Cliff Ton
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The old maps website has come to the rescue again
Digby is here - I've outline it in red because the map isn't too clear
For reference, you'll see Giltbrook at the top of the map, and the built-up area appearing on the right is the edge of Kimberley
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For a church called Holy Trinity which is now demolished you need to look for Trinity Square.
Go back to Picture the Past again (you've obviously already found it). On the old photos of that location, the church is Holy Trinity.
When it was demolished, I believe the name was reused for a church on Clifton
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I didn't think I was that old, but I remember almost everything mentioned in katyjay's original post.
In fact I'm beginning to wonder if she might be an unknown invisible sister I never knew I had. That list is so accurate about my childhood, it's like someone was watching every move I ever made.
Just one addition. "Mum cooked every day"
She certainly did....and she went to the shops every day to buy the stuff for us to eat. Today most families do a big shopping trip once a week to the supermarket and get everything in one go. Back then my mum used to do the five minute walk to the local shops every day, whatever the weather, whatever else she had to do, and even if she didn't feel very well.
And she still managed to stop and gossip for a few minutes to everyone she met on the trip to the shops and back
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Probably a leftover from the Forest - Derby game last night. They have to take precautions in case the locals and the visitors have a disagreement
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I'm seeing it and I wasn't really trying
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While we're in the early 60s with kids programmes.... if I think back to being at my grandmas's house in Lenton, I always remember watching their primitive black and white telly and seeing Mr Pastry
Anyone else remember him?
If you aren't sure.....Pastry
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I guess it could be classed as a car? even it only had 3 wheels and could be driven legally without L plates by someone who'd never even been in a car before! referring of course to The Reliant, known as plastic pigs, originally they had an alloy body and agent for them was Breffitts (spelling?) on Nuthall Road opposite Newcastle Arms. .
If we're going to talk about weird cars, in the early 60s my dad had one of these which were around at the same time as the early Reliants
Bond Minicar, if you've never come across one before. Three wheels and a two-stroke engine. No doors, flaps for windows, and the rear seats were like small hammocks suspended sideways.
Who was the dealer for these in the Nottingham area?
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Must admit I don't remember Beardall's, but I didn't know that area back then. Those would've been the days when VW dealers only had one model to sell, which must've been a bit boring.
Were they on the site next to Asda which now has "Nottingham VW", previously "John Fox" and pre-previously "Bristol Street Motors"?
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The only person I ever knew who used the phrase was my grandma who lived in Radford, but I haven't heard it now for over 30 years.
She'd look out of the kitchen window and say "It looks black over Bill's mothers", and from their house on Grimston Road she'd be looking in the direction of Churchfield Lane and the railway line which runs across the back. So I reckon Bill and his parents lived somewhere around the old Radford Colliery
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My dad went to Fairham his name is Graham Cutler - think he was there about 1965 ish onwards..??
That means he was there at around the same time as me, but the name doesn't ring any bells. Not too surprising, because there were about 1600 kids there in those days. And yet the place has now closed down due to lack of pupils
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Cripps were indeed on Parliament Street, near the Palais. I think they disappeared from that site when Vic Centre was built, although the building they occupied is still there, and hasn't been "modernised" in any way. Although for many years it's been an Argos.......if that's progress
Note the Hillman Minx in the window.......
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One you all seem to have overlooked, to my surprise; GT Cars,the Renault dealers next door to Chettle's yard on St. Peter's Street, Radford. Been closed for many years and I think the site's been built over now.
Yes, they disappeared quite a few years ago (along with their other branches). Their old site near St Peter's Street is now occupied by hundreds of student apartments, and things for students like Tesco Express and Pizza Hut. Just like most of that area of Triumph Road/Faraday Road
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Earliest books I remember were from the school library (Greencroft Infants) when I was around 6-7 years old. I read everything in the "Little Grey Rabbit" series by a Victorian writer called Alison Uttley - a kind of alternative Beatrix Potter. Obviously not the kind of thing I'd read now.
When I got a bit older and went to the kids section of the real library, I was hooked on the Biggles books by Capt WE Johns. I read a bit of one a few years ago, and I couldn't believe how hilarious it comes across now, but at the time I was really impressed.
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On Valley Rd Basford, originally Fairfax Street was Fairfax Garage (as per the one in Heartbeat) opposite the old labour exchange with (rich) owner living in big house behind it and though I don't recall them in use The Five Ways Garage corner of Church Street and Vernon Road had old petrol pumps on it's forecourt.
