Tim in the North East

When the team got back they did a tour of the city sat on the roof of a Nottingham City Transport single decker bus - all except for Roy Dwight who sat inside with his broekn leg. My parents took me to watch the bus as it went past the Forest entrance on its way up Mansfield Road. I suspect health and safety would preclude such roof travel these days!

Thursday used to be early closing day for many of the shops in the city - and certainly lasted well into the 1960s. And Jessops department store - like all the John Lewis stores at that time - closed all day on Mondays so that its staff could have a full Sunday/Monday 2 day weekend. That practice lasted to the late 198-s or early 1990s.

Skinner and Rook survived into the 1960s. The plot at the corner of Smithy Row/Ling Row East and Clumber Street was redeveloped and Hornes (mens outfitters) occupied the shop onthe corner for many years. I think Skinner and Rook then moved to premises down a yard off Clumber Street on the left hand side as you walk towards Lower Parliament Street. Tim

You know your from Nottingham when.... .... you can remember standing in the early evening bus queue on Long Row for the 10 or 57 bus up Mansfield Road - and heard the merging voices of two regulars: the earnest lay preacher standing on the walls of Slab Square spreading the word to whoever would listen the extra loud tenor voice of the newspaper seller who abbreviated Evening Post to 'Po'

My first ever flights were in Summer 1961 and 1962 with Derby Airways from Burnaston to Guernsey. We travelled to Burnaston on the Trent shuttle bus from Huntington Street Bus Station. Check in at Burnaston was leisurely - having the luggage weighed in on scales with big rotary dials in a wooden building, then walk across a terrace with flowerbeds into the brick and concrete 'terminal' for refreshments. Then a walk down a few steps onto the concrete apron and all aboard the Dakota - which then taxied onto the grass runway for a bumpy take off. The ascent was fairly gradual and an early job of

I seem to recall the ornate stone building at the top of Market Street (east side) was also a Berni around 1974.

Has anyone got a photograph a bit lower down Derby Road, before the Main Marion Way roundabout was built? This would be pre-1963. On the cathedral side of the road was a car showroom occupied by Morkel and Carnell - which was on several floors and cars had to be moved by lift between the floors - something I found fascinating as a small boy when I went in with my Dad to buy a Morris 1000 Traveller! When the demolition was announced Morkel and Carnell moved to the premises between Talbot Street and Wollaton Street - where they remained until the early to mid 1970s.

I used to walk home from school along Forest Road towards the Mansfield Road/Mapperley Road junction. In one mega pea souper in November 1962 (just before the heavy snow)you could only see a few feet in front so it was safer to walk on the Rock cemetry side of Forest Road as you could navigate by the railings and there were no roads to cross. But the sight of those Victorian tombstones and angels rearing out of the fog was really spooky to an 8 year old boy! Tim

Can anyone remember the shops that used to be around the Mansfield Road / Forest Road junction and going down Mansfield Road to Chatham Street in the late 1950s and 1960s? On the corner of Mansfield Road was a coal merchant (later an antiques shop) then as you went along Forest Road there was Richardson’s bakers, Mr A.Cross the stamp dealer, Mr Morris the sweet shop and then an estate agent (which later became a hairdresser). Going down Mansfield Road my memory is more hazy. Fairly near the traffic lights there was a pub and the yard of an advertising agency and the offices of Leslie Crawle

I used to walk to school along Forest Road and in the bad winter of 1962/63 there were some real pea-souper fogs - as an 8 year old I remember being really spooked by the gravestone in the form of an angel that seemed to emerge out of the fog. I ran home then!

The attached website suggests it was the late 1960s that the name changed.

Morkell and Carnell moved to their Talbot Street / Wollaton Street site around 1963. Before that they had a multi-storey showroom on Derby Road near the Albert Hall - which got demolished for the Maid Marian Way / Parliament Street / Derby Road roundabout. It had a huge lift inside for moving the cars in and out. Another independent car dealer was Teds Motors near the junction of Mansfield Road and Huntingdon Street. He dispalyed a sign 'any make of new car supplied'. There was a neon sign above the glass doors saying 'TEDS MOTORS'. The the late 1950s my dad bought an Austin A55 Cambridge the