Basford Lad

Thanks for this. A great lot of info for me to trawl through there

In 1988 Andrew Eldritch and Patricia Morrison (Sisters of Mercy) walked towards me in the Broad Marsh Centre in full goth regalia (I was 18). I just looked up and they were walking right at me about 12 feet away. I thought the angel of death had come to collect my soul. Shortly after I came to enjoy their music and still have many albums. Put the wind up me at the time though and if you look at their Floodland period photographs you may see why

Here is a memory of my wife's worth mentioning I think. As a baby living there mid 1960's and when it got close to the time when her dad would return from work (it was her mum that ran the shop) she would be placed in the shop window to keep an eye out. However, as my wife has a physical disability this drew not a few complaints as many did not like to see a disabled baby in the window. Subsequently they sold up not solely due to that but it played a part.

Thanks for that I would write to Outlaw 99 but they haven't been online for a few years.

Thanks for the reply. Its a mental image that has always stuck with me so I'm glad it is likely accurate. Looking over the forum about local railway lines it seems a great shame so many have gone. Especially now with our roads so crowded!

I certainly do! Just posted about a family story/memory of the steam trains actually in the Railway photos forum. As a child it seemed there was everything on top of the bank for a railway but the trains! Very sad day when they dug it up. The neighbor that moved into the new house at the bottom of our garden after all the digging and building completed was rather unpleasant.

Really appreciate the photos here. Especially of Bagthorpe Junction and environs as I grew up on Heatherley Drive. My mum said that her mother used to say troops going to war would be shouting and laughing out the train windows etc during WW2 going away but then all quiet and somber with just pale faces at the windows on the return journey. I wonder if this is correct and troops would have used this line or one of these family 'Chinese whispers' stories?

Ey up. We've just come back from a visit to Nottingham and my wife wanted us to visit Ealing Avenue to see where she was born which was the shop on the corner fronting onto Vernon Road. It has changed greatly and is no longer a shop though you can see the evidence of it in the brick work. I know it's a long shot but might anyone have a picture of this? Or perhaps point me to where I might find one? All the best to all

Hello all I grew up living on Heatherley Drive and spent countless hours playing on the embankment (at the bottom of our garden) or just 'the bank' as it was known to us local young un's, during the 70's/early 80's. Played on the track, in the signal box (with all switching gear still there) and climbed the sandstone cliffs towards Perry road. It figures hugely in my childhood memories. Thank you all for your great pictures and memories.