Radford born and bred 5 Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 I've just read the book 'Radford' by Chris Richards and feel sure I'm in the Forster Street school photo taken in 1957 ( on the page facing the contents page if anyone has the book ) my sister says it isn't me but I think I recognise other kids in the picture. I'd appreciate anyone reading this to check and see if they are in the picture. I was born on Croydon Road in 1952 and lived there until getting married in 1973. Great memories of Radford in the hard days. Nine of us lived in a mid terraced house on Croydon Road, two beds and an attic, outside toilet and a yard where the tin bath and outside mangle lived. So many happy memories growing up there; playing marbles on the cobbled street, playing games with all the other kids on the road including; British bulldog, hide and seek, knock a door run in summer and making ice skids down the street in winter, jumping the tankies down the river Leene and scrumping on the allotments there ( once getting caught by the allotment owner and getting a good telling off ) Money making ventures included bejng dressed up up as Guy Fawkes by my sisters and sitting in a push chair to ask for money when Players and Raleigh workers passed the hoouse, taking the rags down to the rag place on Peters Street, and earning a few pence by working for the wood man, putting sticks into a tin can and securing them with metal twine, ready to sell as kinder wood to start the open fires everyone had those days. Well enough nostalgia for now. If anyone does recognise the self or others in the book I mentioned above, please reply and help to solve the mystery. 3 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 #1 Welcome to Nottstalgia, Radford Born and Bred. Hope you'll enjoy this site as much as I do and look forward to reading more about your memories. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Angel 138 Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 Haven’t been sure where to put this, it may jog a few memories: 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,269 Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Dark Angel said: Haven’t been sure where to put this, it may jog a few memories: What a brilliant find Dark Angel a lot more than just Radford on there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 Excellent. That certainly brought back a lot of memories! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,577 Posted October 30, 2022 Report Share Posted October 30, 2022 Brilliant, really enjoyed watching that, thanks for posting Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Angel 138 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 Some more footage of Radford. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 Brilliant DA...........Better days....nicer people.....even though we had nowt............ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 The first image in that film is one of my maps - presumably for Nottstalgia but at the moment I can't specifically place it. The giveaway is the two red arrows. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 10 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: 10 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: Brilliant DA...........Better days....nicer people.....even though we had nowt...... Couldn't agree more. Times when you knew everyone who lived on your street and neighbours would look out for and help each other out if needed, and groups of kids all played in the street together. Until the powers that be deemed that our homes were all slums! To them they were just demolishing rows of houses but in reality they destroyed whole communities in the name of what they called improvement. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 The previous compilation of Radford images showed a photo of The New Dispensary on Gregory Boulevard. I remember that building very well as it was where I was taken as a baby in a pram for weighing and immunisations, etc. What puzzles me is the building to the left of the dispensary. The image was taken long before I was born but I don't remember the two storey building on the left. There appears to be a common gate giving access to both buildings. Was the two storey building perhaps a house or a nursing home, I wonder? In my memory, Hyson Green Library stood next to the dispensary. Could that photo have been taken before the library was built? Does anyone have a map that shows what the two storey building was? The architectural carbuncle known as the New Art Exchange now occupies the site of the former dispensary. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 Jill, having read your post I'm sure that subject has appeared in a thread here a couple of years ago - the subject is ringing bells with me. I've spent a few minutes looking for it but so far I've not been successful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 The (former) Hyson Green Library was built in 1890. If that photo was taken before it was built, it must be during the 1880s which is, I suppose, possible. I've emailed @Cliff Tona screenshot of the image I'm referring to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 I'm sure I've seen @BeekaySay he was born at a clinic on Gregory Boulevard. It occurred to me that the two storey building to the left of the New Dispensary might be the very place. I can't see how it fitted between the library and the dispensary but that might simply be due to the angle at which the shot was taken. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 This is the image Jill referred to. Looking at the caption (lower right) for the photo it suggests that both buildings are part of 'The Dispensary'. A map from around 1915 shows both buildings within the same boundary so I assume there's a connection. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 Excellent work, CT. It's actually a three storey building now that I can see all of it! It certainly wasn't there in my young years. I wonder, could this be the birthplace of our very own Beekay? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 I've now discovered a bit more. The two buildings were there in the early 1900s, and looking at old Directories they definitely seem to be connected. Properties listed along that stretch of Gregory Blvd go from the Library to The Dispensary to United Reform Church - with nothing in between. And the small alleyway between the Dispensary and the Church was Bevel Street. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 Intriguing! The building on the left does look rather nursing home ish. Curtains drawn during broad daylight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted November 2, 2022 Report Share Posted November 2, 2022 Hey up ! Have just read your post Jill, along with CT. Alas, I have no verification of my place of birth, (I were only a little lad, born at a very early age). I've always been led to believe that I was in fact born on Gregory boulevard, (told that by various family members). It has been hinted that the fees were paid anonymously, (I gather there's some doubt suggested as to who my dad was, but I cannot substantiate that). Jill, I love your line, "Our very own Beekay". That really makes me feel accepted and one of the gang. Thanks for that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 510 Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 Beekay, as you know I haven’t been on here for very long but you always make me laugh and have been very helpful when I’ve had my ups and downs with pics and not doing stuff quite right when I first started. Don’t ever feel that you’re not accepted you’re an absolute star as far as I’m concerned. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 @Beekayif it can be established that you were born in that building, I'll have a blue plaque stuck up for you. 'Near this spot was born....' It would have to be placed on The New Art Exchange building but that might be appropriate for you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 Thank you MrsB. and Jill, for your vote of confidence. One does what one can to assist newcomers to NS., and that helps with the feelgood factor. Jill, where I volunteer at Sheffield Park & garden, I am the only person to have an area named after me. It came about by me working as a car park marshal at the same place for over 12 years, (a 3 way junction at the approach to the site). It is known formally as 'Barriepoint'. I still get a buzz when I hear someone on the radio call 'Barriepoint to Reception, over'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 Sounds like you're getting your 15 minutes of Fame, Beekay! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 @Beekayi second what MrsB has said, when myself and Hey Arnold joined in July you were one of the first to welcome us to the site and helped him with posting pictures too. A true Gent in my book. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 Cheers Blowbroth ! Have to make sure you young tiddlers get started on the right path. Don't want your dad coming after me for corrupting you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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