Cliff Ton

I've always thought that sticking the Severns building on Castle Road was not very clever, because it just sits in the middle of nowhere and looks out of place Whereas in its original location, as Stu demonstrates, it made sense

According to the map in this thread http://nottstalgia.c...es&fromsearch=1 which is late 1940s, it went from Long Row

Guess it could've been these to the left of the pub. Picturesque now in old photos; a bit basic at the time http://www.pictureth...004380&prevUrl=

On what evidence? Might've been true 10 or 15 years ago, but that isn't the case now. The amount of gun crime is minimal compared to many other cities in the country.

And in the news only a few days ago, the authorities were again talking about ways to stop binge drinking, and yet there were a lot more pubs in cities 150 years ago than there are now. As an example, I've seen it mentioned that when the Charlotte Street area was cleared for Victoria Station, over 20 pubs were demolished.

Here's one http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

Even though a lot of it is now blocked off to traffic, you can still see all seven roads converging

This place? Boarded up here, but you can still just see the Kingston's name across the top Near the crossroads where Carrington Street crossed Canal Street

For some reason I think the ones in West End Arcade might've been the earliest. The place was "modernised" some time in the early/mid 60s and I think they were put in then. It was a bit odd that something so modern should be in an out-of-the-way location. As Bamber mentioned, I don't remember any escalators in the big department stores. Not in the Co-op because they had the lifts and the big art deco staircase; possibly Woolies but I don't remember any; but what about C & A ? which I often went in but I can't recall if they had any escalators or not. So my money might stay on West End Arc

People always comment - rightly - that Nottingham Castle doesn't look like a castle; that's because it's a Georgian Mansion and the original castle was destroyed/sacked years ago. But it could still look a bit more castle-y than it does, because even in relatively recent times there have been "improvements" which didn't do much for it. In 1908 the City Council decided to clear up the gatehouse and entrance area, but I reckon that the original had more character and atmosphere than the sterile, clinical version which replaced it. Before After

From what you've said, I think you are trying to paste using the wrong menu. Check if you are doing this :- In Photobucket, you get the "Direct Link" from the relevant photo; then when you come back here you click on the "Image" icon above the reply box where you paste in the "Direct Link" which you got from Photobucket. The image should then appear in your reply.

Summat missing here?

A reminder for the original first post in this thread, this site has a nice collection of Notttingham trolley photos It starts on Maidstone, but down the left side of the page, click on the Nottingham link http://www.trolleybus.net/index3.htm

A bit before my time, but still recognisable

Not exactly the same version, but here's a Nottingham trolley very similar to the Corgi model http://www.photo-tra...dtoft-nov07.jpg

You sure it's not Tommy Trinder?

And just in case anyone doesn't believe you, here's a photo to prove it at Carlton Square

Go under the bridge shown on the original photo, then take the first turn right, and you came to the entrance of Arkwright Street station on the Great Central line. The entrance was nothing more than a door in a wall. Like this:-

That explains everything. I wasn't thinking of it being on Forman Street, I assumed it was opposite the Empire building.

Where was the Cafe relative to this lot? http://www.pictureth...017198&prevUrl= (I don't remember ever seeing it, so I don't know)

Isn't that now called IKEA?

The words are still there, even if the occupants aren't http://maps.google.c...2,13.22,,0,-1.5

You could put it that way. But it's a bit like saying Harrods is a shop. The thing about Selectadisc is that they had everything obscure and unknown and weird (and that was the customers as well....). Selectadisc was extremely not about top 30 commercial best sellers. They knew about music and so did everyone who went in there.

You ain't wrong. Funny thing is, I don't remember there being two shops, but..............

Yup. Top of Queen's Drive to the right, and Queen's Road with the now-famous metallic car park, off to the left. And the two other photos where the buses are parked is South Parade