[Daybrook barber, Alf.]

Here are three pictures I took in the late 1960's of Daybrook Suare after the railway bridge had been demolished - sorry about the quality - my camera was a very cheap model

Whoops the pictures are too big to upload at the moment I will try again!!!

I realise space is a bit tight but 50KB is a bit too small for my individual pictures they are between 50 and 100 KB in size Is there any way I can post them?

[Daybrook barber, Alf.]

Just caught this topic whilst browsing Daybrook railway Station

Have joined up so that I can contribute.

I actually lived in the house on the Arnold side of the bridge with a large "Pork Farms" advertising hoarding in the front garden. from 1961 to 1969 and spent many a happy hour chatting to the old ladies ( The Missess Barrow ) who ran the small sweet shop opposite. They would sell small glasses of pop for about 3d a go and would be very happy to chat for hours about what had gone on in and around Daybrook.

The house was originally provided for the goods agent at Daybrook Station and as my father was a railway employee, when he needed larger accommodation for our expanding family, he was allocated this house.

It had three downstairs rooms and three bedrooms, however there was no bathroom and the toilet was situated at the bottom of the garden in asmall brick built hut - a chilly event especially in mid winter!!

Alf Hutchings was my barber and also for the rest of the male members of the family - my dad trooping us all round to the shop - usually on a Saturday morning for a monthly (or thereabouts) short back and sides - it was the sixties after all!!!

Across the road alongside Barrow's shop there was a shop called Wetherall's which sold sewing and knitting supplies and also a grocer Beech wher my mother would go on Saturday morming for the weekly "order" of groceries. There was also a wet fish shop and a butcher as well as the Post Office. Opposite the junction of Mansfield Road and Nottingham Road stood a detached building housing a newsagent and sweet shop "J H Rollings" for whom I was employed as a paperboy for a couple of years.

Whilst we lived there the railway was lifted and the bridge demolished - a grandstand view from our front garden!

I was a pupil at the school on Mansfield Road just to the north of Morley's factory from 1961 to 1963 If I remember correctly it's formal name was St Alban's County Primary School and I have a school photo showing me wearing the school blazer from that period.

In 1968, I was fortunate in passing my 11+ and went to Arnold High School on Gedling Road ( now Arnold Hill School ) and walked home along the old railway line from just across from the school back all the way to my house alongside the bridge.

Where the old Nottingham Suburban line branched off it was possible to walk all the way to Woodthorpe Parl along the old formation.

Where the current new Gedling Council offices are now was an open field which usually contained a horse called Kitty who was very pleased to accept gifts of apples or carrots. I do not know to whom she belonged.

Hope this is of interest to anyone

Roy