Cliff Ton
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Is this the area you are referring to?
This map from the 1950s looks very similar to the way things are today. There doesn't appear to be anything which was cleared or demolished. Even the road names are still the same
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thanks for your quick reply
i am looking for an old map showing the names of the old pyehill streets
i am going to try to send small map of area needed
sylvia
When you say "old map" what era are you talking about?
This site will provide the answers if you dig around for a couple of minutes
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That map above hates me...Kimberleys not on it ...and it had TWO stations.
hello,i was hoping you had the map i have been looking for the past 2 weeks
but the part i wanted was the top left hand corner extended to include ironville and pyehill
heres hoping
sylvia
Maybe I can solve two problems with one map
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I think different email systems compress to varying degrees, as you've discovered
I know it's a bit more long-winded but you could put the photos on a memory stick or a disk and send that by real post
Or have you tried sites such as yousendit Ultimately you have to pay, but you can probably get a few weeks of trial offer - see their 'lite' section
They don't compress because they are used by business organisations for sending all kinds of work-related documents. I know because I've used them
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The answer was HERE all the time
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Fyne Street was off Beck Street.
A bit of a surprise, but Picture the Past has several photos of Fyne Street. Amazing looking place.
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One last challenge for now .... Fine Street or could be Fyne Street
I have two references with different spellings
Is there a chance it might be Tyne Street? There was one of them in the Willoughby Street area of Lenton
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As a result of littlebro's work, I've gone back to the Old Maps site and ...
Resolution is a bit rough, but there she is, running up the middle of the page -
The Eastern end is virtually level with the "A" of Arnold Lane between the 2 A6211 labels, see the wooded bit near the farm? that is where the tunnel mouth is, looks like there is a path to it along side a hedge? The Western end is in back of a Scouts/daycentre Complex on Weaverthorpe Road just to the right of Woodford Rd on google map. in reality virtually opposite the underpass on Arno Vale Rd. .
That'll teach me to not look at the full width of the Google map. It's pretty obvious on there.
I've seen quite a few photos of the eastern end of the tunnel but I don't think I've ever seen one of the western end (the Arnold end).The closest I've got is these two from an old railway book. Apparently they were both taken mid-1950s. The top one is a train approaching the western end of the tunnel - so Arnold is in the background - and the lower one is a train coming out of the western end.
In modern terms, I reckon the train is on what is now Weaverthorpe Road. The only reference point on the top photo is where you can see houses on the skyline ; Sandfield Road might fit. And on the lower photo there's a house on the hillside next to the telegraph pole.
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f this link works Tunnel the tunnel is under the crossroads in the middle.
Other people on here may know more, but.........I think the eastern entrance may be on a farmer's field (private land) and the western entrance is effectively in someone's back garden in the space between the roads marked Cambridge Gardens/Gedling Road
I used to live near there and I've wandered around a few times looking for remains of that line, but it's pretty well disappeared
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I think it might be an Indian restaurant now?
It was the Indian "4500 miles from Delhi", but even within the last couple of weeks that seems to have closed down.
The windows are whitewashed over and the place is obviously empty.
Unless its some kind of new style I'm not familiar with
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mekit ger bakurds
aya gorra weyer
ah tode yer ees nor ere
Put it in reverse
Is your wife with you?
I told you he isn't here
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According to the book "Lost Houses of Nottinghamshire" by Philip Jones, he says the site of Watnall Hall lies between numbers 14-27 Rolleston Crescent, Watnall. Rolleston Crescent closely follows the route of the old driveway
If you know the area I presume that might make some sense
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Driving along Derby Road, Lenton the other day, over the bridge which crosses the line near the Wheatsheaves pub. I know Lenton station was at the top end of Faraday Road, and it started me wondering about how that area used to look.
A bit further down the railway line at Church Street you can see where there was a level crossing before the bridge was built in the 1880s (?) next to the Holy Trinity church in old Lenton. So presumably there was also a level crossing where Derby Road meets the line at the Wheatsheaves. I've never seen any photos of that crossing, although Picture the Past has photos of the original bridge being widened in the 1930s.
You can see where the old road used to go here - the road in front of the Wheatsheaves
So when I looked on the Old Maps website at that area in the 1880s I was a bit surprised to see how
it used to be (and the watermark they put in it these days)
You can see the Wheatsheaves lower left, and a bit further along is the level crossing which I've never seen,.......but I'm surprised about the goods shed, the wagon works, the turntable to get the wagons into the shed. A bigger complex of railway works than I'd ever realised
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And will tthey be a spectacular success like these were....
