PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 I lived behind/above an off license in the 40's and 50's. It was 13 and 15 Peveril St. During that period there were about 20 shops on Peveril St. Not a single one there now! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Beer off corner of Briar Street and Bosworth Road Meadows, Annie Keeling ran it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 #20 me too Dave. Anyone remember the beer-off on the corner of Peel Street..opposite corner to Fon a car base? It had a huge ornate brass till on the counter..sold you Armadillo sherry/stripper in milk bottles!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Only ever went in one beer-off and that was at the top of Bailey Street, when staying with my grandparents on Marlow Ave. Went to get her beer for her, taking a jug with me. I'd be 8, don't think it would be allowed nowadays! No beer offs around the council estates, but I'm sure the Cocked Hat had one, a little room on the left of the pub? Val? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
davep5491 360 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Kath Cocked Hat had a small room as you said where mainly housewives used to get their jugs filled. (not a euphemism) I think but not sure, that Len Orchard's at Broxtowe shops, Bradfield Road end might have sold draught beer as well. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 That small room in the Cocked Hat, sold among other things, bars of chocolate and I'd get a Mars Bar for thrupence, and it was way bigger than they are now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ValuerJim 277 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Highbury Vale, bottom of Saxondale Drive - Westwoods newsagents, Cook's chippy, Beecroft greengrocers, Clarkes jewellers (of Kenneth Clarke MP), Dainty's barbers, Raithby's butchers, Co-op, and one or two I can't remember, including the chemist on the corner of Highbury Avenue. Also under the bridge, on Vernon Road, Stirlands post office, Lees and Palmers chippies, and a bike shop further down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Val 11 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 True KatyJay the little room on the left was the off sales where they used to fit jugs up with ale to take home and they often had a crafty one before they went home and it was mostly women,the men were all in the public bar we used to sell a lot of mild in those days. Kids used to come in for chocolate I used to grab a bar on my way to school Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 The John Barleycorn had a Jug and Bottle. The barmaid used to put a big funnel into the top of a narrow-neck bottle to fill it. The store on the corner of Hall Street, Sherwood had a beer-off. When we lived on Hall Street I was in there once and they had the radio on playing this wonderful music. When I got served I rushed back into the house, switched the radio on and caught the end of the music and heard what it was called. Next day went down town and bought it. I have since put it on the forum - The Creed (I Believe) by the Russian Metropolitan Choir of Paris. When a piece of music grabs you, go out of your way to own it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parmitage 127 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 I remember a shop on corner of Cambridge Street who had some sort of contraption on the counter to make children's drinks for next to nothing - stuff tasted vile though!!! A house, a couple of doors up, did children's haircuts on a Saturday if they had a bowl the right size!!! Best wishes Peter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 617 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 This is Orford Avenue on Clifton. The shop at the far end on the right was an off-licence and grocery store and I've been in it hundreds of times when I was younger. The thing I most remember about it was the sign above the door about "licensed to sell alcohol for consumption etc" because the name on the sign was unusual. The shop owner was a man named Alva Ballard Bates, and to this day I've never known anyone else called Alva. Cliff Ton, when I first saw this picture I thought it was the shops on Ambergate Rd on the Beechdale Estate. It looks identical. My mum used to shop there in the late 40s and through into the 50s. The Beeroff was run by an elderly bloke called Oliver and my dad used to do a soda syphon swap there at Christmas. There was also a Co-Op around the corner on Ranmere Rd with a Chemist's attached. The Co-op has gone now. The Co-Op used to sell biscuits all neatly stacked in square tins with glass lids. They were weighed out into paper bags. I always wanted the fig rolls but my mum would never buy them. I think she was worried they would give me the trots. In adulthood fig rolls have become my favourite biscuit and the trots have never been a problem lol Can you find and post a pic of Ambergate shops please Cliff Ton? