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Mess,
These are super pictures of the High Level. Also I found very interesting the Pictures on the site listed under Nottingham showing the old & new Bridges. Great Post Mate.
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The Mind has been jogged again by the photos at 29# & 49#. We (dare I say, My generation) knew this as The High Level Station. I never caught a train there but did alight there once, I don't remember from were but am pretty certain I came out onto the street close to Andy Bones bike shop on that side of Arkwright Street.
One other picture, Post 21# the Burtons shop on the corner on Broad Marsh. Firstly it was opposite the only decent Hat Shop Nottingham ever had, Dunn & Co., and secondly Burtons Shop was over the best kept public snooker hall Nottingham ever had. This was kept immaculate by a guy named Bill. It was equipped with every conceivable rest etc. some of which you will only ever have seen at Sheffield.
One final reminder of this shop was the 'Famous Heads' which adorned it on both sides. What happened to them? I know that they were stored at the time of demolition and eventually displayed in a stupid area between the Broad March Bus Station/Car Park on a Blue Brick Pillar near where the bus's come out, waiting for vandals. What happened to them next?
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The only ethernet cable I use is from the router to my computer, the G-Box is WiFi between the router and itself.
What is the purpose of the Ethernet cable to the computer in relation to using the G-Box?
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An old Nottingham saying which I have not seen mentioned on this site, ( someone will quickly correct me if I'm wrong).
It means, some things are not what they seem.
'IT MIGHT SAY 'PLAYERS' ON THE SIDE OF A BUS BUT IT DOS'NT MEAN ITS GOING THERE'.
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mick2me,
You seem very interested in purchasing the 'G' box. This I cannot understand. Are you intending to use it on your TV set only or your Computer only and are you already using XBMC
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Lots of Shops & Youth Clubs have been mentioned in Netherfield. Two places I remember are Walkers shop, which stayed open fairly late, sold a bit of everything, Sweets, Puncture Outfits, Torches, you name it, it was there. Located about opposite the church a couple or so streets up from Chandos St. The other place I remember was I believe Forester St Youth Club which was in a Chapel & run by a 'Coal Merchant' named Wilf White. Super club which had to close because of complaints of noise from Forester St residence. It moved to a large house & factory unit on Conway Rd opposite the Bowling greens then moved again to Sis & Harry Mussons old Snooker Hall on Burton Road changing its name to GAYE Club, (that stood for Gala Association of Youth -something - probably - Education). The building is now a Boxing Club. In more recent times I never told anyone I went to the GAYE club.
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With all the poverty around that we keep hearing about among the ordinary working ???! people,we can expect a quieter time around Bonfire Night this year as no one should be able to afford fireworks.
My Dog will love that.
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One of our local traders had what I thought was a good idea, he started charging 5p for carrier bags several months ago. He said he was somewhat p--d off by people asking for a bag for odd items like a can of coke or a bottle of milk so decided to say to them "Certainly Sir, one of our Charity Bags, that will be 5p in which ever charity box you wish". Others making multi purchases are not asked.
Apparently with only two exceptions he tells me, everyone conforms. The two objectors, one wanting four pints of milk & the other twenty cigarettes both walk out to the local Coop and both walked past the shop waving their free carrier bags & laughing on their way home. I suggested that would have upset him. On the contrary he said, I know that one has paid an extra 45p for the milk & the other at least 25p for the cigarettes & the charities have benefited greatly.
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Davidw
Nottingham Daily Express report is on the Nov topic I quoted
Google 'Industrial Exhibition Fire 1904' to find it.
