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Trevor , Reaville with an e on the end is a rarer spelling of the name . Most results in census searches are spelt Reavill. Did you know there was a Reaville's Yard in Nottingham . The map guys will know better but think its in the Forman Street area .Its mentioned in the second page of the newspapers archive results here: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/newspapers/results?&firstName=&lastName=reaville&county=ALL&keywords=&includeVariants=true&pageNumber=1&region=East+Midlands%2C+England

Thought there was no news in Notts this past weekend ? ....well you missed this dramatic story . http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Couple-return-holiday-grass-street-cut-different/story-19155350-detail/story.html#axzz2V9qJLiLZ

Ermmmm......Haven't had chance to study it properly but something is not quite right about that first marriage . If this info is correct Francis Hambleton living at that address for over 20 years was married to a Frances Wall not Fanny Smithurst . http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wall-derbyshire&id=I29098

Just reminded me today , as we went to say goodbye to a girl who we worked with , who's moving back to Leicester , after living here for over 30 years . When I would look at my watch and say something like , "Crikey its 4 o'clock ! " She would always reply "mmm 4 o'clock and no po's emptied ! "

By jove , I think she's got it !

Welcome to the message board Rocco . Most on here will know of Peveril Street in Nottingham and there are plenty that know Radford . If you know any street names I'm sure someone will find a photograph or a map . Good luck ! Edit : Theres one story in the news archive where your Oscar got bashed , looks like it was near Denman Street : http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/newspapers/results?recordCount=-1&firstName=oscar&lastName=cadet&fromYear=&toYear=&county=ALL&keywords=

Liking lots of stuff now that I never could have stood when a teenager, years ago. Used to groan when Lonnie Donegan came on the many variety shows in the 50s / 60s yet really love a greatest hits cd of his that I bought recently . Because of that have also downloaded an album of early American folk music that must have influenced him. Also wierdly had a fad on Chas and Dave a few months ago and some of their cheeky sing along songs such as Give It To The Girl Next Door . A couple of years ago went a bit modern classical and bought most things that Karl Jenkins made . He used to be a membe

Small world Stephen , my brother used to live on Pilkington Road , in the 80s and only yesterday I was saying to my wife how my mum and dad used to love to go to Highfields , not for the boats but to see the Rhodedendrons (spelling ? ) in bloom , which if its the same as here should be about this time of year .

Wow Cliff Ton , I am one of those who probably last went in there in the 70s . I can only remember the busy front part by the side of Woolworths . As you say its early in the day but does look like a ghost town . As an aside I remember when I worked at ASDA, again in the 70s and one of our supervisors left to go and work in the brand new Argos in the Broadmarsh . They were a relatively new company then . At the time we wondered why on earth she was leaving us to go and work for such a down-market operation !

Sorry Stan , I didn't make myself clear , I had read that report on the BBC but it seemed very selective . I wondered what data the reporter was using . Reading it again he quotes the Office of National Statistics but I think he was actually using a press release issued by the Halifax Building Soc. If you google that and an "Anthony Warrington" and "16034" (average income) you should see it . To save typing see if this link works https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=images&source=android-browser-suggest&client=tablet-android-samsung&redir_esc=&q=google&hl=en-GB&qsubt

Its hard to find any detail on this story and I am sure the same text could have been written about people on numerous estates throughout Britain . It appears to come from a survey by the Halifax . There are other things to take into account apart from wages . Nottingham is probably cheaper for housing than many other towns and because of competition , consumer goods are cheaper too. We live in one of the poorest towns in Cornwall but living costs are high . Despite what you see on the TV , the majority pf the population don't live in cottages overlooking a beach .There are a lot of poor pe

Re post #7 . Thanks for the info Ayup . I have made the same mistake before when recommending that video elsewhere . I.e. calling them trams . Never really thought about it before and its hard to grasp the mechanics of the cable cars . Didn't realise that in the centre rail there is a cable that drags the cars along . Amazing what ideas people came up with !!

I would forgive them everything if they put all the old Bygones supplements on line (for free) but doubt that will happen !

