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  1. roland green

    in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions

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    On 7/7/2019 at 11:33 PM, LozSanFran said:

    I went to RG, left in 84. Good memories (random names popping into my head) of Mr Coombs, Mr Chaplin, Mrs Lamb, Mrs Theaker, Mr Petchell, Mr Perry, Yorick lol. Used to walk from the Meadows over the Train Bridge (which I think got replaced) and past a pond (name of which I can't remember). Played soccer and cricket badly but enjoyed myself, was more of a reluctant academic. 


    You were in the same year as myself - I was there from 79-84. My 5 form teachers were

    Mrs Conway 

    Mr Mapp

    Miss Barber

    Mr Simons

    Mr Colaluca

     

    I was born and grew up on Holgate Road - my mum still lives in the same house

     

    Loved Roland Green - Great memories 

     

    apart from when Nick Cunningham burnt Down the English/Language dept - when we came back school after it’s redevelopment it was amalgamated with Mundella and renamed Wilford Meadows Comp

  2. John Petchell

    in Trent Bridge Schools (Teachers).

    Posted

    Mr Petchell taught me Geography at Roland Green from 1979-84 - really nice teacher if you were on the right side of him - I always got on really well with him. Regarding his hand, apparently he lost 3 fingers in some kind of explosion that went horribly wrong Some years previous - not sure how true that was?

     

    I didn’t realise that he’s taught at Trent Bridge though, are you sure this is the same teacher? I was at Trent Bridge from 1975-79, he obviously wasn’t there then, I had the likes of Mr Dawson, Mr Evans, Mrs Headly, Mr Blunston, Mr Spedding etc Derek Smith was the Headmaster at the time - I got plenty of smacks off him during my 4 years there 

  3. Born ‘58, The Meadows

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

    Posted

    On 5/26/2018 at 12:20 AM, Bazbo said:

    Lived on Ryeland Crescent, across from the nursery school. Then went to Coll

    eygate Infants and then on to Trent Bridge Juniors. Chaplin, headmaster? Introduced me to the cane, would send us to wash our hands in hot water straight after - made the pain worse! Formidable Mrs Carty who had a version of a cat o’ nine tails but used a slipper instead. Milk monitor was a perk cos you could stay in the classroom during break and mess around with girls. Marbles, bulldog, cards, tennis ball footy and winter slides in the playground. Great footy team, Area champions in 68! (Seem to remember we were joint champions in fact, Welbeck?) Avoided Trent Bridge Seniors and went to Roland Green Bilateral ‘69 - 74. Reid, Science - like to use his cane too! Smithy and Coombes, PE. Smithy was our Brian Glover from Kes. Access tmrsgshdhdjo the countryside around the Trent was brilliant; scrumping, fishing, egging. 

     

    To be continued...

     

    Mrs Carty died in the early 70’s actually in the classroom whilst teaching my sister at Trent Bridge School - I went to Trent Bridge from 75-79 before moving into Roland Green 79-84

     

    There a song at Trent Bridge that went to the tune of Jingle Bells:

     

    Jingle Bells, Carty smells

    Dawson’s got no hair

    Mr Smith has weed his pants 

    and that’s why he’s so queer

     

     

  8. Penny Cake Shop Holgate Road/Beauvale Rd

    in 'The Medders'

    Posted

    On 8/31/2014 at 5:10 PM, Tony said:

    The butchers shop was indeed Tolsons. The owner was called Fred. He used to work in the shop with his wife.

    On the other side of the road was a green grocers which in the 1970s was owned by a Mr Lander.

    Further down Holgate road / Woolmer road was a Mrs Samuels and opp her a Mrs Gill. Opp Mrs Gill was another green grocers owned by Mr Clarke ( father of Arthur and Mick Clark who went to TB school )

    Happy memories!

    Kind regards,

    Tony

    That corner shop on the corner of Wilford Crescent was run by a West Indian guy with his wife - Leo & Mavis - he was a scary guy, but it was a fascinating shop to go in as a young kid, lots of West Indian food on sale there 

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  10. Penny Cake Shop Holgate Road/Beauvale Rd

    in 'The Medders'

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    Rog, that shop in the 70’s was a hardware shop run by a husband and wife - 2 little folk - I never saw anyone buy anything from it, but it was one of the last shops to go - it was bang opposite Collygate School which i went to as a young kid - I went Ryeland Cresent Nursery before that, then later on went to Trent Bridge and finally Roland Green in Wilford - left school in 1984.

     

    Can you remember the red telephone box on the corner of Wilford Grove diagonally oppisitevtgat ships in your photo - I still believe there’s one still there, but it’s no longer a red box - the Morgan family lived in the house next to it bang opposite the school?

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  11. Penny Cake Shop Holgate Road/Beauvale Rd

    in 'The Medders'

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    My grandad was a baker and confectioner who lived in the Meadows (on Barnsley Terrace), my mam tells me he was a good friend on mr Timpson who owned the bakery on the corner of Beauvale Road, and used to help him with his work

     

    Can any of you remember Aiscough’s the confectioner and sweet shop on the corner of Woolmer Road and Holgate Road - there was also a sweet shop owned by Mr & Mrs Rooney at the other end of Holgate Road & corner of Mundella Road, (opposite the Laundrette).

     

    The butchers on the corner of Holgate & Wilford Grove was Mr Jowett & his 2 sons - one of the best butchers in Nottingham!

     

    I have so many memories of that wonderful Road, it was a hive of activity on a Saturday morning - now all the shops and community are gone - the only shop left is the off licence (known as the Beer-off) on the corner of Holgate & Glapton

     

    Does anyone on here still live in the Meadows, as I mentioned before, my folks still live on Holgate Road, they’re the last survivors from the 1960’s (my mam grew up on Waterway Terrace, and my dad grew up on Cliff Road in the Lace Market)

  12. Butchers in the Medders

    in 'The Medders'

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    There was a damn good Butcher’s on Holgate Road called Jowett’s - people used to come from all parts on Nottingham to buy their meat 

     

    But like all the great corner shops on Holgate Road - they are long gone. I fondly remember it being a hive of activity on a Saturday morning 

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  13. Penny Cake Shop Holgate Road/Beauvale Rd

    in 'The Medders'

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    Hello people, is anyone still posting on this site? - I just happened to come across it.

     

    I was born on Holgate Road in 1967, my parents still live inthe house I was born in.

     

    I know, having grown up in the Meadows, so much about it, and it makes me smile you 

    people talking about and reminiscing old people who once lived there. (I left in 1998, and moved down South)

     

    I actually worked in Toulson’s Butchers/Bakery on a Saturday morning between 1982-84 (dear old Fred paid me £2 for a morning’s work). Minimum wage never existed in those days 

     

    My old man was a regular in the Sherbrooke until it closed done 25 years ago - he used to sit in the ‘Best Room’, which you got on in Beauvale Road door. Fred & Mavis owned the pub and my man was the pub cleaner 7 days a week for about 26 years

     

    Anyway, if anyone wants to chat - contact me on: 

     

    I’m sure I could add some relevant info - even though I’m probably a lot younger than you lot on here :-)

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