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For a church called Holy Trinity which is now demolished you need to look for Trinity Square. Go back to Picture the Past again (you've obviously already found it). On the old photos of that location, the church is Holy Trinity. When it was demolished, I believe the name was reused for a church on Clifton

I didn't think I was that old, but I remember almost everything mentioned in katyjay's original post. In fact I'm beginning to wonder if she might be an unknown invisible sister I never knew I had. That list is so accurate about my childhood, it's like someone was watching every move I ever made. Just one addition. "Mum cooked every day" She certainly did....and she went to the shops every day to buy the stuff for us to eat. Today most families do a big shopping trip once a week to the supermarket and get everything in one go. Back then my mum used to do the five minute walk to the local

Probably a leftover from the Forest - Derby game last night. They have to take precautions in case the locals and the visitors have a disagreement

I'm seeing it and I wasn't really trying

While we're in the early 60s with kids programmes.... if I think back to being at my grandmas's house in Lenton, I always remember watching their primitive black and white telly and seeing Mr Pastry Anyone else remember him? If you aren't sure.....Pastry

If we're going to talk about weird cars, in the early 60s my dad had one of these which were around at the same time as the early Reliants Bond Minicar, if you've never come across one before. Three wheels and a two-stroke engine. No doors, flaps for windows, and the rear seats were like small hammocks suspended sideways. Who was the dealer for these in the Nottingham area?

Must admit I don't remember Beardall's, but I didn't know that area back then. Those would've been the days when VW dealers only had one model to sell, which must've been a bit boring. Were they on the site next to Asda which now has "Nottingham VW", previously "John Fox" and pre-previously "Bristol Street Motors"?

The only person I ever knew who used the phrase was my grandma who lived in Radford, but I haven't heard it now for over 30 years. She'd look out of the kitchen window and say "It looks black over Bill's mothers", and from their house on Grimston Road she'd be looking in the direction of Churchfield Lane and the railway line which runs across the back. So I reckon Bill and his parents lived somewhere around the old Radford Colliery

That means he was there at around the same time as me, but the name doesn't ring any bells. Not too surprising, because there were about 1600 kids there in those days. And yet the place has now closed down due to lack of pupils

Cripps were indeed on Parliament Street, near the Palais. I think they disappeared from that site when Vic Centre was built, although the building they occupied is still there, and hasn't been "modernised" in any way. Although for many years it's been an Argos.......if that's progress Note the Hillman Minx in the window.......

Yes, they disappeared quite a few years ago (along with their other branches). Their old site near St Peter's Street is now occupied by hundreds of student apartments, and things for students like Tesco Express and Pizza Hut. Just like most of that area of Triumph Road/Faraday Road

Earliest books I remember were from the school library (Greencroft Infants) when I was around 6-7 years old. I read everything in the "Little Grey Rabbit" series by a Victorian writer called Alison Uttley - a kind of alternative Beatrix Potter. Obviously not the kind of thing I'd read now. When I got a bit older and went to the kids section of the real library, I was hooked on the Biggles books by Capt WE Johns. I read a bit of one a few years ago, and I couldn't believe how hilarious it comes across now, but at the time I was really impressed.

More petrol pumps in Basford...... I don't remember this one, (the bridge of Church Street up on the left, Vernon Road where the Thames Trader is, and Valley Road going to the right). It's been a crossroads with lights for as long as I've known it; this roundabout must go back a few years

Not sure if you are aware of it, but if you want pictures of Broad Marsh in those days go to www.picturethepast.org.uk In the options across the top go to "Search the images", "Accept", and then in the second section down "select a town or village" scroll down to Nottingham -Broad Marsh I knew that area very well in the 60s. We lived at Clifton and used the original bus station, Drury Hill, Garners Hill, the railway viaduct etc. There are pictures of all of it

I thought it was because he had 8 legs

I must've been past this place as a kid but I don't remember it at all It's at the junction of Gregory Street/Lenton Lane/Abbey Street, opposite the White Hart pub Lenton

I've seen photos (but can't find any now) of a petrol station on Central Avenue, West Bridgford where the pumps came out over the pavement. Would that be the former Cripps garage on Lenton Lane? It was on the left-hand side coming from the Lenton end towards Clifton Bridge. Definitely sold petrol until the late 70s

Until a few years ago, this place on Nottingham Road Basford had some very old pumps at the side of the road which swung out over the pavement. Maybe they hadn't actually worked for years, but they were still there Pump

Now we've covered the subject of disappearing car dealers, how about petrol stations. If you take away Asda and Sainsburys and Tescos are there any old-style real petrol stations left? Talking to a mate of mine a few weeks ago, and we were counting up the former petrol stations in the Castle Boulevard/Lenton area, and in the last 25 years it's amazing how many have disappeared. 1. One opposite the Castle Rock/entrance to The Park - closed and demolished at least 5 years ago, site still empty 2. The small triangular-shaped Jet station on Castle Boulevard near the bridge to Castle Marina - de

After all these lists of car dealers, here's one I can't work out the answer to.... Who were the early Toyota dealers around here? I can't think of any names

This shows quite a bit of that area Woolies is on the left, and the electricity place is on the right. Albert Street/Lister Gate is the road disappearing away in the middle distance Carrington St

That's an impressive list littlebro, and it's made me think of a few more to add to it Clifton Car Co (and various names) near Clifton Village - started as Vauxhall at Clifton, then changed through Renault, and something else I can't remember Lady Bay Car Sales - Radcliffe Road West Bridgford, and then moved to Colwick by the 90s County Garage - also Radcliffe Road, early Honda dealers. The site was recently a Toyota dealer until a couple of years ago Halls Skoda - Loughborough Road, West Bridgford. Now a fast-fit exhaust-type place

That'll be this place...........

Now you mention it....... I'd forgotten about that, but many years ago I remember reading about the fact that Fine Cars was owned by an ex-Sheriff/Mayor/Celebrity/Politician. So, yes, that was the place in question

The one on Church Street, Basford has now reminded me of another used car dealer who was in that area for years - don't know if it still survives Fine Cars, who were near the Radford Road/Valley Road junction, going back a bit towards Radford. Definitely there in the 70s and 80s. Always seemed slightly more upmarket than many others because they had a proper showroom with plate glass windows. Only had enough room to fit about 3 cars in, but definitely wasn't a bomb-site dealer. I never understood how they managed to do enough business to survive.