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As I stated in my first post in July this year, I had spent some time looking through the site and found it very interesting, particularly where posts would be instantly corrected by another member if incorrect or ambiguous information was given, and the debates that followed from these. I felt that I could contribute to this, hence my joining. Two of the topics, both about the same subject, which I found very interesting & had no previous knowledge of were Post 1# of THIS topic & Post 1# of Midlands Exhibition Nottingham Fire Disaster, dated 28th November 2006, both by Mick2me. A few weeks later I was loaned some Railway Memorability from the 1890's to 1920's by a friend to put onto the site for what appears to be a strong contingent of Railway enthusiasts. Amongst these were a few postcards one of which referred to the information in the two aforementioned Posts. Like everyone, I remember certain Historical dates like 1066, Mums Birthday, March 17, April 23, July 4, we all have our own memory bank of dates and when someone mentions one of these dates for whatever reason, our memory jumps into gear and we think Wife's Birthday or whatever. This was the case in reading the message on this postcard & the date in question was July 4th. There was an anomaly. In order to protect the copyright of my friends property I ask Cliff Ton to post it for me on the site, which he kindly did in Post 18# of THIS TOPIC. I though that one of you would notice the anomaly and quickly point it out. Alas, none of you spotted it, maybe because Post 19# digressed from the subject, whatever. I feel it would be a shame to miss it.
Please have a look at it and compare the information with the other two posts mentioned. The display of this card and the message it contains rewrites a small part of Nottingham History if its content is accepted & is a world exclusive to Nottstalgia.
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I have never been on a Nottingham tram so I took the 9 minute plus video ride from Station Street to the Forest. It seemed a fairly slow ride, somewhat boring I thought. I know not what day of the week it was or the time of day, the impressing was that it was probably early one Sunday judging by the other traffic about and the emptiness of other passing trams. The thoughts running through my mind were, 1. This ride must be heavily subsidised, if nothing else the driver has to be paid for. 2. Because of the lack of parking ticket dispensers along the route the city was loosing a lot of revenue for car parking & both the city & county drivers were loosing lots of parking spaces, all for the sake of having these non-versatile oversized non-divertible non-self sufficient units with dubious H&S credentials floating around our fair city. If you are a regular user of these trams and you find them convenient for you, good luck to you, but spare a thought for those who they are of no use at all who must subsidise your transport by being charged for parking at workplaces that are miles from where the trams go. I have no axe to grind, trams do not affect me in any way
Compare it with another controversial subject, Where I live, just like you, I have to pay rates to live there. If I said I have a piece of land that could be made into a travellers site for about 15 caravans & vehicles that would be well out of the way of causing anyone any problems but before I arrange for site amenities I need to know what is the going rate for council provided traveller sites. (HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY?). What answer would I get.
What do you think? Can you defend them?
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That's quite a list of unsolved, whilst looking down them I expected to see a case about a hitch hiker, young girl in her early twenties I believe, I understood a Sutton in Ashfield lad was questioned according to his brothers wife.
That aside, I am surprised they have time to chase up these old cases, one police force recently confessed to investigating only 40% of current crimes because of work load, and nearer to home, I asked the local force to get me details of a driver who damaged my vehicle whilst I was in it last June. They were given Reg No. Make & Colour, a simple routine task I would have thought. Chasing it up a few weeks ago, I was told it was on the to do list.
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Whilst looking at pictures in the ABC Carlton/Long Row area I remembered a little shop run by the R.M.I.B. were these sold Brushes & Mats etc. made locally by blind people at the RMIB premises on the corner of Clarendon St & Chaucer Street,(NTGM005525 Cliff Ton). I was privileged to see these old guys at work in the brush room on many occasions whilst carry out repairs there. There were small circular benches which they would sit around with a pot of boiling pitch at its centre. They each had a small tray of Bristles from which they would pick a few, tap the ends on the bench to level them, dip the end in the pitch then push the little bundle into a predrilled brush head. How they never got burnt is amazing, practice probably, but these guys were always so happy & cheerful, it must have been super work therapy for them. They were mainly ex servicemen I believe. It was a wonderful experience for me. Oh, & when it was time to leave & say bye, they always replied, I'll see you.
Do you remember that little shop.
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Commo at 29,
Absolutely right mate, Churchill's cafe between the Carlton Cinema & Mount St Bus Station.
Regarding the other elusive café/restaurant, there were two Greek brothers kept three restaurants in Nottingham. Because 2 doesn't go into three, only 2 of them could be open at any time. They were the Moulin Rouge on Trinity square between Milton St.& Forman Street, Another near the now closed Sony Shop,(probable No.5 Mansfield Road), the third, a few doors up from the Carlton cinema towards Derby Road. Of the later two I remember the name of only one. The Silver Grill, I believe this one was near the Carlton, but it may have been the other.
