DavidA 153 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Bilbraborn sitting bottom left at Weekday Cross viaduct, plus the bus station as well, and the demolished girder bridge over Midland Station in the distance, looks like Bilbraborn is considering a chat with the fireman of the 8F and vice versa, I hope it was polite. Iron ore from High Dyke to Stanton Ironworks methinks. Can you recall matey, I'd just been sitting in one of the caves in the dark near the Ice Stadium trying to load a colour film into my brothers 35mm camera, it proved a disaster, my colour slides of the following Merchant Navy Pacific were destroyed by Kodak, such is life. What is the building with the ornate clock tower (?) on the horizon on the righthand side? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,162 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Midland station? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,469 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Yes, I think it is the station. The angle of the camera makes the tower look as though it's connected to the building on the right, but that building is a long way in front of the tower. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 The building in the centre right of the photograph (above the bus and below the clock tower) was, I think Widdowson's Machine Tools. Smiffy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Definitely Midland station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Thanks. What a great photo it is. September 3rd 1966, it's a bit dark and grainey, probably due to the cheap developing deal my old man got from a mate at work. The camera was a Prinzflex 35 mm from Dixon's ( King St? ). The film was probably Ilford 200 ASA, I would buy it loose from Dixons, they would go in the darkroom and cut a strip off, usually 36 shots, then wind it on one of my spare cassettes, all done for nowt, just the cost of the film which was half that of buying it prepacked. My brother had a Hanimex 35mm which he tended to keep loaded with Kodak colour slide film, except I bought some that day and made a mess of loading it. I'm sure I took some colour pics of the bus station and the SR Pacific crossing the viaduct that morning, but Kodak cut them off the film. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 This bit in the 1944 film They Knew Mr Knight always fascinates me as train leaves Victoria Station. Ignore the actors and look out the view from the windows you can see the area of the Broadmarsh , though can't spot any buses . Castle is recognisable at the top of the view . Just catch the edge of the Widdowsons factory coming into view . Before that theres a quite an ornate Georgian building , whats that ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,469 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 The building I think you are referring to is this. The Canaan Methodist Chapel on Newbridge Street. According to PTP built in 1883 and burnt down in 1949. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 The building I am thinking about is more like the building down the street with 5 windows and a door . Will try and do a screen grab later but internet connection is so bad at mo .( waiting for BT to dig up road !) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 The building I am thinking about is more like the building down the street with 5 windows and a door . Will try and do a screen grab later but internet connection is so bad at mo .( waiting for BT to dig up road !) Not another one with BT problems, have been trying to upload some pictures but the system won't have it, BT supposed to dig up my footpath and neighbours front garden imminently. No sign of BT yet, surprise, surprise, meanwhile I've lost my efforts at passing on pics from Photobucket. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Fantastic, but I never thought I'd get so much air time on the internet. Perhaps not my best side on view. I remember that cave and trying to reload film in the dark. Every time I pass that way I think about that day. It's all bricked up now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Firbeck , I'm ahead of you BT wise......today have a hole dug up on the pavement outside and can see the exposed underground phone wire . Now have no phone connection at all rather than just a noisy one but strangely still have some internet connection . It's taken 5 visits from various engineers to get to this stage . Most of them seem to turn up and have no idea what the previous engineers before have done.....then when I explain the faults and that its somewhere between the road and our phone point in the inside wall , they all say "Oh no, why me" , go through the motions of testing the line and then disappear ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 The building I am thinking about is more like the building down the street with 5 windows and a door . Will try and do a screen grab later but internet connection is so bad at mo .( waiting for BT to dig up road !) Could that building be a sunday school/church hall belonging to the main church? The architecture looks very similar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,469 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Returning to the final disappearing viaduct, here's a few photos of it before and after. It was the stretch which went from Weekday Cross, round to High Level Station and Sneinton. It had been an isolated lump in the middle of nowhere for years. This is it in the background, behind the tram viaduct. This is how it appeared in 2001, looking towards Sneinton. When the arches were still used by businesses, below the black sloping roof on the right. Where it was. Going. Where the line crossed Popham Street, in the middle of the old Broad Marsh area, looking towards Canal Street. Same road, looking the other way. Before and after. And finally. 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Cliff Ton Fantastic that you have bothered to make a record of all of this for future generations. Thanks ! Smiffy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 SO!... What next? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 The end of the line? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Don,t think I could clearly remember how it was back in the sixties without the help of the pictures posted by other members, it is appreciated guys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 But ...just think of the destruction wrought by the railways when they arrived...St Anns Well and Sneinton Hermitage rock dwellings were destroyed by the ever encroaching Victorian railway builders.I wonder how many other Mediaeval sites were destroyed forever.Victorian planners were out of the same mould as the 1960s destroyers a century later. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,162 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Crazy what we long for from the past,......in 100 yrs folk will long for the eye-sores being erected today,dont you reckon? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Cliff, only photos of boring bits of an old railway viaduct, but absolutely wonderful! If it weren't for the likes of Douglas Whitworth, Geoffrey Oldfield and now You, we would have lost all record of these "boring bits" for ever, and would be so much poorer without them. I wish that I had had the foresight and means of photographing "boring" bits of Nottingham years ago but most of us perhaps took it all for granted, I mean, it was always going to be there wasn't it? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,469 Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 Found this on 'Britain from Above'. The viaducts in all their glory. Also showing the very early version of Broad Marsh bus station, and Widdowson's factory. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Here's a picture of the line a little further on, London Rd bridge and high-level station. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Love that picture TBI. If my bearings are right, would that be Colwick Woods in the background? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Thanks Gibbo. Yes, I think it must be Colwick Woods, although I'm a bit puzzled by the open high ground to the left and in front of it. That should be Bakersfield which is built on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.