This link tells you all you ever need to know, and contains some amazing photos of the days when it was operating. http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/Nottingham.htm

It seems that half the population of Nottstalgia used to go there http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4911&hl=dungeon#entry116702

Another one to try - close Nottstalgia on your computer, then open it again.

Two great minds operating within a minute of each other

Make of copy of what you wrote, but re-type it all. Maybe a gremlin in your original.

Thanks to Ashley, I've solved the problem. This was Crown Street. To the right of it is Duchess Street (spot the theme running in the area). A new version of Duchess Street exists today in Bulwell, but it follows the line of the earlier version, so you can work out where Crown Street was.

I've found a reference to one in Bulwell; it is described as being off Quarry Road, which was off Main Street. So far I can't find either Quarry Road or Crown Street on any old maps. They both disappeared before the 1950s.

Here's something to read about Mitson's chocolates. http://www.lentontimes.co.uk/back_issues/issue_6/issue_06_24.htm

This was Parliament Street in the 80s and a name I'd forgotten....Lindair.

I went there when I was younger but I had no idea where we actually were (life is still sometimes like that). So for anyone else who remembers it, but not the exact location..... And there is also a FERRY marked at the end of Trent Lane.

If this is the answer, what/where is the question?

The search facility on this forum is not the most successful piece of design, but you are right that the subject has been mentioned before. Try this for a starting point - not at the very beginning of the thread, but move down a bit. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1710&hl=gunthorpe

Mess posted this in the "Co-op" thread but it is so good and wide-ranging that I think it deserves a thread on its own, so I've separated it.

As mick2me said in his original reply ........ It would be good if all recollections go into this thread.

Just looked back at where I took it from...you're correct ! It was for the 1970 Nottingham Festival.

A few more I found.

Some of these are before the time of anyone here, but they sum up the atmosphere of the old Central Market. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM003333&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM004414&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM004415&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&

As an addition to the threads about Stoke Ferry, Speed Boats, and Trevithick, here's another river topic. I'm just about old enough to remember the pleasure steamers which operated from near Trent Bridge - I think I went on them as a kid. They were operated by a company called A. J. Whitty who were based near City Ground. This is one of Whitty's steamers, Empress, on the Trent Bridge to Colwick service. Apparently she took part in the evacuation at Dunkirk and was sunk on her second trip there. Whitty's boathouse is the one on the extreme right. Note the primitive version of Forest's City