Trevor S

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  1. Morning all, Anybody remember when Skills (single and double deckers) ran a public service from RoT to Nottingham back in the 50s. Not sure of their other routes (if any) but the RoT route extended along Shelford Road to the top of Shelford Hill. Another service back then was the Gashes that ran along the A52 to Newark? Have searched for old pics or stories of these services but have not found anything....anybody help me please?
  2. Railess compound 1965 Corporation bus in the compound, October 1965 Found this later on another web site and trolley buses appear to be waiting for the scrapyard...no Notts Corp. stickers on side, doors open and I cannot see any overhead wires. There was no indication where it was on the website.
  3. This was the last Trolly Bus, they were withdrawn in 1966. This particular bus was first in service in 1950, they built them to last in those days ! The poles were for ever detaching from the overhead lines and it was the conductors job to use a twenty foot pole that came with each bus to fix it back. They carried seventy passengers !
  4. Tried that...worked in one Forum but not this one. We'll work it out.
  5. Trinity Walk.................The Pet Centre. Picture on the PTP site under Trinity Walk. However.....there was only one good pet centre to buy your dogs from and that was Trevart Kennels in Radcliffe on Trent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  6. Thanks mick2me........Photos by O.Kirk is another Panoramia site that I forgot to mention. I will get the hang of posting in due course.
  7. http://www.panoramio.com/user/2430449/slideshow?tag=Nottingham More pics of the Arboretum plus a few of Notts....enjoy the slideshow.
  8. By chance, I came across this website and since I have not seen any mention of it on nottstalgia to date; thought you all might like to sample the excellent pictures by various photographers of Nottingham and suburbs both now and then. Google 'panoramio prufrock'.......left click on 'show all tags' on the right hand side column, select Nottingham and then click on 'launch slideshow' up in the right corner. This particular site has many pictures of Hyson Green, Radford and Sneinton from the 70s and earlier....Well worth a look. Of course, there are other areas around Nottingham to look at
  9. In the 50s, it had the same steps down at the entrance and immediately to your right on entry were the very narrow wooden stairs leading to another eating area upstairs. It was a dark place as Paulus describes; low ceiling, dark wooden panelling halfway up the walls and yes, very cozy on a winters evening. The walls were yellowish, probably from the fog of ciggie smoke that always seemed to be in there. The place gave the impression of being from the Tudor ages. The upstairs was probably closed in the 60s as it would have been definitely classified as a fire hazard. Steep narrow woode
  10. Ponch with a copper bowl on bottom just as Katyjay desxcribed, metal tub as pictured and a mangle on a metal stand that would be placed over tub. Corrugated wooden board for rubbing clothes clean. Single clothes line across back yard with a wooden prop. Anybody's Mum use to boil hankies in a big pan on the stove to clean them like mine did? Then, when the sheets were dry, helping ( if you were not quick enough!) your Mum to 'pull' the sheets and fold them.
  11. Back in the late 50s when my Dad had the Shell garage in Castle Boulevard, he employed a fella on the pumps and workshop who I think was called Billie. I remember that he was small, probably 5 stone dripping wet and on a couple of occasions he ran out of puff trying to kick start his bike, a very large machine that he used to perch on top of like a little monkey. My Dad kicked started it for him a couple of times and I remember on one occasion even had to pick it up when it fell over one night. Remember him arriving taking off from the garage like a rocket. If it was Billie, he didn't s
  12. Whatabout Bootsie and Snudge, a spin off from Hut 29? Firts TV program I saw on TV was the Cisco Kid on a friends set. First programme on our TV when we switched it on....good old Danial Boone. Most hated programme?....Songs of Praise that my parents would watch on Sunday evenings followed by Sunday Night at the London Palladium with Bruce Forsythe ( unless decent pop star or group was on!).
  13. Littlebo, thanks for your time and effort. The original site has been totally demolished, including the lock up garages aound the rear. The lube and wash bays, together with the office /small shop were all in one building frontin on where the back row of pumps are now. That building at the side was not there and neither was the canopy over the forecourt or the pathway and central traffic island shown in your photo. I should check Google Map more often as it is now showing what you have depicted in your photo. Considering the original buildings were all brick constructions and the l
  14. The railway embankments were definitely in place by the time we left and there were no lines or trains running at that stage. I checked the RSPCA Radcliffe website and their History advises they bought it from my parents in 62 (Think it was more like late 61 but my memory is 50 years old). Checks of the websites re Cotgrave Colliery indicate the viaducts were constructed in the 60s and there is a photo of a train from the colliery on top of the embankment in 68. I have spent some time on the internet while you have slept and after finding umpteen websites connected with Cotgrave Collier
  15. Michael, in a few well chosen words you have echoed the thoughts of many. He might have left the building but the Legend lives on. Remember seeing Jailhouse Rock at the pictures at the old Church Hall in Radcliffe in 57/58.
