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FLY2,
I remember cobbled Lincoln Street, (Basford Town) as it was often referred to, as a very vibrant community with numerous shops and 'characters'.
The Old English Gentleman on the original Brown's Croft, all narrow side streets with their own special features.
The untitled 'Lord Mayor', of Basford , Ivor Liddington for one. Rubin, often shoplifter and drunkard and many others I'm unable to name.
Three butchers shops, herbalist, fish monger, grocers, cycle repairs, (Martins) news agents and chemist to name a few.
Basford Manor on Church Street was owned by Mr & Mrs Telling (Builders & Plasterers).
Basford wakes by the river Lean with its quaint arched bridge. Gone and forgotten. To see Lincoln Street now via Google Earth is saddening.
The flats and housing ruined completely a thriving area. As you say perhaps a fly-over would have been for the better.
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Hi! FLY2,
As a Basfordian, I believe you would remember Lincoln Street before the apocalypse!
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On 10/18/2013 at 12:48 PM, jackson said:
Aspley Pictures?: went loads of times, the same with the beautifully designed Aspley Library.
Aspley Pictures: I was a regular cinema goer, Saturday afternoons; costing 6d, we were treated to Hopalong Cassidy and other cowboy films. We kids used to stand on our chairs and cheer when Hopalong appeared, magnificently dressed in white, riding a white horse and boo terrifically when the bad boys appeared, dressed in black and you've guessed it, riding black horses.
My dad and grandad were great cinema goers and regular Saturday nights, my sister, uncle and I were taken along; saw many of the greats: George Raft, Kenneth More, John Gregson,Tony Curtis, Diana Dors. One of my favourite films was: 'John and Julie', about two kids who were taken to the big Capital London for the day.
In my mind's eye I can still see the long foyer leading into the pictures and the Gallery of Gold Framed Film Stars lining it; Ultra Glamorous, a golf framed photograph of Tony Curtis comes to mind - I've even made a painting. The fifties are often depicted as dull and boring and so they were much of the time, stuck in the discipline and regimentation left over from World War 11 but there was lots of gorgeous glamour around: ladies with peroxide locks, vast bosoms on display wearing Bling way before now - Marilyn Monroe, Sabrina, Jayne Mansfield - I couldn't wait to grow up and participate........
And as for Aspley Library: what a great place every Saturday morning after I'd done my errands. I'd catch the 22 bus from Amesbury Circus for 1d and go and spend some precious time in their beautiful Junior Library (well stocked and well arranged).
After choosing my books, I'd take them to the lady behind the issue desk to have them stamped - I would have loved the chance to stamp my own books; my turn came later to stamp loads when I joined the staff of NPL in the 60's.
I was a voracious reader, what was called a bookworm; it was my delight to be awarded four tickets when I was 12 and allowed to transfer into the Senior library. Read 'Day Of The Triffids' and 'How Green Was My Valley' - terrific books both.......
Aspley Library had everything possible for a Library to have: Junior library, Senior library, Reading Room, Study Room,
Display Area in the foyer. Some years later in my working life it was back to Aspley Library again, as we new library staff whilst studying for our First Professional exams at the Trent Poly used the Aspley Library Study Room for our Seminars.
Aspley Pictures and Aspley Library: Remembered with Love.
Hi! Jackson,
I thought I would like to reply with my similar fine memories of Aspley Library. With its green rubberised flooring and immaculate shelves of books to get lost in. I started in the junior section then moved on to the senior section. My earlier recollections of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn kept me happily absorbed for hours.
I do remember a young girl librarian about the time you might have been in attendance and I would have liked to have the courage to have asked her out but, being of a shy disposition I regret now that I didn't have the necessary level of confidence to do so. It is very sad that the library we knew now has barred windows and a re-inforced main entrance (Google Earth).
Yes, Aspley 'pictures', the shops, Mick and Olwen at Pinketts's , the snooker hall and the frothy coffee café opposite the library all bring back happy memories.
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Where is (was) the original wooden constructed flyover built by Sheperd-Hill Construction?
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1 hour ago, LizzieM said:
Unfortunately New Basford Lad sadly and suddenly passed away last August/September time Alpha. A terrible loss to Nottstalgia too.
I'm very sorry to learn of this. Thank you for contacting me.
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On 1/21/2018 at 3:30 PM, NewBasfordlad said:
And unless I am very much mistaken Christine Alcock nearest the cars on her way back to the ladies shop where she worked just up Long Row
Could you tell me more please about Christine Alcock or her family, she could be a relative of mine.
