PeverilPeril 3,284 Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 Just looked at that streetview of Bulwell and noticed a building called Stevenson House. My pal Mick Stevenson used to live just about there in the 40's 50's, Just wondering if there is a connection? He now lives in Brittany and we meet up quite often. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Missing my mate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,603 Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 So sorry, Ian ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 #678...he's back at the weekend! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,603 Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 Oops. Thought someone had died!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 My good Bulwell mate Catfan is living in the wrong house! According to my investigations, Wollaton Hall was originally owned and sold by the Willoughby family.The 3rd generation of this family- deemed Willoughby far less dull than there original name - which was Bugge. They thought this was less aristocratic... but Bugge means..Hobgoblin!! Time for a move Mick?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Nah Ian, couldn't possibly contemplate leaving the "People's Republic of Bulwell" ! No matter what the temptation ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Does anyone know when Wollaton Hall was last lived in? I had an aunt by marriage, whom I never met, who claimed to have worked there as a lady's maid. Somehow, I found the dates didn't tie up. This would have been in the 1920s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 It was sold to the corporation in 1925, so possibly someone lived in it until that time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 #684 Yes, that's what I'd read. If the rumour is true she must have been little more than a child at the time. Have to wait for the 1921 census! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 My grandma went into service at age 11, so it is possible, Jill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 The owners of Wollaton Hall were the Willoughby family (Lord and Lady Middleton). Like a lot of the landed gentry, they had more than one country residence, but they continued to live in Wollaton Hall part-time until they sold the place to Nottingham Corporation in 1925. So they still had a number of servants and gardeners and other staff working there right up until the sell-off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gem 1,430 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 2 hours ago, catfan said: Nah Ian, couldn't possibly contemplate leaving the "People's Republic of Bulwell" ! No matter what the temptation ! Catfan when visiting Nottingham we went all touristy and visited Bulwell, it was a nice day as we walked around noticed babies with the bulwell dummy and the amount of young mothers with a multitude of children, Probably not noticed if I had not read comments on Nostagia. Oh by the way the daft dog fell in the Leen happy days. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Good Lord, get the dog injected immediately. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 #686/7 Thanks both. There is probably some truth in the rumour although I doubt she was a lady's maid. Under house parlour maid or scullery maid is more likely. However, she acquired her airs and graces from somewhere and it was always assumed in my family that it was her time at Wollaton Hall. Another relative, admittedly one with an axe to grind, told me the woman concerned was dismissed for stealing! You can't choose whom your relatives marry! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 2, 2016 Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 This is getting to be a common site in Bulwell nowadays, walking through the market place this morning Greggs had the usual queue of "parents" with screaming kids waiting in line to buy their "Bulwell Dummies". Lower down outside B&M where two women leaning on the wall having a fag & a natter. One dressed in slippers & her nightdress ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 2, 2016 Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 She'd probably just left 'work',you never know! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 The Bulwell Beckham is back in the news again I see. PLONKER. http://www.nottinghampost.com/bulwell-s-answer-to-david-beckham-to-appear-in-channel-5-documentary/story-29843228-detail/story.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Well Alf Tupper trained on fish and chips..he uses Gregg's! Y'know i left Bulwell in 1990 and it was a straight talking and no nonsense area...if in my day some fool was seen in a pair of pj's midday... Slap nut on!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 A common thing in Bulwell these days Ian. BUT fear not, they are more likely passing through from Aspleh ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 #693 I've only seen David Beckham once, on Parkinson years ago. Initially, I thought he was putting on an act and pretending to be a post frontal lobotomy patient, gifted with an IQ preceded by a minus symbol and in urgent need of a personality transplant. After 5 minutes, I realised he wasn't faking. Who, with all their marbles at home, would want to emulate that? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 He's not that thick though Jill...got squillians tucked under Swiss pavements! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 #697 Nobody's that thick, surely. It just wouldn't be fair! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 It's high time for a mass cull of the stupid, the thick, the oafish, the chavs, the impressionable, the ignorant, the rude, the gobby, the bullies, the loutish, and the downright daft. No kidding ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Would this lot have been cannon fodder in the past? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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