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  4. Mapperley as it was in my day!

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    46 minutes ago, MargieH said:

     

    Oi Davies 123!   Nowt wrong with the kids who went to Carlton le Willows.....  at least the ones in my year  were  OK.     Lol

    Ha, ha, ha - so sorry no offence intended! It was just how it was in them days! My bro was a snob too - he got to go to Grammar School, not like the rest of us! Lol

  5. Mapperley as it was in my day!

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    On 15/03/2018 at 9:32 AM, DAVIDW said:

    Welcome Davies123 .

    I was a 10 year old walking up Fernleigh or Marshall Hill Drive  in 1959 going to Westdale Lane School so  probably heard your infant screams :)

    (Lived on Gardenia Grove).

    Theres a few links of discussions here to Gedling and Westdale Schools :

     

    https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/4897-gedling-school-class-photo-623/

     

    https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/10613-westdale-lane-juniors/?tab=comments#comment-155877

     

     

    Yes, that sounds about right. Carlton-le-Willows were always seen as the snobby ones!!smile2. Mind you I was the baby one of the family and didn't go to Gedling until after my brother's left. Vic went to Henry Mellish another snob!  Anne Maddison was my best mate until she went to Cavvo cowsheds!! then we lost touch too. 

  11. Mapperley as it was in my day!

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    Hi - Thank you for letting me join. I was born on Fernleigh Avenue in 1959 and moved to Digby Avenue in the 60's. I went to Westdale Lane School - starting in the Wooden Huts! And then to Gedling Secondary Modern in the 70's. I have 3 brothers - Victor and Richard and Philip Lovejoy. I moved to Plains Road to a flat above Barclay's Bank in 1980 until I moved to Wales in 1987. I have loads of memories of living in the area, some of which I had forgotten until I started reading people's posts. 

  12. Robinsons rose nursery westdale lane carlton.

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    On 27/01/2015 at 11:37 PM, banjo48 said:

    I lived in the Nurseries estate off Westdale lane in the late 70's/80's, it was in the main as said earlier, Southview road, all the smaller roads were named after flowers, I lived on Violet road, but there is Lavender and Veronica too. Think this was the original Robinsons nursery mentioned, I remember the greenhouses and wooden structures from my days of cycling up and down the lane to and from school in the early 60's.

    The final part was developed later and is now Glendale road.

    There was another nursery further up Westdale (mentioned in an earlier thread) owned by the Priestley's, Richard Priestley went to Gedling school a couple of years younger than me. Think he had a younger sister too. There is now a retirement style accommodation built on that one.

    Wheatcrofts may have started in Gedling but moved to the Melton road / Landmere lane where they built a large house and had extensive rose gardens and buildings.

    Hi, you are quite right about the Priestley's. My brother Phil Lovejoy and Richard Priestley were best mates back in the day!  You mentioned Lovejoy's Seed Store, Radford Road in another post back in 2012 think you may have been friends with my other brother - Richard Lovejoy? Going back to the original post my first boyfriend worked at Robinson's Nursery on Westdale Lane back in 1976 (the long hot Summer) his name was Steven Holland,