More petrol pumps in Basford...... I don't remember this one, (the bridge of Church Street up on the left, Vernon Road where the Thames Trader is, and Valley Road going to the right). It's been a crossroads with lights for as long as I've known it; this roundabout must go back a few years
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Not sure if you are aware of it, but if you want pictures of Broad Marsh in those days go to www.picturethepast.org.uk
In the options across the top go to "Search the images", "Accept", and then in the second section down "select a town or village" scroll down to Nottingham -Broad Marsh
I knew that area very well in the 60s. We lived at Clifton and used the original bus station, Drury Hill, Garners Hill, the railway viaduct etc. There are pictures of all of it
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Clifton Spiders was run by a guy named Web hence the nickname Spiders
I thought it was because he had 8 legs
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I must've been past this place as a kid but I don't remember it at all
It's at the junction of Gregory Street/Lenton Lane/Abbey Street, opposite the White Hart pub
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I've seen photos (but can't find any now) of a petrol station on Central Avenue, West Bridgford where the pumps came out over the pavement.
my son said there wasn't a petrol station on left side of the(through)road from Redhill to Clifton Bridge?
Would that be the former Cripps garage on Lenton Lane? It was on the left-hand side coming from the Lenton end towards Clifton Bridge. Definitely sold petrol until the late 70s
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Claringburn and Codd at the bottom of Sneinton road used to have the pumps inside the garage and the pipes on booms going across the pavement to the roadside,
Rog
Until a few years ago, this place on Nottingham Road Basford had some very old pumps at the side of the road which swung out over the pavement. Maybe they hadn't actually worked for years, but they were still there
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Now we've covered the subject of disappearing car dealers, how about petrol stations. If you take away Asda and Sainsburys and Tescos are there any old-style real petrol stations left?
Talking to a mate of mine a few weeks ago, and we were counting up the former petrol stations in the Castle Boulevard/Lenton area, and in the last 25 years it's amazing how many have disappeared.
1. One opposite the Castle Rock/entrance to The Park - closed and demolished at least 5 years ago, site still empty
2. The small triangular-shaped Jet station on Castle Boulevard near the bridge to Castle Marina - demolished and been empty for years
3. A bigger Esso garage across the road from that one - demolished years ago, been a car wash for ages
4. Petrol station on Lenton Boulevard near junction with Church Street - demolished quite a few years ago; now shops and student flats
5. Further along Lenton Boulevard opposite Cottesmore school - petrol station closed years ago; been a car wash for a long time
6. The petrol station next to the Savoy cinema - demolished within the last year, currently empty site
7. The petrol station next to the White Hart pub on Gregory street- disappeared years ago; been a car wash for years
8. The one on Abbey Street near Dunkirk flyover opposite the Johnson Arms - closed years ago, been a car wash for ages (notice a pattern emerging here....?)
9. The former Mann Egerton garage on Derby road next to the Wheatsheaves - hasn't had petrol for years
That's 9 within a radius of about half a mile, all gone since the mid-80s. And there are empty former petrol station sites all over Nottingham.
How many petrol stations still exist which aren't in supermarkets?
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After all these lists of car dealers, here's one I can't work out the answer to....
Who were the early Toyota dealers around here? I can't think of any names
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This shows quite a bit of that area
Woolies is on the left, and the electricity place is on the right. Albert Street/Lister Gate is the road disappearing away in the middle distance
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That's an impressive list littlebro, and it's made me think of a few more to add to it
Clifton Car Co (and various names) near Clifton Village - started as Vauxhall at Clifton, then changed through Renault, and something else I can't remember
Lady Bay Car Sales - Radcliffe Road West Bridgford, and then moved to Colwick by the 90s
County Garage - also Radcliffe Road, early Honda dealers. The site was recently a Toyota dealer until a couple of years ago
Halls Skoda - Loughborough Road, West Bridgford. Now a fast-fit exhaust-type place
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The showroom on Mansfield Road near Bluecoat Street was a Jaguar showroom first. I remember fifty odd years ago coming home from school to catch my bus at Huntingdon Street when I was knocked down by a motor bike whilst crossing Mansfield Road.
They carried me into the Jag Showroom until the ambulance arrived! There`s posh!
That'll be this place...........
Rediffusion
in 50's Nottingham
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Those were the days when radio only seemed to cater for old people.
Don't know if you got it on Rediffusion, but if you were young all you had to listen to was Radio Luxembourg