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This was in the E.P. June 26th 1968 , so may be a clue to when it closed ? The final proposal is that the Corporation should acquire the sites of six public houses from Shipstone's in exchange for three sites. Public houses The houses to be acquired are: the Barleycorn Inn Raleigh Street, the Foxhound inn Union Road, the Coachmarkers" Arms, St. Ann's Well Road, the Lincoln Arms, Canal Street, the Freemen's Arms, Alfred Street Central, and the New Town Inn, Northumberland Street. The sites are at the junction of Trowell Road and Bridge

This was in the Nottm Daily Express of Sept 21st 1881 when the lease was advertised . It gives a starting date of 1859 , so assume that may have been when it was built ? (Some words missing from original as the article was not fully scanned) "A well-accustomed, Full-licensed Leasehold PUBLIC HOUSE, known as The New Town Inn, at corner of Great Freeman-street and Northumberland street, Nottingham, in the occupation of Mr. Charles Walker. This house contains bar, parlour, kitchen, club-room, five bedrooms, brew-house stabling, shed, commodious yard, and outbuildings.

@Cliff Ton there's a touch of deja vu there I asked it this and a few well known names came up and some from the past ! "Make a poem about the contributors to nottstalgia.com in the style of Edward Lear" Oh, the contributors to No

@Jill SparrowDon't know about that but asked it to make poem about the contributors to nottstalgia.com and it came up with this in about 5 seconds Nottstalgia Contributors' Tribute. Make a poem about contributors on nottstalgia.com ChatGPT

We've got a Drifters compilation CD in our car on almost permanent play . Just for fun I asked the artificial intelligence site Chatgpt to produce love song lyrics in the style of tunes by the Drifters and within seconds it produced this. I'm certainly no poet but it seems ok to me , apart from the very last line where it's given hands to doves ! Now just need a good tune and could have a "hit record" !! This was the command : Make love song lyrics in the style of the The Drifters songs

Never met him , as he died in 1940 (born 1868) , but my paternal grandfather was born in Southwell as were at least the 3 previous generations before him and in our family it was always pronounce Suthull

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 .

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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.