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WE RETURNED TO OLD RADFORD, GARFIELD ROAD TO BE EXACT AROUND 1960, WE ALL WENT TO FORSTER STREET SCHOOL , THEN ON TO COTTESMORE SCHOOL. MY MUM USED TO GET ALL HER SHOPPING FROM DENMAN STREET,THERE WAS A BUTCHERS CALLED SPOTS, FORDS,A TOY SHOP WERE YOU COULD SAVE ALL YEAR AND PUT THINGS BY, WOODS THE VEG SHOP,ELLAS THE NEWSAGENTS WERE I HAD MY FIRST SATURDAY JOB, I CAN REMEMBER THE HOUSES BEING PULLED DOWN AND THE FLATS BEING BUILT, WE USED TO PLAY ON THE DEMOLITION SITE , REFERED TO AS THE BOMB BUILDINGS, WE ALL USED TO GO PLAY ON PADDLING POOL PARK, ANYBODY REMEMBER ANY OF THESE?
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I went to Forster Street School and then on to Cottesmore. Left school in 1960. I remember Simmons Hardware and Pascoe's Electrical shop on the Boulevard. A mate of mine worked there but I think he got into a bit of trouble. Another mate worked at Johnson's menswear in Denman Street. I also seem to recall an off licence (Charnells I think, and a grocers shop in denman Street called Cheethams. You could buy big mixed bags of sweets there for threepence and also Spanish Root for a halfpenny. Great days.
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I was born and lived on forster st oposite the school i went to sidney pearson hill, my grandad and dads shop was Simmons hardware on the boulevard denman st corner. my dad still lives in radford,i moved some years ago, many happy memories though
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Not really too interested in films, to be honest. I read all sorts of stuff, though - prefer fairly modern literature. Can't stand historical or romantic novels. Like biographies and autobiographies too and anything to do with travel and history (factual). Love maps as well. Favourite writers, I suppose, would be Margaret Attwood, Margaret Forster, Peter Carey. Can't travel anywhere without a book! What sort of things do you like, Margie?
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G'day everybody. I'm a first timer on Nottsalgia and so not quite sure of the hows and wheres to post. BUT there's lots of chat here about streets, and my query is about streets in Radford, so ... My Grandfather, Albert Cooper left Radford/ Nottingham in 1914 to take up a job as a jackaroo on a sheep station near Jerilderie in NSW, Australia. I'm trying to find the street where he was born (Butler Street) and where he lived (Forster St and Mapperley Road) - but I'm struggling. They don't seem to be there anymore, or not the bits where he lived. Then I read about something called the 'Radfo
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Ayup AFR. Welcome, You may need to take lessons in Nottinghamspeak to understands some things on here. I had a mate live on Forster St. Family name of Gregory. Forster St was quite respectable in the 40's and 50's and housed a lot of workers from Players Tobacco and the Raleigh Cycle works. .
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Welcome Andrew I worked with a chap who lived on Forster street by the unusual name of Jack Frost Many many years ago, in the roofing trade. other than that I can't tell you much about Radford as I 'm a Carltonian (Carlton, Mapperley area) good luck.
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used to work on forster street, it ran at the back of Boulevard Works, parallel with Radford Boulevard, starting where Players Factory used to stand
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Welcome Andrew. I can answer a couple of your queries. Forster Street is (still) in Radford - although the housing has changed, Mapperley Road is in Mapperley Park / St Anne's area. Both visible on Google Maps. Butler Street was in Radford, but no longer exists.
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There is a photo of a 4F (43837) on a King's Norton - Skegness S.O. train taken in 1955.(photo 74) In Railways in and around Nottingham by V.Forster & W.Taylor ISBN 1-870119-13-4 published in 1991 by Foxline
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Nottingham Victoria Station subway
Merthyr Imp replied to Mark_A's topic in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
There was a subway, but it was for parcels, etc, traffic rather than passenger use. I think it's been mentioned somewhere in one of the other threads on this site about Victoria, but the following is from the book 'Scenes From the Past: 11 - Railways in and Around Nottingham' by V. Forster & W. Taylor (Foxline Publishing, 1991):- 'The traveller...could if he wished send his luggage ahead by using one of the two hydraulic lifts which connected with the subway system, a little known feature of this great station. This subway was also used for mails and parcels and was truly located in the b -
Family tree lark - Duke Street Radford
mick2me replied to MelissaJKelly's topic in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
On street view just down from Redoubt Street, you can see what remains of Prince Street and Duke Street. About two car lengths. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Forster+Street,+Nottingham&hl=en&ll=52.955538,-1.17882&spn=0.002,0.005284&sll=52.936949,-1.244888&sspn=0.01601,0.042272&oq=forster+nottingham+map&gl=uk&hnear=Forster+St,+Nottingham,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=52.955531,-1.178245&panoid=l1EK04A6J_bGxOV_vpKgjw&cbp=12,353.14,,0,0 -
Hi Firbeck , B12 61554 at Vic in Forster & Taylors " Railways in and around Nottm". D49 The Percy at Vic in Brian Stephensons "LNER Album" Vol 1. Sorry I can't quote page numbers, or scan as many books are in the loft. Somewhere I have a book with a postnationisation D49 in but I've got so many I can't remember which it is.
