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Lovely memories. Southglade Road on Bestwood Estate we had:- Milk. Co-op I think, though possibly later Northern Dairies or somesuch. Bread. Co-op. Fruit and Veg. A Co-op van at least weekly..

I used to go to Marsdens on Carlton Road for my Mum. They. Had a big red slicing machine for the cooked meats and bacon, my Mum always had hers cut on number 5 so it was all nice and crispy. Marsdens

We had doorstep deliveries back in the 50' and 60's at Hucknall - the milkman, breadman, paper lad, Corona, rent collector, Insurance man, catalogue collectors and the odd hawker when my mam sent me t

piggy sez redgates used to be opposit whitehart in lenton behide the cottages they just pulling down corner of leen gate were grahams pluming bathroom supplies is at the moment a bit before my time though.

Nope, was on Traffic Street in the Medders !

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Stephen, how's this for you? unionflag I'd say definately a Royal wave. :biggrin:

Well done Your Royal Highnessmost!!.......................... :laugh:

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main redgate factory perhaps was but quite a few of the local lads talking about when they were on leengate last night so it might have been just a storage wearhouse at lenton i dont know this would have been in the 50s when they all young kids they all nearly 65 and over now.

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so it might have been just a storage wearhouse at lenton i dont know this would have been in the 50s.

I can't enlarge this and keep it very clear, but I'm pretty certain on the original this says Bottle Store. You can see the White Hart over to the right.

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My dad did some sign writing for Redgates. As well as getting paid, they gave him 3 bottles of pop, one red, one clear and one blue. I'm guessing the red was strawberry flavoured, the clear was lemonade, but heaven knows what the blue one was. All I can think about him getting these, was, it was a Coronation special. Anyone else remember these 3 coloured pops. [going back a bit now!]

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Now I have the hang of posting pics , thought I would share this one with you . It was probably late 50s or very early 60s .

It's my mum pushing a barrow up Marshall Hill Drive , Mapperley . She is going to fetch the coal that the coalman left at the top of the hill .

This is the bottom end of Marshall Hill Drive that goes down a steep slope to the Valley Road estate and was in this state every winter until it finally got made up . Coalmen wouldn't drive down as they were unlikely to get out again .

Actually we used to play in the mud ! Didn't need a lot of toys , used to make some great dams . Oh a simple life !

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your porr mum thats one hell of a hill even today hate to think what it was like in them days pushing a one weeled barrowin those poor conditions

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i hope so david never had that problem at our house we lived in netherfield to start with and dad worked at gedling pit so we got a regular monthly delivery of 19 bags 20th went towards oaps allotment our coalman was mr leaper we always had plenty of coal and only if the weather was realy bad did we run out and mum wouldask mr leaper to drop us a couple of bags offif it was near our next delivery he would do the whole delivery and put it through the books when it was do a few days laterjust getting mums signiture after the date it was due he still came to us when we moved to cavendish rd untill dad had to have gas fires after he retired due to his chest problems.but the house was never as warm as with coal fires.

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Yes those coal fires were lovely . Only trouble was in our house that none of the warmth got to the bedrooms . There was regularly ice on the inside of the windows .

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Wow thats changed . Thanks for posting that .

I thought at first it wasnt the right road as there was no road turning right off the hill when I was last there .

However when I expanded your picture I could see the road sign for Gardenia Grove under the larger conifer, on the left of the road , so its spot on .

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Yes those coal fires were lovely . Only trouble was in our house that none of the warmth got to the bedrooms . There was regularly ice on the inside of the windows .

Live in a street of council houses(Welbeck Avenue built 1953)

They had metal framed windows & in winter it was known to have a quarter of an inch of ice on the inside of my bedroom window.

I did learn how to get dressed quickly in the mornings. ;)

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The Marshall Hill Drive photo is amazing in that it could look like that as recently as the 50s/60s. In the 1980s I lived on Hallam Road which is effectively at the bottom of MHD; the photo makes it look like someone exploring the Amazonian Rain Forest rather than a road near to where I was living only 20 years later.

