BulwellBrian

Great road the Via Gellia even in a car.

I remember a trolley bus off the wire at the bottom of Piccadilly, they couldn't see the end of the pole or the wire to put it back. The trollies all had to stop behind, quite a row of them. Another time the buses had stopped running so I went to the Midland Station to see if the trains were still going and got on a Mansfield train. The train stopped at Basford Crossings so that the fireman could walk forward to check that the gates were set for the train. Fogs in Nottingham were real pea soupers.

In between the use of coal to produce town gas and the change to north sea gas a number of gas works using oil were built, one was at Ambergate but it didn't last long because of north sea gas.

Me too, you know where everything is because you see it regularly looking for something else!

There were wires on Market Street, but not normally used.

I think that C&A was the first escalator in Nottingham. I remember going to see it.

Stepen is correct, I think at one time in the early 1950's that the 42 ran from the Old Market Square to Bulwell Market. I also think that the automatic point changers were in use when it was possible and date back a long time, they required the trolley to ether coast over the switch or take power depending on the required route. There was one of the pull handle point switches on the hill down to Bulwell Market to seperate the 43's from the 44's, they couldn't use an auto one as the hill was quite steep and all trolleys would be coasting with the brakes on.

Dandy, Beano, then Wizard. Meccano, Dinky toys, and a clockwork Hornby O gauge. Whip & Top and a scooter.

Being chased by my Mum round the back yard saying come to the shelter there is a German bomber.

The school chemistry labs had all three strong acids on the benches for students to use, and no vizors or goggles or even lab coats. This was in the 1950's. When I worked in the NCB labs we also used Hydroflouric Acid, nasty stuff it etches glass, we did use gloves then and had lab coats.. On day release at the Tech we did try to make TNT (Trinitro-Toluene) not easy in a lab we didn't succeed. Oh what fun we had. I feel sorry for today's children so mollycoddled.

Of course it was Frank Ellis. A senior moment must have got to me. I didn't know the later owners.

Just the area I grew up in. I went to Highbury School as an infant & Junior, the to High Pavement, I went to the Highbury Cinema and to the Sunday School at the Methodist Church on Broomhill Road.

I lived on Henrietta Street off Highbury Road and remember the shopping. No supermarkets just different shops for things, and rationing. We would leave home and go through Nansen Street to Broomhill Road then down to Highbury Road turn left and the first call was the post office for a postal order for Fathers football coupon, then across the road to the co-op, butter, bacon, sugar (in a blue bag), flour, tea (loose not tea bags), washing powder (Oxydol, and Persil), soap (Lifebouy), and other things I cannot remember. payment by cash (check number 56612 for the divi) went to the office by one

I remember being taken to see the flood in Bulwell Main Street, in 1947.

I was brought up in Bulwell & my name is Brian.

Many organic sulphur compounds have a very bad smell, they can be smelt at very small concentrations of a few parts per million. I expect that was what the gas works smell was.

The trolly buses certainly had a distinctive smell very different from motor buses.

From the maps it looks to me that Park Lane joined Hucknall Road at the bend in Hucknall Road oposite "Marble Arch" but that Marble Arch was not a continuation of Park Lane but an occupation bridge for a farm beyond. I also think that St Albans Road goes accross Kersall Drive and changes to Park Lane at the kink. The foot path over Halfpenny Bridge was proberbly there before the GCR was built hence the bridge. I wonder is there a map after the GNR Lean Valley line and before the GCR? Incidently I knew St Albans Road long before I ever thought I would live in St Albans City. The connection is

Could the train in post 17 just be a test train from Derby & back?

Shows how big the coal was before mechanisation.

The bridge was definitly red brick arch, it was just below where the GNR & GCR came the closest. The bottom photo clearly shows the foot bridge over the GCR, we used to call it the 'apenny bridge.

Some great photos Briyeo, I will find time to look at them closely. Thanks for the oppertunity.

My guess is that "Marble Arch" and similar bridges date back to the building of the railway line. I wonder if the name came from bus conductors labeling it to give the bus stop a name, what else could they call it?

Its all part of the concentration of signalling to just 12 centres in the whole of GB. I remember when Trent PB was built. Nottingham Midland had a signal box in the middle of each of the Island platforms as well as a big ones at each end. There were more controling junctions and sidings nearby. Progress.

The factory at the bottom of Albert Street in Bulwell, next to Highbury Schools had a loud steam hooter.