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Radford Boulevard Infant School. I remember Miss Lowe, (my first teacher), Mrs Fox, and Mrs Clayton. Went from there to Forster St Junior School.
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Demolished memories. A lot of my family lived at Radford and I remember Radford Station, Forster Street School, the original All Souls Church. Radford gasworks, Chettles Yard. I also rember the Forum picture House on Aspley Lane but it was a video rental when I knew it. The Colliers Arms at Cinderhill. Old Park Farm at Bilborough. Chilwell Dam Farm near Strelley. The list is endless.
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Walking the old railway lines after closure.
Ashley replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Yes, the big one was on Jan 23rd 1925 and the line was closed east of Daybrook for several weeks whilst "the crown of the tunnel was repaired" " In the late 1950's the crown of the tunnel again failed at the eastern end and had to be shored up with timber as a temporary repair, the extent and cost of permanent repair to the tunnel, the fact that mining subsidence was distorting the line in general and that there was the alternative route led to the decision of closure of the line from April 4th 1960. Info from Railways In And Around Nottingham by Forster and Taylor, said book also contains -
Radford Rambling P1 Hi Nottstalgia what a great site for remembering things about Nottingham and in particular Radford. I was born at 16 Forster Grove, Radford in October 1944 and lived there for 19 Years before moving to Gedling then Bramcote then Wollaton before moving to Western Australia in 1988. I visited the web site picturethepast and was amazed to find a picture No:NTGM000723, of Forster Grove, (amazing that someone would take a photo of it) the house was a 2up 2 down shoe box with no bathroom, no hot water and an outside toilet, we had a tin bath hanging on the wall in the back y
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I went to Forster St School from 1953 to 1956 and remember a shop around the corner in Denman St called "Cheethams". You could buy a big bag of sweets for threepence. Back then you could still buy things for a farthing. I also remember Charnel's off license. Mr. Charnel had a daughter called Judy. A few years later I had a mate called Alan Baines who worked at Johnsons menswear shop in Denman Street.
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Hi Jon and welcome to 'Nottstalgia'. I had a great Aunt Nell who lived on Forster Street back in the 50's. She had lots of daughters: one called Rose, one called Bette, one called 'what's yer name?', etc (get the gist?); two of her girls married GI's and departed to America after World War II. I recall Aunt Nell living almost immediately across the road from a funeral parlour situated in the front room of a terraced house; it scared the life out of me when I was a kid to think that the undertaker was sharing their house with departed souls! PS: remembered the surname was 'Picker'
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I don't know about Clifton Colliery, but according to the histories I've consulted Queen Victoria wasn't involved the opening of any of Nottingham's stations. The first station - more or less opposite to the present one (but not quite) - was opened in 1839, but not apparently by the Queen. It's recorded in a couple of books, including 'Rail Centres: Nottingham' by Michael A. Vanns that the Queen visited Nottingham by train in 1843. Quote from that book: 'For the visit of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort on 4th December 1843 a new road was built parallel to Station Street, south of the r
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According to the Forster and Taylor book "in pre-grouping days....north was worked by two GNR and one GCR grades assisted by a train register lad, and at the other end....the same arrangement in reverse (two GCR and one GNR and a register lad)"
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Here's a couple of references I've found: '...beneath the platforms, connected to them by hydraulic lifts, ran a tunnel for the transfer of luggage and parcels to and from the main buildings on Parliament Street.' ('Rail Centres: Nottingham' by Michael A. Vanns, first published by Ian Allan in 1993) '...the traveller...could, if he wished send his luggage ahead by using one of the two hydralic lifts which connected with the subway system, a liitle known feature of this great station. This subway was also used for mail and parcels and was truly located in the bowels of the station below rail
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sydney pearson hill school radford
Bing replied to cjwilson's topic in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions
1953 At Forster Street School. The teacher, I believe, was Mrs. Holmes. I am the innocent looking chap third from left on the middle row. I had hair back then! -
I was born on Harrisons Row which is off St. Peters Street down at the right-hand side of The Plough Inn. My dad used to deliver beer there when he worked for Tennants. 14 cottages together with just 7 toilets at the end outside number 14. No bathroom, the bath hung on a nail outside the back door for use on a Friday night. Our garden backed onto the river Leen where I learned to swim. Not a good idea as it was often full of oil and burned bus tickets from Skills bus depot 100 yards away. Opposite Skills bus depot was the old debtors prison on St. Peters Street where my great-uncle Ted
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