Cliff Ton

What's wrong with that? A public toilet which finally lives up to its name - a toilet in full view of the public

Don't think I'd ever seen this photo before, until I found it now..... http://www.pictureth...000313&prevUrl=

In the late part of the 1960s I often went with my dad to see the Stock Car/Bomber Car racing at Long Eaton Stadium. There's one song I remember always seemed to be played over the tannoy system between races, and whenever I hear it I'm back at LE Stadium

The Globe ? http://www.pictureth...003841&prevUrl=

I hadn't come across that before, but looking at Post #35 back in this thread by Bamber several years ago, it seems to have been called the Empress

And here's proof http://www.pictureth...019076&prevUrl= If you go back to the map; at the top there's a road called Peachey Street (which still exists) and goes off Mansfield Road and it has "Regent Hall" on it. That Hall was apparently a cinema until the 1940s

And if you go back far enough they didn't just make bikes http://www.flickr.co...57624797560079/

And going back to the area around the Mechanics and Moulin Rouge - this map is from the 1950s.......... You can see the Mechanics clearly marked, but I've not seen any previous mentions of the "New Victoria Cinema" shown on Shakespeare Street; and it continues round in a small way to Milton Street, and that was the entrance to the Moulin Rouge (see Stu's post #65 back up this thread)

Take a look back at post #37 in this thread for info on that building

But it didn't have a very long life http://www.pictureth...000059&prevUrl=

As Denshaw said...... http://www.pictureth...014128&prevUrl=

And to follow on from Littlebro's photos, here's what she actually did http://www.pictureth...010767&prevUrl= http://www.pictureth...010768&prevUrl=

I remember the Lyons place as well from when I was a kid. Stu, I agree, it was a fairly narrow place which went a long way back, and was on several levels. You went in at ground level and then went up a couple of flights of steps which were like terraces in a garden. The serving area where you got your food and drink was right up at the top at the back. Then you had to come back to the front half of the building to sit down and eat.

Borrowing this from the Cinemas thread, I don't remember the "Quality Cars" dealer on the corner of Mansfield Road/Shakespeare Street - complete with a Ford Consul Classic in the showroom. (And a bit further along Shakespeare Street was Dawsons the motorbike dealers?)

The Long Row Picture House when it was still working

Presumably this is when it was still a cinema http://www.pictureth...014256&prevUrl=

I think it's currently an amusement arcade http://maps.google.c...2,2.29,,1,-0.99

The days when cinema-building went a bit OTT

More Huntingdon Street, this time later in its life.

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Mick In the Reply box......... on the lower right, click on "More reply options". Then you'll see the HTML thing

Back to the Square......... I don't remember it when it had buses outside The Bell, like this; some time in the 50s

Familiar performance to anyone on a Mac I've always avoided any of Mr Gates' products, and benefitted as a result

That, and the Classic on Market Street which I believe also provided "adult entertainment"

You forget how common a sight Shippos lorries were around Nottingham. And if you keep going through that Flickr collection, there are some fascinating old family/portrait pictures of people from Ilkeston & Nottingham