Victoria Station & Great Central

[sweetpea 0]

Disused stations website.

 

Victoria Station

[mick2me 2,977]

Victoria Station

The Map from that site is also interesting, in view of the Mansfield Rd Discussions elsewhere.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/station...ictoria_map.gif

[radfordred 3,295]

[Frank 9]

Good link Red - that brought back memories.

Did you see the 3 blokes standing on the top with the sledge hammers? None of that these days with all the H & S police about.

[Merthyr Imp 722]

The latest issue of the magazine 'Steam Days' (September issue) arrived in the post today, and although I haven't read it yet what looks well worth checking out is an article 'The Last Weekend of the Great Central's London Extension' by a David Pearce. 

Several good photos of Victoria Station are included along with some at Wilford and the bridge over the Trent. Also a good map centring on the GC line through West Bridgford.  The article seems to consist of memories of someone who lived in sight of the line there.

[radfordred 3,295]

I did have to watch it in mute after 1:15 that piano music shocking, sure it will interest some

 

 

[NewBasfordlad 3,576]

Thanks for that one, whilst I agree about the music the actual piece was very informative.

[FLY2 8,333]

I purchased it MI, and didn't learn much I didn't already know. However, some of the pictures were new to me. Quite a good read all the same. A bit on the GC is better than nothing at all.

[Smiffy49 588]

Yes, it was a good article seen through the eyes of a local lad whose house overlooked the GC through Wilford.

A favourite haunt of mine during the same period.

[LongJohn 15]

When I was about 8, and at Patrick Road WB infants' school, the GC embankment was on a level with the upper floor classrooms. That, plus when our family moved to Colwick, we lived in a cul-de-sac with the LNER(?) and Midland lines at the end of the road, is why I love steam trains to this day.

 

On a tangent, I have spent the last year trying to stop the Education Funding Agency from knocking down an Edwardian school with far better architecture than Patrick Road - no justice!!

[Cliff Ton 6,327]

On 13/05/2017 at 11:38 PM, LongJohn said:

When I was about 8, and at Patrick Road WB infants' school, the GC embankment was on a level with the upper floor classrooms.

 

And this (I think) might be the closest you'll get now as a reminder of what you are referring to. The school is in the background beyond the tunnel which goes under the railway line. The embankment is now cleared and replaced by housing.

 

And I think the line was not the GC; it was the Midland line to London via Melton.

[LongJohn 15]

Cliff Ton: you are a star! When I was in WB a couple of weeks ago, and walking along Rectory Road, it was obvious where that embankment had been. In your photo, the building you can half see in the foreground was a sweet shop. Yet sweets only came off ration in '53.

 

You are right about the line.

[radfordred 3,295]

[Compo 4,970]

70013 Oliver Cromwell at Loughborough Central or 'Lugerberuger' as I once heard a yank pronounce it; taken in summer 2015:

 

[loppylugs 6,460]

Lugerberuger.   Sounds like something my dog would say.

[radfordred 3,295]

Hayup Sweetpea 

 

[IAN123. 4,299]

[IAN123. 4,299]

When Boots looked after it's workers! A Wembley day out...date?

[The Pianoman 1,204]

1920's?

 

[IAN123. 4,299]

Could be,going by the fashions.

[Scriv 135]

1923 or earlier at a guess; pre-grouping signage. actually I'm going for 1923, wasn't that the year of the first Wembley FA Cup final?

[philmayfield 1,475]

28 minutes ago, IAN123. said:

When Boots looked after it's workers! A Wembley day out...date?

They looked after their suppliers as well. The cheque was always there at the end of the month - you could collect it from head office if you wished! Not many big companies look after suppliers like now.

[Chulla 4,932]

Not a drop of testosterone in sight. Did they have ladies-only trains in those days? Note they all have a badge in their lapels. It could, of course, be a day out to the Wembley Exhibition of 1923-1924. Of interest, the Great Central's Sir Edward Watkin began to build a British version of the Eiffel Tower on what became Wembley Stadium.

[IAN123. 4,299]

Chulla it's a pre- drinking crowd heading for the meet up on Wednesday night, better gird your loins!

[LizzieM 6,100]

Carlton-le-Willows Grammar schoolgirls ready to depart Victoria Station to watch a hockey match at Wembley Stadium, March 1962,  England v USA, can’t remember who won ........ I’m on this photo though, full school uniform mandatory, including berets.