Raybo 28 Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Thanks for the photos they brought back many memories of my childhood in the 50's, my dad's maternal family were market people so we visited both the Central & Sneinton markets every weekend. Carlton lad mentioned mushy peas & cockles, does anyone remember Eric Dickinsons pea & shellfish stalls? he was a mate of my dad's and we went there every Saturday. His son Paul was still running the stalls in the Victoria Market up to a couple of years ago but I have not been down there for a while. The cafes were on the left up a few steps if my memory serves me well and I had an aunt who either owned or worked in a cafe up there so I would go there on a Saturday and she would give me a mug of tea and a plate of toast and dripping. I had another aunt who worked in the cafe on the corner of Sneinton Market and guess what? she would give me another mug of tea and a plate of toast. My gran always used to say eat all your toast It will make your hair curl (just look at my profile picture) she was avvinalaf One of the pictures shows Joices buiscuit shop on the left of the Main Entrance, I remember going down the steps into the market and the entrance to Joices was on the left, directly opposite the steps was a sweet stall and my dad used to ask them for a threppeney bag of jar bottoms fer mi lad. The person behind the counter would fill a bag with sweets that they had to hit with a stick to free them from the bottom of the jar. There would be pear drops, fishes(that tasted like pear drops),jelly babies(usually headless from being hit wi stick) and allsorts. I remember going to the pet store for my rabbit food, we had a few rabbits and I always wondered why I never got a white one until years later when I was told that I was feeding wild rabbits for the stew. I never worked out how a rabbit had escaped from the hutch even though there was a padlock on the door. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Not seen this view before. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Glasshouse Street? I have a picture taken from the opposite direction. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 When I tried to open the pictures at number 4 my computer froze and I had to switch off. When I switched back on the Nottstalgia page said it 'couldn`t be displayed'. It`s back now. (obviously). I daren`t try it again. Did I do something wrong? Sorry if this is in the wrong place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 EileenH, I think your computer just had a funny turn. I've checked those photos and they still display ok. Try looking at them again; I guarantee nothing will go wrong ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Glasshouse Street? I have a picture taken from the opposite direction. Not sure it's Glasshouse Street. I think it's looking up King Edward Street from Huntingdon Street. Here's the modern equivalent; note the church spire in the distance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 We live in wonderous times, looking at all these pics of people in Central Market, most of them knocking on a bit, i wonder how they would have reacted if you told them a person will be looking at you 40 odd years in the future and see you what you are doing now, on a computer using an internet site called Nottstalgia. i suppose it would be much like telling a victorian person about streaming TV and Music. they would think you were ready for the funny farm, but, what in 40years in the future will people be using far more advanced technology than we us now, looking at us, doing what we do, blimey losing it all now. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Oh wow! Middup`s of Woodborough! (number 19) My youth comes flooding back! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AntW1956 8 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 My memories of Central Market are my Gran buying me a Rupert the Bear annual, my Mum buying fish from there and buying a spray of flowers for some body's funeral. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Central Market - old meets new 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
68fb 0 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 I remember as a boy, walking from Wilford Crescent to Central Market most Saturdays to the old comic book stall in the Market there to trade in US comics to further my collection, imagine buying for 2 old pence a copy of Amazing Fantasy # 15 - first appearance of Spiderman which now sells depending on condition (partly due to the movies) for between $8.000 - $680.000 depending on condition for that issue alone!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,279 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Some older members may have bought buttons, zips, cotton etc., from my dad in the 50's. Photo's brought a lot of memories back, esp the Palais where I met the wife in 1960. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Anyone remember the very sad death, when a man fell down the lift shaft? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 Re #35, about six or seven bays up on the left near where the car is parked was the second hand record stall, where I bought many old singles in the early sixties . In the bottom entrance, where the traffic copper is situated was the seafood and hot peas stall. Just on the right. Fantastic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 Re: the second-hand record stall. If it's the one I remember, they guy who ran it was called Arthur. I bought lots of ex-juke-box singles from there (the ones with a big hole in the middle where you had to buy an adaptor). They were all I could afford at the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 #31, Cliff Ton I think I have got my bearings Huntingdon Street/ King Edward Street looking towards Parliament Street. But I can't place the church at the top of the photograph on the right which appears to be on Glasshouse Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 That's how I remember the cafes too. No matter what I went to the market for,[for me mam] I always went outside to look at the pet stall.I loved the pet stall,I remember you could buy a kind of dry shampoo for cats,it made my cat smell like French perfume. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 If I remember right,was there an upstairs to the fish market where they sold meat ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 #31, Cliff Ton I think I have got my bearings Huntingdon Street/ King Edward Street looking towards Parliament Street. But I can't place the church at the top of the photograph on the right which appears to be on Glasshouse Street. It's actually on lower Parliament St, opposite Argos. It's not used as a church nowadays though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 It's this church (or whatever it is now). https://goo.gl/maps/qnQCh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 TBI....thanks, got it now. I hadn't realised there is a curve on the road at Parliament Street,/King Edward Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 If I remember right,was there an upstairs to the fish market where they sold meat ? I don't recall that, crankypig. I might be wrong, but I don't think there was an upstairs in the Central Market. There were certainly butchers on the ground floor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 I agree with that. The fish was in its own separate area on the ground floor. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM003333&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 A different view of the market in Britain from Above in the late 1930s, where you also see the Palais in the right centre. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 We bought my first puppy from the pet stall. He cost 7/6d and was really too young to have left his mum, but he survived for about 12 years and gave us much happiness. We called him Scamp. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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