davidbird

Only just noticed this thread. I've read somewhere on tinternet that the wagons were wedged under the road bridge at Trowell. They were removed by the simple method of 2 pairs of Cl20s, a length of strong cable and lots of noise...

It certainly wasn't, as I've established my Gt-grandfather, George Bird, was there by 1911, and he worked at Raleigh. As long as my father can remember (he's 83 today! - 24th Oct) it was boarded up, so not a shop at all. How far back do your directories go?

So, no butchers or Birds at 151 in 1891 or 1898. It was definitely a butcher's shop at some stage as I remember seeing the meat hooks in the ceiling of the front corner room - or at least I was told they were meat hooks. I can't see what else they would have been. Great picture. One of the houses on the very left edge of that picture would have been where my Gt-grandma's friendandneighbour, Mrs Bell, lived.

I've been speaking with my father again, and he says as long as he can remember, the shop part was always boarded up. Oldmaps seems to suggest that part of Radford was built around 1880. As his grandfather worked at Raleigh, and he was living there in 1911, it seems like the butcher's shop may have actually been boarded up for far longer than it was a shop!

We're at the end of the line... (You may need to empty your messages, it says you cannot receive any more messages...)

Just seen where you are - I thought I was a long way from Nottingham...

You've beaten me to seeing the new plaque on Arisaig Station, I've not seen it yet and its only 6 miles down the line! ScotRail, at the insistence of the Scottish Government are re-branding (again) to remove all company-specific references. Hence the removal of the First logo and replacement with the styalised saltire. Here's the old plaque (not my photo) Still this should mean we won't be re-branded again when Abellio take over in April...

Thanks, Cliff From that map it seems as if Byfield Street was wider than the other streets in the area. Was it, or is this just a trick? I remember it as being cobbled - ie granite setts

I've just found this document, dated June 1981, http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=23&ved=0CCwQFjACOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottinghaminsight.org.uk%2Fd%2F93893%2FDownload%2FEnterprise%2FAdopted-Highways-Register%2FColeridge-Street-%2829014580%29%2F&ei=uZc7VMqoF4yu7Abnr4CoCA&usg=AFQjCNGk-aDnglnZO4vE2n9kpmmVfA8VOg&sig2=WvpMB54z7X3XG89a524nSQ&bvm=bv.77161500,d.ZGU (opens up a pdf file) which gives details of the stopping up of Byfield Street and other roads around there. From the maps with it, it seems that all the housing

Thanks, all. This is the link which I found after my father had told me about his visit to the Castle exhibition last week, and it was reading this that got me thinking about the house in Radford. http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/rollofhonour/People/Details/13696 Actually, the old lady that I knew as my Great-Grandma, was my Gt-grandfather's (George Bird, Cyril's father) 2nd wife, so my step-gt-grandmother. She was Agnes Bird. As I mentioned, she was pretty elderly in the 1970s, and she was looked after by a freind-and-neighbour, who we knew simply as Mrs Bell - I think she lived at 155

Not a picture I'd expected in a thread about trainspotting around Nottingham, but... ... if I'd known you were here... Bullhead soon to be replaced by FB, trouble is they load up wagons with the new rail right outside our bedroom, in the middle of the night...

Thanks for your replies. The closest I've managed to find is this from PictureThePast here http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM003282&prevUrl= Barnett's Sweet Factory, corner of Hartley Road and Norton Street. I remember walking past the gates/doors to the factory, but not what was inside. Today's Google Streetview image http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&pano=TzrofLjvDFVQK1T_Y_bRVQ&heading=-168.69952570671796&fov=71.59828353794268&pitch=0.10868026872892145&sensor=fals

So you managed to get all 22, I was spotting from as soon as I could write down numbers until early 1982... I never managed 55003 or 020... Woke up on 3rd Jan 1982, and realised I wasn't interested in trainspotting any more...

Skills toyshop was where I bought a Triang-Hornby Breakdown Crane... still in the Hornby Catalogue until recently. I also visited Millholme Models in Woodborough (never bought anything - too expensive!) and Beatties on Mount Street. Skills Coaches still regularly bringing coachloads of Nottingham OAPs to Mallaig & Skye, I'm even getting to recognise my own accent when I hear it now!

Does anybody have a photo of the former butcher's shop on the corner of Norton Street & Byfield Street, no 151? That was my great-grandfather's house and I remember visiting my gt-grandma, who still lived there until just before she died, aged 97, in the early 80s. The house was entered, from Byfield Street, through a back yard with the outside toilet on one side, and the back door into the tiny kitchen on the other. There was only one water tap, no plumbed-in hot water system. For all the time I remember visiting there, she lived in just the one room. There was a door down to the co