Cliff Ton

There's a PHOTO for everything

Not really a picture of a tunnel, or even a railway, but a stretch of road and a bridge. The junction of Arnold Road and Hucknall Road close to where the famous Rathole was. It's changed a bit since the mid 1930s - even if the houses in the background are still the same

When I mentioned the bike shop on Carrington Street which I used to go to with my dad, it was this one. Scanned in from one of my Old Nottingham books, you can clearly see the name Kingston's across the top. If you can't locate it; Canal Street is going left to right, and the photographer is standing on Carrington Street with the station s short distance up behind him

Now you've mentioned it, Dawson's and Kingston's are the ones because those names suddenly seem very familiar. I never knew the name of the Daybrook one; we always just use to refer to it as going to "Daybrook Bridge" It was HERE at what now seems to be a big pet shop. I can position it because if you go up towards B&Q you can still see bits of the old railway embankments, which eventually lead to the bridge over the road

If you have a thing about old railways, this is definitely the right place to come. It might also help if you are an ex-biker, live in the USA, used to live in the Medders, can remember which school you went to, and can identify obscure old photos.

I'm not a biker and I've never owned a bike, but my dad always had one so I grew up seeing them around. He wasn't a biker in the way of most people on this site, he was just a man who went to work on a motorbike. The other bikers here probably all knew somebody like that. And as a kid I saw a lot of this region from the windows of a sidecar. Names like Busmar and Carmobile come to mind. Looking at them now they must've been death traps – a plywood box on a pram chassis. THIS kind of thing. I remember on a Sunday morning (early 60s) my dad would go round various bike dealers just to wander

The thing which struck me about the photo is that all the doorsteps look very bright and shiny. Were they made from a different material which is a lighter colour, or is it a trick of the light from the camera, or were the housewives on that street over-efficient in their step-scrubbing? On the subject of corner shops which aren't, these days Radford and Sneinton are full of buildings like that. Every corner in those places has an ex-shop. Some of them still have the big plate glass window in place with just a net curtain over it and god-knows-who living behind it; others have wooden boards o

Any clues or vague ideas? Is it central-ish Nottingham, or could it be suburbs?

I'll be slightly greedy and have more than one Back to a year when Robin Hood was around (?!) and Nottingham Castle was a real working castle And back - not quite so far - to the year I was born to see what the world looked like then.

I was aware of them in their old days but I never saw them back then. But I went the gig at the Contemporary.......never seen so much grey hair in one room

That old station building was demolished a few years ago. If you look at THIS LINK, you'll see where it used to be (if you see what I mean) The three-storey modern building in the centre is roughly now in the same place

So don't keep us in suspense.....which street was it that you used to live on?

Or are you referring to the one on Park Avenue, off Mapperley Road?

Just happened to be passing the Market Square yesterday evening and I was a bit surprised to see the big wheel is back on one of its visits, and I don't think it's been mentioned anywhere on these forums. People who haven't been into the city centre for a few years (or haven't even been in this country for a few years) might be surprised to find something as spectacular as this. So here's a couple of photos I grabbed on my cheap pocket camera.

Interesting that this thread has come back to life. I remember often seeing the girl (although didn't know her name until now) and it''s amazing how many other people remember her if you mention the subject. She definitely made her mark, in more ways than one. And I'd never realised that she was also a pavement artist; probably saw her work without knowing it was the same girl who sold papers. And the question which everyone I knew used to wonder about in the days when she was selling papers on Long Row.......did she really speak like that in her normal conversation, or did she "switch it o

Spot the deliberate (I hope) mistake

They were actually `'controlled`' by John Holmes who was the presenter of the programme

Wish I'd never asked, because I'm now going to have to admit I think I know the answer. Squeg and Syrup - the thinking man's Tingha and Tucker Presumably they used to live in a box in a cupboard in a storeroom in the clock tower

Maybe another clue to help those of us who might know or remember

You're right. In my mind I knew where I was talking about . I just didn't describe it very accurately

Not exactly the view you are referring to, but did you notice THIS photo of the Bagthorpe/Rathole area, from one of the two fotopic sites mentioned at the beginning of this thread. It's a different angle on the subject looking north with Heathfield on the left

Lenton Times has a piece on that incident

Me likewise. I know it was demolished in the early 70s to make way for the Concert Hall but when did it actually close for business? It stood empty for quite a long time before it disappeared.

Not exactly a map but THIS SITE has been mentioned here before and has a useful piece about the Bennerley branch

So are you legally allowed to go down these tunnels, or are you actually trespassing on private property?