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Doh looks like The Snackery has already been covered many years ago . It showed up on google but not the sites own search bar . http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=248&page=3 And they made their own pies !

A picture of the Snackery chip shop on Wollaton St. Did I imagine it was called the Hippodrome Snackery ? Was the Gaumont once called the Hippodrome ? http://www.dreamtargets.com/nottm80s/gallery_0148.htm

Ahhhh those sort of shears . You should have plenty to contribute here then .

According to closed pubs it was called The Hand , closed in the 80s.. I think the shop Stret ons should have been Strettons a bedding shop ? Somebody went out for "t".

Hiya Shears ! Were you a gardener or a hairdresser ?

Thats the definitely the block of shops , maybe the cafe was further down the street out of this camera view . Ta !

Mick ref.#47 , its possible they are from the same Norman ancestors but we had a family of Pierrepoints living on our road at Mapperley, dad was a brickie , so I guess there were a lot of them about . Edit: just checked the 1881 Census and in England and Wales there were over 900 people with a variation of the name . In Notts alone there were about 100 Pierreponts or points .

Yes Babs my wifes suit was suede too . The " kinky" boots were in the fashion at the time . We were just heading off for our honeymoon in Benedorm ......wasn't that warm in March !

Actually Stephen you are right 13/6 pence must have been quite an expensive meal now I think about it . I remember as a young teenager (must have been before 1964 when I started a Saturday job) , my Saturday treat was to go in a cafe facing the Hippodrome Snackery, up by the Gaumont. Could have been next door to a stamp shop ? You could have pie , chips and peas, tea and bread and butter for 2/6 pence. Then belly full , hop on a free bus from Parliament St. to go and watch Forest play....happy days. Can't see any mention on here of the Hippodrome Snackery . What a wonderful place that was f

Just found a sort of business card for the Flying Horse Hotel in the Poultry , Nottingham in my parents stuff . As you see the prices are in £sd and my parents left Nottingham in 1966 so must be pre that date . Way back in this thread , someone asked how many bars there were . I expect it changed over time but when this was printed , there were 7 bars and 3 restaurants . I know its all relative to wages at the time but £4.25 for a double room and less than 70 pence for a sirloin steak seems good value ! (Listed for future Googlers) Friar Tucks Grill,Roundabouts Grill,Blue Boar Grill,

Blue Bell Hill runs parallel to St.Anns Well Rd. From St.Ann Well Rd go up Donkey Hill (St.Bartholomews Road ) and two thirds the way up , turn right . It lies between St Anns Well Road and Gordon Road

Its funny how your mind (and age) plays tricks ! Just idly thought I would see if I could get a streetview of the back of the maisonettes that we used to live in on Cherrywood , to see how high they were above the old brickyard . As mentioned before I thought of it as a sheer drop . So searched on Honeywood Drive , which was built within the old brickyard off Thorneywood Mount and came up with this . Maisonettes are top right but because of all the trees and shrubbery that have grown since we left it , hardly seems much elevation at all : After looking at this , thought I would search fo

Thanks for any "ticks" . Usually only the Mrs that "ticks" me off ! I enjoy researching this stuff but do tend to get a bit OCD with it , much to her annoyance . Anyway , getting back to the large building , Pierrepont House , that shows to the right of St. Marys in the original picture, repeated here below : In one way , it seems a building ahead of its time and could nearly fit in with any 60s / 70s modern block of flats ! Though I am sure it had much more style ! It was also the first building in Nottingham to have sash windows . There isn't that much info about it but most seem t

Rob L , Another one from there , was the late, Dave Rowberry , keyboard player that replaced Alan Price in The Animals ? I'm sure he lived on Fernleigh ( unless it was Roseleigh Ave ) ?

Rob L . Does your surname end with a Y ? If so , its a name I remember from Fernleigh , though thats all I remember . Some other surnames I remember from there were Scott and Knight , ring any bells ?

Thanks Stephen , all interesting stuff and things I didn't know . I assumed Gordon Road was named after General Gordon but never noticed that Edginton sign ! Quite plausible that the more northerly footpath was a "pilgrims" route to the Holy Well , makes sense . So one of the fields by Bartholomews Stile was for the keeping of stray animals . Pinder is also a surname (Mike Pinder of the Searchers ) , so we know what their ancestors did for a living....rounded up stray animals !

What I find fascinating now , is that when I was staring out the window at our maisonette at the end of Cherrywood , all those years ago , if only I had had a time machine and could go back further a few hundred years , what sights would I have seen of no doubt countless people tramping across the footpath to Gedling and beyond ? Why was only Gedling mentioned for the direction of this footpath in early stories , did Carlton develop much later than Gedling ? Doesn't really help much but below a pic from our wedding day ,( I had hair then and shiny shoes !)...... after our reception at pare

Once again Cliff Ton you've done it ! Really interesting to me as I lived in that area . Took me a while to spot the F.P. (footpath) even though its right across the centre of your map . Wonder why Thorneywood Lane name was changed to Porchester Road ? So Thorneywood Mount was a later addition as a main road and followed the footpath route and where the pathway crosses Porchester it would appear that Cherrywood Gdns (another of my old roads) has been built roughly over it , following a line above the brickworks quarry . Looking at a modern map maybe Ernest Road now , is built over the fo

If it's too good to be true....then it probably is .

My suntan story is from many moons ago ,when I was a teenager and a group of us drove from Nottingham for a mid-summer camping holiday to Newquay . I'm not a bit interested in fishing but one of my pals , (unfortunately) , fancied a shark fishing trip , so three of us drove over to Mevagissey and got on one of the small open , fishing-boat trips from the harbour . It was a typical Cornish blustery overcast day when we set out to the open sea and I had my mac on ( just in case ! ) . On the way out the skipper threw a multi-hook line over the side , as did a few others . Must have found a sh

I doubt this is of much interest and haven't had chance to peruse all the 22 pages of this thread but it was on the back of something that my Mum cut out the paper . Unfortunately if there was any text , thats long gone .

Stephen , I had forgotten that footpath by the allotments , you were braver than me ! I don't think I ever went down it as it was a bit scary if you were on your own . What you say makes sense and as you say does line up with the donkey-steps at the end of Standhill, if you go down Florence Road , that's assuming you wanted to get from the Wells Road . However if you were coming from town its further to walk and Donkey Hill would save some shoe leather . Maybe a path linked up along the top of the hill on what is now Porchester Road ? This is the best I could do with a screen grab but the

My dad built our house just off the the lower end of Marshall Hill Drive in the 30s and we used to play on the Valley Road fields or "The Wreck " or should that be Reck ? before any houses were built . Facing us on the other side of the valley was also still fields and I remember the estates being built in the early 50s. However the houses up on Standhill must have been much earlier . In fact one that we lived in was called Victoria Villa when we moved up there . So if there was a footpath it must have been built over late 1800s at a guess.

Something I've pondered about since this thread started was whether the donkey steps that went down to what is now Valley Road were actually a continuation of the footpath from the top of Donkey Hill that took you to Gedling . I've read a few references to this pathway either going to Lambley or Gedling . I'm talking when the whole area was just fields . Maybe the steps were too far to the North ?

I found this etching in old book about coaching ages ago , didn't do a very good screen-shot but you can just about make out St Marys and St.Peters and the windmills on the far right . Its a drawing of a broad-wheeled heavy wagon being pulled by a team of horses down a rough track that was to become Mansfield Road