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My recollection was the (now reserve) was a former gravel quarry. As a kid in the early-mid 1960s, us kids would go fishing in there and also collect bullrushes to sell to folk who lived in houses on Hallam's Lane (Chilwell). We'd walk well out from the shore on the reed mats to get the best rushes. There was always a story around back then that pits was home to a huge pike that had chewed up many a bait and lure. On the way back to Chilwell, we'd put pennies on the rail track to see what happened. I think John Drinkall and maybe Kieth Cutts used to be there too.

'Ere, this looks lahke Jacky Pownalls Meaning the room/house/shed/etc was a mess I looked up Jacky Pownalls and he was a well known scrap merchants and rag and bone fella around my Gran's place somewhere near (old and demolished) Dennet Street

My recollection from late 1950's, early 1960's is that Marsden's was not on the corner of Cator Lane and Chilwell Road but was further toward Beeston, possibly on the corner of Park Road and Chilwell Road. I remember being fascinated by the elaborate overhead device in Marsden's for transfer of cash to the cashier and the amazingly elaborate weighing machines and the marble benchtops. Near the bottom of Cator Lane/ Meadow Lane and High Road (Chilwell Road) was a row of shops on the southern side of the road. The shop on the eastern end (Beeston end) was Lowes from where you could buy ice cr

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=6fdf8a051d&view=att&th=13dce473f2885dce&attid=0.1&disp=thd&zw Found this map from the 1960's and I am looking at Albion Street and Cross Street that both run between Wollaton Road and Villa Street. I realise this is all gone now, but this used to be hive of colourful workers houses that I used to walk past on my way to school (Roundhill) The block between Cross and Albion was all terraced workers houses as was much of Villa Street. Although not shown on this map, Cross Street used to continue on to intersect with Stoney Stre

Goood shot and shows that #49 was still standing then, but the sand hole was gone (filled in). The buildings that used to house the fire station kitchen, boiler room, and hose repair shops (on what the fireman used to call "Burma Road") and all the dwellings around Villa Street have gone (what was the name of that small street that used to run between villa Street and Wollaton Road that used to be filled with small colourful worker's cottages?). I too went to both the Church Street school and then to Roundhill Junior School (timber building on the edge of the school grounds. I found this we

Born at Nottingham Maternity Hospital in 1951, son of a soldier turned fireman and a policewoman turned office worker. My parents met when Shakepeare Street fire station also housed Nottingham Police, so it was uniformed affair (ee: )In the days when married fire officers were housed on or near fire stations, I am told I spent my first 3 years at Carlton Fire Station but my memories really start when my father was posted to Stoney Street Fire Station in Beeston (we lived at #49). In those days, the top end of Stoney Street was given over to the Fire Station Watch house and four service ho