catfan 14,793 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 In today's NEP, interesting. http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/pictures-slums-Narrow-Marsh/pictures-26001317-detail/pictures.html#1 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Catfan, Interesting photos but is No6 correct....Ilkeston Road junction with Narrow Marsh? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I wondered about that myself Robbie, could a road nearby be called Ilkeston Road in them days ? Cliff Ton will hopefully come along soon & put us right ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Is that a picture of the old crown, it looks like the white horse pub is on the other corner. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 The street with the gutter running down the middle is NOT Narrow marsh it's self but it could be a side street off Narrow Marsh. This is Narrow Marsh(Red Lion Street) via picture the past Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Picture 7, the old police station, looks like it is still there, it is now a hostel at the end of canal street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 taxi ray, At some point in time before it became a hostel it was the city morgue. Or so I was told years ago. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 The last picture was taken from Malin Hill from the top of Long Stairs. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Perhaps those pictures were of the Narrow Marsh area, NOT specifically Narrow Marsh itself. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I wondered about that myself Robbie, could a road nearby be called Ilkeston Road in them days ? Cliff Ton will hopefully come along soon & put us right ! The idiots at the Evening Post (in Birmingham) strike again. They know nothing about the subject they are writing, they just copy it from somewhere and often get it wrong - as we've seen before. That photo can be explained like this: The main road is Ilkeston Road, and the road just visible going off to the left is Faraday Road. (that pub in the centre was The Crown and was demolished many years ago). Faraday Road used to be called Radford Marsh. The NEP imbeciles have found the word Marsh, but the wrong Marsh. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Have you ever thought about becoming a detective, Cliff ton? Some of the telly shows could use you, LOL. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,534 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Now educate me on one of those pictures. I didn't think the OLD Crown Inn on Ilkeston Road was anywhere near Narrow Marsh. I always thought Narrow Marsh was Inner City. Well before I clicked 'post' I read again the posts above. The mistake jumped out at me. I would still like to know where exactly was Narrow Marsh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I would still like to know where exactly was Narrow Marsh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,534 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Thanks. Not quite where I thought it was. I thought it was more Lace Market area. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 The giveaway in the Ilkeston Road picture is the entrance to Radford station on the brow of the bridge in the background. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Picture no7 is a recent picture anyway, note the road signs and towering chimney Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 You could almost take that photo today; the building and the chimney are still there. https://goo.gl/maps/uAi1B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Hard to imagine but there were eight public houses on Narrow Marsh in 1880 plus there was the Town Arms in Plumptre Square. And there were three on Broad Marsh & one on Middle Marsh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Not really hard to imagine - no TV in those days ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Clff ton is dead right about Ilkeston Road and RADFORD Marsh. I believe Radford Marsh was the area between Faraday Road and Triumph Road. Funnily where the River Leen wends it way. The Crown on the corner of Faraday Road was demolished and its licence transferred to the new Crown pub still there on Western Boulevard. It is amazing how many people think Ilkeston Road continues right up to Western Boulevard, when in actual fact it becomes Wollaton Road from the top of the railway bridge. The area occupied by Canterbury Road, Kennington Road, Marchwood Close and all the streets between had a strange nick name. My parents both hailed from Radford, and indeed my paternal grandmother was raised on Dorset Street off Canterbury Road. Everyone in Radford called tha area SODDAM. And every elderly person in Radford I asked the reason why told me the same thing. Years ago, a man used to sell fish outside Radford Station. At the end of the day if no-one had bought any, he threw them over the railway bridge and shouted SODDAM!. I kid you not. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Radford Marsh (Faraday Road) shown here. And a red arrow for the pub in the photo (Crown) which no longer exists. Definitely nowhere near Narrow Marsh. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 The mother in law worked in the crown during the war, her uncle Joe Lee was the licensee, she walked there and back from Bestwood. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 The R Leen must have been a bigger river in those days - assuming that it is the R Leen and Leenside shown on the plan? . Canal not built then? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Yes, it's the River Leen - in the 19th century the polluted river was responsible for a major cholera outbreak in Narrow Marsh. Edit - I now see what you mean oops! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 From Derby Road, the canal followed the boundary wall of Wollaton Park and was well to the west of the River Leen by the time it got to the Radford/Wollaton border. When it got to Wollaton road it turned sharply to the west next to Wollaton Road where there was a wharf from the Thomas North Colliery Railway. It then turned sharply north again and under Wollaton Road and straight into Lock 6 adjacent to Radford Bridge Road. This is why you can't see it on the map on post 21. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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