letsavagoo 961 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 This is the corner of Alfreton Road, Bentinck Road. My wife’s grandparents owned Flints newsagents. This photo is early 1960’s. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 Remember it well. Eric's sold silver dancing slippers and I used to stand and drool over them, displayed in the Hartley Road-facing window. Dad only bought 'sensible shoes' for my sister and I. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 Am I correct in thinking this is the view today ? https://goo.gl/maps/xTTZDNDgYzBHyxHE7 With the now-demolished St Michael's church in the background ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 961 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 Yes. That’s the view today. Tragic isn’t it. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 CT. I reckon the wool shop is the middle shop like you suggested. I think it was 2 sisters that had the shop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Radford Boy 26 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 6 hours ago, mary1947 said: Sorry cant remember the name of the music shop just that they sold instrments and the second hand sop i think wasowned by browns myself and the other junior used to fancy the young boy who worked there. Down where your mum was I seemed to remember a flase hair and afro shop also sold long wigs am i right I think the music shop was Papworths. I used to buy records there and drool over the guitars. I think there was a scientific shop a bit further down and across the road was Jackie Pownalls which I think sold all sorts of second hand items. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 I still have the Fender Stratocaster I bought many years ago from Papworths. I restrung it last week and it sounds wonderful. If the third finger on my left hand ever grows back again from the horticultural accident I could play it again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paradiddle 145 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 Surely a man of your calibre could learn to play it left handed, Jimi Hendrix seemed to manage ok!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,088 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 Didn’t stop Tony Iommi from making a career of playing with three and a half fingers… Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Will2017 34 Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Radford Boy said: I think the music shop was Papworths. I used to buy records there and drool over the guitars. I think there was a scientific shop a bit further down and across the road was Jackie Pownalls which I think sold all sorts of second hand items. 38 minutes ago, Rob.L said: Didn’t stop Tony Iommi from making a career of playing with three and a half fingers… I bought a Vox AC 30 amp. and a guitar fro Papworths. Will2017 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,079 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 Many thanks katejay yes the shop was Judes then i think the chippy came next was then the salon where I worked. Will2017 this was the shop that i mantioned at the time I don;t think it belonged to jackie Pownalls as myself and Elaine the other junior fancied the young man and it was his father who owned mind you it is many years so I could be wrong. Beekey when I worked there Fine Fare had already been built it would be about hummmmmmmm 1963/4 Elaine who worked with me lived in Underwood and had to catch a blue bus home at the time being a city person I thought Underwood was miles away. Elaines mum worked at Jersy Kapwoods Still asking do any of you know Mrs Oakland who had the Glass and China shop, other side of the road and a little further down. just a little bit more info Have any of you seen the film Snow White when the Queen changes into a old woman, well she had a large nose with a large pimple on. well this is what Mrs Oakland was like not being unkind to Mrs Oakland at the time she was 80plus and I was a mear 16year old. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,279 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 11 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: Am I correct in thinking this is the view today ? https://goo.gl/maps/xTTZDNDgYzBHyxHE7 With the now-demolished St Michael's church in the background ? Yes CT - a great shame to see St Michael's demolished. I was a choir boy there. I used to go to Flints when Parkers, the newsagent on Peveril St were out of stock of something. Just around the corner from Eric's was a butcher's and I used to do deliveries on the bike. When Bovil St etc were demolished the residents were re located to the new Clifton estate. Some of them remained customers and I had to cycle all the way to Clifton on the heavy butchers bike! Most of my family lived on Alfreton Rd. next door to the Spread Eagle. My Gran and auntie had the grocers shop opposite the bank at top of Peveril St.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 961 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 I think I mentioned this before on this forum. When St Michaels was being demolished a few mates saw that the pews which were quite long were just being piled up outside in a heap. For some reason best know to them, they thought liberating one would be a good idea so started to carry one down Alfreton Road. It was so heavy they soon gave up and abandoned it by the bus stops near Pownalls. I’ve no idea why they thought this was a good idea. I should make it clear that I took no active part in the execution or planning of this deed in any way whatsoever and was merely an observer of this reckless wicked act. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 616 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 12 hours ago, Radford Boy said: I think the music shop was Papworths. I used to buy records there and drool over the guitars. I think there was a scientific shop a bit further down and across the road was Jackie Pownalls which I think sold all sorts of second hand items. I loved Papworths aka The Music Inn. My band mate and I used to spend hours in there in the mid 60s drooling over the guitars and other great stuff they stocked. Problem was that as 15 year olds we had very little money so could only dream. There was one young assistant who was happy for us to try stuff out but the manager would quickly intervene and tell us to stop touching if we weren’t going to buy. I think the scientific shop you refer to was Nottingham Scientific Exchange (NSE) on Peveril St. They had some nice electronic bits. My dad bought me a lovely Sanyo reel to reel tape recorder from there in 1967. Nick Daykin was a salesman there before he started his own Hi Fi business on Alfreton Road. NSE is referenced a lot on this site if you search it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 One of the NEP's old photo features looks at Alfreton Road. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/gallery/see-old-photos-nottinghams-alfreton-2111723 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rhymester 25 Posted December 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 Well the nearest is the old one outside the Clarence. Just needed the photographer to turn around, jump in a time machine and bingo! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 19 hours ago, letsavagoo said: This is the corner of Alfreton Road, Bentinck Road. My wife’s grandparents owned Flints newsagents. This photo is early 1960’s. You know what, you couldn't park like that nowadays. Was this before traffic lights were installed? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 There were no traffic lights there when I was a child. There was hardly anything on the road! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,279 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 I wondered why St Michael's looked too close to the road. The road must have been widened when the traffic lights were installed. Prior to that there were iron railings surrounding the church. On the photo of the Blackpool bus trip from the Forest pub I can see at least one auntie and possibly three. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 How come I have no memory of there being no traffic lights at that junction. I lived around that area until I were 14. That would be 1957. Mind you, it were only a mere 7 years later when I was stopping a bus at red lights there. (Now my brain hurts). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 Here's another photo showing the church with no traffic lights. https://picturenottingham.co.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/ntgm010354/posterid/ntgm010354.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 Bet Beekay can remember that! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 According to several sources, the church was demolished circa 71-72, so I must've gone past it on a bus when I was younger, but I don't really remember it - although I remember many other buildings in the 60s around that area which haven't survived. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 I passed that area en route to the city on a regular basis in the early 70s and recall the demolition of the church plus the building next to it. Even at that age, it saddened me to see them go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,279 Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 I spent a lot of my childhood and early youth at the church hall shown on the right. Cubs, scouts and dances were held there. It was the centre of our community. The vicar was Cannon Leaper. A very kind man. He let some of us boys have a mini allotment just behind those railings. I started school at the Bentick, just opposite. When my sister started 10 years later our Granddad was the lollipop man. No traffic lights then. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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