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Thanks for looking . Going up the hill then , past the Windsor Castle, any idea where Main Street ends ? Maybe at the junction with another road ?

Just looked in my diaries for 1963 / 64 and these are some of the groups that I saw at Digby : The Sabres Tony and the Varitones The Wanderers Rockin Henri and (looks like) Hayseeds ? The Jaybirds appeared at Digby on the 18th April 1964 and my only comment was "great" !

Can't read it as I'm 300 miles away but my brother has emailed to say that there is an item today in the Nottingham Evening Post , wanting memories of the above concert. This was the concert where The Beatles should have been supporting Roy Orbison but because they had just released From Me To You and things were going frantic it was agreed that Roy O would finish the first half of the show and The Beatles would close it . I was there, went with a girlfriend from school and have sent off what I can remember . So if anyone else went , send recollections here :

Mmmm unfortunately now out of credits , got as far as the 90s house numbers on Main Street and then got to Worths Yard . is that on any maps , off Main Street . I know my relos weren't at that address in 1911.

Maybe its the Main Street , Carlton bit that is causing confusion . I 've looked but couldn't see Main Street , Carlton on the current google map . That used to go up the hill beyond where Tesco and the Windsor Castle pub is . Now Burton Rd seems to finish at the Square and the road becomes Carlton Hill after .

I could do with help from those that have directories of Nottingham . I was told my late Dad was born and lived his early life on Carlton Hill . I'm never sure which house but it was quite a way up the hill from Carlton , up on the right . Using info on some of the birth/death certificates I have , they were living: in 1913 at 102 Main Street Carlton. (His birth) . In 1918 they were living at 342 Carlton Hill .( a sisters death) Looking today on streetview , number 342 is right on top of the hill . In fact Nott'm Building Society is given as number 344 and I never heard any mention of t

I can see the marriage on Freebmd. Have you sent for the marriage cert , this may confirm his father ? Marriages Sep 1850 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Burrows Eliza Nottingham 15 861 Cooper James Nottingham 15 861 I am running out of my free credits on Find My Past now but on the 1841 Census did spot a James Cooper aged 12, living with parents but a Joseph Cooper father not James . Living St.Marys parish Joseph age 45 a Framework Knitter (on the 1841 these ages are rounded to nearest 5 years) born Notts Ann

I'm sure I saw the Jaybirds a number of times at Arnold and Carlton College (Digby) in the early 60s at the Saturday night student dances .

Thanks Babs , thats an idea but I have found it difficult contacting The Evening Post in the past . Doesn't seem to be a specific contact for Bygones so will send it to pictures@nottinghameveningpost and see if anything happens .

Certainly if using flickr , that seems to be the way you have to post the images . The image you want to be seen first on the page has to be loaded last .

I've been looking through all the shoe boxes and you you will be relieved to hear that I can't find many with interesting back-grounds ! There are another couple more that my brother took of the mud on the un-made road at the corner of Marshall Hill Drive and Gardenia Grove at Mapperley , late 50s early 60s , with the nearest modern view I could get . I am 100% that these are the right location

Thanks Cliff Ton yes that looks more like it . Elm Avenue it is . I did see that the roof line was different in the right hand house on the two pictures but seemed to detect a new layer of bricks as if they had raised the roof when they added an extension ., thats what threw me . Still good detective work there .! The terrace that my Mum was born in , is still there on the left at the top of Park Road and if you look closely enough you can still just about see her initials that she carved in the brickwork apparently , probably in the 1920s

I've done that when we ran our shop in Cornwall . Except I used to ask "What part of Nottingham are you from ? " 5 out of 6 times I would be right but on occasions the odd one would be from Leicester or somtimes D*rby . Some would say they didn't realise they had an accent !

Hope so . Photos like this would probably get thrown out , when I have popped my clogs . I don't know any of the faces and yet a good few of the younger ones on it should still be around , so may be useful to someone .

I know I am new but Nottstalgia seems really useful to me , to be able to see images of Notts that are of social importance and yet may have been hidden , unseen in cupboards for donkeys years . So to start , I don't know much about this photo but my late mum said it was a street party at Park Road , Carlton to commemorate V.E. Day, so probably around May 1945 . You can see where someone has written an "A" , this denotes "Gwen" and the chap against the "B" is "Mr Jones". The modern photo below it , looking up to Burton Road , shows what looks like the same house on the right (with an exte

You are probably right but if we waited for one of them the plate would still be outside now . Its a bit quiet round here.

Just remembered another couple of "small world" happenings I worked as a Saturday lad at the GEM Supercentre at West Bridgford from the very beginning and there was a girl that I sometimes had coffee with who worked for the Boots concession there . Move ahead some 20 years and now having a family , had moved to Cornwall and when our eldest started school , the first teacher I saw at that school was that same "girl" from Boots at GEM . She said that yes she had worked at GEM but didn't remember me at all , so I didn't make much of an impression there ! Another coincidence was when we o

No but we have to put a plate outside the front door with a slice of bread , a piece of coal and a silver coin on it before midnight . Then a tall dark man is supposed to bring it in after midnight , unfortunately theres only me ( baldy ) to do that job !

Bumping this thread . Mrs W is very superstitous and though loves birds won't have anything with pictures of birds on , in the house . That probably harks back to mining and using caged birds to detect gas . She's also got a thing about receiving pearls . Something about pearls for tears . Theres also the one about mixing red and white flowers , as that stands for blood and bandages. More probably to follow as they occur !

It's our eldests 40th this coming weekend and we went to St.Ives on Saturday to try and find him a painting of the place , as he lives near London but loves St.Ives. It was bitterly cold but luckily a few galleries were open . After trailing round the town we happened on the indoor arcade , near the lifeboat station that houses a number of artists . We soon found that genuine oils were out of our price range but think we know (probably wrongly !) what style , son would like . We were drawn to a studio at the very end of the arcade where there were signed limited edition prints of St.Ives to

Slightly later and a different genre but from my diary I kept for 1963 , when I was a spotty 14 year old . Though I always remember vaguely going to the following concerts I didn't realise how many acts were on one bill and what value they were compared to the present.These I am sure were mainly at the Odean Cinema premises and probably paid for out of money saved from my paper round. Thurs 23rd May 1963: The Beatles Gerry and the Pacemakers Roy Orbison David Macbeth? Louise Cordet Ian Crawford? This tour was significant in that the Beatles were supposed to support Roy Orbison

You can rearrange the letters of : Twelve plus one to Eleven plus two .

Babs , shame we didn't quiz our parents about all these things and make sure they wrote the names down for us . I did try and go through some photos with my Mum and then wrote names on the back of those pics she could remember . Then after she died , we found another load of photos and I haven't a clue who some of them are .

Hi Andrea , new here myself . It's a bit overwhelming at first with all the different sections and sub-sections of the message board but everyones been friendly ( so far ! ) . Looking forward to your memories .

Does the name Wesseldine mean anything ? Theres a marriage for a John Wesseldine and Alice Rowland March Qtr 1911 . On Freebmd there are the following births to father with surname Wesseldine and mother with maiden name Rowland (can't see a Bernard) : Rhoda born 1911 Basford James born 1913 Mansfield (named after Alices father ?) John born 1923 Nott'm