50th anniversary - end of NCT trolleybuses

[StephenFord 866]

It was indeed a 44. Started at Colwick Road level crossing. Headed into town via Manvers Street and Bath Street. For many years went straight along Upper Parliament Street with a stop opposite the big Co-op, but was later diverted (in this direction only) down King Street to stop at Beastmarket Hill/Angel Row (outside the Bell). Then Derby Road, Canning Circus, Alfreton Road, Bentinck Road, Radford Road, Vernon Road, Highbury Vale to Bulwell Market and on via Main Street and Hucknall Lane to Bulwell Hall Estate - City Boundary (Opposite Longford Crescent I think). There was a turning circle at both termini.

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It was indeed a 44. Started at Colwick Road level crossing. Headed into town via Manvers Street and Bath Street. For many years went straight along Upper Parliament Street with a stop opposite the big Co-op, but was later diverted (in this direction only) down King Street to stop at Beastmarket Hill/Angel Row (outside the Bell). Then Derby Road, Canning Circus, Alfreton Road, Bentinck Road, Radford Road, Vernon Road, Highbury Vale to Bulwell Market and on via Main Street and Hucknall Lane to Bulwell Hall Estate - City Boundary (Opposite Longford Crescent I think). There was a turning circle at both termini.

Here's one at the Bulwell Hall terminus.

[Michael Booth 7,364]

All these bus photos on Nottstalgia and I never see one of 'Mighty Fine'.

[notty ash 370]

The Bulwell Hall terminus was just north of Longford Crescent, about one third of the way towards the roundabout for the Hucknall bypass.

I used to live just up from the terminus and still remember the trolleybuses with great fondness. We used the 44 regularly to travel into Nottingham, sometimes changing to the 43 at Bulwell market place for a through ride to Trent Bridge. I remember trying to persuade my parents to take me all the way to Colwick on the 44, but never succeeded.

The conductor had to use a machine on the pavement at the Nottingham Ring Road stop at Basford to record the time they arrived, if I remember correctly. I can still clearly remember the smell of the gasworks we passed a little further into Nottingham.

[piggy and babs 544]

i think the last trolly bus running was 39 from carlton square to crown island ,after they started running the 72 up cavendish rd to the jucktion of coningsworth rd.and when they built carlton fourum they extended it to thetop of coningsworth

[BulwellBrian 107]

Cinderhill Terminus.

[BulwellBrian 107]

re. reply No. 41.

Christchurch Turntable.

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Cinderhill Terminus.

That's a class photo Brian, is it one of yours?

[BulwellBrian 107]

Yes.

[StephenFord 866]

Regarding #56, not only is it a splendid capture of a bygone ago. For the anoraks amongst us it also happens to be an exposition of bus stop signs! Notice the green "Trolleybus Stop" and on the other side of the road, the strange phenomenon of two NCT plates one above the other - a green "Trolleybus stop" for the terminating 41 and a red "Motorbus request stop" for the 7 going to Bulwell. The shallow red plate below showed that this was also a fare stage. A red plate is also visible attached to the shelter for the 7 heading in to Hanley Street. Notice the blue Midland General "Bristol Lodekka" just coming off the roundabout. They were not allowed to pick up inside the NCT area, but had their own stop (MGO-NDT in the foreground). This non-NCT stop was also where the hourly Trent 61B from East Kirkby called.

[BulwellBrian 107]

Over the Bulwell stone wall on the right was Basford Hall Miners Welfare.

[katyjay 5,091]

Hard to imagine when you see the huge island at Bells Lane nowadays, that the trees in the middle of the island were behind that stone wall originally.

[BulwellBrian 107]

Same day, same trolly, but the other side of the road. There were often floods at the island.

Note my blue and white ford anglia. c.1966.

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

And you forget that road signs used to look like that.

[Merthyr Imp 729]

Those photos are great.

[mick2me 3,033]

Paraffin lamp, and B1? Ripley?

And is that building in the background Cinderhill pit?

Yes Great Pics MI.

[BulwellBrian 107]

It is the colliery, officially called Babbington by the NCB.

[mick2me 3,033]

Was it one and the same or were there two pits?

[BulwellBrian 107]

Was it one and the same or were there two pits?

Its complicated, it was an old colliery started in 1842. By the 1950's the shafts near the road to Nuthall were working the deep seams, Deep Soft & Deep Hard. Further away from the road was another shaft known as the Cinderhill Shaft which went to the shallower seams, these workings ceased in the 1950's.

Babbington workings eventually went to the north of the old Hucknall No 1colliery on the Watnall Road, Hucknall and the upcast shaft there was deepened and became Babbington No.7 shaft, it was used to ventilate the Babbington workings.

[mick2me 3,033]

All clear Now

[katyjay 5,091]

I'm trying to squint to see if Holden Square is still there, but can't make out what actually is behind the lorry. Building or slag heap.

[BulwellBrian 107]

I think that behind the lorry was internal railway wagons, they were painted black. The pit tip was way behind the colliery and also beyond the GNR railway.

[katyjay 5,091]

So Holden Square[and Napoleon Square, behind the Barleycorn] had gone by then?

[TYAFANS 26]

Please excuse my ignorance - in America we had trolley-cars - I never heard of a trolley bus - I learn as I go, and really liked the photos posted on this page - as safe as yesterday!

Dave

[katyjay 5,091]

Trolley buses were quiet, clean [they ran on electricity] so of course, they were got rid of.