Caroline 23 Posted February 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 It was like a wine cellar! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 # 23 Bomber when my dad took me for a look around the newspaper office in about 1961 I remember seeing the big printing press. It was amazing. #22 DaveN the Pevsner is excellent with great photos. I bought a copy in a second hand book shop. I have learned a lot about my home town from reading it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 I have got all the above mentioned books. They are a must have for all lovers of Nottingham's architecture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mazarron2119 1 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Designed by Watson Fothergill & is Grade 2 listed I used to work for thomas fish when they were on plains road . I had to go to this building back in the 70s to take support brick samples from the basement as the company was carrying out repairs. I was also chauffer to george michel fish for a while. . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 All I can say in this subject is that the majority of today's so-called architects should be ashamed of themselves for the soulless, characterless, ugly carbuncles they inflict on our towns and cities. Personally, I'm a Tudor at heart and would happily live in a timber framed, wattle and daub construction in the middle of a field full of nettles than exist among concrete eyesore blocks of flats and throngs of citydwellers but then I'm one of those anti social types who likes to live in the past, where they do things differently! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 I'd like to live somewhere like that Jill..............but near Bulwell................lol. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Yo'll be lucky! :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 #31 In your own head, Ben, you can live anywhere you like. I wasn't keen on the 20th century and I'm even less enamoured of the 21st. The chap in my life for the last 20 odd years has been conducting an ongoing affair with the Georgians. If it isn't their houses and their architecture, it's their furniture. I've told him it's all a bit modernist for me! He is also a very vocal proponent of the work of Albert Speer even though it's certainly not politically correct to say so in this day and age but he's probably the last person on this earth who would subscribe to political correctness! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 The Georgians weren't a bad bunch. :-). There are some really nice Southern mansions down here that the Yankees didn't burn. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 He's also very keen on Richard Wagner! As long as he doesn't listen to it when I'm around! Far too jazzy for my taste! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Jill, so he likes Speer's work and he likes Wagner's music. Does he have ' I love Hitler' tattooed on his wherever. lol. Actually, I like Speer's architecture, and I like Wagner's music even more. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Chulla, on his mother's side of the family, he is descended from Walter De Strelley and the Barbers of Eastwood. On his father's side, he has Prussian ancestry. An unusual mix! Interesting family tree. I've done a lot of work on it. He thinks Hitler was an idiot, which is not to say that those who produced architectural designs during that period are to be dismissed for their grandiose ideas. They aren't to my taste but each to their own, is what I say. It would be a dull old world if we were all the same! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 I remember Lipman's being on Derby Road but not on Parliament Street. I was a bridesmaid in the70s and my dress came from the Derby Road shop. The lady who ran it was the wife of a Nottingham solicitor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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