Ashley 288 Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 People say "no one builds slums" and we've probably all heard of the resettled miner bringing loads of coal in the removal van and telling the men to put it in the bath, also the rag and bone man who kept his horse in the downstairs bathroom but who in their right mind thought people would enjoy living in the abortions that were Hyson Green, Basford and Balloon Woods Flats? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 The architects won awards for that lot...go figure! I'm still amazed they learned nothing from the tenements of New York and the Gorbals. You pack people together...you get antisocial behaviour...It appears that some architects just can't grasp historical facts. In fact a large block of high density apartments was built in the 1880s in the same area as Basford Flats.It was demolished 20 years later because they couldn't let them,nobody wanted to live there even in Victorian times.Some architects and planners are on another planet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 963 Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 This is interesting. I remember the flats well. http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-04051978-hyson-green-nottingham/MediaEntry/28722.html What ever happened to the Reverend Roy Catchpole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Catchpole was sent to St Matha's at Broxtowe and he died a few years ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 I met him a couple of times and he seemed OK but didn't he run off with one of his parishioners? I would never blame anyone for leaving a dead marriage but it must be much harder for men of the cloth. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Like East Berlin on a bad day.It shows the calibre of our councillors who allowed this obscenity to be built. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Like East Berlin on a bad day.It shows the calibre of our councillors who allowed this obscenity to be built. Don`t forget to include all the wonderful buildings they pulled down. Isn`t JOCO something to do with the abomination in the once beautiful Trinity Square? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 963 Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 My my thinks the Rev Catchpole blotted his copy book somehow but can't recall the circumstances. I met him in my professional capacity once and he was okay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 963 Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Don`t forget to include all the wonderful buildings they pulled down. Isn`t JOCO something to do with the abomination in the once beautiful Trinity Square?I think you're opening a can of worms here. The appearance of Nottingham City centre and the immediate surrounding area is dreadful.Total planning incompetence. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 The Hyson Green flats were built in 1965 and demolished in 1988.Asda now stands where the well-known development once was. http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/21-photos-Hyson-Green-flats-1965-1988/pictures-27527195-detail/pictures.html#1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Those photos brought back some happy memories Engima. I went out with a girl who lived in the flat complex. We would often have a couple of drinks in the Cricketers before heading off into town. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 And now another burst of old pictures. A quick trawl through Picture the Past for photos of the streets which disappeared when the flats were built. Typical back-to-backs which could be anywhere. All taken in the early 1960s. Forest Street. Lumley Street. Sheraton Row and Hyson Passage. Lindsay Street. Cornhill Street. Lenton Street. It's debatable whether the flats were an improvement or not. 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 I originally added this link on another topic, it seems appropriate to this one as well; so if you missed it before, here goes. http://www.academia.edu/5823352/An_Oral_History_of_Hyson_Green_Flats Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 The person who designed them should have been made to live in them..............They were ugly just like the Basford flats............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 stayed with my sister Olive, in the sixties, for a while she had a flat on hyson green, had to go down stairs to bed, she hated the place Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 #39 It's not just Nottingham where the planners got it wrong a lot of cities suffered the same fate in the 60s & 70s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 The person who designed them should have been made to live in them..............They were ugly just like the Basford flats............ If my memory serves.....the architect won an award for them....he must have married the judges daughter. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 What about Balloon Woods as well?? Never went inside but I had a friend who lived there, claimed it was OK once you were in your own flat.... Hyson Green flats were really grim, I lived nearby on Russell Road, but had many a good night in The Cricketers 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 Bring back the Blues Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 Some of the best blues parties I have ever been to ....on the flats......amazing... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carl hebb 8 Posted February 10, 2018 Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 My Father had a lock up shop on Hyson Green (HEBB,S JEWELLERS) opposite St Peters Church I think? and almost opposite a shoe shop. On the next block was Hancocks Furniture shop a friend of dad,s. I believe his son Tony has a shop down the road now. We lived in a shop/house on Ilkeston Road,and when dad came home mother would ask him to take her to "the pictures" he would say he did not fancy the film. The reason being that he had ,locked his shop on Hyson Green in the afternoon due to lack of business and been to see the film . A friend of mum saw him leaving the cinema on one occasion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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