Cliff Ton
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What year would that be Cliff?
I remember that wall and Railings.. and the holly bushes like it was yesterday. I moved opposite that site in around 1965.
The flats were built not long after that.
I've had a look, and the book (Nottingham Yesterday and Today - Geoffrey Oldfield, 1995) doesn't give a date for the photo, but I'd guess mid 1950s.
The car just in shot is a Mk1 Ford Consul and apparently they were in production from 1951-56
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I only know this from looking at various motoring websites, but apparently they were known as "Town and Country" tyres.
They seem to have been quite common in the 1950s/early 60s. You can see them on average cars like Ford Popular or Hillman Minx (or, in the case of this photo, Ford Consul/Zephyr)
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I put this photo in the thread about the aerial view of Radford, but I've just noticed this thread which is actually on the subject of Hartley Road Children's Home
Seems to make sense that the topic should include a picture of the subject in question
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Interested in Hartley Road. As I mentioned in a previous thread my mother was in a children`s home in Hartley Road in the 1930s and I`ve never been able to find any official records of it.
Ever seen a photo of it? There doesn't seem to be one on Picture the Past, but I've been digging around in various books, and.............
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Apparently the cinema was the WINDSOR
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Trying to get my bearings here. would that photo have been taken from Bluceoat street or am i totally the wrong way round??
Sort of....... but Bluecoat Street does come into it!
On the photo Huntingdon Street is running up the right side of the picture, with Bluecoat Street/Woodborough Road across the top above the tunnel entrance
I think the square building just creeping in to the right edge might be John E Wrights offices, as on HERE
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I don't recollect Union Road crossing the station, I can remember the bridge at the north end next to the tunnel. Was the Union Road crossing demolished???? If so when?? All my memories of Union Road, were it terminated at Huntingdon Street with wasteland used as a car park opposite. That's mid to late 1950's BTW.
The Old Maps site has the Union Road bridge still there in 1969 according to their dating. I'd be surprised if that's correct
I remember the wasteland car park
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Hello All... I'm a newbie here so please excuse me if some of these 'random memory' moments have been covered elsewhere....
I worked at the old Sytner place on Mapperley Plains in the late 1970s, when it was called ' Plains Motor Company' ran by a fellow named Trevor Perkins,
Hello Ged Ling
I remember the Plains Motor Company, but weren't they along Mapperley Top near the Tree Tops (like you mentioned)? My memories of the old Sytner place are that it was on the site near the Plainsman pub (or whatever it may be called now). Unless I'm getting my garages mixed up
Before your time, Trevor Perkins was involved in a car business called Dean and Perkins (with a Mr Dean, can't remember the first name) and they were on the site at the top of Woodborough Road which is now occupied by Nottingham Autopark.
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If you aren't old enough to have been there..........
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weren't there in fact 2 bridges? one a road bridge which joined Mansfield Road/York Street with Huntingdon Street opp Union Road? and another a footbridge through the station to Glasshouse Street platform.
You're right, and thinking about it I reckon there were, in a way, three bridges over the lines.
The road bridge which was Union Road; I don't really know it because it wasn't our area.
Then there was the footbridge to Glasshouse Street which started off this topic, shown on the two photos posted; seems that had filled-in sides so you couldn't see the trains. (on this map below it's marked as "Public footway")
And also, there was the bridge which must be the one I remember, where you could be surrounded by steam - that was the internal station footbridge for getting across the various platforms if you were actually going on a train
This shows a bit more........
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Was this the bridge which went from the bottom of Mansfield Road (next to the pub currently called Bensons) through to Glasshouse Street ?
I remember it as a kid because when you stood on the bridge and a train went under, you were surround by the smoke/steam from the engine
This photo shows the remains of it when Vic station was being demolished
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Can't remember a garage there but church in background was used by a piano company, Clements?
Yep, the church was Clement pianos, but it has now been demolished. If you look back at my original Streetview picture, the modern building on the left of the picture (student apartments) is where the church was.
I can recall a car sales & garage, but not fuel pumps.
Never seen that photo before. I guess Daykins Garage is the building which has survived HERE as the Top Floor Carpet place
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Was THIS place ever a petrol station? Junction of Lenton Boulevard/Sherwin Road
The layout looks like it used to be one, but if it was I don't remember it
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I don't have any idea of her name, I was too young to take any notice of things like that, so you could well be right.
This old lady wasn't the person who sold the ice cream or worked in the shop, she just sat outside telling everyone what was inside.
I'd guess she was maybe the parent/grandparent of the people who worked in the shop.
Maybe she or her husband had started the business many years earlier. and it was her children who were running it by the early 60s
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Remember her well she had i think a foriegn twang to her voice,
After all these years it's nice to know that I didn't imagine it and there is someone else who saw her
I'd forgotten about the foreign accent. Back in those days there weren't as many "foreigners" around, and I'd guess she might've been Italian (with the ice cream connection)
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Not really a Nottingham topic, but as Skegness is Nottingham on sea - and everybody's been there - this is something which has stuck in my memory.
We went to Skeg quite a few times in the early 1960s, and just down Lumley Road (off the sea-front) was a cafe/ice cream shop. An old lady used to sit on a chair on the pavement outside this shop and, in a manner like street traders and newspaper sellers, she just kept repeating "ices, tea and coffee served inside, ices" like she was some kind of tape loop.
She looked very old and slightly mysterious even back then, and as a kid I was fascinated by her performance. I know I didn't imagine it, and there must be other old Nottinghamians who saw her
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Babs
Here's another version of the map. I've re-aligned it so you can see all of Waterway Street, because on the first version I'd only included half of it
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Hopefully the OP will still be watching this thread. And anybody else who hasn't seen what the Medders looks like these days
Had a wander up around Traffic Street today to see what's left of it. Not much really.
At the top end facing towards Wilford Road it's a bit of a tip
Bottom end onto Queens Drive still looks a bit like it used to
And moving a bit across the road there's the old Crown pub on the junction of Crocus Street/Arkwright Street. The new apartments at the back are on Queens Road alongside the station
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It immediately reminded me of this
so it looks like a brewery logo
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Not sure if this helps, but the Old Maps site has one from the mid 1980s, and you can clearly see a Sports Ground at the northern end above the railway line.
Is that where the cricket pitch was?
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Hello tingly. Here's something which might help you a bit.
This map is from 1899 (which I guess is the time of your mum's father), and if you look at Traffic Street at the Wilford Road end you'll see there is a "Timber Yard"..... and near the Arkwright Street end there is a "Saw Mill".
And you can also see a Timber Yard off Waterway Street West
Seems like the area was full of wood-working places
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Found a better photo of it
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cannot recall a cinema near Trent Bridge and I lived very nearby.....
Coming from West Bridgford over Trent Bridge, it was almost the first thing you faced at the Bridge end of Arkwright Street HERE
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Yes I think Long Stairs is still there.
Quite a few of those old names like Short Stairs, Malin Hill, Short Hill have been preserved in that area, but they are hidden amongst the developments of apartments. Often they are just pathways and cut-throughs between the new buildings. Don't know if they are actually in the same place as the originals
Nottinham TanneriesHow many and where
in Nottstalgia Trivia?
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Turney Bros at Trent Bridge?