Cliff Ton 10,583 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 I came across this a few months ago and know very little about it. I can't find exactly where on Haydn Road the "Haydn Garage" was. The only garage on old maps was at the corner of Crossley Street and is now a tyre place, but the building on the right doesn't fit. According to the side of the van, head office was Gordon House, Gordon Rise, Mapperley, and that building still exists. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,546 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 But it might be nothing to do with Haydn Road? German or Austrian name it may be but it just might have been run by a Mr. Haydn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,315 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 I think the garage in question was on Hucknall Rd. just behind the PP Payne factory which was on the corner of Haydn Rd. and Hucknall Rd. There is housing on the site now. I can throw some light on Nova Seal. In the 50's an uncle of mine. Tom Mcalpine was in partnership with a man called Ralph Sells. My uncle came up with the idea of using ex MOD Bostick which was available in large quantities in 50 gallon drums to make a car underseal. There was some sort of agreement on which Sells reneaged. A court case ensued and my uncle won the vast sum (in those days) of around £75,000. He began to live the life of Riley. He bought a large house in Mapperly Park which used to belong to Tom Pearson of Pearson Brothers, a large American Oldsmobile 88 car, membership of Wollaton Park golf club and other things beyond the wildest dreams of our side of the family at the time. He gradually frittered the money away but not before he had bought a toy shop and an adjoining pram shop in Sherwood opposite the Metropole cinema. When all the money had run out he emigrated with his wife and children to Australia and even had to borrow £50 from a brother in law to pay for the sea passage. The younger members of the family, my cousins, are now happily living in Western Australia having done well for themselves and with whom I'm in contact. Uncle Tom, who originated from Scotland, was a Mosquito pilot in the RAF during WW2. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 1 hour ago, philmayfield said: I think the garage in question was on Hucknall Rd. just behind the PP Payne factory which was on the corner of Haydn Rd. and Hucknall Rd. Wasn't that the Teesdale Garage though, it's been mentioned on here before? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,315 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Teasdale garage is the one I thought it might be but there is also Star Garage facing the end of Haydn Rd.at he Nottingham Road junction. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,583 Posted August 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 I can't remember exactly where Teesdale Garage was. This is the 1950s and I assume Teesdale is the lower arrow; but there is also another "Garage" north of Haydn Road. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,315 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Yes the one at the bottom was Teesdale, I used to have a petrol account there.The one further up Hucknall Rd. just above the Quorn Pub used to be Ward's garage. I worked in the area for 25 years up to 1997 but don't pass that way much now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,800 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Here you go. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,315 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 I think the garages I suggested were not the Haydn Garage. I've been up and down the road on Google and can't see where it might have been. I travelled up and down Haydn Rd. from 1972 to 1997 and don't recollect a building that looked exactly like that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,323 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Is that Del-boy in the picture........in the days when we actually looked under the Bonnet......mind you i never new what i was looking at,.....just a load of hot bits of metal and rubber.............and as Del-boy would say.........''i could'nt be doing wiv it..................... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,800 Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 I used to buy my petrol from there when I lived locally in the '60s. Posher petrol pumps then tho. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,583 Posted August 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Trying to find the exact location of Haydn Garage, I've had a look at old telephone directories. It seems to have existed only during the 1950s (give or take a few years). Unfortunately, in the phone books it's always listed as Haydn Garage, Haydn Road, Nottm. - it never gives an actual number. So it was on Haydn Road......somewhere. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Well the breakdown truck definitely states Hucknall Rd. Now on the map, the top arrow property still exists as a second hand car sales establishment. The lower one is just south of where Plumline are situated. A beauty parlour / nail place I believe, so I'll have a walk / ride in the area when I've time and investigate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,583 Posted August 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 The breakdown truck is for the Teesdale Garage which we know about !! The mystery is Haydn Garage on the first photo at the top of the thread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Memory lapse Cliff. I'll still have a scout round when on my travels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,800 Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Novaseal. Gordon Rise Mapperley. Novaseal Productions. Addison Street. Nottm. Take your pick ! It appears that Novaseal went down the "Franchise" route too. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 I think the Haydn Garage was situated between Victoria Rd and Cameron St, next to clothes factory, the building to the right. It's not marked as a garage on old maps but would be where the white van is here..... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/176+Haydn+Rd,+Nottingham+NG5+2LB/@52.9799061,-1.1518232,3a,75y,41.17h,95.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-JFLTXvWQR6aG1Kd-tF3Dg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x4879c1a12028c90f:0x340df647459f2ce6!8m2!3d52.9798985!4d-1.1538716 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,583 Posted August 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 That looks a pretty good match. Which means the wall on the right is the rear end of what used to be the Kinema, one of Nottingham's first cinemas. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Yes CT, the picture theatre was on that corner and it appears to have been converted to the factory in the forties. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,315 Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Yes, I can go with that. As a one time regular down Haydn Rd. that is the obvious spot. Thanks for putting my mind at rest! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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