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I remember Mr Thom (my boy's are good boy's)
Mr Perry was indoor 10,000 meter running champion
Mr Smart (Tech drawing)
Mr Holt (music)
Rog 1964 - 1968 Fleming house
Spooky. I was in Fleming 66-73.
Mr Holt was my first Tutor (Fleming A). He left after my first couple of terms to be replaced by PC Price (Pinhead).
Mr Smart was Fleming housemaster all my time there
Mr Perry was not in Fleming and I wasn't taught by him, but I've seen him around Nottingham city centre quite a few times in recent years. His appearance doesn't seem to have changed at all. For a guy who must be at least 64-65 he's in very good nick
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It gets a few mentions on this site.
There's one here http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5908
I wasn't there as early as you, but I remember the names of Thom, Byrne, Riddell
Deputy Head was Mullaney
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My mother used to tell me that when her sister got married in the thirties they lived in a house in Narrow Marsh (?) and the back room went into the cliff as a sort of cave. Would that be in this area - and would the cave story be feasible?
Nobody left to ask in person now.
This is probably the kind of thing your mother was referring to. Narrow Marsh when it was being demolished, with an interesting selection of caves for people's back gardens.
If you look at Picture the Past you can do a search for Narrow Marsh and find quite a few more, including photos of the Loggerheads
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I would like to see the bits of map to the right and below that shown.
This any good ?........
It's a bit big to get under my scanner so this is only an extract, but you can easily get it for yourself.
It's from this
You can get it from quite a few shops in Nottingham, and it's only a couple of quid.
Or look at their website and get hundreds of them Godfrey maps
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Maybe we're getting two buildings a bit mixed up here.
There was an old school on the other side of Queens Drive a bit further up (towards the station) called Welbeck School. And it looked a bit like the Great Central goods building
You can see where it was, relative to the Goods Offices, on this map
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I reckon it's the same in quite a few areas of Nottm. On the rare occasions I go back to Clifton, most of the shops there are like something after a bomb has been dropped.
There are groups of half a dozen shops all over Clifton, and in the 60s each group had a butcher, grocer, newsagent, etc. Now half of them are boarded up, and the remainder is a car spares shop, a video shop, a takeaway, and a 24hr convenience store. They all have grilles and shutters when they close at night. Back in the 60s, the owner just locked the front door and walked away, knowing that when they came back in the morning the plate glass window would still be there.
Other places I've noticed that have died are Radford Road, Hyson Green - the stretch on both sides of Gregory Boulevard. That used to be full of shops - god knows what they all are now.
But if you want to see an area which is run down and full of Pound Shops and Junk shops, go to Broad Marsh Centre. It's been going downhill since about 5 years after it was built and has been on the bottom for a long time. Drury Hill was atmospheric and should've been preserved, and the rest of the old Broad Marsh area was a slum, but the replacement is a disaster - just like the new Trinity Square.
And if you haven't seen that.......the old 1960s car park was better than what is there now.
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"Are you sitting comfortably? Then I`ll begin!"
If you remember Listen with Mother, do you remember the music which used to end every programme?
(Make sure you have your sound turned up before you hit this)
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Yep , it was Byrons until it closed and was demolished around the mid-90s. It was the Dolphin before being Byrons, but I'm not sure when the name changed. Not a bad place, without any noisy city centre morons. For a few years in the 80s I used to go in there quite a lot.
Because of its location there were always had quite a few off-duty coppers in there. I used to wonder if they were having a few drinks before they went on duty, or after they'd come off. So either they'd be driving home over the limit, or driving around in Panda cars over the limit.
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Looking at the old maps, the oldest one there is 1881 and it has a graveyard marked on the north side
but by 1920s the graveyard is marked on the other side, so maybe the skeletons had gone for a walk
But there's no further mention of them; and then M&S enlarged over Church Side, so the skeletons are now probably under the escalators
The Tower - pub
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And guess what...........Here it is
That is actually a big burst of nostalgia for me too, because we lived on Clifton and used to go into Nottingham on buses which went into the old version of Broad Marsh bus station, so I've walked past the pub many times as a kid.