IAN123. 9,325 Posted September 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Good post Ben..i visit twice a year..one thing i noticed..it was spotless! Bit like Bulwell in a sense..step outta line..and you get slapped AND..Mansfield girls are flippin' pretty. Only my opinion though. Did you venture out...all ok? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 My Maternal side of the family were Mansfield people.  lovely folks. Granddad was a teetotaler all his life, but loved a ciggy. Grandma didn't drink or smoke, but at my wedding she sampled her first beer at the age of 70 (my age now). Bless her, for the next hour she thought she was a fairy.   They had six daughters, four born in Mansfield and two in Vicarage St Nottingham.  I know that somewhere in a cemetery in Mansfield I will find my Ancesters. Must make a point of finding where? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,159 Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Venture out tomorrow,, one of me Sons been round this morning,,trimmed me Beard,,with a number one on top,,revving up for tomorrow,, Back to Mansfield,,always had good times there,,and yes loads of pretty lasses(well back in the day anyway) worth getting beat up for lol. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Up until 3 or 4 years ago another of my sons had premises that he used as a boxing club and fitness venue,,i was a regular visitor only to see how he was,,and went into Mansfield centre on a regular basis,,place called 'Ten green bottles in the market place'' did good Espresso and nice breaky snacks,,always sat outside with a smoke after,,and invariably struck up a conversation with someone,,very pleasant mornings........... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 I find all the Notts towns I visit have that friendly atmosphere about them, this morning we went to Retford, lovely place friendly folk as was last week in Worksop Notts folk are the best  Rog 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trogg 2,016 Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Quote  There is nowt wrong with Mansfield serry, I quite like the place, most folk are friendly same as every Town depends how you talk to them. The best thing I like is the buildings and other structures, while the wife is looking in the shop windows I spend my time looking up at the buildings, stand in the market place and look around you will be surprised. OK the modern planners have had their way in some places but there is still plenty left for you to appreciate, a lot better than looking at clothes. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Mind you Mansfield is not all doom & gloom, there are 3 Wetherspoons there ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 23 minutes ago, trogg said: There is nowt wrong with Mansfield serry, I quite like the place. The best thing I like is the buildings and other structures, while the wife is looking in the shop windows I spend my time looking up at the buildings, stand in the market place and look around you will be surprised. OK the modern planners have had their way in some places but there is still plenty left for you to appreciate, a lot better than looking at clothes. Too right, young Trogg. Some excellent buildings in Mansfield and all those railway viaducts used to fascinate me as a child.  It just looks so run down. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,292 Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Mansfield suffered greatly after the demise of the coal industry and its associated supply base. This together with the loss of the hosiery, knitwear and footwear industries in the town and surrounding areas left north Nottinghamshire in a very distressed state. Colliery villages and the town were untidy with many boarded up shops and venues but during my last visit I was glad to see pride being restored to the area as a generation that never knew the heritage and the struggles grow up and build their futures. They have done a fine job of restoring the viaduct and if there is one other thing that the council could do to help re-invigorate the town centre it would be to restore Mansfield market to its former glory. (photo Buildworks Mansfield) The abomination in the lower right of the photo (Four Seasons) and the Inner Ring Road destroyed so much of historical Mansfield but that is in the past and like Nottingham we must ensure that what remains does not go under the developers hammer worshipping the great automobile god. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted September 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Quite a few empty shops in the Four Seasons Oz..when industry was over in this area..whether by design or profit or evolvement..i will never forgive goverments who did bugger all to replace these losses...north of Watford Gap as they used to say!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 On 9/20/2018 at 1:08 AM, IAN123. said: Two 1961 photos of Handley Arcade on Leeming Street. Home to Sally Twinkle's the fantastic draper and haberdashery shop. One of the very few left. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 I can remember those money tubes in Farmer's, Exchange Walk and Beech's, Hyson Green, which was on the site of what became Fine Fare. The noise they made terrified me and I refused to go in as a child!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,292 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Jill Sparrow said: Home to Sally Twinkle's the fantastic draper and haberdashery shop. One of the very few left. Sally Twinkle is still there 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Yes, I know,Oz. I'm a regular visitor due to my interest in traditional upholstery. It's a good source of materials. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Didn't Leonard Swindley run a haberdashery shop in Coronation Street? Miss Nugent worked for him. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Something of an institution in Sutton was Rowells Department store, made Grace Brothers look positively futuristic! Mrs C had Saturday job there in her teens and in view of her diminutive stature was always having to be an Elf in Santa's Grotto. Rowells also had/have a branch in Long Eaton, I assume that they are both long gone by now unless anyone knows to the contrary? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Rowells had a shop in Eastwood. Still there, I think. One in Stapleford. Still there earlier this year. Their Heanor shop is now a hospice charity shop. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Jill Sparrow said: Rowells had a shop in Eastwood. Still there, I think. One in Stapleford. Still there earlier this year. Their Heanor shop is now a hospice charity shop. Yes it is, Jill. It's just a shop though, not a department store so maybe not connected. My wife tells me when she was at school, Rowells was the first shop in Eastwood to sell tights after they first came out and had young gels queuing up. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Not sure but wasn't it called Marshall & Rowell?  The Heanor branch was on two floors. Very quaint.  It was the type of shop that would have stocked liberty bodices. Did they have one in Bestwood, Ben? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,159 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 No not one in Bestwood Jill,, but i do remember them in Long Eaton and Stapleford late 60s,,also recall the name Marshall being i think one of the owners............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Apparently, they opened the Heanor Branch in 1895 and it closed in 2007. That's a lot of liberty bodices! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Â Eastwood branch. Just as I remember it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted September 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 The banner, sentiment and the unity. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted October 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Tipperary/Clonmel born writer Laurence Sterne's parents originally hailed from Mansfield. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 15, 2018 Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 I'll strongly resist the temptation to become embroiled in political conflict, but it was the Clean Air Act which sounded the death knell for the North Notts collieries and mining communities. Housing was going over to gas and electric, the railway was going diesel and electric, so the demise was inevitable. Power stations were moving to gas and nuclear. Â Margaret Thatcher just completed the long drawn out conclusion sad as it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted October 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 School milk, manufacturing and industry..vat..from 8%-15%..privatising NHS, hunger strikes, poll tax, precipitating of the NOW housing crisis..all felt even more in Newstead and Sutton, Kirkby and Mansfield. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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