GenaMartin2015

Too much hassle to move nowadays but at the time, maybe just to baffle us folk many years later, but it's not a very grand post compared to the ones on the corner of Newthorpe common.

I think people are confusing two places, Giltbrook House which was dr towels home and went on to become a nursing home, that's stood back off the rd on the left before Baker Road is on the right. As for Giltbrook Hall, that's the confusion, there is/was a post between bonser and permaquip BUT to confuse matters further, heading through Giltbrook, heading as if to hilltop, Newthorpe common is a turning on the left and and you turn in, there are 6ft plus posts with 'balls' on top. The buildings within there look 1980's but must've been something grand at one point, seems too far to be this pla

So at what point did that area become a landfill? And which parts? I know there was a methane burner on 'Broxtowe country park' I was at Strelley at the time of the riots in Broxtowe 1992/93? I always laughed that because Strelley had been, still was a tip, there were more seagulls than at Skegness, aggressive gits too Gena

I've no idea what is in the area now since ikea and Decathlon, I've not been back but I always assumed the hall would've been between Bonser and Permaquip as a post remained around 4 ft high. I was never sure if that was for the hall or the tannery. My only other thought was Dr Towles grand house at the back of his surgery in the days of sitting patiently and waiting your turn, none of this craziness these days. I liked Dr Towle. The Almshouses as I recall were in a crescent shape (ish), on the left heading from Kimberley to Eastwood, opposite the terrace where poor Suzanne Edwards was murde