robin hoods stream

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Can anyone remember robin hoods stream as you went from the suspension bridge along footpath towards toll bridge,just after rivermede flats the footpath rose up some steps you then looked down onto what we called robin hoods stream ,it ran from the trent towards Milford lane ,it was often covered with Bill rushes .

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

I reckon you are referring to this.

I knew the stream which went under Wilford Lane (at the bottom of the map) but I never realised it eventually went to the Trent.

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Take my hat off to you again cliff ton,I dint even know you could switch off that text correction thingy,and you can find just about anywhere in nottingham.I don't know how that stream looks nowadays I haven't bin down there since my courting days 45 years ago.

[denshaw 2,871]

My old school Roland Green was close to there, never knew it was called Robin Hoods stream.

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Thats what me and richard cooksey use to call it,it had clear water good for tadpoles frogs and small fish,we dossed round there quite a lot did you have a name for it dennis,keep it clean please.

[MELTONSTILTON 452]

Cliff Ton, I am beginning to think you are a living atlas, and encyclopaedia on Nottingham

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My dad worked at holme pierpoint quarry before they built the boat lake there were 2 roads in one was adbolton lane ,I think ,the other ran from the quarry and came out on radcliff rd just short of radcliff on trent does that rough rd show on maps,I also remember as a kid a fast flowing stream that came out roughly at the end of station st,I cant remember exactly somewhere near boots or dye factory I think it was part of river leen can anyone else remember or is it perhaps still

there,going back to robin hoods stream pipes ran from the stream under the paths and into the trent at the end of the pipe cast iron openers

operated by the flow of water.

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

Cliff Ton, I am beginning to think you are a living atlas, and encyclopaedia on Nottingham

I honestly knew nothing about this until a few hours ago !

I vaguely remember this subject might have come up a couple of years ago but I couldn't find the previous thread. What surprised me most was to find that this stream is the thing which went under Wilford Lane near The Chateau. I remember seeing that stream 50 years ago - on buses into Nottingham - but back then I never bothered thinking where it might be coming from or going to.

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No idea where it came from but definately emtied into the trent,cast iron closer only allowed emptying into trent,could the water have come from clifton streams.

[Tony 27]

I was brought up in the Meadows and often in the summer months go down to Robin Hoods stream over the suspension bridge.

We would but our fishing nets ( 6 pence each ) from Mrs Gills shop on the corner of Woolmer / Holgate road and catch tadpoles.

I walked over there some years back and the whole area had changed.The fields by the stream was always called the 'buttercup fields'.

Happy memories,

Kind regards,

Tony

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Those were the days tony ,they will never return unfortumately.

[albert smith 803]

That maps a right mind jogger Clif ton, I too remember the stream from about 50 years ago when I was a committee member of the Notts. Rifle Association and leased the field at the end of Bede Ling that short track at the bottom. We had to divert the footpath and culvert the stream to get access to the 25, 50, & 100yds. rifle range we had built, lots of happy memories I think the lease expired last year so if its built on the builders will find a lot of lead in the 'stop butts'!

The two names near the suspension bridge,Belle Vue & Joydene, don't ring any bells and the Plaisance Yacht Club isn't marked?

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

Albert, you know Mike Mott NADVAS?

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

That maps a right mind jogger Clif ton, I too remember the stream from about 50 years ago when I was a committee member of the Notts. Rifle Association and leased the field at the end of Bede Ling that short track at the bottom.

I didn't mention Bede Ling in my original reply because I didn't think anyone else would have heard of it ! I remember it because I saw the street nameplate at the end of the road every time we went past on a bus.

The two names near the suspension bridge,Belle Vue & Joydene, don't ring any bells and the Plaisance Yacht Club isn't marked?

I think Belle Vue and Joydene are the names of two big houses which may have been (or still are) there. I've looked at a few other maps and can't find Plaisaunce marked on any, but I think it might be the one labelled "Trentholme".

This is Plaisaunce from the river bank. It was demolished in the early 60s to make way for the slab of flats known as Rivermead. The houses in the background are on Wilford Lane and they have survived.

[benjamin1945 16,153]

What lovely homes,and what a shame.

[PeverilPeril 3,280]

#2 thanks again Cliff Ton. The map solves a mystery for me. Just after the war my dad got an allotment in Wilford. I would be about 11. We caught a trolley bus from Bentick Rd to Wilford terminus and walked over halfpenny bridge, past the pond, turned left and under the railway. The allotments are shown on the map. At that time it was just a field pegged off for individual new allotments. So the map must be C1949?

[PeverilPeril 3,280]

Errm.. isn't it Fairham Brook?

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

No, Fairham Brook is further over to the west.

[PeverilPeril 3,280]

No, Fairham Brook is further over to the west.

Cheers Cliff Ton. I thought it may have been Fairham Brook because that also ran under the road through a big pipe. Used to be very good fishing for roach and chub in the wide bit before the pipe bridge opening.

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

I spent quite a bit of time in the area around Fairham Brook where it goes under Clifton Lane, near what is now Silverdale Estate.

Robin Hood's stream is on the right; Fairham Brook is on the left. What surprised me is that today Fairham Brook joins the river at the red arrow. On here (1920s) it joins the river much further down stream - near Wilford village.

[Smiffy49 590]

#16 The allotments ! My Grandad had a plot down there too, but this was during the 1950's.

We would walk to it from his house which was right outside the No 40 terminus.

Crossing over the h'penny bridge, looking through the wired side supports down at the river below.

Next came an iron fence with the pond far behind, and like you PeverilPeril, then turning left along Coronation Drive(?)

Next through a narrow bridge under the GC railway line and down the long path to his allotment on the right.

Somewhere I have an old photograph of his little wooden garden shed which stood on his plot.

He kept his garden tools in there never feeling the need to lock it, they were always there when he came back.

I once saw Robin Hood waiting on top of that railway bridge (the locomotive that is No 70038).

I watched with mouth open at the giant green locomotive as it let off steam with a tremendous roar and moved slowly off towards Victoria.

We were usually quite tired by the end of the day so we would jump in his wheelbarrow (being little lads) for the trip back.

It's scary to think that he was probably younger that I am now............ But what simple happy, innocent days they were....

Smiffy

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

Re: the allotments marked on the map.

The RCTS site has several photos of the railway in the Wilford area, and some of them show those allotments. Not being an allotment expert, they all look a bit similar to me, but someone may recognise something familiar.

http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?srch=wilford&page=1&serial=16&img=66-76-05A

http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?srch=wilford&page=1&serial=21&img=66-69-06

http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?srch=wilford&page=1&serial=22&img=66-69-07

[PeverilPeril 3,280]

The first picture shows just about where our allotment was. There were no sheds there though. On our first day there dad and I removed a large area of turf and built a bunker with it. We left the fork, spade and bucket in it with turf laid on top and they were there ready for us every Sunday morning. There was no water but we dug a well. The water table was only 4 or 5 feet down. Although we only went there on Sunday mornings dad managed to grow enough veg to make it worthwhile. I remember lugging the sack bags with spuds and cabbages in, back to the bus terminus.

[Smiffy49 590]

My Grandad's shed is in the middle photograph ! It's the third one from the left with the white painted window frame..... incredible !

Thanks for posting those pics Cliff Ton...

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

The first picture shows just about where our allotment was.

My Grandad's shed is in the middle photograph ! It's the third one from the left with the white painted window frame..... incredible ! Thanks for posting those pics Cliff Ton...

Not sure what to think.........two satisfied customers in one day in my specialist subject of allotments.