DaveN 1,118 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Photos of Basford through the years. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/gallery/56-pictures-basford-through-years-3537367 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Thanks for posting that. Brought back many memories. I didn't know Basford very well - most of my knowledge of the area came from the time I worked at Gerard's on Wilkinson Street and my wanderings around the district but my memory cells were certainly jogged by those images. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,094 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Thanks DaveN, brought back a few memories for 'er indoors, as she lived on Cairo street when she were a tiddler. Where do you guys get all these pix? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldphil 331 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Brilliant stuff! brought back so many memories - first 20 years of my life spent on Bagnall road. Grew up with all those images, and lived through many of the changes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 The old terraces lasted 80-90 years; the flats which replaced them lasted 20 years. So much for town planning. I didn't know Basford in those days, but back then it was probably a nicer place to live than it is now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 I worked in New Basford from 1967-75 and realise looking at these photos that I couldn’t have wandered around the area much at all as I have very few memories of the area. The only photo that brought back any memory at all was that of ‘The Palm Tree’ pub on Gladstone Street. I used to go in there regularly at lunchtimes with work colleagues and we were always there on Christmas Eve. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 My "Basford days" were '74 - '78 but I lived on Sherwood Rise at the time so I had opportunity to look around. Before that, I was working on Gregory Boulevard ('64 - '74) and that's proximal to Basford/Forest Fields as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,094 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Picture number 54 took me back a bit. Bought my first new Raleigh moped from Roy Wharton motor cycles shop. That must have been back in 1967/68 ish. Lived off Valley road back then and worked at Smith- Dennis, on Berridge road, ( not that's of any interest). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 An interesting car to see parked there. It's a BMW coupe, produced in the 70s, and not the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a concrete jungle (unless you were involved in dodgy business dealings). Today they are worth quite a lot - if you could find one. And the bike against the lamp post tells us that the photo is by Reg Baker. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 483 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 To the untrained eye that's just a bike and a lamp post. To the casual photo viewer it must seem like just a bit of coincidence. To the regular viewer the secret is known. I wonder if he had a bike stolen whilst taking photos and decided to keep it view, then adopted it as his trademark? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Cliff Ton said: An interesting car to see parked there. It's a BMW coupe, produced in the 70s, and not the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a concrete jungle (unless you were involved in dodgy business dealings). Today they are worth quite a lot - if you could find one. And the bike against the lamp post tells us that the photo is by Reg Baker. Yes CT, desirable nowadays and a very swish motor back in the day, the 3.0CS. 1974 according to the reg plate. I think it's actually parked in the Lord Nelson car park. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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