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I guess even the Victoria Centre will disappear some day.

Yes sorry! Forgot that the 141 bus is diverted also - a chance to try a rare routing of this too before the bridge is reopened

Hi Bryeio Many thanks for the details of the exhibition, which must have taken many hours unpaid work to compile and complete. It is clearly a work of great enthusiasm and energy. I guess I misread the hype and had slightly exaggerated expectations on seeing the very professional looking flyer in post #1. Sincere apologies if my earlier comments caused any offence.

I see the RHL is closed south of Kirkby over the coming Bank Holiday weekend, so that the old bridge at Hucknall station can be replaced. Trains to/from Nottingham Kirkby and Mansfield are still running, so I guess they are being diverted via Ilkeston, Langley Mill and Pinxton. A rare chance to use the Pye Bridge to Kirkby line. I think it was last used like this when they were building the Tramway to Hucknall.

Another thought might be a trade directory listing of commercial premises on Queen's Bridge road. That might give us a name to link to the sign - though the sign might even be some kind of wartime propaganda?

One last go, then I give up On the 1916 map Queen's Bridge Road exists but what is now Sherrifs Way does not. This was then a pedestrian walkway with trees. The yellow patch is where I think the YMCA was located in 1916 - too late for the map survey, but then documentation suggests it wasn't built until 1916. The YMCA photo in post #1 shows a wide walkway to the right (east) of the building which matches the map. There are also trees in the background of the photo, trees are shown on the map behind the building, so that matches the photo too. In 1916 this area looked very different to the

That is like the photo I saw at the exhibition. Compared with the 1916 map, the Queen's Bridge Road area is different. There is a wide road down the centre as well as the original road next to the wood yard. In the 1916 map there was only the narrow road next to the wood yard. The rest is like a park with paths and trees. They would probably have eased the gradient at the top too. I think the 1927 photo shows an area very different from 1916.

Just to clarify the position of Coombes' Mill, I found this photo on Britain From Above. It shows the Midland Station bottom right and (I assume) Coombs building under the arrow. This is a 1930s image, so there is a large 'modern' building obscuring it - I am guessing that may not have been there before the end of WW1. Even so, there is a very tall warehouse in the middle of the Midland goods yard and buildings on the other side of the canal that might limit the view of Coomb's from the station.

Sorry to resurrect the subject, but a photo made me think about how long the YMCA building could have lasted. At the Wollaton Industrial Museum is an aerial photo showing the Midland Station in 1927. By then, Queens Walk appears to have been converted into a through road. The trees and wide pedestrian walk have gone, to be replaced by a dual carriageway road with a narrow central reservation. If we knew when this was built, it would give us the very latest date the YMCA could have existed, as it would have had to be demolished to make way for the road - if it had not been demolished before.

Went today and found it slightly disappointing, to be honest. Nothing much in the way of new information. The size/quality of the photos was Ok but not as good as you come to expect from a museum display these days. They could have done with a few more on the construction and early days - like the ones in the Newton collection. Victoria looked at its most impressive when it was brand new, the brickwork was clean and sunlight came through the glass roof. Maybe there were problems with getting permission to use some images. Having said that, many wouldn't know much about the station - or even t

We seem to be going round in circles here. Posts 38-40 give a pretty convincing location for the YMCA. Is it possible that Coombs owned other premises on Queens Bridge Road near the school? That would provide an answer for the sign.

I think we are broadly in agreement TBI, except that Queens Bridge Road originally came roughly up to the centre right of your image, so the YMCA would be on the left hand side. In other words, specifically here on the map (yellow area) I would guess that the council donated the land from 1916 when the building was built for the duration of the war. After that it would have been removed. I wonder if the structure was used anywhere secondhand - a cricket pavilion or something similar?

I wonder if the building was a temporary construction at the top of Queens Walk - there are railings on the very left of this photo a bit like those on the first YMCA photo. Why have railings around the building unless they were there anyway? The trees would be those on Queens Walk. As for the sign in the background, there is no guarantee it is actually attached to the building in the background. They would have to be very large for that to be so. They might be above something else that we can't see nearer to the camera. Those towers in the background do look a lot like the roofline of Wel

A quote from the book ‘Nottingham and the Great War’ by Carol Lovejoy Edwards, Referring to 1916 - In November a rest hut was erected at the top of Queen Street for use by soldiers who passed through Nottingham. It was made of brick and wood, could sleep 30 men and also had camp cots for another 30 at night. Not sure if it helps, but submitted on the basis that anything might be useful. Just wonder if Queen Street might be confused here with Queens Road? The date is unfortunate, as the only large scale map of the area is dated 1916, probably the survey was done before the building was erect

Having completed a round the world trip 14 years ago, I would take a lot of convincing that the world is flat. I didn't believe it could possibly be flat even before my trip.

They would probably have to call phlogiston something else in the hope that we wouldn't notice

All here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Ground_(Nottingham)

Judging by the cars parked at the side of the road, there were some posh people visiting the market that day!

I can't find much online but 3 axles allowed bodies up to 30’ long at one time, just pre-WW2 - shorter for 2-axle bodies. The regulations applied to single and double deckers. If it were due to weight then I would have thought single deckers could be much longer than double deckers before they required 3 axles. Regulations for PSVs were very restrictive until the 1950s, with strict limits on width as well as length. Things are much different nowadays.

It was a road traffic regulation - buses over a certain length had to have 3 axles. Shorter trolleybuses had 2 axles, just like most buses.

Get a train to Hucknall and wait for the next one, which will take you to your destination. I think evening trains stop at both as they are only hourly.

.For Birmingham-Southampton it might be best to go onto the Crosscountry Website. Some of the deals on there are exclusive to the site and are very good.

It is supposedly due to the tight timings - trains can stop at either Bulwell or Newstead but not both. They generally alternate between the two. When there are potentially leaves on the line (Autumn) it is even more complicated, with some other stations only being served by alternate trains.

I agree it looks like a tram - but its position suggests it is on the pavement rather than on the road? Maybe some kind of special display? The trolleybuses suggest a post-war date.

At some large stations like Trent, part of the upper floor of station buildings originally provided accommodation for catering staff who lived on site. Whether such facilities would be required in a large city where non-railway living accommodation was readily available, I don't know.