Cliff Ton

Make sure that posting on Nottstalgia is the most energetic thing you do for a while. And make sure you continue to be able to post on Nottstalgia.

At the moment I guess you are seeing this. Click on the arrow in the top right corner and the menu will expand.

Correct ! That's where I 'borrowed" the photo from. But I never got round to copying any of the text here.

I've edited and adjusted the link you posted (in "Mushroom") which didn't work. To do that I had to toggle the icon in the top left corner. Whatever you've got it set on, set it the other way.

Samuel Bourne, who seems to have been famous and prolific and from Nottingham. I wondered that. I'm sure the Bentinck isn't the building in the old photo. The Bentinck looks late 19th century. The best map I can come up with is 1880s when Carrington Street is on a bridge; but it's interesting to see the hotel (whether the old or the new) at that stage was called the Victoria Hotel. That would've been bl**dy confusing in later times.

I think (in fact I'm pretty certain) the Flying Horse closed as a pub/bar by the late 1980s, so your memories are going back further than you think. (Just looked for Flying Oss, Wikipedia says 1989 and 'Lost pubs' site says 1980s)

And it also seems that half the people building it were alcoholic junkies ! http://www.nottinghampost.com/48-tramline-builders-fired-boozing-drug-taking/story-21449953-detail/story.html

Not really ! The large building is at this red arrow. So Shelton Street is the next one behind, parallel to Huntingdon St. The photographer was at the junction of York Street and Union Road.

There's a spectacular outbreak of missing pictures in this thread. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8993

Popular was 2-door and Anglia was 4-door. I suppose progress isn't all bad. From Wiki and the 1954 Ford Popular. had a top speed of 60.3 mph and could accelerate from 0-50 mph in 24.1 seconds. A fuel consumption of 36.4 miles per imperial gallon was recorded. The car cost £390 including taxes

Or do you mean that there are some posts where images are missing?

Now you mention it, I agree !

The only old photo (apparently 1860s) I've ever come across which shows the area before Carrington Street was raised over the railway line. According to the caption, the lines crossed the road at the point which I've marked as a red line. All the buildings on the right are long gone. The Goods building might be the flat-roofed one next to the tree in the rear centre. To get your bearings on this.........the road coming in from the bottom of the photo is the top end of Arkwright Street; the road going off to the right (behind the trees) is Queen's Road.

You could be correct. I was wondering what it was. Can't find any clues anywhere.

First photo is the closest you'll get to the windows, the other two are aerial views. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM008337&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM009141&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM009143&prevUrl= I don't think the Goods place was the original station, but it seems to be in the same location as the original station, judging

I've "borrowed" this from the RCTS site. They use in connection with Victoria Station, but I noticed it because it shows the junction of Woodborough Road/Huntingdon Street, which has changed in a big way. I don't think any of these buildings still exist. The large building in the centre is at the bottom of Woodborough Road, with Huntingdon Street going down to the right. The road in the foreground with the cars is York Street; the tunnel entrance is the north end of Victoria Station, and most of this hole in the ground is now Vic Centre car park.

This is turning into Word Association under another name. I've just cottoned on to that.

Ford Squire was the estate version of the 1950's Ford Anglia/Popular.

When I was young, I always thought that house looked really creepy and scary.

'The Point' was an album by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Point!

Meeting us can be difficult. Meetings are our weak point. However, we are unbeatable when it comes to talking about meetings. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12681&hl=

Nah; if he went to Wetherspoons no-one would be able to decide when to start his sentence.

True. I thought about giving The Savoy a special mention in my list of survivors. I don't think there is any other cinema still operating which existed 30+ years ago.

At my dad's funeral, we travelled in one of those long, silver-grey Rolls Royces which accommodate several mourners. The progress was very stately and genteel on the way to the funeral. On the return journey, I'm not sure if the driver was bored or annoyed but he had his foot permanently to the floor and was flinging that Rolls around corners like a boy racer in a car park. Never realised a Roller could handle in that way. Like something out of a Benny Hill sketch.

Not a dirty mac in sight.