More Gedling History

[FLY2 10,109]

Two new benches erected in the park, commemorating the miners from the pit. 

Must try out that recently opened cafe too. Full English hopefully !

[Cliff Ton 10,534]

The bend where Shearing Hill meets Main Road meets Wood Lane.

[MargieH 7,616]

I used to walk up Wood Lane to school, after walking from the 25 bus stop at the bottom of Westdale Lane.  

[carni 10,094]

That little cottage on the right was called Rose Cottage. I always said to my husband that if I got the chance to come back to Nottingham...that is the house I would want. It was so pretty in the summer when all the flowers were out..............Then they modernised it and burst my bubble.

[LizzieM 9,532]

I can’t get my bearings on those photos.  Are they taken from the wide area at the bottom of Wood Lane?  If so then that’s where all the school buses stopped to drop us off in the morning and pick up in the afternoon.  My uncle had a corner shop for a while in the 70s, just down Shearing Hill on the right hand side.  

[siddha 826]

On ‎3‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 2:01 PM, IAN123. said:

 

These lads were unnecessarily shat on a few years later.

All very sad............ And we let it happen.

[MargieH 7,616]

16 minutes ago, LizzieM said:

I can’t get my bearings on those photos.  Are they taken from the wide area at the bottom of Wood Lane?  If so then that’s where all the school buses stopped to drop us off in the morning and pick up in the afternoon.  My uncle had a corner shop for a while in the 70s, just down Shearing Hill on the right hand side.  

I had a problem, too, as there doesn't seem to be any space for Shearing Hill in the top picture.  Was Shearing Hill just an unmade track or something?

[FLY2 10,109]

All our miners were let down, but the prime reason, what ever political persuasion you follow was the Clean Air Act. Subsequently, every authority jumped on the bandwagon.

[Cliff Ton 10,534]

52 minutes ago, LizzieM said:

I can’t get my bearings on those photos.  Are they taken from the wide area at the bottom of Wood Lane?  If so then that’s where all the school buses stopped to drop us off in the morning and pick up in the afternoon.  My uncle had a corner shop for a while in the 70s, just down Shearing Hill on the right hand side.  

 

31 minutes ago, MargieH said:

I had a problem, too, as there doesn't seem to be any space for Shearing Hill in the top picture.  Was Shearing Hill just an unmade track or something?

 

It took me a while to work it out when I first saw it. The photographer was standing in what is now the front garden of this house.

[LizzieM 9,532]

Thanks CT, it’s all clear to me now. The buses lined up where those cars are parked and we walked under the railway bridge.  I’ve got a photo somewhere of me sitting with a friend on a garden wall of a house on the far left of that photo.  Both in school uniform. 

 

 

 

 

[carni 10,094]

It threw me for a while as well. I remember as we drove to the top of Shearings Hill the cottage was more or less opposite on the bend. It is clearer on the photo of the modernised cottage. I guessed the old cottage picture must have been taken from a different angle.

 

Is the modernised cottage picture taken looking down Shearings Hill and the Old cottage one taken looking the other way up past the old post office towards the Memorial Hall. Just a Thought.?

Just take no notice of me????

 

 

[Cliff Ton 10,534]

55 minutes ago, carni said:

Is the modernised cottage picture taken looking down Shearings Hill and the Old cottage one taken looking the other way up past the old post office towards the Memorial Hall.

 

Carni, have you noticed the later up-to-date photo which I posted, showing the photographer's position in what is now a front garden ?    Both the photos in my original post are looking the same way - towards the old post office. You can't actually see Shearing Hill in the old one; the photographer is elevated and the road is behind-and-below the wooden fence on the left.

[carni 10,094]

Yes cliffTon Miduck I got it in the end. Sorry, I got confused. I know that little area quite well, I think I was having a senior blonde moment. I had a friend who lived in one of the houses on the left, just out of the photo, going down towards the cricket field, Burton Road and we played together often, called at her house many times, I just couldn't get my bearings. I got the bit about Shearing hill being below and behind the fence but for some reason I couldn't link the two pics. Anyway thanks for your patience and I'll shurrup naah.

[MargieH 7,616]

That's what I thought CT but I still can't see where Shearing Hill is in the old photo (shouldn't it be going off on the left of where the photographer was standing)

 

sorry, I've just seen subsequent posts. ... just ignore what I've said

[Rob.L 1,091]

I loved that corner into Wood Lane as I used to use my racing bike to get to school and could build up enough speed on the bike to take the corner at full pelt, which gave enough momentum to get up the hill at a decent speed.

 

Not visible in the modern pic is a bungalow which used to be owned by a fellow Sherwood CC cyclist, Derek Long, who owned a building company and was known to turn up to races in either a Bentley or RR (can't now remember which)

[sue B 48 1,226]

My Dad would have been working there at that time Ian.

[LizzieM 9,532]

11 minutes ago, IAN123. said:

 

 

 

 

 

11 minutes ago, IAN123. said:

I knew two families  from Gedling 40 years ago : moss and Morley ..

No?!!!

[LizzieM 9,532]

With Church behind photographer, looking towards bottom of Wood Lane? 

[MargieH 7,616]

I remember that daily walk to school 60 years ago...

[carni 10,094]

During our childhood in the 50s, the big house on the corner behind the road sign was just a ruin. We spent many days playing around in the garden and the remains of the house. It was a doll factory of some kind at one stage and remnants of broken dolls would be found scattered around. These days Health and Safety would have had the place made out of bounds, but not in those days, it kept us local children happy playing amongst the rubble.

[sue B 48 1,226]

And a leather factory carni, remember the remnants of children's reins,

pink and blue with little bells on they were a great find.

 

[MargieH 7,616]

I used reins on our middle child as the youngest was in the pushchair and the 4 year old walked sensibly holding on to the side of the pushchair.  The trouble was he thought it was a game and sometimes used to lift his feet up and try and swing on the reins!  My walk to the shops at that time in my life was quite complicated.... I also had  the dog on a lead.   I often wonder how I managed - certainly couldn't do it now!

[radfordred 6,284]

Anyone been up on the new sight seeing platforms?

 

[sue B 48 1,226]

Might try that next week RR that's if I can fit it into my busy schedule  

[Cliff Ton 10,534]

A bit specialist, but  interesting information about Gedling House.

 

https://zeffertt.uk/index.php/gedling-house?fbclid=IwAR29Dy0i877jpsw80pePRYZO_dCi1-A_gcEAvEFIHwvPJOGVtKfPQRLUqew

 

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