MelissaJKelly 2,120 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 But why will you still not say where it is ?Echoing this... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Well I need to know what this copper said before I go out? Its bugging me! One of our members is still unable to leave the house after 3 hours because we haven't had an answer. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I'm back now 1st thing I did was boot the PC up to find the answer, I also have family phoning asking which part of Nottingham this copper said? Think this could be a good topic for twitter we could be in the post! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I'm going to Highbury Vale in a bit, hope it's not there. Knowing my luck it'll be where I live on the Polperro estate in Hucknall.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 As a kid, we were always wary of crossing into Broxtowe. Could have been the Players/Crane school rivalry though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Looking at the other end of it, when I was a kid, Wollaton, West Bridgeford; Mapperley and the Park were all considered 'posh' along with a few others we didn't know. When it comes down to it, I suppose it depends on where you're standing at the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 There were some "posh" areas, Mappleh Park being nearest to us from Comyn St. A gang of us were setting off to go conkering there and the advice from my mates Dad was "It's posh up there so behave yersens and don't go chalking "BUM" on the walls!" We weren't arf refined in them days! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Just checked my 'Note books' from the 90s,and as a rough rule of thumb the five 5 most troublesome areas in Nottm were, Stelley,Broxtowe,Aspley,Carlton rd, and( if counted as Nottingham) Long Eaton. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I had some relations living in Dunkirk/Beeston area who use to drink in Long Eaton along with the Teds and l was told it was rough place in those days. not to sure if the Teds are still around. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I'm sure theres still a couple Robbie,.......but doubt they still cause trouble. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I worked with this guy in the 70's at Shippo's, for most of his life lived on Woodfield Road in Broxtowe but it changed and he couldn't get away quick enough. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 lived on broxtowe estate, Frinton and Shipley Roads till i was 20 thought it was rough then, went back last year worse than i remember. really upset me with all me old memories , Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Hi Benjamin1945.....As a newbie l am touring the topics that interest me. did l read a thread that you once lived on the Bestwood Estate. If so you must remember Stan Lownes. Hard man, ex RAF l believe. l recall he smashed up the Rose in Broxtowe one evening. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Yes Robbie,knew stan very well,.........without going into detail we share Grandchildren,.....a very hard man,.......real character. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Benjamin 1945... Definitely. even the coppers were scared of him. I know a few old names from Bestwood during the 60's, l will share them with you one one day. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Please do Robbie,.......i am sure i'll know em,........would'nt be surprised to know you!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 but my parents (and grandmother) used to reckon old Narrow Marsh was the roughest of the lot. When the area was demolished the residents moved en masse to the newly-built Southglade Estate and that was rough as hell in the 1980s. In the pre and post-war era the corporation housing department did exercise a kind of apartheid. Aspley, for example, was for "respectable" types whereas neighbouring Broxtowe had a less salubrious reputation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 My mum used to tell me about Broad Marsh when I was a kid. She told me that between the wars it was definitely a no-go area. She said coppers had to patrol in twos and threes. It was not unusual for a policeman to be on the receiving end of a house brick. Of course, the old slums of Broad Marsh are long gone. Now she also said that when the residents were re-housed, they put them in Broxtowe Estate and Denewood Crescent. I know for a fact that at least one house kept pigs in the bath and another put wire round the legs of the kitchen table and kept chickens. I also heard about the donkey tethered in a front garden. In the mid-seventies, I did a bit of window cleaning to supplement my milk-mans pay. We did quite a few on Denewood and surrounding roads. Most customers were good clan living citizens, but one or two were mucky. They still had the small panes of glass in the windows. A couple of times as my head drew level with a missing pane, the smell coming out nearly knocked me off the ladder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 but my parents (and grandmother) used to reckon old Narrow Marsh was the roughest of the lot. When the area was demolished the residents moved en masse to the newly-built Southglade Estate and that was rough as hell in the 1980s. In the pre and post-war era the corporation housing department did exercise a kind of apartheid. Aspley, for example, was for "respectable" types whereas neighbouring Broxtowe had a less salubrious reputation. Southglade est bamber,do you mean Bestwood est ? Southglade rd is on Bestwood est. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Edwards Lane Estate. I did Mr Softee ice cream selling there in the late 60's. Rough but fair. Nowadays, totally different. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 There's a place in Minicity called Badgersarse..... now that is rough. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 My money on it being St anns. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,279 Posted December 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 A rough or disreputable area is not to be confused with a poor area. In my teens I went to Palin St., Baptist Church and we were trying to raise money to get our own priest. The project was called 'The Manse Fund'. Our priest would have worked for peanuts but he would need somewhere to live. We raised money in various ways and one was for us all to go out collecting house to house for the 'Manse Fund'. I remember collecting in the Basford area and could not believe the poverty I encountered. We should have been giving 'them' money! However, some dipped into their purses for the fund. I never got a bad word and found the people very understanding towards the cause. I am saying this as a poor guy at the time - outside lav, no bathroom or hot water, lived week to week on the wage packet, but we were still relatively better off. Basford was poor but decent. The area I'm on about always had the most crooks, prosses and bad people and apparently it still does. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Forest Road/Forest Fields area? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Hyson Green was considered rough when the flats were there (although Balloon Woods and Basford flats were considered to be rougher, this in the early 80's) but apparently it was half decent a generation before. Normanton, in Derby, was similar; I lived just off Normanton Road in the mid-1990's and it was no worse than the Green, but on a return visit a couple of years ago I walked down there and felt distinctly uncomfortable. Maybe it's because I no longer lived there and maybe because I'm now 20 years older and wiser, but there was an air of distinct menace and I did not linger. Incidentally most of the folk out and about down there seemed to be East European rather than the Asians and West Indians who dominated the area twenty years previously. I had both as neighbours and we all got along famously. And Peveril, for goodness sake either pee or get off the pot! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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