briyeo 56 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 I was looking at an image of Nottingham and noticed these cooling towers on the edge of the image. I think they are on the site of the later Huntingdon St bus station. The image is dated 1928 and old maps show them as Water Cooling Towers. Does anyone know what industry or company they belonged to? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Was there an early power station there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 I know that in the 60s there were big transformers on the site. That often means there was once a power station there. I don't remember the yellow fence though. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Palais foundations. Was that the prison opposite or the beginnings of Central Market? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 The white building is the Palais. The yellow square is now student flats and before that was World of Leather. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Venilaion shafts for one of Victoria Station tunnels???? The only "power station" in that area was the AC to DC substation for the trams and later trolley buses and St Anns housing, on the right side of the bus station.. All Nottinghams power at that time came from North Wilford. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Interesting...Huntingdon Street was known as Millstone Lane then...and they are water cooling towers..which in turn means a water supply. There is an underground stream there,which was used in earlier times by the pottery and glass works...hence the names Brook Street and Beck Street nearby. The building shown opposite the Palais was a cinema/theatre...it was there for just a few years before the Central Market was built. Those towers were part of an industrial site the size of the Palais...but I can't find a name yet. A street directory may solve that. I'll search further. Edit... By 1936 the towers have disappeared but factories on the site remain.The site was then the bus station...Central Market now built. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 This little tower of unknown usage is just up the road from there. My guess is that the towers were a Victorian steam pumping station for sewage. http://postimg.org/image/4r4jp39pp/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Or fresh water pumps???? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 It was an electricity generating station . This letter from Nov 1927 seems to confirm . Though can't find the picture of the demolition on King Edward St. as mentioned in the text . https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3779/13950214083_faa53c4a46.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 It's The bottom of St Annn's Well road. According to Kelly's directory of 1928 Corporation Electric Light Generating Station. It was still there in 1950 but had gone by 1967 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Well at least someone thrown some "light" on the subject....LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 It's The bottom of St Ann's Well road. According to Kelly's directory of 1928 Corporation Electric Light Generating Station. It was still there in 1950 but had gone by 1967 If the generating station was still there in 1950 I wonder why the towers were no longer needed some twenty years earlier.They had certainly gone by the late 20s early 30s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 I'm going by Kelly's & maybe by then it was just a sub station by then & the sub station is still there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 As a matter of interest the old Central Market opened in 1928...The Palais 24th April 1925. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 And here is what was there before Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 they should have kept that building and could have called it Nottingham Castle lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Is that The old Nottingham Prison? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Prison...Police and Fire Station...and previous to that St.Johns Hospital. Prisoners were transferred to the new Perry Road Prison in 1891. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Yes that is the old prison which stood where the Palais now stands. Floggings, hard labour, the lot went on in there. The prison governor is buried in the General Cemetery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Are you sure about the fire station? There is a listed building for Police and Fire on South Sherwood Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 That was the original fire station before it was moved to Shakespeare Street Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 A great little thread...the best for some time. Just what Nottstalgia is all about. Many thanks to you all..... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,427 Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Fascinating, great stuff. I seem to remember that building next to the bus station as a small power plant. Probably DC for the trolley buses. When you grow up with the place as a bus station and the Central market across the street it is hard to imagine it any other way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 This is the old fire and police on Sth Sherwood Street. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.956656,-1.151241,3a,75y,39.13h,95.33t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1skasJr6lugZ4Ae2hk7NEZ-g!2e0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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