Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Some years ago there was a toy/games/sports shop on the corner of Carrington Street/Canal street, I have been racking my brains & have asked my mother(83) & we can't remember what it was called can anyone help. This shop in recent years has been a pine furniture shop and until recent times a restaurant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Redmayne and Todd? http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6098123436_9df4f1911d.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 That's the one thank's for that Stu it's put my mind at rest. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Only went in once for a snooker cue...had it for twenty odd years so wasn't exactly a regular.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I seem to remember that Redmayne & Todd was a bit "high end" for our budget! Wasn't it the store to buy your shotgun? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Great for Cricket bats................& bales!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Certainly was great for cricket equipment. I went against the Nottingham grain by not buying a Gunn & Moore bat for my first investment and purchased a beautiful Stuart Surridge model. Still got it 38 years later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Owzat!! too tight to buy another, or perhaps didn't get picked to play again?..........LOL................. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Not Out! Too busy marathon running and playing football. I have bought others since though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Still have mine a Gunn & Moore Status Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 My father bought my set of "double nine" dominoes from Redmayne and Todd in the late 70s . I still have the dominoes but my father died in 1992. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 I was under the impression that Redmayne & Todd owned Gunn & Moore ? or vica versa, G&M are still in Nottm as I've just Googled it, somwhere on Trent lane Colwick. I did a small job at their bat factory many years ago, and it used to be somewhere on Canal street but further towards Lenton end from memory. I also did some work in the shop. (as a sparky) I'm sure both jobs were from the same company origin. Family owned I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Mam bought my hockey stick from R&T`s and sold it five years later as 'almost new - practically unmarked'. Not the greatest sportsperson, me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 About 1960 I bought my first "proper" chess set from R&T at a cost of 47/6, still got the price sticker on the box! Gunn & Moore had heir own shop on Carrington St and in the early 60's as the office junior, it was my job to take the office football there to have it inflated to the correct pressure prior to any match the office was to play. That was the day of good old leather footballs which were like lumps of concrete after an hours play on a wet pitch! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Anyone remember the Scout shop on the corner of Shakespeare St and Church St (next door to Dawsons Motorcycles? I remember buying a "Know the Game, Play the Game" booklet on Rugby Union after starting grammar school in order to try to sort out what the heck I was supposed to be doing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 EileenH (#13), you didn't go to St. Trinians, did you?...lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,645 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Always used to buy my shotgun cartridges from the small shop on the Canal street side of R&T, I think you could enter the gun shop from R&T, in later years the gunshop moved to halfway down Alfreton road of all places. R&T was always the place to buy football kit from, i remember my first pair of "modern" football boots with moulded in stoods (about 9 per boot) and laces that were about a yard long, the boots also had 3 white stripes down the side, I felt like a pro but still played like a twonk Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 EileenH (#13), you didn't go to St. Trinians, did you?...lol Sort of - Brincliffe actually - I`d have been one of the scruffy little ones though - not one of the blonde bombshell ones! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Don't forget Mercury Sports, on Alfreton Road, and Sugg's on Pelham Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim in the North East 200 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Don't forget Skill's toyshop on Alfreton Road - the same firm as Skill's Coaches. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Don't forget Mercury Sports, on Alfreton Road, and Sugg's on Pelham Street. Remember both those well. Wasn't Mercury Sports owned by former Nottingham Panthers legend Chick Zamick? I bought my first Notts AC tracksuit from there when I was fourteen years old. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 I only know Chick Zamick owning a Laundrette on Ilkeston Road, I maybe wrong though , usually am! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 I only know Chick Zamick owning a Laundrette on Ilkeston Road, I maybe wrong though , usually am! Alfreton Road...Others too...but I only remember one other in Bulwell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Found this: 'The Panthers had folded while he was away so Zamick played briefly with other squads before hanging up his skates to concentrate on business concerns. These included Chick's Dry Cleaner, a hairdressing concern, an Italian takeaway restaurant and the Plains Squash Club.' http://www.mbhockeyh...ChickZamick.pdf So, was there another professional sportsman who owned Mercury Sports? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Funny you say Alfreton Road as that is what I typed first but changed it to Ilkeston Road as I remember my Dad showing to us as we went passed on the bus (39 / 72) on the way to my Mamas, that only went down Ilkeston Road. I can't think why we'd have been on a bus going down Alfreton Road. I had it in my mind it was in one of these:- Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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