DaveN 1,118 Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Some photos from the past of Nottingham/s slums. http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/28-amazing-pictures-Nottingham-s-slums/pictures-28446440-detail/pictures.html 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,532 Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Good pictures. Whereabouts on Woodborough Road was the Enterprise Hotel? On a street corner but I can't make out the name of it on that picture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 A good post, DaveN... Even more eerie is the other NottsPost thread regarding the deserted centre of Nottingham a few days ago - nobody at all!!!! http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/Abandoned-Christmas/pictures-28427874-detail/pictures.html#1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 There was an Enterprise Hotel at 176 Woodborough rd, somewhere In between the area of Peas Hill Rd and Robin hood chase? Could be the same place? Probably demolished in the early 70s. I found this Link with a few Pub addresses in, it might be interesting? It also covers other counties? http://pubshistory.com/Nottinghamshire/Nottingham/index.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,532 Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Thanks. That's why it looked familiar perhaps. I was born a bit further up at No. 264. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 The first picture could quite easily have been my grans back yard ! she lived on Corporation road St Annes, and my memories are quite vivid of her time and mine there as a child. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Funny really - when I was little we lived in a two up two down terraced house with no bathroom or hot water system and the lavatory across the yard. Funny really - we didn`t know it was a slum. We just thought it was our house. Mam kept it spotless with elbow grease and hot water from a gas boiler. We were certainly crowded. Privacy was at a premium! We didn`t know it was a slum, though. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 You're spot on there Eileen, we must have lived in blissful ignorance! Everyone was the same so we just accepted what we had. I'm sure there was a lot more community spirit though - or is that selective memory like the fact it never rained in the summer holidays??? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Whereabouts on Woodborough Road was the Enterprise Hotel? On a street corner but I can't make out the name of it on that picture. It was on this corner, next one up from the church. The road where the white van is parked is now Westville Gardens, but the earlier equivalent was Northville Street. https://goo.gl/maps/ULEgcprmcXQ2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve7martin 8 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Hello I was born on Lord Nelson Street in Sneinton, 1956. Anyone any idea where Sun Street and Red Street where? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Sun Street ran off Southwell Rd, parallel to Manvers Street. Red Street was off Colwick St, a few streets up from Sneinton Market. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 To add to TBI's post.....Sun Street is now buried under the bus garages; Red Street was between what is now Brook Street and Lower Parliament Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Didn't there use to be a post office building on Brook Street? I think it was where you used to collect PO Box deliveries, or it may have been part of the sorting office? I was based there for a couple of weeks when I was training to work on the counters. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Yes there was a post office building there; I think it was this one which has survived, but it's been converted to apartments. https://goo.gl/maps/gsiE8Gp9E7M2 If you look on the right, you'll see a newer post office building. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve7martin 8 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 TBI and Cliff Ton, thank you for the information. Cliff Tons ability to locate and up load the relevant maps when information is requested is becoming legendary. Thanks. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 My mam had,had enough and fetched in the landlord.. took him down the cellar and said" look at all this water running down the wall!" Landlord replied:" What do you want for ten Bob a week,champagne?" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Sounds about right Ian. I hope she gave him what for? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 She sure did Carni,Eileen's post rings very true..the houses were old but some kept them spotless! Kloross? Was it? in the toilet and Zoflora everywhere, we even had a lady up the street dubbed 'Mrs.SweepyFront'. Doorstep painters and carpet beaters were in abundance. Mind you there was a few dodgy ones- a family from Luton moved in,Terry..if I recall,he wouldn't work when jobs were plentiful, his partying kept the street awake..so my Dad introduced him to a sterilised milk bottle off the windowsill.. wonder where I got it?? Talk about Shrieber or Hygena..the De LA Rue oven door,when opened.. Missed the scullery wall by 5 mil!! We would use mangles for torture and often my Mother would see off a knicker pincher with the prop!! I recall this perv nicked two elasticated stool covers one night!! Slums they were,but standards were abound..Sunday shoe polishing..and woe betide if you touched that bottle of Dry Sack in the sideboard. Street and house parties were great..people nowadays don't want M&S party food trampled into yer Flotex 21!! As in most areas we had a neighbour on the game- we sat on her doorstep listening to Trojan music..one morning whilst greasing me trolley axle..a full pipe band..bearskins and all trotted out!! Xbox teens have seen nowt!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Nice post, Ian. I can relate to a lot of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Spot on there regarding cleanliness, my grans place was old, run down, and she was a widow so not well off, but it was clean, the front step shone with her scrubbing it. And yes remember the Chloros and my grans favorite some green soap, not sure if it was Sunlight, she used it for everything including me at bedtime ! (the soap not the bleach :-)) #10 My mums family originated on Sun Street, Cliff ton originally found me that map a while back too. Always remember my great aunts talking about having a bath around the corner at the bath house, must have been the Vic baths there adjacent to the old sneinton market. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 #14 On that map that cliff ton posted, the new building used to be Shipsides , then the PO garage, the apartments was the old Brook street sorting office, and the newer old parcel sorting office can be seen further away and also next door the rear yard and building which was Bath st stores, (B Telecom). All places I worked in and helped repair, maintain, improve, in the late 60's and throughout the 70's. Pete, The Engineer, will also have many memories of these buildings, being ex PO Eng too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 I remember that banjo..also those bottle green Anglia vans with silver wheel rims..Happy New Year to you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Another thing I remember was that all the plumbing was exposed, lead pipes running up the walls,easy for the plumbers..no boxing in. Loved it when the Gas man counted all the shillings on the table..made stacks and then gave a percentage back to my Mother/me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 #14 On that map that cliff ton posted, the new building used to be Shipsides , Correct ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Nice pic Cliff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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