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That site has been referenced a lot on here, especially by me.

Yes I can also see it, and I'm also seeing the new stuff. And I'm also seeing that the "Latest announcements is no announcements" has gone completely.

Welcome to Nottstalgia Ali. Here's a photo of The Plough from a few years ago, although not back to 1871 http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM004260&prevUrl= Do you mean St Peter's Street? Because that is the road The Plough is/was on. Maybe your relatives had the monopoly in pubs on that road, and George ran the other one which wasn't The Plough. And that seems to have been called The Old Rose http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012133&prevU

Bearing in mind the photo is just post-war, I wonder if it was cobbled together from various parts by someone who couldn't get hold of anything better in the late 40s. An early kit car.

The Television Workshop mentioned by Stan at the beginning of this thread is the same thing as the Junior Television Workshop - mentioned by systema - run by Ian Smith in the days of Central at Lenton Lane. As Central TV and the Lenton Lane studios no longer exist, the Workshop became a separate, independent organisation, As this demonstrates http://www.thetelevisionworkshop.co.uk/

Ashley, take a look at this link. I think it's close to the kind of thing you are looking for. When you get to the first photo, click on "Older" at the top right and go through several more photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwoodward/3231818373/in/photostream/

They were built around 63/64. According to PTP, Plaisaunce was demolished in 1961.

Jesse Boot's summer house, Plaisaunce. This is now the site of the ugly Rivermead flats on Wilford Lane.

And don't forget Wimpey, who made houses and burgers.

Strange how names go in and out of fashion. A couple of years ago I worked in a place where there were two women called Dorothy, both born in the early-mid 1950s, and both hated the name Dorothy and insisted on being called Dot.

I think a link has got slightly lost in the previous message, so here's a bit of compensation. This is the former John Player house on Woodborough Road, now the Hospice. And according to Picture the Past This picture shows the former home of John Dane Player, a son of the founder of the Players cigarette business (John Player). When John Player died his firm was run for nine years by a group of his close friends until his two sons, John Dane Player and William Goodacre Player could take over the running of the business. William Goodacre Player lived at Whatton Manor and had previously re

That's reminded me of a slight variation on that one. Lift the gate off the hinges, but then leave it resting loosely so that it looked like it was still fixed properly. Then when the owner came to open the gate it would fall off in their hands. Hilarious. We thought.

These day the modern equivalent of knock-and-go will be someone trying to sell double glazing, or a student-type asking you to donate money to some charity. They knock on the door and if you haven't answered within 3 seconds, they've gone (which is a good thing).

You just beat me; I was about to post the same map! Note that the plan was drawn up in 1881, years before the Great Central had been thought of. The GC comes in from the south on a collection of bridges, viaducts and embankments before reaching the tunnels. This proposed line and station would merely be an alternative version of that, and I don't see that the engineering problems would have been too difficult for the victorian brains of the time.

I've put this link in before in another thread, but it will certainly fit in here as well. Hundreds of old Player's photos to keep you amused. Click on the Newer/Older arrows on the top right of the photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/50284741@N02/4906606685/in/photostream/

Am I correct in thinking BHS is the one in Broad Marsh Centre? Can't be in the same place as the old Woolies, that was at various locations on Lister Gate which still exist with new occupants. The present BHS is actually where Greyfriar Gate used to be. The store is approximately in the middle of this empty road.

Here's a map I've conjured up which I think shows the area retji was talking about. Apologies for a few remnants of watermark.

Can I be the first to say the most obvious - the Castle. But it is pretty good. I'll think of some more original ones later.

One of those fire hydrant thingys.

I think what you are referring to was the Able Collins Alms Houses. Take a look at this thread for a few photos. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10206&hl=collins+alms

There are quite a few threads on Nottstalgia about record shops in Nottingham over the years, if you do a search. "Downstairs in a basement near Yates" could've been Rediffusion where the record dept was downstairs, and was across the road from Yates .

Yes, your bearings are questionable Mundella was near the embankment; as this states - Mundella Road/Collygate Road. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM018912&prevUrl= Becket was at the bottom end of Wilford Lane (although you could probably see Mundella from Becket - it was straight across the river) As this demonstrates.....

I can see what you mean..........but I don't think I've ever really noticed them! Maybe just take them for granted. Certainly don't feel like you're walking through leafy green area when you're on those streets.

This makes me look like a mere youngster . They'd gone decimal by the time I started. September 1974, British Midland Airways at East Mids Airport.

Difficult to show because Streetview don't go down Lister Gate. This is the closest you can get http://binged.it/YX80yM On the right of the image there's an old building with two triangular pediments; BHS is/was the one to the left of that. And this is what it looks like today - New Look, a fashion store