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The Marshall Hill Drive photo is amazing in that it could look like that as recently as the 50s/60s. In the 1980s I lived on Hallam Road which is effectively at the bottom of MHD; the photo makes it look like someone exploring the Amazonian Rain Forest rather than a road near to where I was living only 20 years later.

Yes it was a bit wild but great for sledging when it snowed !

Every winter was the same .It was probably worse when the mud froze as you could end up with really sharp ruts (sounds painful ! )

When I was really young , so early 50s , there were only houses on one side of Gardenia Grove , well apart from the odd few on the other side . Everything else was fields (not cultivated) , up and down the hill and I guess the road was private , thats why it never got made up . But it was idyllic for us kids we were out all day making dens or even once , wire /rope walkways in the poplar trees

My dad built our house in the 30s so they must have put up with it for 30 years like that until the roads were made up .

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as i said my dad was a miner so it was very rear we ran out of coal and if the weather was realy bad or you were ill we had fires in the bedrooms too dad whould take a bucket of coall up then he would take a shuvel of hot cindersup to put in the small fire places upstairsad small pieces of coal from the bucket and have a good fire going in no time. carnt ever remember not having a fire in the back room stoveday or night except when the chimney sweep came two or mayby three times a year. and even then he was not allowed to come till the afternoon so mum could do some cooking in the morning and put to one side ready for later . he whould come doo all the chimneys on one afternoon but the back room had to be done first so mum could clean up the mess in the kitchen whilehe did the others so as soon as he finished cleaning others she could relight the back kitchen fire and then start cleaning the other rooms not too bad as only a two up two down then when we moved to cavendish rd we had only one fire and that was in the living room all the bedroom ones had been blocked up my little box room was always cold there remember ice on the windows there.

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Interesting stuff. My grandma and grandad (on my dad's side) lived in one of the "upside down" houses on Pilkington Road (looked like a bungalow from outside - but there was a downstairs too, where the bedrooms were). This was built in the 1930s. Prior to that they lived on Fernleigh Avenue. My dad's sister and her husband moved into a new council house on Valley Road around 1950. There was a pathway down from the end of Pilkington Road to the top of Simkin Avenue, which was also completely unmade, and rather rural. I seem to remember that someone kept pigs down there, and the associated pong inspired the sobriquet "Stinkin Avenue".

On the subject of unmade roads, just after the war my mum and dad moved into a new house on Pateley Road, Woodthorpe - another long steep hill. Again the local lads made slides during the long hard winter of 1947, and for some weeks trying to go either up to Mapperley or down to Arnold was a lethal business.

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Were these 2 your Corona men in Clifton in the 60's?

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My husband - the one on the right (and yes he is old enough to be out on hisown) worked in Clifton - Ruddington - Bunny - Wysall etc He was the full time driver and the guy on the left was his "Saturday Lad". The depot was in St. Annes.

When we married he worked away as an engineer most of the time and decided enough was enough and wanted a "steady" job and took the Corona one supposedly for a couple of months whilst he found an engineering job and liked it so much he stayed for 2 years.
Remember we always had tins and tins of Morton pie filling and peas, vinegar and blackcurrant drinks as well as loads of pop
in our pantry.

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We had a Co-op grocery van used to call on Wigman Road in the 50s and early 60s. The delivery man was called Ted and he always drove that van in reverse. He would stop every hundred yards or so, jump out, cup his hands to his mouth and shout 'Helloooooooo'. Years later in the mid 70s, I did a stint on the milk rounds starting at Beechdale depot. I met him there - he was a milk-roundsman by then. We als0 had milk deliveries daily, mostly Co-op, but also a little lady from Northern Dairies who also used to drive the vehicle in reverse. The co-op baker used to compete with the 'Bakers Boy' who came in a blue van carrying his bread up the green in huge baskets.

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