  16. Remember that line being built (late 50s-early 60) as we had the dog kennels (now the RSPCA) at the junction of the A52 and old Nottingham Road. Watched the embankment grow daily in the fields behind us and it cut off all the views across the fields to the west eventually. The farmer who owned the land whose name I forget (began with B???) but was a big name in Radcliffe was compensated but apparently was unhappy with his farm being cut in half although the top of the embankment was great for shooting rabbits. There was an old gravel quarry on the Cotgrave side of Nottingham Road where th
  17. Thanks Stu. If it wasn't for the Slab Square and a couple of the old buildings, I would be wondering what planet the video was taken. I have Googled the town quite a few times and with the benefit of still photography can eventually work out some of the old spots but your video left me guessing. People are right when they say that you will not recognise the place after an absence of 50 years!
  18. Thanks Littlebro. When we sold it in 63, the lock up garages were incomplete with no roofs or doors, the lube bay was being fitted out and the wash bay at the pub end was not in use. Off thread, what's with the photo of the Mustang??? Do you have one?
  19. Learnt to swim at Portland, still remember the brown cork floats. Metal baskets to put your gear in and return to attendant behind his counter under the gallery seats where you would get a safety pin with a metal numbered tag.. Remember al the holes drilled/dug out in the cubicle wooden walls and the care you used to take to cover them when you were getting changed. Numbers displayed on a board at the attendants when your time was up. Male change cubicles down one side and female down the other (side near entrance). Realised later why all the males, fathers and others, used to sit high
  20. My father had the Shell garage in Wollaton Vale, right next to the Hemlockstone Pub, in the early 60s. He built it in anticipation of Wollaton Vale being extended out to link up eventually with the M1. In those days, Wollaton Vale effectively ended at Arleston Drive. Sadly the extension plans were apparently put on hold for whatever reason for some time. Association with this thread??? He sold the garage to the Co-op in early 63 and I stayed on working there for a few months. Surprising the number of people who came in for petrol and didn't have or bother with the Divi number.
  21. Sorry Compo, cant remember the Blockbusters....by the mid 60s I was over here. My memories are visits to the Theatre Royal with my mum, grandma or aunt to see pantomimes when I was a little one in the 50s. We always used to go to the Empire Cafe for tea before the theatre. Baked beans on toast! Late 50s after a night on the town, us Radcliffe boys acted as though we were adults and occasionally used to go there for a coffee before the train (steam) back to Radcliffe. Got a cousin (last one) up your way in Balchristie, Colinsburgh. When we come over there, we are going to do the fam
  22. Scanning through Google, I was searching for the old Empire Cafe which I think used to be in Forman Street (?) just down from the Theatre Royal. I remember it as a typical Tudor style little place with small windows and doors. Seem to remember you went down some steps to enter and there was also an upstairs area with tables. The walls had various pictures with a lot of those animal caricatures of dogs playing cards etc. It probably was closed for safety reasons as the stairs leading upstairs were very narrow and wooden. Great snacks though. Does anybody remember the Shell Service Station in C
  23. Thank you for the welcome. It is unfortunate that I have no pictures of my childhood Nottingham, just memories on which I could write all day but will not bore you, besides, I have to spend my time looking through this website! Until next time.
  24. The name is Trevor, born at The Firs in 1946, lived in Holme and Carnarvon Roads in West Bridgeford before moving to Cliff Drive in Radcliffe on Trent in 49-50. Went to school at Radcliffe Infants School until 1957 and then onto Bramcote Grammar and then Arnold High School. Left Cliff Drive when my father built what was then Trevart Kennels (now the site of the RSPCA complex). As well as Trevart Kennels, my father ran the Shell Garage in Castle Boulevard before he sold Trevart Kennels to the RSPCA, exited the lease on Castle Boulevard and built and developed a Shell Garage in Wollaton