[Marshall Street]

I've just come across a couple of old photos of the shop my mother had in Sherwood on the corner of Marshall Street and Hood Street. We moved there in July 1961 and left in 1967. The photos probably date from 1962 or 1963. It wasn't long before the street lighting was modernised.

The advertising signs visible were almost all in place when we moved in and they just stayed there - I don't remember us selling Lipton's Tea or Colman's Starch, nor Player's Bachelor Tipped cigarettes.

Note the traditional jars of sweets visible, and the advert for Wall's Split, which I think were a new thing then. Iced lollipops - I suppose I should say suckers on here - with ice cream in the middle. Orange or raspberry flavours I think. We stopped selling ice cream after a few years as my mother said the ice cream vans (e.g. Mr. Whippy) were taking the trade away.

That whole block was later demolished - I last went around there in, I think, the 1980s and there was just an empty space. No doubt something else has been built there now.

This photo shows my mother and grandmother outside the shop.

[Resurrecting old Threads.]

I'll tell you in a couple of years time.

[St Anns in the 60s]

#124 - Stan, that's great information.

You're right - that was from the front bedroom above the shop you mention. We moved there in mid-November 1959 and were there until July 1961. We didn't sell ice cream at that time, but did sell sweets and 'fancy goods' - small toys and the like. To be honest I can't remember what else.

Yes, next door on the corner was (in my time) Marshall's off licence. I was at school with Karen Marshall.

The shop directly across the road that you mention was evidently closed by that time, by the look of it in the photo.

I remember the newspaper shop, where at that time you could still buy the Evening News as well as the Post. Griggs probably was further down. In the morning there would be the aroma of baking bread, and a treat would be to buy a freshly baked roll still warm from the oven to eat on the way to school. Maxine Griggs was another schoolmate.

When we first moved there the street was still cobbled. It must have been 1960 when the tarmac was laid, although I have no memory of it being done, so the photo was taken after that.

[St Anns in the 60s]

#125 - Well, as I indicated, I'm able to scan negatives OK by laying them on the glass - the photo of the bus being an example - but of course as the aperture in the lid is designed for 35mm negatives you lose maybe about a quarter of the picture. So it's not practical in cases where you'd lose too much of it.

The scanner I have is a CanoScan 4400F.

[St Anns in the 60s]

Well, I can't put them in the holder so have to line them up by eye. It does take a bit of trial and error, and it does chop off either the top or bottom of the picture (or a part of both). With that example it would likely have meant the top part down to the window sills being chopped off.

So it's not ideal, but if for example you've got a photo with a bit of sky at the top you can get away with it.

Here's an example - I suppose Huntingdon Street is not too far away from St. Anns!

[St Anns in the 60s]

I don't know, sorry - the original photo is an un-enlarged one from a Brownie 127 and is less than a quarter of the size it appears here so I can't make much out. I no longer have the negative.

I can't remember for sure, but that could be Mr Griggs' shop - he used to bake his own bread to sell in the shop and the alleyway could be leading to the bakery part at the back.

[St Anns in the 60s]

This probably belongs on here. I was looking through some old photos today and came across this one, taken from the bedroom window over our shop on Blue Bell Hill Road. Not a very inspiring view! Date would have most likely been early 1961.

[Things you don't see anymore]

I can beat that - I've got 18 x £1 Premium Bonds which I bought around 45 years ago and have never won anything.

[Whatever happened to......?]

And good old TYAFANS - hope he hasn't been abducted by aliens.

[Memories of Victoria station]

Regarding being able to get a train to almost anywhere from Victoria, to be fair you could also do that from the Midland station. The only place of any size (and that not very big) served only by the Great Central main line was Lutterworth in Leicestershire.

[Nottingham Trolleybus Group]

Stephen - I see there's a picture of it here:

http://www.sct61.org.uk/lgonw2a

To be honest there seem to be so many transport photo websites I never know which to bother with.

[The best Notts County team]

Moniz - out!

[Famous Nottingham Folk]

#46 - another Old Pavior.

[Streets - old and new]

Connected with this subject, is it an urban myth or is it in fact true that Broad Eadow Road at Snape Wood was originally called Broad Meadow Road, but the letter M fell off the sign causing it for ever after to be known as Broad Eadow Road?

[Buses in Nottingham]

I think it was just the camber of the road.

[Favourite flower]

Can I be the first to say cauliflower? With plenty of gravy.

[Buses in Nottingham]

Not the best quality, but this photo shows the former no. 702 in use with Nottingham University Students Union.

[What was your favourite toy as a child]

I certainly don't remember The Range Rider saying anything like that.

[Famous film quotesI]

I don't claim to be word perfect on this, but from 'The Love Match' with Arthur Askey and Danny Ross:

'What's your name, son?'

'Alf Hall'

'Well we'll pick you up if you do'.

[What was your favourite toy as a child]

Yes, with most cup guns you loaded a roll in, but my favourite was one with individual 'bullets'. Each had a removable metal base, and you tore off a single cap which you put inside each one and loaded them back in the revolving chamber. Then as you pulled the trigger the hammer hit one setting the cap off separately. Obviously it was more trouble than just putting a roll in, and much more time consuming, but the fun came of it being more like the real thing where you had to load six 'bullets'.

[Buses in Nottingham]

This is the only other Camm's photo I've got to hand - a Bedford bought new by them. It was unusual to see one at Huntingdon Street, and this was on hire to Skill's for their East Bridgford service.

[Buses in Nottingham]

Not second-hand from Barton is it? Can't quite make out the registration...

Here's one of their double deckers - an AEC Bridgemaster originally with East Yorkshire. I don't know what it and the vehicle behind it were doing outside the Odeon, but what was showing there helps to date the photograph.

[York House]

Who remembers Squeg the Squirrel on Radio Nottingham?

[Skills Coach Tours]

I travelled to Plymouth for a holiday myself in 1966, but that was an 8.40am Black & White departure from Huntingdon Street. Changed at Cheltenham, of course, and according to the timetable book I referred to earlier, arrival at Plymouth was due at 10.11 pm. That seems pretty late to then have to find the bed & breakfast place, but I've no memory of it at all.

[Skills Coach Tours]

Lizzie - looking at my old copy of the ABC Coach & Bus Guide for 1966 suggests the following possible details:

There was a Black & White departure from Huntingdon Street at 930pm on Fridays only. It called at various places, including Leicester, to Coventry where arrival was due at 1159pm. Then it was non-stop to Cheltenham, arrival due at 2.00am Saturday morning.

Then there was a departure from Cheltenham at 2.30am (probably a Royal Blue coach< which called at Bristol for refreshments at about 4.15am then called at South Molton at 7.34, and Barnstaple at 8am. Arrival at Ilfracombe was due at 8.30am on the Saturday morning.