Kendaldrac 40 Posted March 2, 2015 Report Share Posted March 2, 2015 Just down the road from me Dryden Street is still cobbled in interesting patterns Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Don't know how many Tivey's there were in Carlton but there's an Ian Tivey who visits this sight now againOnly just seen this about the tiveys,my maiden name was tivey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 In the Mapperley park area, a lot of the streets have been tarmacked over, but they have left the 4 or 5 rows of cobbles next to the kerbs, still visible. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Very true taxi ray ....... and those granite kerb stones can play havoc with your alloys if you park too close! You have to be careful opening car doors when parked near the kerb too as the bottom of the door could touch the pavement. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Very observant Lizzie, I always said you were a safe driver. LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Not observant FLY, just my experiences! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Here's a photo of a cobbled Grainger Street, off Meadow Lane, where I grew up. My house was on the left, just before the entry. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 My house was on the left, just before the entry. Interesting that you refer to it as an "Entry". My grandparents in Radford also used that word for the space between blocks of houses, and it was also used on Clifton for council houses which had that kind of space (but covered) between them. Did anybody use the word "Alleyway" which would seem to be the obvious first choice ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 We only had entrys in the Medders. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Same on Amesbury Circus. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Entry's in Netherfield. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 We always called it an Entry that ran between the Terraced Houses and an Alleyway that went through from one street to the next. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Warrabout 'twitchel'? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Yes Lizzie, Alleyway and Twitchel, I forgot that one. Twichel is what we called them when I was at home, I have got used to saying Alleyway here in West Mids. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 I tend to say 'snicket' these days for a narrow pedestrian route through a housing estate, but I seem to remember saying 'jinny' when I was little, for a path cutting over rough grassland as a shortcut between two streets. There was two I remember on Breckhill Road.... One went from the bottom of Melbury Road up the hill to Breckhill Road, nearly opposite Maitland Road; the other went over some rough grassland from Breckhill Road to ?Whernside Road. I sometimes used to use it when I was walking to school Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 In our neck of the wood we have "jetty" Five bells jetty leading to the pub and Chapel jetty leading to,,,well you get the picture,and they are both sign posted Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Jetty or jitty? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 It's the way they talk in Lincolnshire Katy! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 I thought a jetty was a structure which leads out from land into water; eg for boarding a boat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 As the name implies, entrys were usually narrow passages between buildings, but especially to get down to the backyards from the terraces and streets. Jittys and twitchells tended to be a bit bigger than entrys. Even today I still use the terminology, always a Medders lad.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 #52 The chap I am talking about is Ian Tivey REME. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Over the river they were"twitchels". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 On Andover rd Bestwood we had two 'Cul-de-sacs'...........and only posh folk like me lived 'up em'......lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Anybody from "Up North" would call it a Ginnel. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Not far north Dave,used to go out with a girl from Kirkby and she called it a Ginnel,.............we spent alot of time 'up it'....lol. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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