The Padlow

[fletchers 0]

Old Radford lad would love some pix of the old big house at the bottom of denman street on St. Peter's street maybe you have a photo on the swings or roundabout with the house in the back ground I was born there 1948 untill it was demolished 1974 then built a factory on the site but alas took no photos 

[mick2me 3,033]

Glad to see you got the hang of posting, fletchers.

Welcome to Nottstalgia

[MargieH 7,599]

Hasn't Saint Micklaus arrived a bit early?

[Cliff Ton 10,457]

Give us a clue - what does the title 'The Padlow' refer to ?

 

This map shows how things were in the 1950s. Where is the "old big house" on here ? You mention swings and roundabouts so I guess it's somewhere near the playground.

[fletchers 0]

Thanks for that picture

my house was next to the playing field longest in the block of three

thelayoutof the park was endofpath towards the paddling pool 

roundabout long swing laterchanged to Gang of Four thenthe monkey climber then theslide

we lived at 33a the map data is wrong

the large house belonged to mr lindley then 33c mr and mrs jones 33b mr and mrs pitwood  then us 33a called field house 

in the early 1970s we had all the above properties

Please could you private message me the link for the map  I have so many names for the addresses Bradbury desborough

the coal mechant they had a daughter Shelly all moved to Australia the park keepers name saw Sam be had a pot leg as a child I wore calipers so also had a stiff leg and spend many month on a stretcher watching others plAy kids shouted " Ronnie Fletcher on a stretcher"" the coopers trafalgar st the marts citadel st 

[Cliff Ton 10,457]

There isn't actually a link for that map. But it - (and a lot of variations on it - can be seen on the Old Maps site  https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/  although It's not the easiest site to navigate.

 

Interesting that you say the house numbering is wrong. The numbers shown in the 1950s map are the same as those shown in the 1910s version, which means that OS didn't know anything was wrong, or didn't correct it, for over 50 years.

[fletchers 0]

Yep our address was 33a St. Peter's street also known as field house the old telephone number was Nottingham 77243 several companies were registered of the years my dad was born in 1920 in Ilkeston his mum and dad my grandad had a horse and cart  and traveled down past ballon woods to Radford to a yard to the rear of the plough pub now a brewery to chop firewood from players boxes my grand mother liked the old house and posted a note to 33a asking who rented it to there suprise it was available and they moved in when dad was about six along with his brother joe  and six sisters grandad grew tomatoes in the greenhouse at the bottom near the  leen kept pigs in sheds and started to make furniture war came he garaged cars haulage later years we bought scrap rags wool made concrete blocks ... all the concrete blocks in the premises now standing on the site now were hand made by my father and myself 

companies

j a Fletcher bros

radford refineries ltd

radford concrete products

and my grans coop number 36269