Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 This isn't exactly Victoria in colour, but it might be the closest you'll get. Huntingdon Street on the left. York Street behind the grey wall. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Not seen much of it lately though have we. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 I think I like the "before" better! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Would you believe we slid down those seated in bread trays!!then jump of at the last second...madness!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Always be a shrine to us GCR - ites. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mickyp 23 Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 I was in BR Estates Office at Furlong House in the Meadows when the Vic was sold to Capital and Counties Properies for £ 1.6m - 1969, I guess? Quite a bargain for approx 1sq mile of a city centre... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 So this might have been your office. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
briyeo 56 Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 Red zone car park area under the Victoria Centre, but what's behind the doors? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 There's a picture of those doors in the book: 'The Rise and Fall of Nottingham's Railway Network Volume 3'. The caption states Thurland Street tunnel is behind them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
briyeo 56 Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 It sure is, the portal still intact too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 Has its own central heating. It must be Great Central heating. Sorry.............. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mark_A 14 Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Apologies if a link to this has been posted before. High(ish) quality short film, in colour, includes Nottingham Victoria station in use, and its demolition. https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-GB/asset/945349//great-central-railway-1960s-nottingham-victoria-station-exterior-and-platform-passengers-boarding-demolition-of-station Mark 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Thanks for posting, Mark. Really enjoyed seeing the old but ultimately sad footage. The Victoria Station is only just in my memory so it's good to compare with that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ValuerJim 277 Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 I've had this hanging on my bog wall for around 35 years. It's one of a handful of my possessions which I would try to rescue in the event of a fire. https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4po2e178eso6bh/small%20Nottingham%20Vic%201957%20%281%20of%201%29.jpg?dl=0 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 I had that one too....................................................Once Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 That film also includes some nice exterior views in colour, which you don't often see. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Nice capture of a view I looked at for 13 years...so many stories. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mark_A 14 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Working out when these clips were filmed, the sequence from 1.29.06 (the loco with a wreath) - that looks to be the 'Last day last train' to London. The other clips of the working station look less easy to date precisely. Does anyone else think in some ways Nottingham Victoria is under-represented in photographs and history? Many photos of locomotives, but far fewer of the day-to-day life of the station or even parts of it such as the ticket hall. The clock that the overbridge carried, it seems to have been removed at an early date, perhaps it succumbed to the station atmosphere? The roof glazing - removed during WW2? The upper floors of the buildings on the platforms ... used ... for what? It comes across as a cruel twist of fate that Nottingham lost this building (and that line) and it's difficult to imagine the feelings of staff who worked the line in the fifties and later found themselves tasked as crew on one of the freights that passed through the wreck of the station even as it was demolished - and later, through the hole in the ground that the demolition left behind. It's difficult not to imagine an alternate future - with a cleaned and reglazed Nottingham Victoria, an electrified line. Then there's the other things that a station needs now. Where to put the automatic ticket gateline? That narrow entrance doesn't look as though it would have been particularly kind to the need for automatic barriers. Also, step free access to the platforms? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 #72 Same scene(just about) around 1895 clock tower extreme left of photo 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 #67 Found it very sad,probably because as a Van-lad at Midland Station in 1960 we often had to go to the Victoria station to un load a Scammel vehicle,they were strange motors, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Here we go benjamin 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 In they were still being registered in 1968 or 69 or is this a rebuild? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Apparently those Scammells were still being built up to 1967 so that must have been one of the last ones. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Borrowing another frame from the film, you see the side of Cripps building on Parliament Street. And that side wall is just visible here. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Nice Minx in the winda. Sold & serviced commers and Karriers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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