Cliff Ton

I'm wondering now. On the old photo, the road is still going downhill, and I agree my first modern image should probably be on the other side of the roundabout going towards Bestwood But then the current house which I though might be the same as the old one, is definitely on an up-hill; but it doesn't look far enough up the hill on the old photo So I'm not sure of anything

I'd wondered..., the one on the old photo with the smoking chimney, is it this one on Google today? It doesn't look old enough here http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Daybrook,+United+Kingdom&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.144864,76.992187&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Daybrook,+Nottingham,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.990197,-1.150239&spn=0.003546,0.013486&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.99008,-1.150181&panoid=5oIGq5ECQ_azW2xytKC-lw&cbp=12,279.4,,0,5.93

Sorry for the delay. I did it at work in a quiet moment; then work got in the way and I couldn't reply Edwards Lane it is. Five Ways is just behind the tree on the right, ring-road goes across left to right, and City Hospital would be up ahead As far as I can work out, this is where you'd be today. And I know which one I'd prefer to be walking in

It's a nice sunny day today in the real world, and the photo in this link looks sunny and rural and idyllic. Assuming you haven't seen it before, any ideas where it is? The location today has changed beyond belief

That ain't possible, CS5 has only been available since early this year. You must have Photoshop 5 - which isn't the same thing. It gets complicated because Adobe have changed their naming system over the years. Photoshop 1 - 7 existed from the late 1980s until 2002. Then they started calling it CS1, CS2 etc etc (Creative Suite1, Creative Suite 2 etc) because it is meant to tie in with other Adobe products. So CS1 is effectively Photoshop 8, and so on (are you still following this ?) I think you will find that PS Elements 7 is probably too old to work on a new PC. Hence your problem B

When I read that, I assumed it was referring to the Gamston near Retford. I don't know the area but there is clearly an old airfield nearby, as Mr Google shows :- Gamston - Retford

Never heard it put quite that way before

Would it be a safe bet to assume that most of those names are not the ones they were actually born with?

Anyone remember the stories about the "Lion" which was reported around Tollerton in 1976. Was it a few people with over-active imaginations? Copycats jumping on a bandwagon? A slightly belated April fool? For some reason the thread about Hollinwell made me think of this subject, and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on this site before I Googled around and found three references to it Early on the morning of 29 July 1976, two milkmen saw what they insisted was a lion with a bushy-tipped tail in a field at Toller­ton near Nottingham airport, prompting a fruitless big game hunt by the po

You're right, my mistake, I must be getting old. I meant Talbot Street, not Wollaton Street

I remember it when I was a kid in the 60s, although I don't think I was aware of exactly where I was in town. It was only an occasional visit because we'd be there if we came back from my grandma's in Radford; don't remember what the bus number was, but it came up Alfreton Road to Canning Circus then down Wollaton Street. (Obviously in those days Wollaton Street, Parliament Street, Derby Road etc were all two-way traffic) I definitely remember the fact that it was on a steep slope, and the 'block of cheese' which the drivers put under the wheel of the bus (would it really have stopped a bus

It's things like that which make you realise how old you are now. I guess quite a few people on this forum are of a similar age where their grandparents would've been 60/70 years old around the late 1960s. We'll all be reaching that age before long

It isn't my book you can go there too. It's all here My link It's a bit slow and clunky to get the end result so be prepared to wait for things to happen And now you know where I got them from you can spend hours looking at it yourself On the A52 map, note also you can just see a reference to a "Fox and Crown Inn" on the south side of the road Here's a slightly adjusted version of the Whitemoor map with more of Whitemoor Avenue And here's Basford from about the same time. No crossing, already a bridge

I am now going to argue with myself and say that looking at it again, I don't think the man on the early photo is near the lock on the south side. As mentioned by others, he is closer towards Trent Bridge

I think I might've solved it 'Picture the Past" have come to the rescue again. Take a look at this It's a pencil drawing by Nottingham-born artist Thomas Hammond, dated 1872 and 'Picture the Past' caption says There was an old horse bridge across the Trent just about where the Grantham canal enters it, but this was washed away by a flood in 1875 and its debris was removed.

The description that intrigues me, which no-one else has picked up on, is the one in the County Hotel. What exactly was a 'Basket Lounge'?

There are quite a lot more, so when I get round to a bit more scanning.....

They closed down at that site around 1999/2000, and the site is now occupied by a block of identikit apartments. They moved all their operations to their place at Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, but that only survived a few more years and then that became apartments as well

The map of Bus Routes seemed to go down pretty well, so here's more where that came from. It was a kind of Civic Guide to Nottingham published in the late 1940s; the modern equivalent would be a full-colour glossy brochure. But this was 70 years ago so things were a bit different. Here's some of the adverts from that book, which might bring back a few memories.

Don't mention Burton's Arcade..... I'd end up writing a book-full of nostalgia on that subject. One of the great lost places of Nottingham.

I never lived there but my grandparents did and we visited them a lot in the 1960s. This might ring a few bells with anyone who was there in those days. M grandparents lived in Radford, on Grimston Road. They were there from the 1940s till the 1970s. All the time they lived there it never had an inside toilet or a bathroom; only had an outside toilet which fascinated me because it had a wooden seat the width of the whole ‘room’. My granddad worked at Players, like everyone in Radford in those days; perfect example of job-for-life which doesn’t seem to exist anywhere any more. Not sure exact

It was me who posted that picture, and I borrowed it from 'Picture the Past'. According to them that photo shows "Special horse bus outing for the 50 Year celebrations of Nottingham Corporation Tramways in October 1947" And apparently the Fountain was demolished "in the 1950s"

The Fountain near Woolies on Lister Gate would've been the Walter Memorial Fountain which was just outside where Woolies was. Not sure when it disappeared but it was gone before my time. Here's a picture of it which I've borrowed from 'Picture the Past'

I've dug out an old 'Guide to Nottingham' which belonged to my parents, and one of the items in it is this map of bus services in Nottingham. It shows things as they were around mid-1940s. You can zoom in on it quite a bit to see things like route numbers. Probably a bit of a rarity Motor buses are red, trolleys are green DOWNLOADABLE HIGH RES IMAGE BELOW:

He was either reading that, or he wrote it