HSR 286 Posted June 12, 2020 Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 Radford Red..Last time I looked (only online) it was renamed the 'The Boulevard', left in disgust! Does the statue still remain? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,404 Posted June 12, 2020 Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 7 minutes ago, HSR said: Hi Trev, that statues gone, renamed the Pub & removed the statue.. Only know this through Google earth... Do you remember Doctor Killinski's, Boots and the Police Station, think there was also three churches on the that tiny Hermitage.. I remember Dr Killinski, (sp) he was almost revered in our family, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted June 12, 2020 Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 2 hours ago, TrevA said: There is, or was, a statue of Bendigo on the roof of the pub named after him on Sneinton Hermitage. It was still there in March 2019 when Streetview last drove past. https://goo.gl/maps/xLDHLB5znssDjYPx6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HSR 286 Posted June 12, 2020 Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 Dr Killinski's (yep spelling) take a left at the porn shop. Imposing place, front door black, and below street level?.. Through the door.. Doctor first left, waiting room directly ahead, gas fire on full bore, patient's sat on wooden chairs... magazines in the bottom right corner. The overriding memory I have is the smell of disinfectant, and the staircase to upstairs, first right after.going through the door...scary for a five year old. When seeing Killinski, I remember he always wore a suit, including waistcoat, sat behind a big desk, double chin and small glasses. Remember him visting Grandparents on a regular basis. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,404 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 Porn shop? in 1949? lol not in my memory, not that I'd know at that age.. His surgery was No 18 Sneinton Dale. It's a dental practice now. From your description I'd say he had moved by the time you knew of him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HSR 286 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 It was a porn shop Brew, on the corner with Colwick Rd, admittedly before our time..I did mention a left at the junction. I never mentioned '49, could even had been a porn shop then.. Maybe could have moved, my recollection is about 1970... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,404 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 Ah the penny drops... you mean a pawn shop as in pawnbrokers... I mentioned 1949 , that's the period I remember him... lol yes I remember the pawnbrokers sign.. sorry HSR I'm a bit slow these days.. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 Now you've done it Brew. Got a song in my head now that's goings to be there all day. Guy Mitchell singing Therr's a pawn shop on the corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. .......... Chulla had that 78 when I was a kid. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 Different meanings Brew, It’s all in the spelling !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 On the subject of statues, which we weren't... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 George Formby? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 And another KatyJ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,404 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 43 minutes ago, katyjay said: Guy Mitchell singing Therr's a pawn shop on the corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... and I 'aint got a thing left to hock... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,404 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 40 minutes ago, LizzieM said: Different meanings Brew, It’s all in the spelling !! It's all you need Lizzie, a misspelled word and a dirty mind! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 I'm flying to Pittsburgh next Wednesday, will look for the pawn shop. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 BK, I thought the statue in first photo was Lester Piggott, til I spotted the ukulele. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 I thought it was a flying ace with goggles! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted June 13, 2020 Report Share Posted June 13, 2020 15 minutes ago, katyjay said: I thought it was a flying ace with goggles! I believe it's all to do with the fact that George Formby made a film there, ( Isle of Man) many years ago, called " No Limit". He was supposed to be a motorcycle racer, there for the TT races. His bike was his own build, " the Shuttleworth Snap". This statue is in Douglas, not far from the little steam train station. (Just a bit of useless information). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 Apropos statues, the pulling down thereof, and the offence some people like to take (as mentioned in the joke thread) I would like to propose that every building associated with Thomas Forman, the printer, be razed to the ground and every plaque that has been erected in his honour be wrenched from the walls and thrown into the Trent. My grandmother was a dark-skinned lady. Her actual origins were never spoken of in her grandchildren’s presence and it was only when granddad let something slip that we realised that her parents had had difficulty making a living due to the “colour-bar”! Her father was a bit of a rogue, in fact that is doing rogues a dire injustice. He featured in Mr. Forman’s publications a few times, one of his less serious escapades being the desertion of his wife who took him to court for maintenance. Mr. Forman’s employee, no doubt with the complicit agreement of Mr Forman himself, described my great-grandfather as a “coal-black West Indian” The article appeared under the headline, “Her Runaway Coon”. Really! Actually, it doesn’t really bother me. It was something that was considered “normal” in that day and age, and I use the story to illustrate that, not to publicly air my “outrage” so that everyone can admire the moral high ground I occupy. History is just history, and the morals of the people who lived in the past cannot be judged by the standards of today. I wish Mr Forman’s descendants well, and I’m sure he’s very worthy of his plaques! (And that little story has come out a little more serious than intended!) 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 Well said, AG. A victory for common sense! As one of my favourite authors said, "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." Were L P Hartley writing today, he probably wouldn't be permitted to use the word 'foreign' ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 Sending you a message AG Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 I'd like to meet you AG.,so as I can shake yer 'and. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 And I you, BK! We’d have to hold our pints in our left hands though. Sure I could manage! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,079 Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 I can't see any point in having any statue's myself. Went over to Ireland for the Trad Fest in January, in Temple bar Dublin i have been there before, but each time i will go and look at the Statue's near the river, they are Statue's of men, women, Children and a couple of dogs. What i look at though is there face's as they show hunger, pain and sorrow, they are people from the potato crop that failed in 1845. by 1945 more than a million had died. the british government for various reasons , did not do enough to relieve the distress indeed it wecomed thr disater as a providential cleanising, (surprise surprise) so the moral of this story is YES these statues are history and we do need them, to tell us about what happened. So if ever you go across the sea to Dublin do go and see these people and look closely at their face's. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 Mary, in January this year I read the novel 'The Killing Snows' by Charles Egan which is primarily based on the potato famine in Ireland at that time. It is based on many facts but the central characters are fictitious. I hadn't realised how dreadful the situation was as people died of starvation, following several years of failure of the potato crops, the severe weather and fever'. Even the workhouses couldn't take everyone who needed help. The help for many people (men, women and children) consisted of building roads on the 'Famine Relief Scheme' for pitifully low wages. It was a compelling read. I also read the 2 follow on books which continued about the situation in Ireland, but also the stories of people who emigrating to America, where they encountered more hardship. Some went to England to work on building the railways but here, too, the onditions were atrocious. The author was born in Nottingham of Irish parents. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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