Cliff Ton

mary1947, do you have a Facebook account? If not, you won't be able to get in there, but most of it seems to be on the Evening Post version anyway.

Must've been in it hundreds of times when I was a kid http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012793&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012790&prevUrl=

For anyone old enough to remember (or not)

You may also remember (or you might have noticed) that on those buses in the downstairs seating area, they always had a sign which said something along the lines of "Warning, please lower your head when leaving your seat" Because the dropped gangway upstairs had to come out somewhere below; and it was above the heads of the downstairs passengers on the gangway side.

Low-bridge buses, deliberately designed to reduce the overall height of the vehicle. All South Notts double deckers were like that, as were some West Bridgford and Barton buses.

When I thought about it recently, it surprised me that I can remember hearing factory hooters and whistles as 'recently' as the late 1960s. Surely everybody had clocks and watches by then? Living at Clifton, the one I'd hear was at Wilford (Clifton) Colliery near Wilford Toll Bridge. But I also remember being at my grandmas in Radford and hearing several hooters and whistles - which I guess would have been from Radford Colliery and the various Players' factories But at my other grandparents in Lenton, I don't recall any noises from Raleigh, although I presume the

Back in the 1890s, if you'd followed that path down, you ended up at St Ann's station on the Suburban Line

It might be best to use their own recommendations. I assume they know what they are talking about ! https://www.capitalfmarena.com/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=F5274624-7849-4CA2-9323-D95A434F88E9&sessionlanguage=&SessionSecurity::linkName=

I was going to post this to illustrate the early version of underground toilets in Theatre Square (lower right), but it's such a good photo it's worth seeing anyway.

Yes, it was.

This one?

A variation..... the one I've heard a few times is "he's all mouth and trousers" (although not to me personally) i.e. talks rubbish with a one-track mind.

And another view of the castle from the Canal / River Leen area before Castle Boulevard was built

If we're talking about a footpath going from St Bartholomew's Road (Donkey Hill) to somewhere up near the eventual Porchester Road and on towards Gedling........check this from the 1880s and note the FP - Footpath - going from Thorneywood Mount, across Thorneywood Lane (Porchester Road), Standhill Road and on to Foxhill Road.

Having nothing better to do, I've just investigated that a bit. Looking on maps from the 1930s, I can see enough remains of such a path to think you might be correct. Putting it on here may be cumbersome and complicated, but I might try later.

Looking at the painting - which shows a lot of Brewhouse Yard - it's surprising how similar it still looks today The building next to the Trip, and the building at the end facing the camera, are both unchanged.

In fact looking at it really closely, I can see five bridges over the Leen, not counting the main Trent Bridge.

I'd agree with it being High Pavement. You can still walk along that side of St Mary's today and the houses across the road don't seem to have changed much since back then. Also the River Leen...there wasn't a road beneath Castle Rock until Castle Boulevard was built. Before then, you had to go along the route further north, which was to become Lenton Road through The Park. (see the map in post #22)

I think it is what we now know as the River Trent. The small church tower on the left of the picture is St Wilfrid's in Wilford viillage. The big, flat area between there and St Mary's is part of the Meadows and partly what is now Castle Marina area. Cllcking on this link, you get a hi-res, zoomable map to help identify the various places. It's only about 40 years after poohbear's illustration http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1907/nottinghamstreets1.htm

Bin there (in some form) about 600 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumptre_Hospital

This one? http://goo.gl/maps/A72cB I think it might have been mentioned somewhere on Nottstalgia before, but I'm stuffed if I know where.

Replaced by the toilets on Milton Street at the side of the car park. Today, these are approximately under TKMaxx.

.......that's Greyhound Street

I'd forgotten about all the stuff in front of the Theatre Royal. There were some victorian toilets down there, like this..... And then in the 1960s, there was a warren of subways - with toilets and a newsagents - which disappeared by the 80s.

Keeping on the subject of toilets, the obvious example is the underground ones in the Market Square. A lot of the 1960s subways must still be waiting to be re-discovered. There were toilets (again) in the subway under Maid Marion Way near Park Row. And there was the sunken roundabout with the newsagents in the middle of Maid Marion Way at Friar Lane.