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Read a little about the old pleasure park at the bottom of trent lane,it was a good day out down trent lane,first the old man who used to ferry you over the trent to bridgeford for a penny,then into the pleasure park when you came back,it used to be 2pennies to get in,or walk all the way round the old football fields,past the old white city dog track,and the old pieces of planes in the old raf cadets i think it was,and over the fence at the back.there was the penny arcade and the rounderbout,the pull me swings and a paddleing pool that got really slippy in the summer with the slime on the bott
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Trent Bridge, and skiffs, outrigged gigs, for hire on the river. Possibly too far back for nostalgia though. https://flic.kr/p/oaFrP8
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As an addition to the threads about Stoke Ferry, Speed Boats, and Trevithick, here's another river topic. I'm just about old enough to remember the pleasure steamers which operated from near Trent Bridge - I think I went on them as a kid. They were operated by a company called A. J. Whitty who were based near City Ground. This is one of Whitty's steamers, Empress, on the Trent Bridge to Colwick service. Apparently she took part in the evacuation at Dunkirk and was sunk on her second trip there. Whitty's boathouse is the one on the extreme right. Note the primitive version of Forest's City
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Hi Ive recently joined your forum after stumbling onto it by accident. Im now 51years old and was raised in Arnold , which i left when I was 20. I have very vague memories of my parents taking out for the day and having a picnic by the river.Children were padldlng in a section of the river seperated from the main river by a fence cutting across the paddling area. There were a couple of kids rides and apassenger boat kept coming and going.We onlywent the once but there were many people there that day I was only a child at the time no older than 5. but when ive spoken about this Ive been told it
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can anyone remember the pleasure park down by the trent in the 1950s,i cant find any info on it .we used to go down by the manvers pub,a long walk for little legs,there was a rail in the water so children could paddle and a pool and swings