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Today is my fourth birthday !!...It was October 26th 2018, when I first enrolled/enlisted, (call it what you like) onto Nottstalgia. Since then I've learned a multitude of interesting things and made many new acquaintances, some of whom have been email or 'WhatsApp ' contacts. I've found relatives, long lost for over 60 years and have also heard from old school friends and even neighbours from my Radford stomping ground. I've received lots of useful information from obliging fellow Nottstalgians, for which I am eternally grateful. Made some 'penfriends too. For all this.... A BIG THA
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What a brilliant find Dark Angel a lot more than just Radford on there.
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This might ring a few bells. One set of grandparents lived in Radford, the others in Lenton In school holidays we'd visit one or the other for the day. The strongest memory is how quiet the two houses were when we got there. Life definitely was much more peaceful back then. Get off the bus and walk down the road to the house, maybe there were a couple of parked cars, but otherwise you could've been on a desert island. When you walked into the house you could literally hear the clocks ticking, and maybe a very low volume radio; otherwise it was like being in a library or a church. The
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I mentioned them in an old thread. The grandparents in Radford had one but in those days I didn't know what it was called; it was you who told me ! https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/20276-duraglit-brasso-and-companion-sets/?tab=comments#comment-646250
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I don't think the word SCULLERY was confined to the Radford area. Emily Ward, my relative who lived in Garden Street from the late 1920s always referred to their huge kitchen as a scullery. However, Emily wasn't born in Radford. She was born in Clapgun Street, Castle Donington and, after that,in Lambley. I think the word was fairly widely used among a certain generation.
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My grandmother also used the word scullery for the kitchen. Pre marriage she lived mostly on Harold Road, Radford. She had a brother, my great uncle Albert who lived on Glentworth Road. Perhaps something to do with the area?
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My grandmother who lived on Grimston Road, Radford, was the only person I knew who used the word 'Scullery' for the kitchen area. I've come across it in print in various places over the years, but she was the only person I heard use it in everyday speech - she never said 'kitchen'.
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I was lucky. I was within walking distance of them I lived on Faraday Road (just down from the White Horse Pub). Grandma Brooks lived in Miall street and Grandma and Grandad Newberry lived in Guthrie Street. When I returned to Radford for the first time in 2001 I was saddened to see that neither house (or my own) was still standing. Didn't recognise the area at all. I spent a lot of time with my grandparents, both before and after school as both my parents worked and left home early in the morning and didn't return until early evening. I left England in 1964 and never saw any o
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Does anybody have any old photographs of Trafalgar Street area in the late 1950's to 1964? I used to live at 46 Trafalgar Street during this period and attended Berridge Road Junior and Secondary School. Are there any books on Old Radford during this period? Thank you. Geoffrey
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Without the internet i would not have found this great forum, it popped up on my screen when i did a google search for info on Boden st in Radford where my dad lived as a child.
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Whilst I have been perusing picture the past, I came upon a picture of Douglas school, Harvest festival, 1957. Among the toddlers on there I could swear I saw my youngest brother John. He is sitting on the bottom row. WHAT A SUPRISE !! Also there was a written article by a Val Jayacoddy who talked about Christ church garden, that used to be on Ronald street. She mentioned about playing in the unkempt side of the grounds and finding some money in the old wall. That really was a shock as I was the miscreant who knocked the brick out and found the dosh. In the rush of kids, I got the princely sum
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I wenta the bug ole in the 50's I can remember: Joey Nelson, Snakey Vipond, Derek Woodcock, Eddie Emery, Dennis Dunstan, we all usta play on the Rec facing the school. Anbody out there?
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Does anyone remember Flints newsagents which was on Alfreton Road roughly opposite the Spread Eagle near Bentinck Road/Hartley Road junction. It was next door to Eric's shoe shop. It was run and owned by my wife’s grandparents and she lived there for the first few years of her life.