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Why was it called Walton House? Is Walton a well known Nottingham family? Just wondered because of the Walton Hotel in the Park.
I think you will find that like many Buildings & even Streets in the area it is names after either the Owner, Landowner or even an Investor. In this case, probably one of the Walton's of Walker Walton & Hanson Estate Agents, of Byard Lane. They were the agents for this building at the time of BT occupation.
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Wasn't there a Wimpey Bar there in the 60's too?
There was a coffee bar between the Carlton cinema & Mount St Bus Station in the Fifties/Sixties that stayed open until about Midnight at Weekends, not Wimpey's thought. I don't think they had been invented then.
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White Dog Muck!
No wonder the kids don't play Hopscotch any more if there is no chalk on the pavement.
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I remember them filming in & outside the Eight Bells pub a few months after it was closed. when I saw the film I remember one of the sequences in it.
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Another eighty years of history turned to rubble, what a shame my fond memories of the Odeon are not there for others to see. Shows like Little Richard, The Stones, & my all time favourite Bill Haley & his Comets in 1957, did it rock that night, not a person in their seat for the final number Rock Around The Clock, the visible bounce of the balcony was frightening.
I didn't get to see The Beatles there but had seen them earlier at Coop House (Elizabethan Rooms for 6/6d), in 1963 I think. There was another venue gone without even noticing. Why did the last sixty years go so fast, and yet, thankfully, with a little jog of the mind, come back so vividly.
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We used to call the Lions Charlie & Freddie. Charlie for Craddocks Shoes Side,(corner of King St). Freddie for Farmers Haberdashery Side, (corner of Exchange Walk).
For the tight fisted type it was always at a cinema, 'See You Inside'.
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Yes I did, but quite a while before you. By 59 I was sunning it on BFPO170. Daughter went to All Hallows in about 76 and then on to Gedling.
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Hints don't work either. Try Clues, but make them non-cryptic.Some people just don't 'get it ' do they?
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Sorry Rob & Mick,I remember Tiffanys in Derby (Babington Lane), but not Talk of the Midlands.
What road was it on?
I'm in the wrong era. Thinking about it, it was probably about mid 60's when I last went there. It was an alternative to Heart of the Midlands/Fiesta/Aquarius. I think it was a converted cinema.
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Pullmans on Parliament St., opposite side of the road to Hockley & Barker Gate. They did School Uniforms. By the way Carni, was 'Willo' still the headmaster when you went to All Hallows?
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I remember as a kid watching the milk floats coming out of the Coop Dairy at the bottom of Westdale Lane. They were eagerly awaited by the local residents within fifty yards of the Dairy, all waiting behind their garden gates to pick up the manure as the horses past. They always seemed to do it just as they left the dairy, maybe because of the strain of starting the days work. One of the 'drivers', a guy with the surname Earl who lived locally on Albert St., Next road to you Carni, when ever he had finished his round in Burton Joyce, climbed on the roof of his float and drove it like it was a Stage Coach back to the Dairy. Must have been a cowboys & Indians fan. On one occasion he turned into Shearing Hill too fast and smashed all his empties over Burton Road. His last journey before being sacked resulted in turning the float over turning back into Westdale Lane again leaving lots of glass over Gedling Rd. Apparently the horse went back into the dairy pulling two wheels.
I am also reminded of the bottle wash every noon. The sewer from the dairy ran directly to the Cricket Field Dike. In the Cricket Field Area are two Bridges crossing the dike, One near the Royal Oak (Later The Inn for a Penny), the other crossing Conway Road as it was then. Between the two bridges, that section of water always turned from clear to white at bottle wash time.
I am also reminded of the time that the sewer covers outside the dairy on Westdale Lane gusted out Milk due to a blockage. On the Corner of Chestnut Grove, opposite the Dairy lived the local Rag & Bone man, a Mr Staley, who carried out his trade with a pony & cart. The Pony died one night and I'm sure you can imagine what they found blocking the sewer next day.
When the Dairy Horses were retired, do you remember the small milk floats that took their place, driven by battery and pulled by the milkman. A Tee Bar handle pulled to propel it forward & steer it, if it caught up with the milkman the Tee Bar went backwards & applied the brakes, quite a clever device for its day.