Cliff Ton
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Nice work
How did anyone ever get anything done before the internet was invented?
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Somewhere in Bulwell?
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That's what I was looking for...a big house with extensive gardens in the middle of the terraces...Now I've got to find who lived there.
The owner of the Malthouse next door?
And the Marquis of Lorne was there in 1882 (which is this map)
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Here's 1920-ish.
Note the lack of Raleigh, who would appear at the bottom where the "Allotment Gardens" are.
Incidentally, you may not be aware of this http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html which is where I got the map (and most of my others) from.
It's not the easiest site to navigate through, but once you've mastered it, you'll be fascinated for hours.
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The Post hasn't been produced in Forman Street for a long time.
This http://www.pictureth...000019&prevUrl= is what those offices looked like in 1999
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Anyone remember " Paddleys Motor Auctions" , on Loughborough rd,West Bridgford,
next to the Wolds Hotel, a very active place to buy a good cheap car pre 1964.
When exactly was that? Because I thought that the site next to The Wolds - prior to GEM- was this place........
Collington's Farm. You can see The Wolds building in the background.
Where was Paddleys relative to this?
I remember GEM because West Bridgford UDC buses (remember them, the brown ones?) ran a free service from Clifton, down Wilford Lane, to GEM and I've been on that service quite a few times.
the site was redeveloped into a super market named GEM. it was an American company, but only lasted untill 1966,when it withdrew its operation in W,B
1966 the big boys stepped in and again re developed the site, to day it known as ASDA.
Although it wasn't the only GEM. They also had a second site in Leeds which didn't last long either
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As I said, I had no idea where Clayton Square was before I looked for this, so when I found it I was surprised to find its an area I have a link with. I had two aunts who lived in Garden Street from the mid 1940s until the mid 1960s when the place was demolished, and I visited them when I was a kid in those later years.
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I'd not heard of it before, so decided to have a look. Not much remains from this 1950s map, so I hope it brings back a few memories for the ex-residents
And even a photo of it.
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I was trained by the driving school by the bridge on Arkwright street (name?)
...and I've just looked at the other thread you referred to.......
I had my driving lessons at the same place, Trent School of Motoring on Arkwright Street. Second half of 1974 in a Hillman Avenger. First time I drove anywhere with them was Victoria Embankment on a Sunday morning.
And I've always remembered...... the guy who seemed to be the manager of the place had a really bad toupee which didn't match the rest of his head
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Digging around in an old diary (for 1976) I discovered I'd kept a record of all the expenditure on it for a few months. It was a 4 year-old Vauxhall Viva which I got from Hooleys on Derby Road for £595. So this is how much it cost to run a car in Nottingham 36 years ago.
Petrol - 4.2 gallons for £3
which makes it 71p a gallon (or 24p a litre in today's money)
Various bit I bought over a few months......
Battery - £9.12
2 x tyres - £26.15
Set of points (remember them?) - 83p
Air filter - £1.70
Pair of wiper blades - £1.50
Monthly HP payment - £22.67
But some things aren't so bad............
Back in 1976 I paid £15 for 6 months road tax...........and I only pay £30 a year on what I've got now!
All for one of these
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Bearing in mind the day today.........if you started your first job before the mid-70s you would've worked on New Year's Day.
New Year's Day only became a bank holiday in England for the first time on Jan 1st 1975 (although it already was in Scotland)
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Victoria Station?!
Absolutely. Nowhere in Nottingham ever had an atmosphere like that.
Most of the places I liked probably paved over for car parks now!
Add Drury Hill to that.....buried under Broad Marsh
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Here's a couple more photos I'd forgotten about.
The area with the trees (which seem to be arranged in a deliberate circle) is now Five Ways pub. The bridge in the background was apparently known as Jacob's Ladder and it carries Edwards Lane over the Day Brook.
Same location from the other side. You can see Jacob's Ladder in the background, with Day Brook in the centre of the picture.
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I can think of two possibilities......Laker Airways or Court Line.
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British Midland at East Mids Airport
Back then - mid 70s - It was just a couple of almost-prefab buildings on the far side of the airport site. The difference now is amazing, not just for the size of the whole place. You could wander round wherever you felt like - security was almost non-existant; it was just two blokes in a Land Rover with a "Security" sign on its roof. Nobody was worried about anything
British Mid was still running mainly turbo-prop Viscounts and Heralds. If a plane took off or landed it was still a bit of an event; people who'd worked there a long time still watched out of the window when they saw something flying past. Probably only half a dozen aircraft movements in an average day.
And it was £24 a week. I still have that first-ever wage slip
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memories from my boyhood at Bulwell kiss gates in the 50s and Doncaster..
I used to go to Ruddington station bridge from Clifton, .... Grantham of course from Nottingham Victoria and Newark from Nottingham Midland to Newark Castle then a walk across town to the LNER station,all mine was done in Basford areaIf you haven't come across it before, take a look at this site http://www.rcts.org....ia&srch=&page=0 and scroll down a little way
I've set the location to Nottingham Victoria, but if you click on the "Location" box you'll see all the other options available. Hundreds of photos which will keep you occupied for hours
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The usual parking light in basford was a paraffin lamp with glass painted part red, imagine those these days? Whoosh!
I remember those because My dad used one http://www.amazon.co...949011&s=sports with a motorbike and sidecar on the street at night.
Amazing to think of it now, because it wasn't fixed or locked to the bike in any way. Just free-standing. But nobody ever nicked it.
And on the subject of Buster.......I had that comic back then. Never realised the connection with Andy Capp, but looking at it now, it's obvious.
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At risk of stating the obvious which maybe you've already tried, if you go to Picture the Past and type the magic word "Basford" in the search box, you get over 500 results and some of them are definitely aerials. Here's a few examples
http://www.pictureth...017704&prevUrl=
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There's a couple more pictures in the series which Beefsteak showed in his post
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For a lot of information on the subject....
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Judging from some of those locations, I'd guess quite a few of those viewings are people sitting around at work on a boring/quiet afternoon and randomly surfing the net. They may not have any specific interest in anything here - but perhaps a casual viewer might turn into a regular visitor
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I recall the Guardian Journal (in the 1970s?) which became a very thin edition before finally folding (pun intended!)
I did a paper round in the late 1960s and I remember delivering a couple of Guardian Journals daily. It certainly had become thin, and a bit of a joke. The front page headline would be a national story, and the rest was just a local paper shuffled around.
It was originally printed alongside the Evening News in the Express Buildings (to come back to the original topic) and the management used to try and boost its image by always mentioning that one of their previous writers had been JM Barrie - the guy who wrote Peter Pan. The truth was that he had done a few freelance shifts for them and probably wrote about three pieces.
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My parents were married in 1947 (Feb 1st, one of the worst winters on record) and they had their reception at The Elite, so it must have been some sort of ballroom as well as cinema then as they would hardly have had their celebrations in the aisles?? (then again you never know)
Looks like it was a classy place for a wedding reception
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From the 1940s....
Try ringing one of the numbers today.....
Padleys Motor Auctions
in 60's Nottingham
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Not sure of the date of this, but it's pre-GEM and I didn't know the area then but I reckon it may show Paddley's.
You can see The Wolds on the right, and then a large area with cars and workshops. I know there was a VW dealership there, so they could be part of the area, and Paddley's in the other part. Maybe.