catfan 14,793 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 My mam spent the last 4 years of her life in those flats .she loved it. Indoor toilet & a bathroom. Not all doom & gloom ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 PP it won't end up like anything it's ...............GONE for the most part, just like the same rubbish on David's Lane Basford. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 Balloon Woods was another one as I remember but I was never in one of those. Ā I grew up in a two up two down in Netherfield with an outside privy. Ā It was not luxury, but I'd never known luxury anyway so I didn't know I was missing anything. Ā People kept 'emĀ nice with little postage stamp sized lawns at the back. Ā There was a general friendliness and not a bad place to grow up. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 I can see Catfans point and Jills...but when you come from a home that is damp..can't hold wallpaper..outside loo...friend embarresment...pokey slum...a flat like that was a fine home. I offer..if they were built exactly like they were..but gated and sold as private apartments...they would be still standing...they were just 12 floors or so lower than vic centre flats. Nottm City Council have always been guilty of lumping folk together and creating ghettos..quiet and working tenants apply for transfers- so they can get some sleep ..to get up and pay the rent . Not saying everyone unwaged is noisy and anti social. But the word spreads "This place is a soft touch". When i had an apartment near the Clinton Arms...i had to have Ā£1000 in the bank and 3 references. This was with North British Housing. 2 years later.. unbeknown to us Balloon Woods closed and they housed 150 of these rats!! Arrived home from work to find the fountain and pond had had 3Ā metres of ready mix! "Tired of fetching matresses and prams out" was the strap line...to a tenant that was paying a tenner a week for landscaping.on the whole a bad tenant is a bad tenant...whether that be in Mapperley Park or Manvers Court! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,166 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 A few lads I played football with back in the day lived in those flats.......remember a party I went to with some of them in the flats, great night all his neighbours came, and were a lovely crowd, they loved living there and had a community spirit.........great banter with many West Indians who lived there,.. and turned up with funny things to smoke........still see Frank a great West Indian character......now lives Bulwell, gives me the ''knuckle greet'' still, love him,............. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 Yeah well I remember Paul Brown and his sidekicks........................ Not so easy! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 Densely populated by droves of EU immigrants. Numerous shops been busted for flogging illegal fags. Wake up people. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 Arthur Swift aka Mr,Concretopia plans more rubbish architecture for Nottm. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 The vandal should have been strung up! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,284 Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 Following chulla's farewell we drove down Radford Rd towards Bulwell.Ā Oh dear! Snail pace traffic and held up for about 5 minĀ for no apparent reason, where theĀ Grand used to be. Gave us chance to take in what was around us. Just a snapshot but Afro's were coolest, Asians were busiest and whites were scruffiest. Passed Shippo's now John Pye. BasfordĀ gassworks, memories of collecting coke in an old pram. The stone wall on the right and old quarries/clay pits where I remember water coming out of the ground - the first time I had seen a spring.Ā 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 I prefer to remember it as it was a little more than half a century ago, in my childhood. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 8 hours ago, IAN123. said: His masterpiece (?) was Victoria Centre flats! Bet he didn't live there though! Wonder if he was related to Alan Whicker? He certainly looks like him! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 Radford Rd.had it all at one time. Along here was Fords-the Co Op- Rose's Shoes.For the gents on Sundays..upstairs at The General.( not that i'd know.)Mick off to work on the buildings..nice Cortina Mk3. Machins Jeans to the right.Heathcotes for all your film & camera needs.The Daughter took some fine snaps also. Browns bakery for floury baps! Sure there was a VG type mini market along here? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,302 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 1 hour ago, IAN123. said: nice Cortina Mk3 The TC/MKIII Cortina was produced down under with imported four cylinder engines and local straight sixes of 3.3 and 4.1 litre capacity You can pick one up here for between $5,000 and $10,000 or 2,800 - 5500 quid 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 I had a Mk 3 Ā 1600xl ran it as a taxi on Fonacar. 1978 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 It wasn't only Sundays at the Old General. There were also "gentlemen's shows" on Friday lunchtimes and weekday evenings in the back bar. Several of the lady entertainers also worked on the soap packing lines at Gerard's and had "street corner" jobs down on Gregory Boulevard. The back bar at the OG also had jazz entertainment and some really naff drag acts midweek. Ā 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 A bit further down Radford Rd - nearer to Shippo's was an excellent butcher/cooked meat shop - much like what is a charcuterie down here. They made their own black pudding, polony, cooked ham, haslet, savoury ducks amongst many other things but best of all was their dripping both pork and beef. When I worked at Gerard's I would go to Brown's bakers for some baps, then to this butchers/charcuterie for dripping - must be with jelly and back to Gerard's to eat it. As a special treat, I would have a black pudding as well. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 Do you mean Godber's, jonab? They were there for many years. I used to know Marian Godber. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 I think it was. Thanks for the memory jog. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 Sometimes stopped off at the Scotholme on the way back. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 I remember mum used to shop at Godbers when she had the money Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 In the row of shops in the first picture, there was and ironmonger/tool merchant by the name of I & O Chandler. Been in there many times for tools. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 Somewhere between Godber's and the Scotholme was a sweet shop where I used to buy 2oz of jelly babies to keep me going during the afternoon. The jelly babies were weighed out into small conical paper bags. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 A good bat on could be had down there if no one wanted the bus stop at Palin Street ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 1 hour ago, IAN123. said: Echoes of my 44 days.Nu-Line..was that a petshop nextdoor? Olympicļ»æ Cycles,Carlsboro Sound, Boots and Woolies all along here. Not forgetting the T Bar BQ after some Hardys in the Langham. And Ford's...for liberty bodices! Can just make it out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.