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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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Hey all, doing some research on Radford Baths, got a couple of questions you might be able to help me with: Does anyone know when they actually shut? Even better has anyone ever been inside that could tell me about it? Even better than that, does anyone have a picture of the actual pool? Cheers
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Can anyone remind me of the name of the butcher we used to go to on Hartley Road Radford in the late 1960s ?
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I am having a little bit of banter on another site regarding the exact location of the fire which caused such damage to the old John Player factory. Basically there is a little contretemps as I think the factory is in Radford but another thinks it is in Hyson Green. I am appealing to the greater minds of Nottingham to clarify and the experts on maps such as Cliff Ton (whose skills at producing maps of any era, almost instantly, I greatly admire) -
Hi, I have recently started researching my family tree for the Dennis family, who moved to Radford in around 1891. My great granddad George Dennis worked as a miner, I am assuming at Radford Colliery and I would be grateful for any information about this pit and what life was like for mining families living in this area. Any information at all would be great, so i can try and build a picture of his life. Best wishes, Melissa Dennis
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Anybody remember the Variety Club which existed in Radford during the 1960's? I vaguely remember visiting a few times with mates on a pub crawl and there being a table game called Blackjack' but I don't think it was a card game but a kind of table roulette. I would like to learn more about this venue as I am sure it's memory remains fresh in a lot of local peoples minds.
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Found this old Picture, Not sure of the year it would have been taken or What the streets are? Anyone any idea?
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Hi born and bred in the great radford of the 60s, Everyone knew each other always spoke to each other, There was there was 5or 6 cinemas in radford and Hyson Green. 2or 3 Youth clubs to go dancing, Pleny of pubs clubs with entertaiment good entertainment, A Friend of mine AL-HARPO JAMES, was on the circuit then was very good at his job, He now entertains in America. Some very Pretty Girls in radford too. John Haddow.
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In the late 60's my parents owned a beer off on the corner of Trafalgar Street, sadly my memories of it are poor as I was quite young. If anyone remembers it or better still has a pic I would be interested to hear from you. Thanks.
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My 2x great grandfather and my great grandfather (as a boy) lived at 77(I think!) Pepper Street Radford. Can anybody let me know where this street was. Other Census addresses include Lindsay Street, Russell Street, Noel Street and Hyson Green Road which I can find quite easily. What has happened to Pepper Street? I found a Pepper Street in the centre of town but I'm fairly sure this is not the street I'm after.
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I hoping to look into my family history so thought it a good idea to initially start on here, rather than some of the large sites advertised on TV etc. Does anyone have any record or information of the Hickling family who I think lived in the Radford area early 20th century. One name I have is John Henry Hoskins Hickling born (I think) in Radford in 1900.
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totally new at this and struggling can anyone help with what happened to ww1 memorial plaque when the church was demolished I was told my grandfathers name was on it as he is not on any memorial in Nottingham as far as I know it was all souls church Radford
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My quest to track down some folk continues. Would anyone know what became of Radford Rd Council School , potentially aka New Basford Council School. I know it was in business in the early quarter of the 1900s at least, but that's all. Cheers
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When I passed my 11+ in 1965 or so, my Dad took me to a bike shop on the corner of Radford Road and Wilkinson Street and bought me a Triumph Palm Beach bike. It was two tone blue. It seemed a big shop at the time but then I was quite small. Needless to say it isn't there now and I think even that corner has been redeveloped. Does anyone recall the name of that shop?
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This certainly fits into the "pre-50s" Nottingham. My grandmother migrated to Australia alone in 1923 aged 17. Her departure address is given as "191 Norton Road, Radford, Notts." Does anyone have a corporate memory or old map of Radford that would identify whether this address was a private address or a hotel or something else. Many thanks in advance. stevehyland
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I want to have a map/maps that covers the Nottingham City area Basford & Radford mid Victorian era i have one for Basford but a really tatty photocopy for Radford . I am trying to find out where Bloomsgrove Street was in Radford was where my ancestors lived.
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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've just borrowed this from my Mum, There's some interesting info on the obverse too, I'll copy that when I get a minute or 6 ! Anybody any good at stitching pics together ? I think Kev did one for me a while back.
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I'm still trying to rediscover the buiding that was next to Hartley Road Homes, on Norton Street towards Denman street in the late 50's, I recall (vaguely) that it was called Welbeck House (?), and was a large tenement style building (used as flats) in the centre of a courtyard, with tiled walls on the stairwells, so could have been a hospital of some description? It was set back from Norton Street, but had the sametype of rough brick walls as the Home.
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Someone in this months Bygones has found some old photos in a skip,the photos are of Radford,he used to take papers for a newsagent named Weatherbed,my familyy are Weatherbeds and I have been doing the family history for a few years now and I can't place nim or her any oldies from radford out there the shop eas on Dennison St the date the 1940s
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This is part of a Radford street map posted some time back...1920s I need the area to the right of Ilkeston Road....Cobden street/Salisbury Street area. 1920s would be great...but any other periods from 1890s to 1930s would be of interest.....Thanks.
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A couple of years ago I downloaded this image of Radford. It is quite low resolution (I reduced it a bit more for uploading here). I think it was from Picture the past as I can't think where else its from. I would now like to order the full size image as it contains where I was born, lived and worked for 36 years. Problem is changed the title when I saved it. I have searched P the P using various search terms for hours and hours and worn my eyeballs out and just cannot find it again. I know its a long shot (no pun intended) but has anyone here seen it before or knows where its from please.
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I have got an old ordnance survey map of Radford in 1901 which shows Radford Colliery. I was wondering whether anyone knows when this pit was sunk and when it closed? All I know is that it was owned by the Wollation Colliery Company (is this correct). The map also shows that there was a wharf on the Nottingham Canal called Babbington Wharf near to Wollaton Road just west of Radford station which was connected by a railway which headed due north, does anybody have any ideas of where this railway went? I know I'm asking a lot but this has aroused my curiosity somewhat
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Inside Out Marie Ashby investigates whether it would be cheaper to knock down some of the region's high-rise flats rather than try to improve them, and screenwriter Billy Ivory pays tribute to author Alan Sillitoe
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Radford Boulevard & Cottesmore School Reunion On Saturday 6th May 2006 - 7pm to Midnight at Chilwell Olympia Sports Centre, ByePass Road, Chilwell, Nottingham Disco with Rockin’ Ray Phone To Get Your Tickets:- Betty: 01332 603737 Ann: 0115 9398781 Kath: 0115 9469138