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I was interested where you mentioned working at Wilson Ford. Two friends I knew worked there. David Gladwyn and Terry Reynolds.
I new a friend too who was at British Gysum, Keith Millington. Lost contact with them aeons ago.
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Do any of you older Meadownians know of a Frank Fairholme . He lived around the corner of Cremorne Street onto Kirke White Street area. He emigrated to Australia about 1964.
He worked at John Jardine's on Deering Street.
Any news of him would be welcome.
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Correction it was the Running Horse at Canning Circus.
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On 9/16/2017 at 10:11 PM, TBI said:
I seem to remember a very weird-looking building on Wilford Rd, quite large, somewhere on the left down 'apeny bridge end. It was completely wood-covered, like waney-edge fencing painted dark creosote. Anyone remember it or what it was?
On 10/2/2017 at 1:55 PM, TBI said:Cheers Rog and Cliff. My mum lived off Wilford Rd and can't remember it but I don't think I'm imagining it. It stood on a corner, I thought initially towards the river end but I now realise it couldn't have been that far down. Possibly corner of Deering St.
TBI,
The weird looking building you describe housed one of John Jardine's machine shops and offices. Jardines occupied Deering street and Cremorne Street with fabrication shops, lace machine shops, foundry and electrical repair shops. Quite a complex for a street area. The y had a huge metal plate guillotine that shook the surrounding properties when shearing through metal plate. The restricted the guillotine's use to the day shift. The company was owned be Hovering Gravels and closed and moved to Colwick around 1966.
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I remember seeing him near the Flying Horse (Canning Circus),londish homosexual with a blotchy complexion. Walked with a bit of an effected swagger I recall.
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Hi! Katrina,
I attended Whitemoor Juniors at that time. I remember being taught in the annex building by Mr Anderson.
I recall Miss Maltby and few others.
One of the male teachers, (perhaps it was hairy-faced Mr Gregory) had a liking for the girls. He would often invite girls up to his desk for them to show him their work books. His hand would move up and down their legs under their dress. Quite naively I thought he was comforting them over their shyness at being in front of the class. The girl next to said, 'dirty devil', she being far more astute and knowledgeable as to what was going on than I was! He never did invite any of the boys in the class to bring their workbooks to him!
Names like Geoffrey Dodd, (Odd Dodd) Butch Stinchcome, Ann James, Jennifer White?, Brenda Brentnall (with the plats) and in a later year Norma Croft come to mind.
Happy days left behind so quickly.
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Sir Stanley Hooker's biography, 'Not Much of an Engineer', should be visited at is gives a vivid account of his direction in improvement piston engine improvement (super charger) and jet engine (VSTOL) development.
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Carni,
many thanks.
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How should members respond in the forum as I am not quite sure yet as when the bell icon is 'clicked on' nothing happens.
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DJ360,
I can confirm it was unmistakeably a Lockheed Constellation with a triple tail plane and swept rear fuselage configuration. It was flying low on its approach and an image which is firmly fixed in my mind.
What I cannot confirm fully is that it landed to transport engineers including one (Sir) Stanley Hooker. In his biography he mentions his flight to the USA in a Constellation flown from Hucknall but it is a convincing influence to suggest that this could have been the flight in question around that time.
I would have to return to his book to look into this question further of the approximate date of this flight.
Do you know where the hamlet was not far down the lane, (track) as I have described?
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I went to Whitemoor Junior School and remember the nursery where we slept on collapsible beds to have our daily nap. I remember Ray Settle who used to amuse us all by swearing under his breath and making rude noises. We all ended up giggling and were told off by the teacher. What a lovely school.
I lived for a time at Luton Close off Aslockton Drive. I remember, Tony Smith, Josie Ives, the Boot sisters, Wendy, Janet and Margaret and Alan Black.
Nuthall Road was very busy specially at 'rush hour' when all the workers were returning home. I used to visit the library at the Melbourne Road junction regularly with its green rubbery flooring and quiet relaxing atmosphere reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn adventures.
No barred windows and main doors in those days. The streets were clean and the shops were busy and thriving with wide spacious pavements to move freely along.
A few older men WW1 vintage who used to go to sleep in the newspaper reading room. The librarian would come in and ask them to leave. Most of these old veterans were lodgers' with no homes of their own .
The old terraced mining houses on High Street later Basford Road had outside toilets and no bathrooms. I look at the area on google earth and find it looks very run down the old shops I knew look depressingly awful.
