Cliff Ton

Hint taken. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM005525&prevUrl= Surprisingly, the building has survived and hasn't changed much. http://goo.gl/maps/e5s2e

http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11096

ajkocan and BOBLOCO are both members of that well-known club......... they registered, made one post, and have never been back again since.

Is this a hornet? A photo I took earlier in the year; this thing was in the garden for several days and spent most of its time hovering in one place, unlike wasps and bees which are always on the move.

Before this starts drifting in a big way, there are lots of Goose Fair threads to spend your time going through. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10470&hl=goose http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4573&hl=goose http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=847&hl=goose

The next bank holiday is christmas day.

No Carni, I have the actual addresses with the house number, from the census. I know Basford extended a long way out in registration terms; in fact in those days even Clifton Village was Basford!

Thanks for them. I've looked at all the links and there isn't really anything that coincides with my side of things. It looks like there was an entire parallel universe of Widdowsons in Basford who aren't the ones you've come up with!

Looking at that link, I have a Widdowson living on Pepper Street, Basford, in 1841, although not Henry. I know it was quite common in those days to find several related families all living along the same road.

If you look at this link, you'll see part of the building is still called Radford Mill. Spin the direction thingy round and you can see Norton Street (down) and Garden Street (up). http://goo.gl/maps/pwJDA

Yes it is. The building fronted onto Norton Street on one side and Garden Street on the other side. It was effectively an island. There are a number of photos and other bits in this thread http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10134

I'm sure I've read somewhere that - difficult to believe - Rolls Royce tested aero engines there during the war. If you want to have a look around http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/industrial-sites/59155-radford-mills-viyella-woks-nottingham-march-2011-a.html

It all proves what I said about Widdowson being very common around Notts and Derbys....but you can count all the others on one hand. I'm fairly certain none of those are connected to my Widdowsons, who started around Basford and ended up in Lenton/Radford. Although I had to double check on this one....... ...because in my Widdowsons, there's always a Samuel in the family. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them.

I have a couple of documents which list the various 'Yards' and 'Places' in Nottingham, and Woodshende doesn't appear in either of them. Maybe it's a misprint by Pic the Past. Unless anyone with knowledge of the company can remember where it is/was.

You are as old as other people think you are.

I've discovered the location of the old people's home; I found some old paperwork and it was called The Beeches, Darnhall Crescent. It was here, on the left http://goo.gl/maps/3AkbL the houses there are different and newer than the ones on the other side of the road.

......as demonstrated on a number of photos!. I don't know when Granby Street was extended but by the 1950s your junction existed.

That's about the limit of how far my knowledge goes back, so Hannah may be a bit earlier than I currently know about. What I am certain of is that all my Widdowsons were living in the Basford area.

I may be wrong on this so apologies if I've got my locations twisted. Did there used to be an old peoples' home on Darnhall Crescent, or somewhere nearby? Reading this thread, the name rang a bell with me, because I had two grandparents who lived in a old people's place around that area in the late 1970s. I've just been there on Streetview and there's no such place now, but there are blocks of noticeably different houses where I thought the OAP home used to be.

That's an interesting photo which I don't think I'd seen before - Mount Street before it became the width it is now. The building on the right with horizontal lines is still there and recognisable (some kind of identikit-coffee place), and you can see the entrance to West End Arcade to the right of "Kays". Even in 1901 the HBSB building is marked as 'Furniture Warehouse'.

Correct ChrisB, the photos were taken on Chapel Bar looking down towards the Market Square with Mount Street on the right. You've thrown a spanner in the works about "did their premises front onto Angel Row as well" because until now I think that's what everyone else was referring to and assuming! The 'funny windows' - in the top photo - are immediately in front of (i.e behind) the lady on the left with the shopping bag; two pairs of windows either side of the entrance. Your suggestion that their premises were also round the corner on Mount Street - where the Barton bus is - may be correct b

Until i started doing family history research, I'd never realised how much surnames were regional. In my particular case, I have connections with the Widdowson surname; it's very common around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, but almost non-existent anywhere else in the country. And my links with the name Corpe; it is very unusual around the Nottingham area, but there are loads of them in Surrey/Middlesex/Herts. Surname can be a big help in tracing the movements of families around the country over the years………unless you're a Smith.

The headline act were The Byrds

For once the Evening Post are accurate and up-to-date. http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Trains-Newark-Castle-Nottingham-replaced-buses/story-19711988-detail/story.html#axzz2d9k7hYoR Seems to be a pretty standard freight derailment.

I didn't go (not quite old enough to have done things like that in 1969) but I'm fascinated by the small print at the bottom. The promoter lived at 110 Grassington Road, Bobbers Mill; I wonder who that person was and if they are still around - although presumably not still living at that address. And tickets are available from Birdcage, Paraphernalia, Grapevine Boutique, and Notts County FC. For its day that is quite a spectacular line-up; I think it would be financially impossible to get an equivalent event today. Ticket prices would be astronomical - certainly more than 22/6 on the day.