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Hi Alpha and Jill Sparrow Apologies for delay in replying. Other memories are of walking past the garage at the top of Maud Street on the way to school and the delightful smell of some kind of solution that wafted out from there. As you got to the top of Maud Street and turned left, there was a little shop that was divided into 2 parts, first half of shop being sweets, papers etc and the second half a grocery type store, I remembered being allowed to weigh out the potatoes! I had two lovely friends who lived just across the road from Hope Cottages on Maud Street, Ja

To Jill Sparrow I have only just come across this particular web site - i lived at number 11 Hope Cottages, Maud Street, Basford from the late 60s to the mid 70s - I don't know when the cottages were demolished but yes they were a row of terraced houses. Ours was the very last one in the row, you had to be on Maud Street and go up a few steps to enter the row of 'Hope Cottages'. When I viewed the Maud Street on google maps it seems new houses have filled in the gap that the demolish of these houses left. None of the houses had a bathroom and all had an outside