Cliff Ton

Holmfirth, where Last of the Summer Wine was filmed. Although it isn't a fictitious place because it really exists, but it was never mentioned by name in the series.

The various photos that I've posted and linked to on this thread, have all come from here http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/index.php If you want prints etc, they're the people to talk to.

According to Picture the Past - where they came from - the first photo is Fisher Road, Hyson Green, and the second photo is in the brewery yard at Radford Road.

Is this you with the bucket ?...... and the law approaching. The Falcon from the rear.

Now there's an idea - it would be good publicity if they did their deliveries the old way.

These ? From the 1950s.

Adding to what Bubblewrap has said, by the 1870s the Borlase is marked on old maps but the Falcon isn't. But that doesn't mean it wasn't there. (It's the red building)

This kind of thing http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM006644&prevUrl=

I was going to suggest it was one of those traditional grocers or something similar like Marsdens. Now that denshaw has come up with another idea, I'll go back to my drawing board and think again. Whatever it was, it ended up being a bar/restaurant called Antibo, but that has now closed and the place is currently standing empty. This is how it looked only a few weeks ago. It's a nice looking building, so it obviously won't last long.

VWGolf, nice to see you back because we discovered a number of points in common about Clifton on your previous visits. You mentioned Bill Russell on Ellerby Avenue; I didn't know him but I remember his daughter Diane who was/is the same age as me. We were both at Greencroft Junior School at the same time....... And there are photos on Friends Reunited to prove it.

Can I be the first to say it's too hot. Impossible to do anything apart from sitting around doing nothing. And it's even too hot to do that.

OK, I give in. Where exactly is/was this version of Marble Arch?

Yep. Welcome to Nottstalgia. Now stop lurking and get on with it

Haven't been around that area recently, and the Heathfield seems to have turned into a shop. But when it was there it was surrounded by railways lines; the GC, the GN, and various connecting links; so it's not surprising it was a noisy place.

You're not the only one. The biggest irritation for me is that everything is so big and in-yer-face that it's almost impossible to read anything there. It's like a simplified version of The Sun. Which I didn't think would be possible.

Kneeling on the left in the white shirt is the late Graham Neale. Is it Graham Knight on the far right with red shirt and tie? And Pete Wagstaffe on the lower right?

I totally support this Sainbury's worker. And so, it seems, do most other people in the country. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10156070/Sainsburys-apologises-for-worker-who-refused-to-serve-customer-on-mobile-phone.html

As easy as this http://www.skills.co.uk/itineraries/2792-chatsworth-house

Various certificates will give you information it would be difficult to get anywhere else. By selective use of the information, you can learn a lot and deduce a lot more. For instance on birth certificates you'll get Birth - Where and when Parents' names (and maiden name)Age and profession of parents Name of a witness/informant On marriage certificates you'll get Where and when Names and profession of those involved Addresses at time of marriage

You can't view birth certificates (or death or marriage) by any online service. As carni says, you have to pay for them from the government website https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate Ancestry.co.uk or Findmypast.co.uk will give you a lot of information about dates of birth/death, parents, addresses at time of census etc etc. It depends on what you want to know, and how much you already know.

You missed Mr Clough.

On the subject of V bombers in general........ as a youngster I went through a phase of being mad on planes, and I remember in the 1960s on a clear, sunny day you could look in the sky and see Vulcans cruising at high altitude (in the same way you see commercial aircraft today). Strange to think that was an almost-everyday thing back then. On special occasions, as an alternative to a high-flying Vulcan, you might see a Victor or a Lightning.

Everyday life in Bulwell.

It's a complicated knock-on effect. Paulus asked for the title of the thread to be changed - which I have done - and changing the title made several of the posts irrelevant or meaningless, because they were referring to something which no longer existed.

I'd forgot I ever posted that, nice to be reminded. Looking again, one thing struck me which is very different to today - the almost total lack of white paint on the roads. Drive anywhere now and you are surrounded by lines, arrows, hatching, grids, and all kinds of instructions on the road; but back then the roads look strangely bare. And for those who believe that everything in the past was better than it is today, it's nice to see there were idiots and morons on the roads then; they aren't a new phenomena at all. That little episode demonstrates that at least some parts of th