Chris P

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  1. On 3/21/2010 at 12:42 AM, Norma39 said:

    SCHOOL SONG

    The quite river bears its load, from busy mart to mart below the hills,

    then slowly to the far grey seas, it bears its tribute, it bears its tribute, of a thousand rills.

    The Saxons bridge it o,er with oak, beside the shallow immamorial ford,

    Then spanned anew with well hewn stone, it bore the throng of peasant, monk and Lord,

    Last arching steel replaced the stone, and learning reared her walls beside the Trent,

    where days of eager youth we passed,before us life with every chance unspent.

    As time rolls on we leave her walls, the call of commerce and of art,the call of land and sea,

    shall scatter us across the earth,but in years to come, in years to come , we will remember, remember thee.

     

     

    That.s the first time I have known Trent Bridge to have a song. I was at the Junior school in the  1970s along with my siblings and we don't remember that. Thanks for sharing. I wonder when it was stopped being used

  2. On 3/21/2010 at 12:30 PM, denshaw said:

    Hi Norma, i lived on Glebe st from 63 til 71. There used to be a Malik family lived on Orange st, Cliftons on Bell Terrace, i could name quite a few off Bunbury st.

    Ashley, the club would have been on Wilford Crescent, some type of strip club late sixties. Mick will remember the name, mentioned on here before. (did you get my PM )

    Den.

    Carousel Club ?

     

     

    I think you might have the wrong road, Wilford Crescent East and West is all residential houses with a couple of shops the former post office A Doctors surgery on it until you get up to where Pyatt Street is and the back end of the Bus Depot then The Meadows Boys Club and the Mundella centre with the paper factory opposite. I grew up there in 1970s 

     

    Carousel Club was on Bunbury Street

  3. On 7/18/2020 at 6:33 AM, alisoncc said:

     

    Distinct memories of all the honour boards in the upper hall. Listing all the scholars of the school who had died in both the Great War and the Second. Vague memories of Remembrance Day assemblies when the names of those who had died in WWII were read out. In the 1950's much of what had happened was still very fresh.  Hey, we still had rationing.

     

    Alison

    That honour board is now in St Marys Church at Lace Market

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    Mundella closed in 1984 after being open for 98 years and merged with Roland Green to become Wilford Meadows which has since subsequently shut and reopened as Nottingham Emmanuel school.

    The site was on Colygate road and faced the meadows playing fields.

    In the late 80s the school was demolished with the exception of the former school library, the site was turned into housing and the library is now the Meadows Muslim Centre.

    Beckett school was across the river near Roland Green, and that too has been demolished and rebuilt and now shares the site next to Nottingham Emmanuel School and the tram runs alongside the two schools

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  5. On 3/28/2017 at 10:17 AM, Cliff Ton said:

    The low-level angle of the photo makes the place look like some kind of fortress or workhouse. Or maybe that's the intention.

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    It was an impressive building the archetecture was imposing and very Victoria but still exceptionally solidly built. Such a pity it was demolished and sold to building firm who created matchbox sized houses

  6. I started Trent Bridge Juniors in 1974 by then it was a mixed school I was in 1P

     

    First & second years were in the front building on Green Street and the third & fourth years in the building behind. The buildings were separated from the old boys school which seemed like an old dumping ground for stuff from the council and other schools

     

     

  7. That would be Trent Bridge Boys school where my dad went that closed a long time ago. There were two Trent Bridge schools right next door to each other. The one closer to the playing fields was the old Boys school which became virtually a warehouse for the council and the other was thejunior school. both sites were cleared to make way for a carbon free housing area.

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  8. Trent Bridge was a Junior school I went there before I went to Mundella. I understand that the school became Trent Bridge Primary and Nursery School  I believe it closed around 2003 and the buildings demolished in 2005

    Both Mundella and Emmanuel had pupils from the age of 11

    Trent Bridge was not merged with Wilford Meadows, I believe it was Arkwright Junior and Meadows Primary that were eventually merged with Trent Bridge Juniors.

  9. I went to Mundella in the last years I left in 1983. 

    In 1975 the school became a comprehensive. The year I started there were only 4 years of pupils, the fifth year were the last of grammar school pupils, 

    Basically what happened was in the early eighties a number of schools within Nottingham were merged and 3 new schools were created. In Mundella's case in 1984 it was merged with Roland Green across the river and became Wilford Meadows for a couple of years. All pupils transferred to the Wilford site and the Mundella building was closed and demolished. a housing development was built in its place.  

    Due to poor results the school was closed a few years later. It has now been reopened in 2002 as  The Nottingham Emmanuel School is a coeducational Church of England secondary school and sixth form with academy status on the site of the old Roland Green School. The pupils used the old buildings for the next 6 years until the new buildings were completed. Their uniform is still  maroon and gold. Emmanuel still retains house system and the houses are represented by colours: Red, Blue, Yellow and Green instead of places Thorsby, Hardwick, Welbeck and Wollaton. 

    The old war memorial which stood in the lower hall is now on the back wall of St Mary's Church in the city.

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