Cliff Ton

Resurrected the subject because this photo has appeared on Picture the Past. In the late 1890s, the construction of the railway bridge over Valley road at Basford (although it's several years before Valley Road existed). The white mound in the centre is where Vally Road would be. When it was completed it looked like this - on the left. But by the 1930s it was enlarged to become the photo on the right, which is the version many people here will remember Now it looks like this

Does this ring any bells?

Give us a clue Ashley. Where exactly is this glamorous location?

There's a lot about Shipstone's here. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1058&hl=shipstone&page=1

....and has never logged on again since April 13th 2011

Doesn't answer the original question, but it shows where everything was. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCC002959&prevUrl=

Truman's on Beastmarket Hill. Burtons are still on the corner of Friar Lane, but the rest has gone.

And this is what it looked like on Ascot Road. Ascot Works is/was the one on the right. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.966815,-1.184082,3a,75y,176.83h,85.85t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s12nObnR1oG11tjbxAjVsYg!2e0?hl=en

At a guess, this place ? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.967179,-1.183507,3a,75y,212.12h,89.87t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sC8t2pTSKgFKCkZIta6VEuQ!2e0?hl=en

I can see Lord Lucan on Shergar.

It would also be interesting (but probably not possible) to see who the main contributors and visitors were back in those days. How many people who look at Nottstalgia today were looking at it 10 years ago?

Try uploading a new, different picture to Photobucket. It may be the image you are using which is causing the problem. Shouldn't make any difference at all.

How it looked in the 1970s.

I think I vaguely remember it, although I might not be old enough. It was a "club" run by the Evening Post to get youngsters involved in the community by doing good deeds, such as helping old people, collecting unwanted items to donate to charity, or just being generally useful to those less fortunate than themselves. There obviously wasn't really anyone called Tinkerbell; a different journalist - whoever drew the short straw - would have written the column every day. If you haven't already done it, Google "Tinkerbell Nottingham Evening Post" and you will get several pages of results which e

When you look at the image in your Photobucket Library you should be seeing something like this, with four boxes down the right side. You click on the "IMG" line. Having clicked on that line, I go to the Nottstalgia page and right-click in the reply box. I then get something like this. There's no image visible, but the second line is the text copied from the Photobucket yellow box. When I click "Post" in the lower right corner, the image will appear in the post. Which of those stages isn't happening for you?

The pub in the photo at post #21 is the Earl Manvers. Is that what we are talking about? The thread is over 3 years old. The scene today has changed a bit. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.949946,-1.123949,3a,75y,116.83h,93.21t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sLsJcxejn_KyRp9QbH-P_rA!2e0?hl=en

See posts #87, 97 and 99. Then see if you can spot the difference. They've shuffled the concrete seating around a bit. I can't believe they are turning it into a major event.

In all my time as a kid, the strongest words I ever heard from any family or relatives were "flipping" and "blooming". That was their idea of really strong language. In those days it certainly seemed to be other people who did the swearing, not us.

Scary for the first few seconds; then you realise it's actually quite easy.

Swearing has always existed, presumably since language was invented; the only difference now is that it is more widely heard and known. A good example is old war films made in the 1940s and 50s. Nobody ever swears in those films, everybody speaks in polite Queen's english, grammatically correct with no lower-class accents….but does anybody believe that's how military personnel really spoke in WW2, with no swearing or dodgy language?!? That's one of the origins of the idea that swearing is worse now than it was in the past. It existed on the streets and in public places back then,

Although the place had closed down, you can still see some of the names on the building. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM002781&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM002784&prevUrl=

People who swear a lot might think they sound angry or 'hard', but it actually comes out comical and stupid. We've all been walking through the city centre when you've overheard this type of conversation. I was f***ing walking down the f***ing street and this f***ing car came down the f***ing road and the f***ing idiot who was f***ing driving it nearly f***ing ran me over, so I f***ing yelled at him to f***ing look where he was f***ing going, and he just f***ing ignored me and f***ing carried on and f***ing nearly hit another f***ing car coming the other f***ing way. And his friend just loo

And if anyone doesn't understand that comment ..... http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9939&hl=pownall

I've just followed what you've said, and it works for me! When you right click on "Paste" you should see the the http identity appear in the Reply box. (You won't actually see the image at that stage, just the line of text).

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