Different area but this guy stole some cable , nearly killed himself in the process and in the resulting powercut to the area , his own grandma was stuck on her stairlift for 4 hours !http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2333785/Bungling-thief-21-died-setting-trying-steal-live-11-000-watt-cable.html

Yes that name rings a bell .

Well if its a rainy day there ,this ones even more OT but a fascinating film taken from a camera mounted on a tram in Market Street , San Francisco days before the great earthquake of 1906 . There don't seem to be many rules with regard to the traffic and cars and people weave in and out of horses and wagons and have scant regard for the trams .

I know it says it was a Sunday but it's also notable that practically every man in that Petticoat Lane clip was a wearing a jacket and sported a cap . Same is true for this even earlier film from 1903.....and still seems to be a male dominated scene .

More about Nigel Smith . I seem to remember the name more than the face though ! http://sarahmiddleton-woolley.co.uk/nigel-smith/

LizzieM wrote : John Landon is on that video, in the red jacket. I remember him in the 60's playing with The Incrowd, think his dad was the manager. He lived off Mapperley Top so probably went to Gedling School. Roger Lymn is also there, he was in Sons of Adam, before they became Sons and Lovers. My good friend Bill Moseley is there too, he was a member of the Beatmen in the 60's. I saw Roger interviewed on TV recently because the HS2 railway line is going through his front room! Apart from the name John Landon ,I don't know the other names , were they ex Gedling school too ?

When we see old black and white movies we somehow don't tend to relate to the lifestyle of today . Put it in colour and you realise that all the people in this video though long gone and though having simpler lives , probably had similar worries to what we have today . This fascinating colour film is of London but no reason to believe Nottingham wouldn't have had similar vehicles and the people probably looked similar too . One thing that is strange , towards the end , is the footage of Petticoat Lane market .....full of men , hardly a woman in sight . (Click on the arrows by the vimeo sign

Just searching through some old emails and found a really old one from an ex-Gedling school pal that mentioned a Nigel Smith who was in the same year as me . They thought it was the same Nigel Smith who played with an Irish band in the 60s called Andwellas Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeOUCBP4YU0 More recently looks like the same chap in the Rockin Relics and looking at the line up , the name John Landon rings a bell as being an ex Gedling pupil too . http://www.nottinghamgigguide.com/act/Rockin_Relics The pair of them in another band . Anyone know these bands ?

Wow great first post . There is another first hand memory of that night here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/21/a4438721.shtml I can't see any newspaper reports of the raid , maybe withheld but there is this mention of the inquest some 9 months later IDENTIFICATION OF BODIES. an air raid on Nottingham last May. The coroner said that he was satisfied that Conner was on the premises of the Co-operative Society's Bakery, Meadow-lane, and in the shelter when it was hit, and that he was killed. He therefore recorded verdict that, of the raid, and did not. return the followi

Not quite so old as the previous but another street party . Queens Jubilee party from the first week in July 1977 . We lived on Norman Road but the party was on Standhill Road. Thorneywood . There was some sort of street party competition arranged by Radio Nottingham and Standhill Road got the top prize , (as far as I remember ). Whatever the prize was , you can see Freddy Parrot-Face Davies presenting a cake and the radio presenter doing a live commentary . Somewhere I have a cassette of the radio broadcast at the time . Apart from Parrot-face don't know any other names . My eldest g

Blimey I'm amazed at everyones memory on their driving lessons . I know I had well over 25 lessons with BSM . Think the office was somewhere around Shakespeare St. though I may be wrong on that . The only thing I remember from the first lessons was driving up and down Gregory Boulevard . The instructor was a dreadful bad tempered bloke and scared me stiff and after spending a fortune , failed the first test miserably , driving around a very busy Bulwell . Was the test centre based in Bulwell ? With BSM I learnt in a Mini with the lousy long gear lever , it was awful for learning in . Afte

Round here in a rural place , that will mean a lot of empty buses then and drivers put on the dole as a consequence . You only see old folk on the buses in the daytime and I doubt there are that many jobs available for the young folk to go after .