nottm 0 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 looking for info on an ack -ack installation it was where clifton campus is now, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRD 196 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 I used to play in those concrete buildings in the 50/60s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caroline 23 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 I used to live in Clifton ☺ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 How about these places on the far left ? I don't remember them - nor do I remember the dark-coloured buildings in the centre - but it's the site which is now the University campus. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRD 196 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Them's um, that picture must be early 50s, Clevely Way isn't complete (Only the Rowley's house) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 1953 - according to Britain from Above. Any idea how long they remained ? We lived just off that photo on Woodbridge Avenue and I don't remember either of those sites (the AA or the black buildings). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRD 196 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 I was round the corner from you, hence why I used to play on there. The Teacher Training College opened in 1960 so I guess they would have been there until around 57/8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 Looking at the photograph in #4 I remember that the annual bonfire events was held in this area. I also remember some deep pits, I assume these were the remnants of the ack ack emplacement? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nottm 0 Posted March 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 great aerial shot,I never thought I would see them again Now who,or what were they protecting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Maybe the gun factory (ROF) on opposite side of the river? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Yes, a few important sites close by, the bridges and Wilford Power Station too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nottm 0 Posted March 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 ROF south of Ruddington. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nottm 0 Posted April 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 looking for the person who knew that it was Rowleys house on the clifton map from 1953, my name is Mick Ward Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted April 21, 2017 Report Share Posted April 21, 2017 I've moved post #13 into this thread; it refers to the subject here, and didn't make any sense as a stand-alone thread where it started. The person who mentioned the Rowley's house was TRD, at post #5 above. (and if it adds anything, I slightly knew Stephen Rowley who lived there; he was in the same class as me at Greencroft infants and junior school.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bing 78 Posted April 21, 2017 Report Share Posted April 21, 2017 I played there as a lad. I moved from Radford to Langstrath Road (top of Green Lane) in Nov. '58 so it would be after that. My mum was a cook at the college when it opened. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted June 15, 2017 Report Share Posted June 15, 2017 Only just spotted this topic but when Dad was in the Home Guard 1942-5 he used to go to a site he said " at back of Wilford Hill Cemetery" but it wasn't 'ack-ack guns', he didn't talk a lot but did say they were "rockets"? but never mentioned them being fired! I think he did one night per week "on guard" and as no one had porridge for breakfast he used to fill his haversack with the unused quaker oats so we got some benefit from his night out of bed! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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