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I did look at that building and looks like it has a "1865" and "RB" above the entrance, can't read the other writing. Also if you zoom in looks like a carved moth ? above the emblem .

There's a news article that gave an address for Pharoahs as being "Jacobys Factory, Broadway" if that helps. Another article on its opening in 1971 said it was a 4 storey building.

My first car was a '63 Mini , reg number 196 TAR . Unfortunately the flywheel shed some teeth and it was difficult to start , so had to get rid . We used to live on the hill at Thorneywood above the car auctions on Honeywood Gds and it just about made it there to be auctioned off . Think it fetched £10 .

More here on 2021 Census https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/questiondevelopment/nationalidentityethnicgrouplanguageandreligionquestiondevelopmentforcensus2021

We live in West Cornwall and Concorde always passed over at about 6pm on it's way to the USA. As it left the mainland and they increased speed , the sonic boom used to rattle everyone's West facing windows.

Landaulette or Laudette , looks similar and the colour of "Humber Red" maybe authentic . Thanks for posting .

This is probably close to what the Humber taxi looked like , this from 1907

I was in the same class at Gedling in the 60s with John Frudd of the Mapperley plumbing company . Later on in the 70s , when married , we moved next door to John's parents on Norman Road , off Porchester Rd.

This article appeared exactly 115 years ago in the Nottingham Daily Express of Feb 18th 1908 "Arrival of the "taxi". Latest addition to Nottinghams traffic. HUMBERS, LIMITED'S ENTERPRISE Ticking off the miles at the rate of a shilling a time, the motor taxi-cab has arrived in Nottingham. Whether it will stay, the success of the taxi" alone will decide, for the venture is purely an experimental one, and as far as can be gathered, not even the promoters have formulated a definite plan of future working. In all the glory of the characteristic "Humber red

Wot no mention of GEM ?

Perhaps slight name change ? I wondered if it said something like Carlton Road West ?

Yep that's the place !

The times I went by this place on the corner of Carlton Hill and Porchester Road , initially when a lad on the 25 bus to and from Mapperley and then when I lived in Thorneywood and drove to West Bridgford each day . Was speaking to my brother recently , who was a school pal at Henry Mellish of organist Dave Rowberry , (who later replaced Alan Price in The Animals group) and he told me Dave Rowberry's dad worked in that old corrugated roofed , former chapel that was Henry Groves Organ Works .

@benjamin1945 There's a piece in the Evening Post , Sept 1975 about a Mrs Christine Bliss of The Clinton Arms, re-uniting with her sister Kathleen for the first time in 18 years after she migrated to Australia . This probably your "Chrissie" ?

Katyjay, yes I remembered we had a conversation ages ago about our connection with North Wheatley . Must have been something in the water there !!

This from the Guardian Journal June 30th 1956. (Can't find any mention of the Sargasso in the news archives.) "An application for a music licence for a wireless and guitar for the El Toreador Coffee Bar at 43, Burton-street, Nottingham, which opens on Monday, was adjourned to the next Transfer Sessions by the justices at yesterday's Nottingham Transfer Sessions. The owner, Marguerite Hamblin, told the court she applied for the licence from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day of the week-including Sunday. The Assistant Chief Constable, Mr. F. D. Porter, commented on "certain

I have sort of a connection to the Retford area . My grandmother was born in 1876 in North Wheatley which is nearby. I never knew her , (she died in Carlton of the Spanish flu in 1919) , when my dad was only 5 years old . She was illegitimate , as were her brother and sister . The only clue as to who the father may have been is the birth of the brother called "Alfred Carson Denby" . He was born and died in 1875 . There's a record on his death that says he was the "illegitimate son of Alfred Carson". Nothing to say that Alfred Carson fathered all three children

Looks like some shops in The Victoria Centre first started trading in the first week of June 1972 . Having said that Boots with the Parliament Street entrance may have opened earlier perhaps even April/May 1972 . "The Victoria Centre part of which opens this week-end—is in a different class to Birmingham's pride and joy, the Bull Ring. "It is bigger and a lot better. Lower Shopping Level . Superscan Store ,TN Parr ,Jas Smith, Lennards ,Peters Stores , Wigfalls , Etam etc.........." Friday 02 June 1972 - Stapleford & Sandiacre News The previous Central Market

Advert from the EP. 21st Feb 1973 showing the New Welbeck was a Berni Inn. Look at the wages offered ! HANDYMAN Required, six days a week.from 9a.m. - 3p.m., 35p an hour. Also full time barmaid Required. Good wages and commission. Five day week. - Contact Manager. The New Welbeck (Berni Inns). 16. Victoria Centre, Nottingham.

Don't know why they chose Newark but also known as the Three Counties who were formed 1925/6.

As mary1947 said it was the Milton's Head , a Home Brewery pub in the Victoria Centre , it had frontage to Parliament St and an entrance from upstairs within the Centre apparently. The original Milton's Head stood on the corner of what became the new entrance to the Vic Centre. Further down Parliament St but still within the confines of Vic Centre was the Prince Albert , an Ansells pub , later Butlers ,later Levers Invention, later Havana Bar ? (May not have been in that order). I vaguely remember them being there but left Notts in 1981 (Info from some Facebook pages). R

Looks like the Napier Inn on Union Road and also the New Inn ceased trading 1971 when a license was issued for premises within the Vic Centre. This from the E.P. March 30th 1971 : "Removal of a justices license for retail intoxicating liquor of all descriptions on premises situate at Union Road in the City of Nottingham known by the sign of the "NEW INN" and of which premises the Home Brewery Company Limited of Daybrook is the owner from such premises to certain premises intended to be erected in the Nottingham Victoria Development Centre .....of which premises the

Makes you wonder what Russian citizens are fed about the Western world . My daughter in law , in the Netherlands , is an administrator in the Dutch office of a multi-national software company. They had an office in Moscow but because of the invasion it was closed down but the company offered jobs to staff who could relocate out of Russia. Three women and their families decided to relocate to Holland and it seems to have fallen on my daughter in law to find accommodation for them . One of the other Dutch office workers happened to have a vacant property

I was listening on Talksport on edge ! Would have been even more unbelievable if Johnson's last minute punt into an open goal from 30 yards had gone in .......especially with them only having 25% of possession .

This confused me this morning , a link to a story of a pub called the Foresters Inn on Huntingdon St , a former "LGBT" pub , being demolished for flats. This one fronts St Mark's St . Had to resort to Streetview to make sure it was a different pub. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/plan-knock-down-former-nottingham-7733483.amp So there were two pubs with "Foresters" in the title near to each other and both were LGBT pubs ?