Trevor S 2,003 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 No Bubblewrap....look at the pictures posted of the Memorial Gates and you will see a terrace on the riverside of the roadway. http://www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/web/he/searchdetail.aspx?id=9695&crit=memorial&large=1 In your Google, it would have been roughly where the cars are now parked across from the entrance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Yes - I was getting confused by mercurydancer suggesting it might have been a lido. It was just a terrace and an arrangement of steps. Here's another picture of a model which shows it: http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/nottingham1927/nottingham10.htm - more A little research on the Internet seems to indicate it was removed just a few years ago as part of some new flood defence work which involved alterations to the embankment. Don't any of you locals remember it being done? The memorial arches and gateway are listed structures, but presumably that terracing wasn't included in the listing as there seems to have been no protest over its removal - more about the threat to the bandstand in the gardens. Try a search for 'Victoria Embankment flood defences' and there's a lot, some of which links to pdf files. The photo from Google that Bubblewrap posted a link to does show a bare patch where the cars are which seems to show where the terrace was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,468 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 A little research on the Internet seems to indicate it was removed just a few years ago as part of some new flood defence work which involved alterations to the embankment. Don't any of you locals remember it being done? I don't remember ever seeing it, and I've been along there quite frequently over the years. I'd stick my neck out and say those steps were removed quite a long time ago - at least some time in the 60s. There have been a number of flood-prevention programmes along there, so it may well have been a victim of one of those. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,162 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Or even earlier,i don't remember it and i go back to early 50s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 I see. Evidently already altered before this work was done then: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nation-s-biggest-inland-flood-defence-opened-in-nottingham Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,468 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Things you never expected to find........Taken from the other side of the river, showing the alignment of the steps to the memorial. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Another piece of Nottinghams history destroyed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,162 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 That has a 20s look about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Had a walk recently off Sandhurst Rd, up to the Nottm City Golf Course , once called Bulwell Hall Golf Course.we came across a heavily vandalised stone house. I thought it was the remnants of a Bulwell Hall, but I gather that was demolished years ago. Again, any info greatly appreciated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,468 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Does this help for starters? 1920s. A golf course and Bulwell Hall existing side by side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,162 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 On cliff tons map where it says 'lodge' in Barkers wood,that was an old Bulwell stone' building which in the 50s and 60s was used as dressing rooms for the football pitches. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 @basfordred what you might have come across is the bulwell stables https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.134466353419407.1073741848.124695851063124&type=3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Ever since I can remember my parents and loads of others cribbed about the black boy being pulled down. But how many other beautiful buildings got the wrecking ball treatment? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 The Guildhall Tavern, The County Hotel, Vic Station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Guildhall tavern fly? That's one that I have missed..on Burton st? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 It was opposite the Guildhall , if that's Burton St. It was demolished in the late 60's I believe, but was a fantastic pub. Another one was the Albert on Derby Rd....... Replaced with The Strathdon crap hole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Watson Fothergill's house Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 St Nicholas vicarage Demolished to make way for Maid Marrion way 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Cliff Ton 10,468 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Although it happened before anybody here was born (around 1908) the "modernisation" of the Castle Gatehouse is something which doesn't look like an improvement. The castle isn't really a castle anyway, but at least this old gatehouse looked more appropriate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Karlton 582 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 The Ritz Cinema Carlton the cop station Carlton Hill King Billy pub Carlton Hill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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