RadFordee 68 Posted August 17, 2022 Report Share Posted August 17, 2022 12 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said: Amazingly, despite all the changes, one of 'bus stops' for that service has survived on the wall. Wow something in the area that has not been destroyed, i was very surprised to see that the houses on wallan st are still there too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paradiddle 146 Posted August 17, 2022 Report Share Posted August 17, 2022 The bridge in the picture a few posts ago linked Player's head office to the Marketing Block. It wasn't a general walkway, remember it being the directors board room. Under the board room table there was a radio transmitter to operate a buzzer in the adjoining ante room, had to test it whenever a board meeting was due, heaven forbid if it failed to work!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,153 Posted August 17, 2022 Report Share Posted August 17, 2022 It probably was the same bridge but it didn't look as posh as that back in 1963, (when you and Mick were still babes in arms). That bridge is lower than original I think but I may be wrong. We stayed with Mary Potter until we moved to Sherwood, off Valley Road, that's when we changed to Bailey St. in 1967. Stayed with them until we emigrated to Sussex in 1987. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted August 17, 2022 Report Share Posted August 17, 2022 Bridge viewed in 2009, it seems to have been refaced between 2012 and 2014 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.962023,-1.1768856,3a,75y,99.15h,91.95t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAtyQ6RpppsTBVkgfzF12PA!2e0!5s20091201T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en On Britain from above dated 1932 there's an earlier smaller bridge possibly only for pipework / services set back from where the one above is, before the buildings at the front were replaced, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 808 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 When i was a kid our Drs were Stebbings and Lavelle their surgery was on AlfretonRd. just past Hartley Rd they also did house calls back then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 @Stuart.Cthanks for the great photo stuart, this is the one i had in my memory as i have since found via google a photo of the same thing in some picture's the nottm post have online which is dated 1979 so would have still been there in the years when i used to visit my grandparents there. I will try to follow beekays tutorial again later & put the photo on here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,153 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 I'm sure I used to drive a group of disabled children to an evening club on Glentworth Road, (or it could have been Prospect street). Used to pick up a St.Johns ambulance on Mansfield Road, then collect a nurse escort then we'd nipped round Wells Road area and pick up about 4 or 5 kids and take them to this club. Then take them home again, return the ambulance and pick up my car which I left there. I think the idea was to give parents a bit of a break. Circa 85' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 From Evening Post (no credit on photo) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 Thanks stuart that is the one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,469 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 Judging by the cars in that photo, it's at least mid-70s, so I wonder when that version of the bridge was replaced by the later edition - which was modified to become what is still there today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,153 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 That's the bridge I recall driving me bus under. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 16 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: Judging by the cars in that photo, it's at least mid-70s, so I wonder when that version of the bridge was replaced by the later edition - which was modified to become what is still there today. The picture is dated 1979 on the evening post photo's. 16 hours ago, Beekay said: That's the bridge I recall driving me bus under. I had no idea that buses went up player st bk, would that have been a double decker? must have been a tight squeeze. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,153 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 Yes R., I'm talking about 1962/3 when the buses were the open back ended type, where you stepped on a platform or stood there til the bus stopped at your stop. All a bit before your time. I loved those buses but boy, we're they bloody cold in winter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willow wilson 894 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 I think there are 2 bridges in question here. The 1929 bridge was further away from Radford Boulevard than the present larger structure as stated above (StuartC) which is flush with the building line on the boulevard. The big old 1884 Player's factory on the right in the '1929 bridge' picture caught fire in 2015 during conversion to students accommodation. The fire was attended by fire services from Derby and Leicester as well as Notts. They were in attendance for 10 days, the building being mostly demolished to get to the seat of the fire. It is being rebuilt 'in the style of' the original structure as, I believe, student accommodation. I don't know exactly when the 'Student' bridge was built but must have coincided with Player's taking over those 2 office blocks on the Boulevard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 I don't know when those type of buses stopped being used bk but i do remember them from when i