Cliff Ton

Paulus, if you're referring to the Mount Street photo......yes that building is still there. It's on Regent Street, like this http://binged.it/Ii9MkW

This thread made quite a few mentions of the Empire Cafe, but so far there hadn't been any photos of it. Now I've found this - where it appears to be having a repaint

A very early version of Huntingdon Street...... And although it's not exactly a bus station, this is a great photo from the days when buses started from the Market Square

That top photo - which sums it all up perfectly - appeared in this thread a while ago http://nottstalgia.c...topic=8348&st=0 And moving across town a bit, here's the old version of Mount Street from the 50s/60s

I used to go past there quite frequently in the early 90s and it was in that condition back then

I've never seen the feature you're referring to (maybe I ought to have a look) but I think Ashley has possibly answered the question, re: trams The map is from the 1920s but it's slightly odd because I don't think the line stopped dead where it it shown. I think it continued all the way along to the other end of Stockhill Lane, and then to Nottingham. Sometimes on these old maps, two different maps from different time-periods have been joined together and it produces odd features like this disappearing tramway.

The bridges and tunnels on Meadow Lane were covered in this thread some time ago http://nottstalgia.c...?showtopic=9116

Give me a clue (or even an answer) who that was....

Welcome Stephen, although I think you've been around here for a while already. And have I seen your name crop up on a couple of bus-related sites?

I accidentally found 'uncyclopedia' a while ago and I agree it can keep you amused for hours With a similar attitude, you might like to look at this one http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/

I haven't been down there for a long time, but if I've got my bearings right the old building is where these http://maps.google.c...2,26.09,,0,1.57 are now.

Continuing on the theme of shops, these are on Picture the Past and show the Orford Avenue/Sandham Walk shops exactly how I remember them when I was a kid

I'm not the most religious person on the planet, so I'm a bit out of my depth here, but.......... I don't really remember the name of Stephen Verney - maybe he was a bit early for me; but I think (may be wrong) that his successor was a man called Whittaker. I definitely remember that by the late 1960s it was a guy called Christopher Aldridge.

Woodbridge Avenue, just along Brinkhill Crescent (and not to be confused with Woodsford Grove which was near you) There are a number of threads running at the moment about Clifton (partly because of you ) and I noticed in the Clifton Hall one, you said you were there from 60-65, which makes you a bit older than me because I was at Fairham from 66-73; although I didn't leave Clifton until the late 70s. The only people I can remember knowing on Bulcote Rd were a couple of brothers called Hewitt. Check the thread called "Clifton" where I posted a couple of photos of Varney Road, after you'd

Just to illustrate Ashley's point...... apparently this is Wilford Road MR yard in the 1920s

Definitely one of the Oxford/Cowley/Isis range. Like this http://en.wikipedia....es_II_front.jpg In those days all the taxis seemed to be that model, like Toyotas now.

lynmee, not sure if those names ring any bells with me. It might also depend which infants/junior school they went to; I was a Greencroft kid so I'd be less likely to know anyone who went to Brinkhill or Brooksby. Back to the subject of Varney Road. Picture the Past have recently added a couple of photos showing Varney Road before the newer shops were built on the end at Southchurch Drive. I can just remember this happening. http://www.pictureth...019544&prevUrl= http://www.pictureth...019546&prevUrl=

Ashley, to get those Streetview links up, this is my method (others may be available) When you get the location, click on the arrow at top left corner That will give you this box on the left. Click on the symbol which is supposed to be a "link" Then you will get a reference which you cut and paste from there, into the "Link" box on the Nottstalgia page Hopefully, that made sense

VWGolf has also posted on the "What was your divi number" thread where he/she went into detail about Varney Road shops. They obviously know the area very well

Been past there quite a few times and never noticed it before....... http://maps.google.c...328.62,,0,11.31

Looking at an other older map, the tram lines are shown. I didn't know the area then (I'm not that old) but it looks like the tram terminated on Dark Lane just behind the Red Lion. Is that the siding you are thinking of?

Can I suggest a slight variation on that........I think the beer-off was inside but separate - you went in the main glass doors on Varney Road, turned left into the main store or straight ahead to the beer-off. Up on the corner on Greencroft was the paint/wallpaper department. VW Golf......in another thread you referred to the shops on Sandham Walk/Orford Avenue. Where did you live, because you were obviously in the same area at the same time as me?

I remember the fruit shop there, but I could never remember the name - BPS.........I seem to recall they were a (local?) chain because I'm sure there was more than one of them in the area. In another earlier thread about Farrands grocers, I'd mentioned Varney Road shops but I'd missed BPS

I suppose your knowledge of this topic depends on when you first had a television in your house Talking about 50s and 60s TV shows is a bit more difficult for me than other people, because we didn't have a telly until around the mid-60s. My mum and dad always said "it's a load of rubbish, no point in having one, waste of time, nothing worth watching, etc etc" And that was in the days when there were only two channels to chose from. At times I felt like some kind of social freak because I was about the only kid I knew who came from a telly-free house. Try telling friends at school "we haven

My main memory of Woolies - especially the Lister Gate one - is that in those days the stores weren't self-service which they would be now (if they still existed) Back then there was an assistant at every counter; and all the counters were rectangular shaped with a kind of alleyway down the middle where the sales assistant moved up and down to serve the customers The wage bill for that many staff must've been tremendous, compared to paying a few check-out operators.