MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 I was going to post this in the Ancestry part of the forum but decided I was looking for more of a place than a person so didn't seem appropriate. I've been tracing my family history down and have found a few street names that I cannot locate on modern maps. Listed is an 8 DUKE STREET, Radford. I've viewed it on Google Maps - street view, but it mainly looks like factories there now and the few houses there are look far too modern to be the ones that my ancestors were living in in 1911. I was wondering if anyone could locate this on an old map because I know some of you on here are whizzs with anything like that. There's a tonne of other streets and addresses I'm interested in too, but shan't bombard you all at once. Cheers folks, hope all are well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 The only Duke Street that I know of is the one in New Basford. I'm sure that the Members with their old maps will find it for you, MelissaJKelly. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Thanks Michael. Yeah the Duke Street I found was in New Basford but had an NG7 postcode so I thought maybe it was considered a part of Radford beforehand. Hopefully someone much more knowledgeable than me can enlighten me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,481 Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Melissa, Picture the Past even have a few photos of it.  3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 On street view just down from Redoubt Street, you can see what remains of Prince Street and Duke Street. About two car lengths. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Forster+Street,+Nottingham&hl=en&ll=52.955538,-1.17882&spn=0.002,0.005284&sll=52.936949,-1.244888&sspn=0.01601,0.042272&oq=forster+nottingham+map&gl=uk&hnear=Forster+St,+Nottingham,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=52.955531,-1.178245&panoid=l1EK04A6J_bGxOV_vpKgjw&cbp=12,353.14,,0,0 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Cheers guys! knew someone on here would have no trouble finding it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 On street view just down from Redoubt Street, you can see what remains of Prince Street and Duke Street. About two car lengths. Hi Mick! I'm having trouble finding the place you mentioned on Google Street view, do you think you could screen shot it to me? Sorry for being a nuisance! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Melissa this site might be of interest to you about Radford in the 70's with photos http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2008/11/27/radford_1970s_feature.shtml 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 That site is brilliant Dave! Thanks a lot. Some cracking photos on there! And thank you Poohbear I can see exactly where it is now, looks like it's been replaced by a small little parking area. A shame really! I've passed that place many a time and never thought anything of it. Thanks again guys. You're all bloody brilliant if you don't mind me saying so!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Mellissa I am on on Chromebook so not up to speed yet on screen capture. Go to Google street view Ilkeston Rd/Redoubt Street and go down the road, you will see two pull ins for the car park. Looks to me that the second one might have been Duke Street. Can be seen on Poohs map? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,481 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Mick, I think those two pull-ins which can be seen here https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.95557,-1.178108,3a,75y,17.48h,88.02t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1syQSaevbH-V_E0g4XEWnv4w!2e0?hl=en are the remains of the entrance/exit to a petrol station which was on that site. It can be seen best in poohbear's first (colour) map at #9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 I live around 5 minutes from all of those places so I'm always out and about wondering what the old buildings were used to for and how things once were! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 My Mum lived and grew up in Grant Street and then Boden Street in the late 50s/60s. Love hearing all her stories about her childhood. I always say the same..I should have been born 40 years earlier!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 LOL Melissa, I used to say that when my mam told tales of living through the war. I used to say I wished I'd have been there, but I'd be pushing up daisies now, if I was! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted May 6, 2014 Report Share Posted May 6, 2014 MelissaJKelly, you should remember that one day you will be sitting in your chair, with your children sat at your feet. You will be telling them about 'the good old days' when you went to Uni and log onto Nottstalgia in your spare time. You'd have lots of things to tell them of course but I just mentioned the two most important. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2014 Haha that is a very strange thought!! And of course. Doubt I'll be forgetting this site anytime soon :D 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 6, 2014 Report Share Posted May 6, 2014 And you will be wishing you were back where you are now, and know what you know in the future. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 On 04/05/2014 at 8:32 AM, Cliff Ton said: Melissa, Picture the Past even have a few photos of it.  As ever, Cliff Ton is the man who knows his way around the maps. I dont know how he does it so fast, or so well, but he has my admiration. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Likewise MercuryDancer. An absolute genius! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Haha!! Great minds think alike eh KatyJay!? Weirdly enough I'd like to travel back in time and experience the war, only for a short while! Can't imagine what it would be like to live through! Poor souls. I sure do wish I was born a couple of decades earlier though! Melissa Nottingham was very lightly affected by WW2. Casualties were light. When I was in the army I had the pleasure of escorting veterans around Arnhem and Normandy (this is 1990 time) and a surprising number of vets were from Nottingham. I recall one vet, who lived in Goodliffe Street in Hyson Green, won the Military Cross twice. Sgt Bartle. He parachuted into Normandy before the beaches were taken. That takes special bravery. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Wow. What an amazing tale. Love to hear stories from the past..especially from the war! I'm surr you have some wonderful stories Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Melissa When my grandmother died, my father found the documents that my grandmother kept. It included my grandfather's documents ( he suffered gunshot wounds in WW1( and my uncle, who died at the hands of the Japanese in 1943) If anyone is interested I would be happy to scan the documents, but I could be identified by the documents so I would be very careful about which ones were on this site. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted May 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Wow that sounds absolutely fascinating! Would love to see them! But if you don't feel comfortable, completely understand that too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Melissa, I was in Operation Granby, which was the first Gulf War. Throughout the war I was nowhere near anything nasty, as I was In Saudi Arabia for the whole conflict. in September 1990 I was in Arnhem for the anniversary of the battle there (which was a terrible battle in1944) and many of the veterans knew we were going into war. They knew what we were facing. I recall one veteran who was in a medical aid station during the war saying to me "sir, how many casualties could you cope with?" I replied, "About 60" He said to me then, that he got more than 200 casualties per hour Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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