was very young, especially the blue buses (were they midland general?) we used to get one of these opposite the generous briton to wollaton park used to get off somewhere near the wheelhouse at what if i remember rightly was a small police station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,511 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 Yes it was a Police Station but is now a Lymns Funeral Home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hey Arnold 88 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 32 minutes ago, Beekay said: Yes R., I'm talking about 1962/3 when the buses were the open back ended type, where you stepped on a platform or stood there til the bus stopped at your stop. All a bit before your time. I loved those buses but boy, we're they bloody cold in winter. Being cheeky and brave (and daft as well) in my last year at Kingswell Juniors, if the bus going down Gedling Road was slow enough, we used to try to hop on the back and ride it to the bottom where it stopped at the crossroads with Brookfield Rd & Hallams Lane. God help us if the conductor caught us, we were off with a thick ear.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 47 minutes ago, LizzieM said: Yes it was a Police Station but is now a Lymns Funeral Home. Thank's lizzie i did have a look on google maps but could not see anything that looked like the police station did back then, as i'm fairly sure that i remember it being a white building, but could be wrong & was also unsure of it exact location. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,153 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 I wasn't aware that one could get a blue bus opposite The Generous Briton, (Alfreton road) and alight opposite The Wheelhouse, (Wollaton road). I know of no service like that or even which route it could take. Always thought you would have to catch it on Ilkeston Road, if not the city centre. Can anyone enlighten me.? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,469 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Willow wilson said: I don't know exactly when the 'Student' bridge was built but must have coincided with Player's taking over those 2 office blocks on the Boulevard. I don't know the answer, but one possibility...... Players had the large building on the right as their Head Office from at least the 1920s. Some time in the 1960s that early building (which I just remember) was modernised/enlarged/redesigned to become the one which is basically still there today, hidden under the student frontage. That may be when they annexed the building on the left and built the 'new' bridge to link up. I've now just noticed an earlier post in this thread which I'd missed, and partly answers my question. https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/14735-grimston-wordsworth-glentworth-rd-area-in-radford/?page=4&tab=comments#comment-691392 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 59 minutes ago, Beekay said: I wasn't aware that one could get a blue bus opposite The Generous Briton, (Alfreton road) and alight opposite The Wheelhouse, (Wollaton road). I know of no service like that or even which route it could take. Always thought you would have to catch it on Ilkeston Road, if not the city centre. Can anyone enlighten me.? Plenty of stops for posh blue buses on Alfreton Road (still is). What surprises me is that in the days before deregulation, you were allowed to get off it again whilst still within the City Boundary. Midland General buses around Wollaton were I believe F4? probably others. I know one went up Bramcote Lane but what the rest of the route was I have no idea. Me strictly B1, B3, C5, C9, B6. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,153 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 As kids, we would catch a B2 to Balloon xroads if we going to Hemlockstone to swim in the gravel pits, (now the site of Bramcote crematorium). But I still have no idea what a bus route would be that went down Alfreton Road and finish up on Wollaton Road. The nearest thing to that would be NCT no.13 which went Alfreton road- Asley lane-t/l onto Western boulevard-t/r on Beechdale Road and finish up on Glaisdale drive. There wasn't a bus service that went Alfreton Road, Apley lane onto Western boulevard to Crown Island then finish up on Wollaton Road. But always willing to learn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 @The Pianoman& @Beekayi have no memory of what the bus number or route would have been, i would only have been about 5 or 6 at the time so could have it wrong, maybe we did have to go to ilkeston rd to catch the blue bus & not outside the coop on alfreton rd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Engineer 614 Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 In reply to the original post (asking when were these roads built), I looked in old trade directories. 1904 (Kelly's) No records 1910-11 (Wright's) Glentworth - Nos. 5, 45, 76, 77 Grimston - no record Wordsworth - Nos. 8, 46, 52, 56, 75, 76 1913-14 (Wright's) Glentworth - around 75 numbers (maybe fully developed) Grimston - over 40 numbers Wordsworth - Nos. 26, 75, 76 1915-16 (Wright's) Glentworth - still around 75 numbers Grimston - around 70 numbers (maybe fully developed) Wordsworth - Nos. 26, 75, 76 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alpha 176 Posted August 19, 2022 Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 The only service I travelled on was the 53 that stared at Crown Island (Western Boulevard end terminus) along Wesern Boulevard, to the end of Valley Road where the service terminated for the return route. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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