.... 23 Posted November 16, 2012 Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 The Three Crowns and Top Shop, Redhill. Looking up Arch Hill towards the bridge. The pub was where Charles Rotherham, Elizabeth Sheppard's murderer was witnessed attempting to sell her belongings on an overnight stay at the inn. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCC003344&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gra bee 1 Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Compo Just looking at your map and saw the foundry there. Can remember working at a foundry on Mansfield road but nearer the old lido in Sherwood I think , or maybe nearer the city ? Bloody filthy job we had as we were rewiring some part of it and all the years of dust etc was terrible. Very interesting though watching the blokes do the sand moulds for the casts they made. Think they were drain covers of some sort. Banjo, I had a similar experience as an apprentice in '66/'67. I couldn't remember where the foundry was but Compo's map jogged my memory and I'm sure that's the one. It went under the name of Caddy. I only remember the name because when you were waiting for your job card in the morning, your heart would sink if you heard "we're going to Caddy's" no2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Caddy rings a bell. I have asked the local history group for the name but no reply yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 As far as I remember Stu, My playmate at infants and juniors lived in the house alongside the men in the picture of Morris Street. I lived in the terraces opposite, out of shot. his name was Desmond Gearing (or Geering?). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 I can't remember Morris Street (or Terrace) but I really should be able to. Was responding to a chap on Arnold History site yesterday who wanted to know if anyone had any pics of Goodwood House off Cross Street. I remember it quite well and actually went in there as a kid when they were demolishing it (what a shame that was). Remember they kept cows and horses in the large field that bordered Mansfield Road before it got built on. The story goes that one James Acton funded and built the house on the proceeds of a successful day out at Goodwood Races. Understand that the Farr family of the Home Brewery owned it latterly. It wasn't around for that long comparatively. The link below states that it was demolished in 1965, I've an inkling that it was around a little longer than that? Anyone else remember Goodwood House? http://www.pictureth...002866&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 I was going to mention it the other day but couldn't remember the name of the house. My mother used to take us to Arnold via different routes, one of which was Cross Street. I recall the horses in the fields and think they must have been there right up to the mid 60s. I never visited the house and only ever saw it from the roadside. Cross Street used to join Mansfield road at a junction just before the shops and opposite the old White Hart inn. There was a small green with a walk-through to the shops to the left of the junction, so that it was possible to walk down Cross street and to the bottom of St Alban's road in a near-straight line. The Goodwood House field had a boundary fence of iron railings as I recall it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Remember that small green at the bottom of Cross Street at the junction. Still there, sort of, with a few allotments behind it: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=nottingham&ll=53.003803,-1.138579&spn=0.000944,0.001725&hnear=Nottingham,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.003802,-1.13909&panoid=l2CbcCP-WVWnZvgRkn0NeQ&cbp=12,81.97,,1,-0.9 Do you remember on the opposite side of Cross Street, in the triangle where it came down to meet Mansfield Road there was a grassy area behind some railings with lots mature trees in it. Perfect for making dens and hunting horse chestnuts! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 I'm intrigued by Morris Street. Wonder when it disappeared? I can just about remember the original White Hart. We were moved out of Morris terrace in October 1955, into a new council house on Gladehill road. The already dilapidated terrace rapidly fell into a ruinous state and was, I believe, demolished within a year or two of our leaving. Morris Street lasted longer but alas, I don't know when it was demolished. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 I certainly recall using "Slop Street Chippy" on my way home from illegal pubbing in 1966/67. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Ah yes, I have just had a flashback.....There was a fellow who had a milk round, lied in the houses between Morris Street and Hammond's Garage. Name of Mr Hickling. He used to deliver our milk on Morris terrace and also in our new home at the top of Oxclose lane. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 It's really confounding me remembering that street, Compo! Here's another one - 'Five Mile House' which I've seen referred to on historical sites. Think a bit further north up Mansfield Road (five miles from Nottingham I reckon) and maybe think of a dairy... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 There was also a very small shop halfway up Morris Street on the right as you went up the hill. This photo was taken in teh back yard of Morris Terrace and the toilet roofs can be seen in the upper right of the picture: I also have a photo taken at the back door which I will try and dig out soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 The above looks a lot like the outfit I'd wear to the British School on Front Street! Wonder when Hammonds Garage came into being? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted November 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Love the tin bath, always remember mum saying they all used to bathe in a tin bath in front o' fire after gran had "backed it up" Being the youngest she was always last ! when I was little I always remember mum saying how wonderful it was to have a bath with taps and we didn't know we was born ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,529 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Wonder when Hammonds Garage came into being? This, apparently, is the site pre-Hammonds; the old White Hart is up ahead. The caption says this is the location where "....in 1873 John Lee started a business as wheelwright, carriage builder and funeral director. It was taken over by Samuel Hammond in 1905" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Thanks very much, Kev. Wonder if that is Salop Street or Morris Street turning off the to left in the foreground? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,529 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 I think it isn't. On the right (the iron bollards) is the entrance to St Alban's Road - shown on this map but not named. So the turning on the left must be alleyway near the number 217. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 I note the cherry hill...in early Victorian days Nottingham had loads of cherry orchards.Especially round Wilford,it was a special day out for the middle classes to travel to Wilford for the cherry festival and choff on the cherries at the pub there. Wonder why this area was so popular for cherry growing?...and why no more? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 There's a theory that the area marked Cherry Hill on the map was roughly the place where the large pond stood. There's a 'Cherry Orchard Mount' not too far from there. Also in the centre of Arnold a 'Cherry Close' adjacent Redhill School and also a former 'Cherry Tree Club' nearby. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Another local farm which I was looking down on from the perimeter of Redhill Cemetery today, Redhill Farm. For most people's money not in Redhill at all though only a field's distance from the back of the cemetery, on Bestwood Lodge Drive. Recall well when Bestwood Lodge Drive came straight out onto Mansfield Road just above the White Hart. House built at the bottom end since around the early seventies I think but part of the old gate still stand there on Mansfield Road. http://www.pictureth...001900&prevUrl= http://www.pictureth...001899&prevUrl= https://maps.google....249.31,,1,-0.72 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Were the farm buildings not at the rear of the old White Hart? The track came out by a row of conker trees near to the phone box on the corner of Mansfield Road, just on Oxclose Lane. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 That was a different farm, Compo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Here's three pics of that farm on Oxclose Lane, as opposed to Redhill Farm on Bestwood Lodge Drive. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCG000230&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCC000198&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCG000229&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 11, 2012 Report Share Posted December 11, 2012 Thanks Stu. The telephone box in the middle picture is where I was once unceremoniously dumped by a girlfriend Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 11, 2012 Report Share Posted December 11, 2012 Bad news! There must be some bad karma around that spot as I was once stood up a few yards away waiting to meet a girl to go and see Grease many years ago. Mind you, considering the film we were going to see, I had a lucky let-off. Still a phone box around that spot btw. Here standing in front of the White Hart, (now a pile of very attractive rubble no doubt here for the next ten years or so.) http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=arnold+nottingham&ll=53.003417,-1.139241&spn=0.000944,0.001725&hnear=Arnold,+Nottinghamshire,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.003424,-1.139586&panoid=FfBY4EfQDo7FKz5udUofGg&cbp=12,314.5,,0,16.7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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