Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Market Street was originally called sheep lane till the early 1860s until it was widened & renamed However there was another "Market Street" in the Weekday Cross area. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Here's an interesting article about old streets. http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1906/nottinghamstreets1.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Sheep Lane appears in all my directories up to 1864 and Market Street(off long Row appears in my 1868 directory) Market Street off Weekday cross appears in all directories up to 1868 So I'm assuming that market Street (weekday Cross) disappeared at about the same time as the other Market Street was created. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,512 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Market Street was originally called sheep lane till the early 1860s until it was widened & renamed It's amazing how narrow it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 The tram would never go up there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Nice to see that FCUK had their first branch on the corner there... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,512 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 And from Parliament Street, looking down, just as the widening started. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 FLUCK, it's gone!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,512 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 You've got your bearings confused Michael. Mr Fluck's shop was on Long Row, looking up Sheep Lane. The demolition job is on Parliament Street looking down Sheep Lane. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 anyone have information on pennyfoot street? why it was so called? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Not a full answer but check this out http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1908/nottinghamstreets4.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Is FLUCK still there then, Cliff Ton? (#34). My comment was meant as a joke. A rubbish one, as usual. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Looking for old photographs, I came across this article on the naming of Nottingham streets and thoroughfares, courtesy of the Nottingham Post: - http://www.nottinghampost.com/Fatal-consequence-rat-poison-mixed-pub-s-oatmeal/story-21032132-detail/story.html Some more old photos as well... http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/best-pictures-1950s-Nottingham/pictures-21013425-detail/pictures.html#1 http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/best-pictures-1960s-Nottingham/pictures-20966646-detail/pictures.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,697 Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 I would bet a shilling that this picture is the back of Westdale Lane school (Digby Ave) . It's just how I remember it one winter , though I could have sworn the snow went up as far as the "hoops" at the top of the railing ! Maybe that was another year ! http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/best-pictures-1950s-Nottingham/pictures-21013425-detail/pictures.html#10 More modern streetview https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.983111,-1.108108,3a,75y,264.83h,88.43t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sdqefzbb_6Jf2FisCn7p8lg!2e0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,091 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I'd agree with you on that, David. Quite close to the back gate on Digby. Possibly the winter of '63? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I remember I was still at Westdale Lane Juniors (with DAVIDW)& think it must be January 1960. I do remember the school entrance doors being blocked by snow it can't be any later as I(we) went to Gedling secondary Modern the following September. I don't think there was a gate off Digby Avenue at that time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,697 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Errrm.....the caption on the snow photo says 1958 My memory (probably made up ) is that we were playing football on top of the snow with a tennis ball and the ball was in and out of the top of the hoops of the railing . Then later we could stand looking down at the men digging a pathway on Digby below us . My memory is of the snow even deeper than that in the picture .Yet we all got to school ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,697 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Re Karltons question on the Pennyfoot Street naming .This is just a guess but previously there was a Pennyfoot Stile in that area . Probably had to pay a penny to whoever owned the land to cross the stile for a shortcut ?When the land was developed , probably named the street after the stile......well its a theory !From nottshistory.org:Pennyfoot In Sandby's engraving of the " East Prospect of Nottingham," 1750, as taken from Sneinton Hill, the houses about Carter Gate appear to have been the then eastern boundary of the town, and from that line to Sneinton is shown as fields and gardens, with a row of trees growing vigorously by the beck or brook. From the brook to Fisher Gate appears a raised causeway or platform, on substantial piers, apparently six or eight feet high, with a boarded fence on one side, and a footbridge over the big dyke with a stile on the town side of the stream marked as "Penny-foot Stile." What is now called the "Bottoms," and Manvers Street are shown as pleasant fields. This footpath was then used as the way from Sneinton to St. Mary's Church and the Market, while another footpath from Colwick by the Hermitage joined it.Guess this is the picture with stile in the centre at bottom of picture and the raised causeway behind it .http://www.rareoldprints.com/p/951/$FILE/Pict0039.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,512 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Have I missed something in that picture, but.......what was the point of the raised pathway? I can't see any reason why it couldn't have gone at normal ground level. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Perhaps the dyke mentioned may have been prone to flooding. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,512 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I've linked to a fully zoomable map of 1748 here http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12933 And on it, you can see Pennyfoot Row just on the edge of the map. Go to the link above for the whole of Nottingham. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,697 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I assumed it was for when the River Beck was in flood ? The text above says the line of trees follows the courseof the Beck . But "6 or 8 foot" does seem high . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Cliff Ton........That path via the stile into the City was the only one in that area* and looking at the proximity of the Leen and the Leen Flu, is it possible that the land to the left of the pathway/stile in David W's picture (#43) was subject to seasonal flooding - hence the raised footway.Judging by the height of the London Road viaduct in the background (#43) over the Leen, they did allow for a fair flood height and the Leen is only a stone's throw from the area in question and the pasture in that and other pictures of the area could well be flood plain...........................I could be wrong.*....Here was a field with an old and most interesting history, which from 105 to 110 years ago was set out for building purposes, and a road made through its whole length, to the Beck rivulet, which in that part formed the boundary between Nottingham and Sneinton. The new way was appropriately termed "Butcher Street." In my young days I frequently walked down that street to its termination at the Beck, when I must either retrace my steps, or go a distance northward, and get into Pennyfoot Stile, Willoughby Row, or Fisher Gate. At that time, except by Pennyfoot Stile and a footpath across the fields, there was no other road in that part to Sneinton Hermitage and the Church.http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1907/nottinghamstreets1.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,697 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Just been trying to read the place names at the base of Sandbys etching in #43 They appear to be the following but could be wrong . There seem to be some blurred numbers on tne skyline as a key but can't see any others . 1. The Lean Bridge 2. Castle 3. St Marys Church 4. Mr Plumtrees House ? 5. St.Peters 6. Mr. Pierreponts House 7. Free School 8. Mr Gregorys house 9. Town Bowling Green 10. ? Glasshouses 11. Foundry 12. Red Lion at bottom of Malin Hill 13. Penny Foot Style Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Re #43 David you are correct in all cases. This picture by Paul Sandby appears in the facsimile of Deering's 1751 history of Nottingham Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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