TBI 2,351 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 G.A.Warden on Arkwright St, nearly opposite The Chequered Flag. Also on Arky, opposite Radcliffe St, was Stimpsons who sold paint. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Stimpsons, not heard that for a long time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Manders Paints,near Canning circus, Ilkeston road?.there was a trade place opposite Shipstones brewery,down a dirt road,just can't recall the name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Going back to katyjay's photo........ If that was taken in the backyard of the shop on Vernon Road, alongside the Leen, here's that same backyard and the Leen from another angle. Britain from Above in the mid 30s. Vernon Road is the one on the right; you can just see Basford Crossing in the top right. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 That's a good picture of the row of cottages at the bottom of Southwark St, we've only seen a partly demolished pic of them before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Mudgie49 was it Riley's? remind me of Manders,seem to have read that on the 44 or 71 bus. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 In the Katyjay pic what is the big building in the background? And is that a fairground vehicle at the base of photo? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 #4 Third photo is Parliament Street/Clinton Street West Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Ian, I think the big building is a factory, it's too low down Southwark Street to be the school. I bet Chulla knows what it is. Not sure what you are looking at regarding the fairground vehicle? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Oh, do you mean in the pic from the air? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Yes Katyjay, looks like a funfair lorry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 #32. Without going there to check, I think it is the building on the corner of Waterford Street, that leads up to the park entrance. Dobbs the picture framers used to be in there, followed by a charity organisation - The Little Sisters of Mercy, I think. Not certain but I also seem to remember that the open ground in that area was used for fair/wakes vehicles to lay up. The row of cottages has, on its left corner, a toffee shop (and probably other things). On the right-hand corner was a shop that sold shoes (I think), and next to it just round the corner into the alley down the side of the Vernon Picture House, was a pawnbroker, with the three brass balls hanging outside of its entrance, The times I have queued down that alley waiting for them to open for the Saturday thre'penny rush. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 #4 Third photo is Parliament Street/Clinton Street West You're right ! I've changed it now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Clinton Street East was origanally Haughton Street till Victoria Station was built & Clinton Street Wast was just Clinton Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 To answer the questions about the aerial view of Basford Crossing, here's a wider version. The lorries seem to be part of a builders yard - looking closer I don't think they are fairground vehicles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 The "Basford crossing" is better known as Lincoln Street crossing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 #40 Little shop on the end of cottages,is where we purchased a 'Penny Sucker' before going into Vernon pictures,4d cost of Sat.pictures,then another 'Penny sucker' on way out,..............that was it,..........Tanner gone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 #37, the shoe shop was Stevenson's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Re #41. I seem to remember it being called both, but either is better than David's Lane which it is now called. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 #40. Thinking about my Quantum thread and how one's memory banks retain old memories, in the above photo, at far left, are the large trees at the entrance to a big house (not seen). It must have been around 1945 when I was passing the gate, and leaning on it was an old man. He beckoned me and then gave me a marble. I took it and almost immediately it fell from my hand, rolled down the pavement and fell down a grating. Why was this little incident remembered - was I ashamed or disappointed to the extent that it burned itself on my memory some 70 years ago? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 You made it memorable Chulla? Maybe the brain placed it in permanent retrieval. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 I remember when most of the flats were Painter & Decorators row of shops belonging to "Steve Clark" ! In the '60s. Always referred to as Basford Crossings. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9852497,-1.1819988,3a,75y,109.12h,81.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sN5PsZ13PSQzLwk1-cz5XgQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJBrenton 738 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Anyone remember Paul Madeley's family's shop on maid Marion Way? Some DIY but mostly wallpaper as I remember. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Yep, the footballer in fact ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 That place rings a bell. Where exactly on Maid Marian Way was it ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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