Kimberley

Absolutely not the same place. As it's already been said, Giltbrook house is/was a nursing home but it used to belong to Doctor Towle who had his surgery in front of it. Someone has posted an aerial view of the old folks home. I know someone who used to work there. Giltbrook Hall was just after the Bonser forklift factory and belonged to the same chap who owned the tannery. It's all long gone but don't be mistaken with the old Giltbrook Doctor and his house. (Apologies, didn't realise the topic was SO old)

Who were that two hit wonder band from Nottingham, 3 letters after the members names...maybe 1990/91? One who was chubby ran that pub which was on the junction of western boulevard with Radford Rd which was demolished to make a drive thru McDonalds (think it was called Whatsits and Thingumyjigs for a while?) There were two white guys and one black guy and I worked at what was the Mobil petrol station on Nuthall Road next door to Ideal Cleaning and Sherriff Tool Hire. I left the garage and this black guy took my position and he'd only been there a couple of weeks when their record was a h

re #46 I've got tears rolling down my face

I always remember the corpo bus on the video but wondered if it was just one that had been sold having retired from service. I remb at the time keep pausing my video until I was absolutely sure the bus was definitely Nottm corpo.

I just searched it on Wikipedia and it says the film made a loss. One thing I did notice in the Wiki info is the details of who wrote the film; One name mentioned is Victor MacLure and although the spelling is slightly different, I wondered if he could possibly be a Grandfather of the wonderful Wollaton actress Vicky McClure. I know people in the arts often have roots laid firmly in the past.

So what was the storyline of the film? He says "I expect they'll know who I am", so now I'm intrigued, who was Mr Knight? Enjoyed those clips. Sadly I cannot download the film because it says it's expired. I like stuff like this especially if some connection i.e location or actor. I did laugh at the schoolboy's face when he turned around. He's like one of those 30year olds we see on the news trying to pass themselves off as child migrants.

Anyone remember the drivers of the old MG and Trent buses heading up Derby Road to Canning Circus and not being able to get their gears? Even as a little girl I got a cricked neck going home from shopping with my mother and when my dad came home from work that night, he took me to the old Ilkeston Hospital to be checked out. Oh and my mother was a pain for nodding of to sleep on the bus and missing our stop at Gilthill near Kimberley and she would tend to wake up seconds after and then we'd not be allowed off until the next stop outside Bonser Engineering. She was a crazy woman and would

I hated that bus station, accessing it thru that tunnel. I was terrified of the tramps as a little girl and everyone was smoking. The smell on the buses from it too. I do remb the canteen bus for drivers at Mount Street. I much preferred it when Trent moved their buses to the original Victoria Centre bus station, although still the vile fumes from buses and cigarettes.

I just ordered 3 prints from Malcolm Parnham. One of Wolsey factory, one of forty Bridges and one of Shippo's bridge over Kimberley Main Street and all featuring a midland general bus. I was born in 1970 and recall in the first half of the seventies, standing at the bus stop at the top of Gilthill with my mother and guessing whether it'd be a blue bus or a red bus to Nottingham so that must've been when the changeover was from Midland General to Trent Motor Traction Company.

My husband recalls the Highland Laddie on High Street being open as he's ten years my senior. It was already demolished when I started drinking in 1985 but a side wall still stood for many years until High St was made one way and new bungalows were built. I don't ever remb the building intact and used to wonder when I heard it mentioned, how it got its name, with where it was. I studied local history at school (KimboComp) but never heard any scots connection to the town.

Yes there was a model railway within the towers, way back in the mid seventies. There was also a children's roundabout in the courtyard area and chair lifts. My parents used to love going to the gardens. My sister was a baby so it was 1975 and I'd have been four. In the late 70's when advertising on TV, the advert was set to the music called 'EyeLevel'. I distinctly remember the trainset as even though I was a girl, I've had a lifelong obsession with them. I'd spend ages outside Beatties when walking with my mother back to what used to be Mount Street bus station. She would be hopping mad

re #357 Bless you TBI & Cliff Ton for that. I asked lots of ppl and they couldn't even remb the place but I was convinced I wasn't mistaken. Thanks for the photie too

That's a refreshing news website. Thanks for the heads up. I may live miles away now, out in the land of carrot crunchers and Poles but I still like to see what's happening where I still call 'local'

Back when pubs had regulated licensed opening hours, you just knew every pub was open every dinner time and every night whereas since pubs were allowed all day drinking, many pubs close on what were the traditional quiet days at the beginning of a week. Nowadays, especially in rural areas, you have to check their opening days and hours. I don't know what the county licensing hours were but Kimberley was 10:30-14:30 and 19:00-23:00 every day except Sunday when it was 12:00-15:00 (11:30 using the back door of the Queen's) and 19:00-22:30. I remember seeing two particular wasters at the door

this image is for sale on eBay by its artist Malcolm Parnham. He lists lots of rail pictures besides this one of Forty Bridges. Another I love is of an old Midland General blue bus heading Kimberley to Eastwood and is passing under the rail bridge which was at the bottom of the forecourt of the old National Garage/BP/Kimberley Caravans on the bend from Kimberley fairly close to Kettlebrook Lodge and Church Hill. He also lists a picture of the old Wolsey Nylons factory in Kimberley. Loving others' pictures of the area and Bonser Engineering where my husband served his apprenticeship as a

The pub is called 'The Gate' and is locally known nowadays as The sweet shop. No idea why, it's still a pub.

Dyggor Gaylord weren't exactly where Ikea is but in the old Bonser Engineering /Lansing Bagnall yard (They also had an office just off the A610 on the eastbound side of the dual carriageway at the turn off for New Eastwood which later became something to do with Raleigh) DG had massive earth moving machines used in road building and during the late eighties/1990, I was in my home above Gilthill (near the white house high on the hill above the farm) and I heard and felt a huge bang. I got up and checked around the home as it sounded like something so close. I found out later that day that a tyr

Possibly you mean Bennerley Viaduct known locally as a Black Bridge. It's constructed of iron and still standing whereas Forty Bridges was demolished in 1973 to make way for the A610 bypass. if I remb correctly there may be a picture in one of the books by Arthur Plumb; called Kimberley in old picture postcards. My books are currently 'in a safe place' so I cannot look and tell you which edition.

I used to go in the News House and my mother used to say it was a 'gay pub', never saw evidence of it myself and don't recall the FH being gay either. Iirc Gatsbys was a gay pub

Seriously? Upstairs in the Sal was on my Saturday pub crawl back in the late eighties and also we would go in there on Friday before heading to Rock City. What's the place like now?

Been trying my hardest to think of that pubs name which is why I'm on this thread. Used to go in there on Saturdays after going in Way Ahead record shop to buy vinyl. Cheers! Can anyone tell me the name of the pub on the left of Market Street as you went up the road? I used to go in there when on a Saturday all dayer with my old drinking buddy in my late teens. The pub vanished when the Pearsons site behind it and down onto Angel Row was redeveloped at the very end of the 1980's. I recall inside of it was a well, could've been a fake one as it had a wire ledge in it and lighting an

I absolutely love this thread. So many great actors and actresses hail from Nottinghamshire and they're all proud of the fact. Coupled with such great locations for filming, it's really the best in the country. It's a great pity that TV isn't what it used to be. I love everything made by Shane Meadows and the talent he has discovered.

Whilst I've always said duck, a friend of mine 'Nottm born & bred' ALWAYS calls me duckie.

Something is bugging me having seen the Muslim girls boarding school in the news. What did the Jamia al-Hudaa in Nottingham use to be? It's an old building. Please help

#28 Absolutely love that