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  11. Whitemoor Junior School

    in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions

    Posted

    Katrina, yes, I went to `The Huts` on Oxclose Lane, which later became `Burford.`

    I started in 1945. We had a big outdoor party, rows of tables end to end, I`d guess to

    celebrate V.E. Day or whatever. A young lady was coming down my side of the table

    with a plateful of what looked to me, like white apples. She got to the kid next to me

    and gave him the last one. "I`ll be back with more" she said but never did. I`m still

    narked about that. Meringues I learned later. Only ever eaten two ever since,

    ghastly things.

    Miss Bastable was the headmistress, (before the days of `Heads`) there was a

    Mrs Poole, a lovely person.

    On the first day, most kids will have been taken by their mums for the first and last

    time. Find your own way after that. Worked well that did, for a while anyway.....

    going home for dinner on the second day with my friend, we somehow ended up

    playing on a small tip, sited where the Oxclose P.S. is now. Freshly dumped

    gallon paint tins on there, with remains of bright blue gloss. By the time the

    search party, (our two mums) found us we were well covered.


    Lovely in that area at the time,a magnificent ash tree, (I know that cus teacher tode us)

    in far left corner of playing field, at Oxclose/Sherbrooke corner. Sadly gone now,

    according to G. Earth Street View. Delightful little stream with watercress on other

    side of Oxclose, opposite the school gate.

    No houses on the other side of Oxclose, just one roughly opposite the end of

    Longmead, set well back from the road. Then, going West, the Oxclose pub, then

    a fairly new triple Co-Op, then the tip. From the tip, the farm track, (more or less

    where Beckhampton is now) led to two farms and a market gardener. The dairy

    farmer up there used to leave milk churns at the corner of Edwards L.,/

    Arnold Rd. junction, on the pavement for collection every morning. Imagine that

    at that junction today!

  12. The Day Brook (at Daybrook)

    in pre 50's Nottingham

    Posted

    Does anyone from Arnold area remember `Toe-biter` stream? Adjacent to Gedling Rd./

    Sandfield Rd. junction, in the region of what is now DownhamLn./Wymondham, built I

    believe by Standen in early seventies. A tiny brook ran parallel to Gedling Rd., I don`t

    recall the direction of flow, it wasn`t really my patch. The brook would almost certainly

    have been a tributary of the Day Brook at some point.

    I do know of another spring that emerged just below `Bendigo`s Ring,` near Oxclose

    Lane, I know the full route of that one,to the point where it joined the Day Brook.

    Do we require permission to copy low res. images from PTP and Britain from Above

    onto this site, please anyone?

  15. Nottingham Secondary School for Art

    in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions

    Posted

    Blondie #11 A little after my time they were. I believe NSAS closed down around 1960.

    mitch #12 I was careful as to how I described those two - I half expected you to say that

    yours Mum`s name is Bridgett and your Dad`s is Tony!

    The photo you mention would be of interest to post on here if you are able and willing to

    do that. I have one of my year but haven`t posted it yet.

    I`ll PM. you with some names from my year. If you are not familiar yet, see

    top right where you sign in, there`ll be a red icon.

  18. Bombed Buildings

    in pre 50's Nottingham

    Posted

    In addition to the bomb sites pinpointed in Firbeck`s map at #23, a photo on PTP and also published in N. Post, shows a

    badly damaged house in 1941 on Ribblesdale Rd., Daybrook.

    My interest is in a another property in similar condition, close by, in the mid 1940`s. Behind the `Five Ways` hotel and to

    its North, was the remains of the delightful looking property, `Daybrook Vale House` with its small lake formed by a concrete

    dam across the Day brook. The grounds of the property fronted onto Edwards Lane and the driveway to the house was very

    close to the line of the current `Larwood Close.`

    In the left hand corner of the Ted`s Ln/driveway junction, was the damaged dwelling, indicated on maps of the time as `lodge`

    (Not to be confused with the lodge across the road which still exists and is slightly higher up Ted`s Ln. in the hospital grounds.)

    From around 1945, as 5 year olds, we all knew it as `The bombed house.` We wouldn`t have invented the name, it will

    have been hearsay from elders and adults. I`ve never seen it mentioned when Nottm. bomb damage is discussed but if a

    ruler is placed on a map across the site of that house and any point on Ribblesdale, even the furthest near the `Roxy`, it

    would have only been a matter of seconds to cover that distance in a plane.

    Ribblesdale at that time was only developed at its ends, about two or three houses a year were built, tubs n poles for anyone

    in the game.

    Any thoughts anyone?

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  19. Over and Out...

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    A good final post MissingMotown, dignified and factual.

    Myself, an intermittent poster would like the time to post more, but have spells when I am just too busy. It did appear rather harsh to point out to a newcomer that a fortnight had passed between posts. Intermittent or seldom posters don`t come on and comment that just a small handful of regular posters are unbelievably prolific.

    To highlight the fact that the o.p. had wandered off topic, again didn`t seem necessary. A few of the replies to the o.p. were off topic, one making the point that it was indeed a common thing on this site, which I know I`ve done myself before.

    I`ve no wish to stoke things up or take sides, I feel entirely neutral and quoting what I believe to be facts.

    Part of my schooling was in the old Art College building at the Waverley St. corner of the Arboretum and some of the rooms we used overlooked the `Arbo.` We spent many dinner hours wandering around it and even in 1954/55 we used to be offered ten bob by a scabby faced bloke that frequented the `quieter` N. Sherwood St. end. No imagination, a simple fact.

    As was the fact that the Nottm. Eve. Post, at the time openly reported the results of council meetings that decided that the public toilets at Canning Circus were to be closed because of inappropriate use by certain members of society. As were the toilets at Wilk. St., and the Toll Br.

    No getting at any one or group, no opinions involved, just reporting why we have very few public toilets now.

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  20. Water Cooling Towers Near the Palais 1928

    in Images of Nottingham

    Posted

    Very good post james.g

    Bub #11 >"Corporation Electric Light Generating Station."<

    In my house at W.B., built 1920/21, there is still a redundant cast iron fuse box, cast into the lid is the legend

    `N.C.E.D.` I think that`s safe to presume Nottm. Corporation Electricity Department. The term `Corporation`

    in common use in my young days, e.g., `N. Corp. Buses,` `N. Corp. Water` etc., as opposed to the currently

    used term `City`.

  23. Fire Ponds

    in pre 50's Nottingham

    Posted

    There was another at Arnold Road, Bestwood Est. In the area bounded by Gainsford Crescent and Arnold Rd., was a field, later became the site of High Pavement School and now housing I believe. Iron railings along southern edge of site with gate at S.W. corner. Lovely row of oak trees along it in 1945. The water tank was just inside the iron gates. Built above ground, of steel panels bolted together. Couldn`t see inside as it was maybe 6`/7`/8` high, but the top protection was of rope in a square mesh which hung partly over the sides.

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  25. LED Lamps.

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    I`m in West Bridgford and our local street lights were changed to L.E.D. earlier this year. No doubt

    cheaper to run and certainly less stray light pollution but weird. Gloomy, eerie. Main roads still

    orange sodium type though.

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