Another once nicer part of Nottingham sadly gone.
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1 hour ago, catfan said:
Spoke to my sister & Barbara is alive & well she is living Haydn Road area of Nottm. She lost her husband a TV repair man ?
My sister sees Barbara often
Catfan,
thank you. I am pleased to hear she is well. I knew her year's ago from where we both worked , John Jardines Engineering, Durnford Street in the Meadows district, long since demolished of course.
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Catfan,
many thanks for your kind response. Do you know what happened to Barbara?
Did her family finally emigrate to Canada?
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Yes,
I spent my early years in Beechdale, at Ranmere Road until 1952 when I remember at Beechdale Junior School's announcement that the old king had died.
The classrooms consisted of wood constructed buildings where I believe the anti-aircraft battery were billeted during the war years. The pivotal gun base was located on the rough ground between Ranmere Road and the shops. There was an access road to the gun site running parallel with Ambergate Road.
This was our main play area at the time and the focal point was around the trunk of a felled tree in the middle of the rough ground.
The Bilborough's who we encountered in Beechdale woods (before the bus depot was developed) were considered 'persona non grata' due to the bad name that Bilborough inhabitants had then and which appears to exist today.
I often frequented Wollaton canal areas and the woods that bordered both sides of Beechdale Road with a friend, Andrew Duckworth. I remember the junior school heartthrob Pat Rhodes or (Rose) and others who lived nearby, Daryl Edwards and his brother.
I remember the civil engineering company, Holloway Brothers (later Beechdale Engineering) with its derrick boom dominating the sky-line and Wimpey's site at the bottom of Beechdale Road.
In the early sixties I knew a girl, Barbara Theeker who lived in Darnhall Crescent (2 O'clock position looking from the shops). Does anyone remember her? I believe the family emigrated to Canada apart from her.
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On 9/30/2017 at 6:29 PM, Cliff Ton said:
These may be the only photos you'll see of that part of Palm Street when it was full of houses. The arrow on the photos is pointing at the house marked as 7a / 9 on the map. In this photo - and just visible on the other - the road up the left is North Gate.
Did you know a girl, June Drury who lived in one of the villa type houses. I think it was at the cross-roads to the right of the image. The left hand house with a longer garden and larg bay windows.
Alpha.
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Correction. Mr Frazer taught in the hut to the left of Mrs Sheldon's office, not Mr McKnight.
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On 2/18/2011 at 5:02 PM, Beduth said:
I was 15 when I left Ellis in May 1956 to move to Coventry with family.
I believe I was in Faraday House but I can’t remember the forth. Hopefully I will be able to contribute a lot more to this topic with names, photo’s etc. Once I become familiar with the workings of this website.
It was Faraday House. Head Master, Walter P. Hadrill who lived on Lime Tree Avenue opposite Stockhill park.
I also remember the teaching staff, most notoriously 'Rubber Neck'. Mr Kinder. If caught with a minor misdemeanour you were the recipient of three hard thumps in the back with the flat of his hand. His teaching idiosyncrasies included, nibbed pen and ink only, ink wells clean and = signs all in line down the page. He appeared more interested in maths figure formatting than getting the math lesson through to the pupils.
Also the 'Jock' Bowley, well known, and why, for his visits to the changing room following PT.
'Johnny one-eye', Mr. Hall, gave a good thrashing to a boy, Ray Wallis, caught leering through the class window during art class.
Mrs Sheldon was the school secretary next to Mr McKnight's English class in the huts.
Guilford Girls School ran separately to Ellis with the young short-haired Art Mistress providing the glamor causing a following of eyes from the boys side as she walked down Bar lane towards Nuthall Road. Pat Atkinson also caused some eye turning when leaving school at Stockhill Circus.
Names remembered; Barry Feetham, Ray Wallis, Alan Glen, Pete Cope, Elvin ???, Keith Dawes, Pete Orme et al.
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Nut Yard - Bobbers Mill & Whitemoor
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Does anyone recall a small workshop/store owned by Dalgliesh Brothers at corner of Nuthall Road and Albert Avenue. I recall the names of Alan Hambleton and Mary Brown who lived on Cyril Avenue. I also remember Robin Soar who worked for a pork butchers on the corner of Nuthall Road and Denehurst Avenue. That particular area of Bobbers Mill always had a particular charm as it was untouched by and noticeable building change or development. I remember the post office near to Albert Avenue, the owners had a daughter who also attended Whitemoor Junior School.