Cliff Ton

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

This seems to sum it all up

ColFrench I "borrowed" that from this site http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/index.php which is where a lot of material that appears on Nottstalgia comes from. If you navigate your way through their menus and search boxes, that particular one came up when I searched "Lister". It's not one of their better quality images, but you can buy hi-res stuff off them, or just browse the lot

That MacFisheries was indeed on Carrington Street, but all those buildings in your original photo don't exist now. The other photos which people have posted show a stretch of Carrington Street which has remained. The Streetview shots are the other side of the road to MacFisheries. If you have a thing about MacFisheries here's an alternative picture of the plaice And this, where you can't quite see the name on the building

We had one similar to that; brand name was Servis. Ours had some kind of hand-operated wringer on the back so that you could drag clothes straight out of the spinner and into the wringer

While I was away....others have proved.......yes it is/was !

I'd also agree with taxiray and Ashley. It's the roundabout where Carrington Street met Greyfriar Gate and Lister Gate. Carrington St is the one going away in the distance and Greyfriar Gate is the one in the bottom right corner It's almost impossible to see the modern equivalent today; the photographer would be standing just outside the main entrance to Broad Marsh Centre Here's another photo from almost the same angle showing a bit more of the scenery behind. As a reference point, the building on the extreme right with the small pointed-arch roof is now Big City Tyres

It also depends on when exactly you are referring to. Bus routes and numbers have changed over the years. For example, this shows the answer for the 1940s http://nottstalgia.c...20%20route&st=0

I did a paper round at the bottom end of Clifton, where a lot of Nottstalgia people seem to have lived. I'm amazed I stuck it for so long (about 18 months) because it's very difficult as a teenager to get up early in the morning. And a paper round involves getting up early every morning, not just week days; you don't get the weekend off. The only other job where you had to get up early 7 days a week is a milk man - and there aren't many of those left now. The other difference about papers in those days is that they hadn't become the multi-page productions you get now. Today something like the

It doesn't appear to be moving at all in the photo. I presume it was hovering, but there's no sign of movement in its wings or body. I reckon it is a cardboard cutout suspended from a bedroom window, and the string has been photoshopped away.

That Glasgow one is good; doesn't look like a concrete car park. But the thing near the station isn't the first visually challenging car park in Nottingham. It was tried a few years ago when someone tried to make a boring car park look interesting by sticking things on the outside. Didn't work.

In that case I think this (not the best photo I've ever taken) is the same bridge around 1998. It's from the canal towpath going from Castle Marina towards Lenton Lane

Did you put the nail polish on specially for this photo?