Cliff Ton

As mentioned a few posts earlier

Thurland Street/Clinton Street, it seems.........this is when they were boarded up waiting for demolition A great sign of the times.....the location is now the site of a Nail Parlour!

As taxi ray has pointed out in his earlier post, Tesco were always there and this is a better view. This is the place which became Tales of Robin Hood. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM004901&prevUrl=

Indeed I did. Check back at Posts #3 and 12 in this thread Yes Stu, although a bit further along. You can just about see the name of Green Shield above the store in this photo And the best I can find of the entrance to the shopping arcade/bus station

Yes Mick, the entrance to the Casino is roughly where the entrance to the shopping arcade was. You walked through the arcade (which never had any shops in it) to get to the bus station.

That would've been Bulwell Common station on the Great Central. And if you can't remember, this is what it looked like https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bulwell+common+station&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=HkEAUdesGITJ0AWJ8YH4DA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1283&bih=709

Babs, I guess No 1 would have been at the Angel Row/Chapel Bar end of Mount Street, whereas the bus station was at the other end. Back then it was a longer road than you'd guess from the remains today, and it's difficult to envisage what it must've been like when it was a pokey little road with alleys leading off everywhere.

Lee, I put a reference to your auf-pet site on a Facebook group which is used by ex-Central staff. Your name was on the message as a contact point. Looking at it just now, it has been seen by 50 people, so I assume they are either thinking about contacting you, or can't think of anything to say!

Take a look at several photos in this thread to see the way the railway lines went under the road and buildings http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10330&st=0

There's a thread about Mushroom here http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9896&hl=mushroom

Really? http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3381&hl=goose http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4351&hl=goose http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4573&hl=goose http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=847&hl=goose#entry76249

Afraid I don't know anything about Van Ralty, but it made me check out a few old family photos which have studio names. I doubt if any of these still exist - they are all from the 1920s and 30s. Cine Snaps - 113 Radford Road Studio Loraine - 32 Parliament Street George W Marsh - West End Studios, Moorgate Street Cine Studios - 14a Long Row, and 488 Mansfield Road, Sherwood.

Not quite the exact location under discussion, but it shows a few changes. This is the view looking down Fisher Gate. Machine Mart is behind your right shoulder. Then and Now.

I don't think this was built anywhere near the 20s or 30s. http://goo.gl/maps/bf65j Unless it's a modern front on an older building. But back in the mid 20s the site had just been cleared, and it looked like this

In case anybody was wondering...... http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM013095&prevUrl=

For the benefit of those who don't know.......... http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM005346&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012156&prevUrl=

I know that place. It's had a bit of a chequered history in recent years. It was a Skoda dealer for a long time, when they preferred smaller, family-run dealerships. Then for whatever reason, it stopped being Skoda around the turn of the century and became Daihatsu (as shown in Streetview above). A year or so ago, Daihatsu pulled out of Britain (in fact, all of Europe) and the last time I went past the place, it looked a bit neglected with just a few random cars lying around - no dealership or anything significant. Give it another 12 months and I bet someone builds apartments on the site.

I'd like to congratulate the postman around here, who has just delivered mail at the same time as he always does. Obviously a few flakes didn't bother him.

Round here, at least, there's a modern variation on the rag and bone man …..guys who drive around in small pick-up trucks looking for scrap metal which has been left lying around (deliberately or otherwise) If you have any old metal item you want rid of, just leave it by the front path of your house, and I guarantee it will be gone within 24 hrs

A bump of almost 7 years! Must be a record? And it seems to have been near the present-day Landseer Close, off Garfield Road. Located between Mozart Street and Coleridge Street - what were the town planners on when they named those places?

On a slightly smaller scale, but definitely of local interest (I may have missed it in the news when it happened) Jonathan James Shoe Shops all closed down at the end of the year.

It's actually on the next page of that thread Stu, post #109 And this is what it was in an earlier life http://goo.gl/maps/3KdcD Any pub which doesn't have Sky Sports has to be a good thing.

Not lately, but quite a few years ago. Back in the 1980s I bought a dining table & chairs from what was Do-It-All on Nottingham Road, Basford. Cost £199. This was a long way before the days of chip-and-pin. To pay for it, the sales assistant rang my bank to confirm I had sufficient funds, then made a note of my Cheque Card number, and the transaction went through. In the next few months I looked on my bank statements but the figure of £199 to Do-It-All never appeared. Somehow the paperwork got lost, or an admin person made a mistake, or something odd happened; so I got a table and chair

Well done babs. You can buy the drinks at the next meet-up with all the money you won't have to give the tax man

Jacobs the camera people went into receivership last year (2012). I hadn't realised that they - like Jessops - had also started in Leicester. What was it with Leicester and photographers? The newspaper reports all make the point that companies like them had been stuffed by the growth in cheap camera technology. People who only want a basic camera now use the one in their phone/tablet etc; and the serious photographers are more inclined to go online to buy cheaper. So the traditional shop was left stranded in the middle. And HMV have always been more expensive than anywhere else. They've been