FLY2 10,108 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 No litter, no vandalism, no graffiti. Great days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redbowen 131 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 I have to say that I do look forward to a post by Cliff Ton,as invariably it is an unknown photograph. How you discover them I do not know but they are always a pleasure to look at. Long may they keep coming. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 The picture of the bus in Long Eaton appears in the book 'Barton Part One - 1908-1949' by Alan Oxley, published by Transport Publishing Company in 1983. The caption to it includes: 'During 1925 Strachan & Brown bodied no. 27, a Morris 1-ton lorry chassis, extended to allow 24 seated passengers and incorporating the Barton patented third axle. It is seen in operation on a Saturday/Sunday only Spinney Road, Long Eaton to Old Sawley service...It is turning out of College Street into Derby Road, Long Eaton' The photograph is credited to the Barton Transport Ltd collection. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,532 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 On that last picture of the bus turning out of College Street Long Eaton, the only thing that appears to have changed is the bus! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 No screaming inbred brats running riot either, no mobile phones stuck to people's faces anall ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,427 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 Ring road at Middleton Blvd wasn't like that when I lived there either. :-( Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,532 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 I've posted this before but with the absence of Robbie it will have disappeared. It is Western Boulevard c.1958 taken through the windscreen of a 1939 Austin 8. It will be the Valley Road end of Western Boulevard. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 It's the good old days when everybody had a great time starving........my gran was born in 1888 and earned 5/6d a week for a 16 hour day when she left school at 13, she was in service and they were treated like dirt.......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 5/6d a week & only part time ! In service with a roof over her head & fed as well, she was one of the lucky ones then ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 I lived on Park Street which is the street before College Street. At one time there was an old lady who ran the sweet shop on the corner you can see, she had lots of cats who sat on the counter and used to have to move them off the goods to get at them 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 Nowt wrong wi cats ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 Nowt wrong wi cats ! You might change your mind if you read this.......... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneaky-cat-parasite-takes-over-human-brains-science/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 If you believed everything you read, then, you would believe of the man in the moon. Elvis is still alive & the earth is flat ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,427 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 Come on Mick! Elvis is often seen in the supermarket. The Earth looks flat to me, I've never fell off. Don't know about the man in the moon. Did anybody ever go there to check it out. Lol. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 Going back to ebay, one of the other negatives for sale was this of Friar Lane. It's the offices of the Nottm Building Society, and continued as that until somewhere around the late 90s. The empty space on the right is where Toby's had not yet been built. The building is still there today, as well as the one on the left; and the gap on the right has now been filled by the ex-Toby's. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 That Friar Lane negative is in superb condition too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 I don't understand much of the technicalities behind it, but it's a glass negative which was something used in early photography. They produced much higher quality results than film of the time, but they were very expensive and cumbersome. People back then would never have dreamed how easy it would become to take a photo of anything, anywhere, anytime. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 Good (though with an American perspective) explanation of glass negatives here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_plate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 The Nottingham building society is no,longer in that building, they closed it down about 5 years ago and moved everyone up to the upper parliament street branch and then they moved their head office to Huntingdon court on Mansfield rd Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 A couple more from the same batch. I'm fairly sure this is Parliament Street - judging by the route board on the side of the bus. And this is on the service from Nottingham to Derby. I can't decide exactly where, but in the background there appears to be a policeman on point duty in the middle of the road; that might be Lenton Boulevard / Derby Road. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 Re the first photo "White Bros" were hamper makers in 1927 , at 81 Parliament St . Furnishing retailers called Cooper and Foster at number 79 . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 Solved ! No. 81 is approximately where West End Arcade comes out onto Parliament Street - probably next building on the right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 These window details look the same https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=79+parliament+street+nottingham&client=tablet-android-samsung&hl=en-GB&prmd=misvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjutPr08qbMAhUrJcAKHaiiDDMQ_AUICCgC&biw=1280&bih=800#hl=en-GB&tbm=isch&q=81+parliament+street+nottingham&imgrc=RfVv2gmG5aPHCM%3A Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 Looking at the hampers stacked outside the shop just wondered what "Fred Clements" and "Sinbad" were selling . Turns out Fred Clements must have been some sort of theatrical promoter who regularly put out a Sinbad the Sailor pantomime show . So those baskets would have originally been made for props I imagine . There is also a hamper marked "Frank Pichel" ...he was also a variety artist described as a "comic acrobat" ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 The first photo appears in the book 'Nottingham City Transport' by F. P. Groves and rightly or wrongly the caption states: '...a proud crew pose in front of their vehicle in Wollaton Street in 1927 - ...a double decker Dennis with a 50-seat body built by Short Bros. of Rochester, fitted with solid tyres as pneumatics were not yet standard for double-deck buses. The bus is on service H to Hucknall.' The other photo is of Barton vehicle no. 24. Built in 1925 it was a Lancia, with chassis extended by Barton and the addition of a third axle allowing room for 39 seats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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