TGC 216 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 A photo gallery of the same Nottingham areas from different years. I hope it is alright to put this link to my Facebook on here? https://www.facebook.com/gerry.chambers1/media_set?set=a.169636861 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 I started work in 1963 at North British & Mercantile Insurance who were in offices on Friar Lane above Tobys, the address being Vernon House, 14 Friar Lane, and I have only just realised that most probably this was so called because it was built where Dorothy Vernon's house was originally sited before being demolished, and presumably Vernon House built, in the 1920's following the final widening of Friar Lane. Not an earth shattering realisation, but slightly interesting after so many years! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Re the picture...1905? That early trolley bus doesn't fit somehow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Re #3 Pooh, I would hazard a guess as more 1925 than 1905 ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Going by the clothes you could be right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 That photo is on Picture the Past and they give the date as 1930. They aren't always accurate, but it's a lot better than 1905. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM005280&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 I think the "trackless" buses were introduced in 1927, so the pic could not be 1905. 1930 seems more reasonable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TGC 216 Posted November 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Re the picture...1905? That early trolley bus doesn't fit somehow. You're right methinks. Nottingham Trolleybus system opened on 10 April 1927! An error no doubt, sorry about that. Perhaps it should have been 1929? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Definitely 10th April 1927. Friar Lane is interesting to me as I was a regular visitor to Gee Dees the model shop. (Model trains not female models!!). I was also a regular patron of the Maid Marion café calling for a coffee on the way home from work with a couple of friends. Anyone remember Tobys? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Always felt nervous in Toby's when mum took me there. It was the display shelves with crockery and ornaments that I shuffled round with trepidation . Nice stuff though, shame it's gone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 1930 looks right. That type of trolleybus was not introduced until 1930 (the sloping windscreen is quite distinctly different from the earlier trolleys). The colour scheme it is carrying with white roof and broad white band round the lower deck windows was abandoned by 1935, in favour of the all-green, with three white bands that was so instantly recognisable as NCT (even on black and white photos!) By the way, 1930 was the earliest that there were trolleybuses up Wheeler Gate - the route 10 (which became the 40 in the re-numbering of 1933). Trent Bridge was still trams at this time - the 2 which went to Mapperley Porchester Road via Woodborough Road (became the 35 motorbus, later the 31 shortened to the Old Market Square), and the 3 to Bulwell Market, which became the 43 trolleybus about 1934. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 re 10# All the old Toby's stuff is now being sold at car boots and jumble sales. LOL. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TGC 216 Posted November 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Responding to #9&10: Tobys was a little too expensive for for me to do any shopping there I'm afraid. I shared the feeling of nervousness with all the crockey, china and delicate ornaments within reach of me, as I often wandered around the store, fascinated by displays, and failing to get up the nerve to ask a gal with Juliet on her name tag for a date. Ah well,,, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted November 22, 2013 Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 I used to like those orange awnings that stopped the reflections from being a problem when looking in the window. I don't recall my mum taking me in there though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 22, 2013 Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 Re #3 Pooh, I would hazard a guess as more 1925 than 1905 ? I think the trolley bus in question ia an "English Electric E11" introduced in 1930 & withdrawn in 1946. The "oak beamed" building is The Moot Hall distroyed in the Nottingham blitz of May1941. As the bus looks quite new I suggest the photo was taken 1930/1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted November 28, 2013 Report Share Posted November 28, 2013 Tram Rides through Nottingham (1902) BFI ... (6 mins) This fascinating record of Edwardian Nottingham was filmed from the driver's platform of a tram on a single journey through the city centre between its two main stations. The sequence follows the same route as today's Nottingham Express Transit tramway, taking the viewer along Listergate and Wheelergate into Old Market Square before turning right into Long Row and on into Queen Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 371 Posted November 28, 2013 Report Share Posted November 28, 2013 ...............except that it doesn't follow the same route at all. Both go from Station Street to the Old Market Square, but only the short section along the end of the square is common to both routes. After the Old Market Square, they go off on completely different routes again. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted November 28, 2013 Report Share Posted November 28, 2013 No wonder I couldn't get my head around where they were going. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted November 28, 2013 Report Share Posted November 28, 2013 OK - for those who don't remember (most on this site will!), the tram goes from Station Street right onto Carrington Street, across Canal Street cross roads (no traffic lights of course!) slap bang through the middle of where the Broad Marsh centre now is, bearing half right into Lister Gate, Albert Street, Wheeler Gate, OMS, right (past Griffin and Spaldings) along Long Row Central, left into Queen Street past the old GPO, right onto Upper Parliament Street, and then with a slight discontinuity left into Milton Street. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 This image was on a certain auction site and says its of Nottingham but doesn't give a road name . Wilford Road / Carrington St area ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 Canal street ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 371 Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 I'm no expert, but those flat rooves shout 'London' to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 I know what you mean and that huge building looks a bit like Battersea ! But if it is Nott'm , the building that appears at the top of the road , that I first thought was St Marys , also looks a bit like Lamberts factory on Talbot St . So could this be a street off the Mansfield Rd area ? Pity can't read the name of the garage in the bottom left hand corner . Have repeated link as its ended up on a new page . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 That looks like Battersea power station to me too in the to L/H corner of the picture. I'll further add to the comment about the flat roofed buildings more London than Nottingham Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 Heres the listing http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RA364-Early-RP-POSTCARD-Street-View-Nottingham-1910s-/251387848064?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item3a87e22580 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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