Anne of Aspley 12 Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 Eyeup my name is Anne and I am from the old Aspley! The one where you grew up, knew all your neighbours, went to the Top Shops, knew all the shopkeepers by name and went to The William Crane School. I live in Ontario Canada and am writing a story called The No 1 Bus. I am looking for any memories and pictures of the No 1 bus when it went from town to the top of Rosslyn Drive :-) around the 1940's. Can anyone help me? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 Well I'll start you off...Here's a picture of Hanley street where the number one had it's terminus in Nottingham.I'm sure one or two bus nuts will be able to find you other pictures.There are bound to be other pictures and stories too of Aspley Estate that other members can help you with.Give 'em time ....some are gettin' on a bit,but will turn up eventually. I used to live a bit further up Nuthall road from where it turned off,and usually got the 22 or 7...the number one left me with a few hundred yard walk...and being idle I only caught it every now and then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,475 Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 And here's my contribution to the No 1 story. Another photo of Hanley Street, but note the bus in the background. http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 Oh boy, does that bring back memories, that was my bus, the number 22. Thanks for the pic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 By the way, welcome back me duck, Anne from Aspley. It was because of you I found this site and have been on it ever since. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 Hi Anne of Aspley, I'm Paul of Minver, later of Aspley Lane.....................we lived in a cul-de-sac ( pronounced culdeh) between Hilcot & amersham, so had the choice of buses inter tahn. Me dad allus caught the No 1 from work, & I'd go meet him about 5.15 in the evening, he'd 'drop off' the bus as it turned from Hilcot on to Minver, that was mid fifties. Took a look at Aspley (Minver Crescent) a few weeks ago whilst in Nott'm, I could have wept at the state of the place. My brother went to Crane school in the 40s/50s, name of Pete Thorpe..................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 From pictures I've seen, the 1, 7 and 22 started from the Old Market Square until about 1947/48 (there were two rows of stops facing west on the north side, because the old tram bay was still there - I think about 20 different routes started from there). Then, of course, they moved to Hanley Street and eventually Maid Marian Way. The route was Wollaton Street, Canning Circus, Alfreton Road, Bobbersmill Bridge, Nuthall Road, Melbourne Road, Hilcot Drive, Minver Crescent and Rosslyn Drive to the Bells Lane roundabout. Living where we did on Aslockton Drive, any of the three - 1, 7 or 22, were OK. We always got on at the Bar Lane stop outside Pinketts, where the conductor had to stamp his card in a timeclock. Going home we always got off a 7 or 22 at High Street (now Basford Road), but usually continued to the next stop if it was a 1 - just round the corner on Melbourne Road by the Co-op. We often seemed to get on at Bentinck Road going home. There were about four stops there, and for some reason the 1, 7 and 22 all used a different stop. I seem to think the 1 was at the top shelter nearest Hartley Road, along with the 62; the 22 was the next one down and the 7 was the bottom one. So you had to hover, ready to dash to the right stop depending which bus appeared first. NCT had a reputation for not waiting. if you weren't at the right stop it was no good gesticulating - they just ignored you and carried on! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anne of Aspley 12 Posted October 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 Eye up Paul of Minver..I'm actually Anne of Maltby Close :-) I know where you lived. I lived in a cul-de-sac anall. I lived in Maltby Close, just off Harwill Crescent. I could catch the No 1 bus from either the terminus at the top of Rosslyn Drive or goo raand tu the first stop on Minver Crescent. Back then if the bus started it's engine... I would run like mad and beat it to the Minver Crescent stop. Sometimes the drivers would wait for me :-)) Shame you had a shock when you took a look at Aspley recently Me Duck! I don't know Peter Thorpe.I had to have been at the Wm Crane School before he was there. I went there in 1945 until 1950..then it was out to work for me :-) Cos I was all grown up!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anne of Aspley 12 Posted October 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 Hi Kath..I wondered if you would still be around :-) Our paths always seem to cross don't they. I am happy you are still here. Isn't the photo wonderful..thanks so much Cliff Ton..I had no idea where to get a photo of The No 1 Bus..let alone a photo of Hanley Street. As you say Kath..what memories. I remember running up Hanley Street hill many many times..probably the same time as you :-). Many thanks for the memories and reminders of my past StephenFord..you have triggered many memories and filled in many blanks. You are all great and your help is appreciated !situp! xoxo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 Welcome Anne. The photos of the 22 at Hanley street brought back some memories. Worked at the Electricity Board right next door and caught the bus there every night to get off at Stockhill Lane. