Nottingham from above - Arkwright Street


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The road up the middle is Arkwright Street. The “Oscrofts” bridge is visible at the top, with the railway station to the left of the bridge. This is 1950, so the camera and lens technology has improved - eg. the washing hanging in the backyards.

The two white lines (one vertical, one horizontal) are on the original so I can’t do anything about them.

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A few others.

Basford http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14973

St Ann's http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14899

Daybrook http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14780

City Ground http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14744

Market Sq http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14584

Shakespeare St http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14599

Oxclose Lane http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15078

Newcastle Colliery http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15267

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Interesting, the pedestrian crossing is on the north side of Kirke-white Street, in the 60's it was on the south side of Kirke-White Street.

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#1 Clifton - I Can remember Arkwright Street in the late 50's as my Aunty Grace lived in a flat above Jesse Robinson's fish shop, 2nd past the corner of St Saviour's Street, opposite Kirkby Street......Had many a happy hour down there then, although I came from Hucknall, I used to love being down there....I was recently watching an old film 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' with all the old houses in Nottingham back then, made me feel very nostalgic about my youth.....

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I believe it was the Old Boot's workers Social Club......then later on a pub.......a listed building and still demolished along with the rest........

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It's odd, I must have walked passed that building hundreds of times, opposite Atlas Street, and cannot remember it.

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Almost all symmetrical streets too. Not like the hotch potch, haphazard kits of parts thrown together these days.

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I believe it is Eileen. corner of Kirke-White Street Central and Arkwright Street.

My old local is near there, the Sir Richard Arkwright Hotel, almost next door was an Antique shop run by a lady who sometimes like dressing like a man.

There was a mans clothes shop on the corner of Kirke -White Street East and Arkwright Street.

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The large factory on Atlas Street with it's front on Kirke-White Street was an engineering works that made lace/knitting frames.

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#13 The building next to the Zebra Crossing is / was Bridgeway Hall.

#16 According to Britain from Above, the factory was George Blackburn and Son, Atlas hosiery machine works.

#10 The half-timbered building isn't Boots, that was nearer to Trent Bridge, but I can't find anything which states what the building actually was.

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I see the old Arkwright St. station. One of only two on the Great Central with side platforms as opposed to island platforms. The newspaper train used the off-load there and bundles of papers would be tossed down a kind of helter-skelter ramp to the waiting vans below.

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They made lace/knitting frames when I lived close by Cliff, often saw a truck pulling out with a part of a full machine, I don't recall the companies name, too long ago.

I lived just up the street until relocated under the Meadows redevelopment .

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The building on the right is George Blackburn and Sons in the 50s they used to work 24hours a day my house 25 Atlas terrace is in the shadow of the building my bedroom window was about 20 feet from the building at the back which was 3 storeys high we needed 2 T.V aerials to get a decent picture because of ghosting.Because they worked 24hrs I did not need a light on in the bedroom at night,how would that go these days.......

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Just to add something else, every now and then I still get the smell of the cooking at the Bridgeway Hall, you see I think it started during the war they provided meals at lunch time and continued long after the war,many of the Blackburn workers went there at lunch time well into the 50s.

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Trevor if you were fitting staff at Woodborough Road do you remember Albert, worked the West Bridgford district, he were an hard bugger to be an apprentice to. I am sure he lived somewhere near the County ground.

Finding it hard to place,tell you who lived in Sutton ST next to the ground Mick Lowe took my first class test at Long Eaton with him,Albert Ball was maintence man as was his son Les who became a fitter when they changed the rules,John Smith and Geoff Smith(no relationship ) are in Perth you may remember them.Albert Chapman ring any bells think worked with him in Northampton on conversions before that I was HOTEL ONE mini JRC 541D on boilers,great job 2hrs call out min at night, Jim

Swain (RIP) used to knock me up on Gordon Rd W.B. to go and light a boiler at 1.00am....memories......

P.S. The first fitter i worked with was Ken Lee at Stapleford(nice lad) Jim Fewkes used to make you straighten hooks(compo pipe) also with the "galloping major" Rex Davies,Dave Zunkers tools were too heavy to carry and Les Preston spent 5 weeks at Jessie Boot school cleaning the boilers b4 becoming a foreman, that was in" Uncle" Alfs(Corney) time as foreman yes lots of memories saw the old billard hall was still there at Beeston few years ago used to hide away there after finishing around lunchtime for the day(pre bonus days) working with Trevor Walker and Phil Russell(cricketer)......

John Caunt,John Pilkington,Brian Cottee,Ralph Fewkes,Jim Chamberlain,Noel Gingell, Alan Rogers, Mick Colton worked as apprentice to them all ...enough.....

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Trevor you sure rang some bells there. Yes it was Mick Lowe I went back to his house one day for a brew with him. this raises the question where did I get Albert from, will have to think on that.

Les Preston least said soonest mended I never got on with him.

Do you remember 'Roy' worked out of Beeston Show rooms dapper chap with a moustache, he was the first fitter I worked with and could he peddle a butchers bike.

Big Tony from Bingham always came and went by train.

I was going through my shed the other month and came across my issue mouth lamp, bugger still works to.

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