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 I can see what you mean about Ambergate Road looking similar. Probably designed by the same person who laid out Clifton in the early 50s. Today Ambergate looks like this: Slightly more unusual is this from Britain from Above, in 1949. Beechdale Estate being built, with the Ambergate Road shops standing out in the centre as the only thing higher than a bungalow. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 617 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Thanks Cliff Ton. I remember the Ambergate Rd shops having metal framed windows just like the Orford Ave ones. Quite Deco really. The aerial shot is excellent. Thanks for posting it. A bit further to the right and you would be able to see my old school Beechdale Primary (mainly wooden huts) which was a former Ack Ack gun enplacement until the end of WWII. Can you weave your magic Cliff Ton? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deeps 68 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 I Remember the shops on Meadow Lane Circa 1960 Mrs Sprays sweet shop Between Daleside Rd and Moorland St, Jack Goys fish and chip shop, Burgess Post Office / newsagents, Godfreys Butchers and Stantons sweet shop between Brand St and Grainger St. Hicklings grocers, Cumberpatches greengrocers and the beer off on the corner of Holme St run by Job Whysall. further along between Holme St and Meadow grove was Fred Frosts grocers . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Not forgetting Mrs Wrights shop on Grainger Street, Deeps. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deeps 68 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Thanks Michael How could I ever forget Mrs Wright 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 A bit further to the right and you would be able to see my old school Beechdale Primary (mainly wooden huts) which was a former Ack Ack gun enplacement until the end of WWII. Is this it ? As the place no longer exists I'm not sure what I'm looking for. This looks a bit like a wooden-hut school and it's right on the edge of the photo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 617 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 That's it exactly. Many thanks Cliff Ton it's an amazing view of my old school. I attended Beechdale Primary School from 1955-61. It closed a year or two later. The site is now a senior citizens complex called Foxton Gardens and is clearly visible on the satellite section of Google Maps. The original single story prefabs that feature in the shot had only just been errected. I lived on Elstree Drive but many of my school pals lived in those prefabs. Thanks again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Not a shop I remember because we're talking about early 1900s but my Great-grandmother had a 'Beer-off' in Long Eaton. No idea where it was but have some postcards that were sent there and the address is just ' Beer-off, Long Eaton' so I assume it was the only one there. For the many years we lived down south we never called a shop selling booze a Beer-off, and to us it's still an Off-licence. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 The great north - south divide eh Lizzie! It's amazing how language changes to suit different areas. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 I knew many in Nottm who called them Off-Licenses too, so it's not really a north south thingy, could be what part of Nottm our parents were from. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Could well be. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 When I think about it, where we lived just off Westdale Lane in Mapperley, I had the following within two minutes walk: Watsons newsagents and sweetshop Windales bakery Haslam's greengrocers Plus a Shippos beer-off, Wendy's toy shop, a butchers, Fearn's for building and DIY stuff, a hairdressers, and Mary Bellamy fashions for my mum's clothes. The Post Office was five minutes walk. If my mum wanted fresh fish, I was made to walk all the way up to Mapperley top. Now, all that there is around there is a Bargain Booze, a pharmacy, a nail salon, and a place that sells mobile radio/phones. But Fearn's is still there, somehow. Such is progress. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MapperleyMan 122 Posted March 14, 2016 Report Share Posted March 14, 2016 At the top of Eaton Street in Mapperley almost opposite the Methodist church there used to be one runs by Pakistanis (its since been made into a house). It was funny because the name of the shop, in big letters on the sign, was "D.R. Sohal". Geddit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted March 14, 2016 Report Share Posted March 14, 2016 In Nottm I recall 'Beer Off' and 'Off-Sales'. I always remember that my paternal Grandma, Doris Berresford had one of those sloping 'Nib-bits' jars on the counter of the 'Beer-Off' at the Bestwood Hotel in Bestwood Colliery Village. Up here in Scouserside, they tend to call it the 'Outdoor'. The separate 'Beer-off' is generally known as the 'offy', though all of these terms are now redundant. Col Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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