barclaycon

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  1. Yep. An interesting thread. It used to be such a pleasure to go into Nottingham on a Saturday (usually on the E8 - subsequently the F5) and look round all the various record shops. You've listed most of the ones I can remember. Hindley's on Clumber Street was one of the main ones. Pearsons, Co-Op. There was one in the arcade that runs from Upper Parliament Street down to Long Row. Can't remember the name. One that you haven't mentioned was Rediffusion near to the Odeon on Long Row. It was in the basement and was run by a guy with a hunch-back. They used to have loads of great singles that y
  2. The Imperial on St James Street was the residency for Gaffa. Wayne Evans was indeed the driving force behind them. Seem to remember him having a bass in the shape of a frog. Kevin Unwin (also known as Stan) played guitar with them for a short while. Some other bands worth a mention: Desparate Dan and Slender Loris.
  3. Yes. Where exactly were the Rainbow Rooms Ashley ? I mentioned the Albert Hall in the first post. There were some great bands on there. The YMCA on Arkwright Street. Did you know Jim Litten ?
  4. Yes. thank you Zab. It was the Albany Hotel. According to picturethepast The Beatles played at the Odeon on Angel Row on 12 December 1963. Has that area all been levelled now ? The Rainbow Rooms Broad Street ? Could you give a few more clues on that one. I couldn't find any information. The Gaumont - corner of Wollaton and Goldsmith Street. Yes, I remember going there several times. Quite an imposing building. It seems that Notts County ground was the midlands equivalent of the Wembley outdoor gig in the 60's !
  5. Haha. Yes, Budgie - heavy trio from Wales! I saw quite a few good gigs at the Sherwood Rooms - which I always liked as a venue. What's happened to it now ? In fact some of the places in Nottingham that had some great gigs are probably still there - but just don't have groups on anymore. Albert Hall, Theatre Royal, Nottingham Playhouse. I can remember seeing Man (another Welsh group) at a hotel on Maid Marion Way. Can't remember the name. I think it's a Travelodge now. My brother has got programmes from gigs in Nottingham that he went to in the 60's - Stone the Crows, Blodwyn Pig
  6. Yes, I think you're right about the Moor Lane origins Graham. It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be anything definitive about it. Well not so far anyway. I lived in Bramcote late 60's early 70's and went to school at Beeston Fields and then Bramcote Secondary. One of my mates lived in the second house from the start of the cut-through and I had occasion to go through it all the time. (Delivering papers, going to the football pitches etc.) Very recently some friends of mine were reminiscing about Moor Farm Inn and seeing Judas Priest at the Gun Deck ! What we've got so far is that the
  7. Anyone else here attend this school (Bramcote) 69 to 73 ?
  8. Interesting stuff. Where would this cottage have been located - where the football pitch is now ? Was it associated with one of the farms ?
  9. @Ayupmeducks I don't think it was a railway line because if I remember rightly, only the cutting bit is flat. The rest of Moor Lane down to Bramcote Moor and the canal is not level enough for a railway line. @taxi ray The earliest map I could find was 1884 which shows no sign of a railway other than the Trowell Radford line which I believe was built in 1846. There's definitely a wharf there for loading on the canal. There's also Wollaton Brick Yard and lots of old coal pits and clay pits. @Ashley I've never heard of the Thomas North Railway. I'll have to check that out. All interesting s
  10. Hi. Thanks for the replies so far. I'd love to get to the bottom of what this was. @Fynger That Google view isn't the cut-through - it's much further down and past the old canal what you have there. The cutting I'm talking about is much further back and has high sandstone walls. @littlebro Yes, spot on. Those pics are exactly right. @Ayupmeducks You may be right. Locals always used to tell me that it was something to do with the transportation of stone and was probably cut in the 1700's, but nobody is absolutely sure. Wopuld be great to get the 'definitive' story.
  11. Burtons was a fantastic food shop. It used to dominate that arcade of shops under the Council house. They had experts working there who'd been employed for decades. I was very sad to see it go. MacFisheries was on South Parade facing the Market Square.
  12. I've often wondered about the cut-through at Moor Lane (Bramcote). I used to deliver newspapers to the farms at the end of it (White House and Moor Farm). What are the origins of this road carved through the sandstone? It must have been something important because it's quite a substantial amount of stone cutting. Why was it built and when ? What was it used for? For those who don't know where I'm talking about. If you go down Moor Lane, at the end it suddenly becomes a cut-through with quite high sandstone walls which, after a while, reaches Bramcote Moor. (Im sure many people will remembe
  13. On the nottinghamrail.com site there were a few NSR rarities - some pictures of some of the stations being dismantled. But they were only of thumbnail size. I asked the site owner if it was possible to get larger images but he said not, that was all he'd been sent. There was also this evocative image of Thorneywood which was from the Evening Post:
  14. The Disused Stations website will be doing a feature on the NSR and also lines around Derby in the near future: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/ It's a great site for enthusiasts of this kind of stuff. I haven't worked out how to upload pictures above 50k on this forum, but I've got others I'd like to post.
  15. I'm afraid I didn't take a camera, although there was a website called nottinghamrail.com which had a few pictures but after checking just now it has apparently disappeared!
  16. I chanced upon this forum by Googling NSR so I'm a bit late with what you've all been talking about. There's suprising little information about the Suburban Railway, so any pic or information is welcome. Someone actually started a website devoted to the NSR : www.nottinghamsuburbanrailway.co.uk/ However they haven't gone beyond the front page and nothing has been done with it since 2006. Looking at your 'picturethepast' photos NTGM017600 and NTGM017601, I don't think that bridge was part of the NSR. I think it's more likely to have been part of the line that went to Racecourse station.