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anne of Aspley 12 Posted October 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Thanks Me Ducks. The memories and photo's of Hanley Street are great :-) Poohbear I love the photo of Hanley Street and the No 1 Bus at the top with the driver posing. I wonder where the photo was taken from, maybe the roof of the Co-op garage or packing dept? Seeing this photo reminds me of the alms houses across the road from the buses. I still wonder why they chose Hanley Street when they moved the buses from the market square. I remember the clock at the top of Hanley Street and the factory there now. Just round the corner..I think it was Waverley Street there used to be a little shop where you could buy sweets. Love your dogs and bird Poobear :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Ta muchly Trying to think where your sweet shop would be...can't remember any nearby but the one on Wollaton Street just below the Co-op, where I regularly called for a quarter of Meltis fudge.Don't remember any on Waverley Street till it joined Goldmith street...and that's a bit out the way. As for the choice of Hanley Street...it was conveniently out the way for parked buses,and I wouldn't be surprised if the new Co-op didn't have something to do with the choice of terminus.It was a little out the way of the city center and a source of customers arriving by bus from that side of the city would have been a welcome boost to the Co-op when it first opened. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,475 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 I've just done a search on Nottstalgia for Hanley, and I'd forgotten how many times the subject had come up before. Here's a few examples http://nottstalgia.c...ley#entry117715 http://nottstalgia.c...=7255&hl=hanley http://nottstalgia.c...ley#entry103953 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 You are right PB about the folks coming off the 3 buses using the Co-op. My mam hated the town so we'd get off the bus, go in the Co-op and back on the bus. I don't think I realised there was more 'town' that this when I was little, LOL. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Anne of Aspley; Hi Anne, good to see you on here. Like you, I attended William Crane and knew Top Shops, also was familiar with the number 1 bus: terminus at the top of Rosalind Drive and top placing on Hanley Street terminus. My usual bus was the 22 but occasionally I'd catch the number 1 as there was always two number 1's to each 22 and 7. I hope you stay with 'Nottstalgia', looking forward to reading your future posts. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Welcome ! FWIW I used to drive 1,7 & 22 buses in the mid seventies, can remember a bloke who lived at the Rosslyn Drive terminus & woe betide anyone who left the engine running at the terminus, he would be out like a flash ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anne of Aspley 12 Posted November 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Thanks everybody..you are a great bunch of Nottingham folks. All your photo's and memories has jogged my memory :-) and it did need jogging believe me!!! I remember the No 1 bus used to go up Rosslyn Drive, round the island at the top of Bells Lane, Eltham Drive and Broxtowe Lane and back to the top of Rosslyn Drive again. It used to have a clock there for the conductor to place his/her timecard in and record the time!! A house right at the terminus would let the drivers and conductor/conductress use their toilet and would bring them out a tray with cups of tea on. The next time clock was on the return journey and when the No 1 turned off Melbourne Road onto Nuthall Road the next stop was outside Newbolds the beer off and Pinketts the paper and sweet shop. I wonder who it was who came out on Rosslyn Drive?? I can just remember something about that! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 From what I remember he was a supermarket manager for the Co-op, a mate of mine worked for him & he said he was a great bloke. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Going back to your sweet shop Anne, the only thing I remember round the corner from the bus terminus is the chippy. The only sweet shop I remember near there was next to the Theatre Royal, Goldsmith Street I think it was. I think it was mentioned on here previously, the name of it escapes me [till I press post, then it will come, LOL] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Next to the Royal was Watmoughs...I don't personally remember the chippy but the small sweet shop I remember was not far from the alley down the side of the Co-op...Maybe it was the same premises before it was a chippy,I wouldn't know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Watmoughs was the sweet shop? Didn't they have a number of shops in Nottingham? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 That was it! I think you are right, there was more than this shop on Goldsmith St. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anne of Aspley 12 Posted November 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 It takes all sorts Catfan..I bet the drivers and conductors hated him :-) The sweet shop I remember was round the corner to the left of Hanley St. You've got it Kath. It was a scruffy little place and got most of it's business from the factory workers. The chippy was just before you got to the Hippodrome. It had the best fish and chips and mushy peas in Nottingham as well as their battered sausage and fritters. I remember a secondhand shop that sold mostly jewellery across the road from the chip shop. Happy Days :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 There was a sweet shop further down the road from the 'second hand shop that sold mostly jewellery'. I'm sure this shop also specialised in selling stamps, albums etc. for collectors; displays of stamps from around the world featured in one of the shop's windows. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 Remembering the almshouses on Hanley Street and how fascinating they were to me as a child. Sitting on the top deck of the number 22 bus I could look down into the communal front garden that was simply designed with garden benches and lawns; a long line of beautiful, delicately blossomed Cherry trees were planted at the back of the high, red, brick wall fronting the almshouses. What mad person ordered the demolition of these almshouses? An even madder decision was to replace this fine example of classic architecture with a car park and a Skills booking office! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.