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Manning Grammar School
Beekay replied to mary1947's topic in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions
@RadFordee, last time I swam in Radford baths was circa 1960. -
Manning Grammar School
Beekay replied to mary1947's topic in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions
Not quite Manning, but Radford baths were half doors too. Can remember going upstairs changing booths up at the deep end. When the attendant wasn't looking used to dive off the railing. -
New Basford I know well having worked in the area. Both the Old and New Basfords were not great for shopping. It was either Radford, which is now very run down, or Bulwell where I spent 7 happy years at school. I admit Highbury Rd. and Kersall Drive isn’t Bulwell ‘proppa’.
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Pelham & Thurland Street Area
philmayfield replied to DaveN's topic in Web Sites about old Nottingham
My company banked there. The manager was Eric Tiffin back in the 70’s/80’s. He used to host lunches for his larger customers at the NatWest area HQ on Radford Boulevard, the old Player‘S offices. Many’s the time I’ve sat with local luminaries such as Frank Sytner and Nat Puri. I often wondered if the guests had large overdrafts or big credit balances! -
This was my local line when I was a kid, we used to meet up at the black path railway bridge at the back of Firbeck Estate and watch the trains go by, not that there were that many, even in the 50's and 60's. I've heard once again, that this line is being considered for closure, is this true, has anyone got any information on this, it's been talked about since the days of Beeching, but it always managed to survive. I took my son for a nottstalgic walk along the canal from Wollaton to the site of Trowell Moor Colliery the other day, which follows the line of the railway. I was very surprised
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During our Berridge visit in June, we met John Preston who was at Berridge from 1956 to 1962. He has kindly provided copies of his school photos. This is the earliest, 1956/7. Back row:. Susan Blatherwick, John Preston, unknown, unknown, unknown, Sharon King Middle Row: Michael Irwin, Jimmy Sinclair, unknown, unknown, Alan Dunn, Susan Meakin* Front Row: Stephen Attenborough*, Linda Thompson, John Rowson*, Marjorie Wright, unknown. Teacher, Miss Peet* *Indicates there is some uncertainty about the identity. John Preston li
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I was talking to a former primary school friend recently and he mentioned that, as a child, he visited family members who lived in Lonsdale Road, Radford. That reminded me of an older cousin of mine who married in 1960 and moved into a house in Forster Street which is the next street along, moving in the direction of Radford Boulevard. I was only two or three years old at the time but I well remember going to see my cousin and recall that there were iron bollards at the end of one, or perhaps both, of those streets at their junction with Hartley Road. Does anyone else, perhaps Beek
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Grimston, Wordsworth, Glentworth Rd area in Radford
Cliff Ton replied to letsavagoo's topic in Old Radford
I don't know the answer, but one possibility...... Players had the large building on the right as their Head Office from at least the 1920s. Some time in the 1960s that early building (which I just remember) was modernised/enlarged/redesigned to become the one which is basically still there today, hidden under the student frontage. That may be when they annexed the building on the left and built the 'new' bridge to link up. I've now just noticed an earlier post in this thread which I'd missed, and partly answers my question. https://nottstalgia.com/forums/to -
Grimston, Wordsworth, Glentworth Rd area in Radford
Willow wilson replied to letsavagoo's topic in Old Radford
I think there are 2 bridges in question here. The 1929 bridge was further away from Radford Boulevard than the present larger structure as stated above (StuartC) which is flush with the building line on the boulevard. The big old 1884 Player's factory on the right in the '1929 bridge' picture caught fire in 2015 during conversion to students accommodation. The fire was attended by fire services from Derby and Leicester as well as Notts. They were in attendance for 10 days, the building being mostly demolished to get to the seat of the fire. It is being rebuilt 'in the style of' the origi -
Grimston, Wordsworth, Glentworth Rd area in Radford
Cliff Ton replied to letsavagoo's topic in Old Radford
Could it be this ? Going across Player Street at the Radford Blvd end. The building on the right was Player's offices. Now the whole thing is student accommodation. https://goo.gl/maps/Yr88JtxD9wjT5BZ96 -
I was born just off Churchfield Lane, in the shadow of Players factory. Left early 70’s when my parents bought a new house in Lenton although I more or less moved in with my girlfriend back in Radford.
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@letsavagoowhere in radford were you born? i was also born in radford & lived in the area till the mid 70's, we did have fireplaces in the bedrooms on gamble st but they were boarded up hence the ice on the inside of the windows in winter.
