Shops etc on Goldsmith Street


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I've just blown the picture up a bit and I have come to the conclusion that it is a composite picture (If you look close that woman on the right is using a mobile !!!!)

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The Guildhall Tavern was one of my first drinking holes. Good Kimberley ale. Saw many of the acting fraternity in the early 60's. Another great pub gone, and replaced by a raucous chavvy tipĀ 

Been out for lunch with my sister today and we were discussing dentists. She reminded me that in the 1960s, she went to a dentist on Goldsmith Street. I once went there too. His name was Roland H Faur

Virgin Records are listed in the Nottingham telephone directory for 1976 as being at 7, King Street. The 1980 directory has them at 21 Clumber Street. And i fondly remember using both Virgin record

The next one down from the red shop on the corner the sign says something CHICKEN the one next to it says EAST EAT & Bambers right it definitely says STOCKS in that window , is that a CB mag aerial on that car ?

Here's a view looking down the road , you can see the Evening post building to the left & the top of Market steet to the right.

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I've just blown the picture up a bit and I have come to the conclusion that it is a composite picture (If you look close that woman on the right is using a mobile !!!!)

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No she isnt!

Apart from that, when I worked in the building next door to the New Taj mahal, Stocks were on the opposite side of the road, I cant remember when, or indeed if, they moved over to the same side as Selectadisc, even though the poster seems to indicate that.

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Craig , you are right Stocks were over the other side of Goldsmith Street at one time.

I'd venture that the Stock's poster says something along the lines: "We've moved to our new offices on Mansfield Road".

If that is a CB aerial on the car that dates it to around 1981/2 just before the construction of the new Concert Hall.

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You're right there (Harrier CBX if I'm not mistaken) and not the one parked up on the other side of town to me!!!

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The image of The New Taj Mahal brought back some memories!

I'd very often have a curry, and follow it with a "fantastic T bone steak" Thats how they owner Mr Choudury would describe itĀ¬

No wonder I started putting on weight after I started eating there, back then around 74, you could have 2 curries, and a bottle of Lutomer Reisling for around a quid!

I got my lot a take away last night, just one course, and that was nearly Ā£30 !

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I think the (newsagent) shop to the left of the red business on the corner was called 'Flanagans'. 'Flan' the owner was a big burly older guy of few words as I recall. He would have kept that shop at some point between 1976-80 when I was studying directly across the road at Trent Polytechnic. He moved, probably at the time of impending development of the Royal Concert Hall, to a different shop situated on Shakespeare Street, close to what was then The Clinton Arms and is now The Orange Tree. Might have been what is now a kebab shop, not sure.

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Re the 2nd photo, can anyone remember what the building in the distance (behind the chap in camel coat) was used for? IF the one I think it is, As regards the stones playing in nottingham I always thought they had? On one of those "10 bands in one show" tour type of thing (saw Chuck Berry, The Animals, and various other acts at Odeon one night) I say this about The Rolling Stones as a mate and myself saw them one dinner time,(original line up with Brian Jones) having a drink in pub on canal street (name on tip of my tongue, on left just before wilford road) tour bus was parked outside, no proof, but at time not that surprised, guess around 1963?

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...saw them one dinner time,(original line up with Brian Jones) having a drink in pub on canal street (name on tip of my tongue, on left just before wilford road)

Might that be The Bowling Green pub, Ashley?

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The red shop on the corner, around 1969 was The Dirty Book shop.

Above it was a record store specialising in Reggae & Ska.

Bought Tighten Up volume 1-2 etc from there

Also Prince Buster and Laurel Aitkin

I wishd I'd have taken more notice of the words!

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The Evening post building ?

You got me wondering now! But I'd have said a long gone building where you went upstairs to renew driving licences, tax cars etc? or have I got wrong place altogether? maybe it was on same block as that?

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Do you mean the County Vehicle Taxation Office ????? House,

off maid marion way?

The city office was on Talbot Street.

Also Stock School of motoring on Goldsmithh Street had a large working

car model in the window, with cutaway engine section. Later moved to Bulwel?

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Department of the Environment Car Taxation dept. was on Spaniel row...

Everyone staring at the notice on the wall when filling out forms because they couldn't spell environment.Another idea in action by stupid politicians.

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can recall both of those the maid marion way one was minerva house but certain this earlier one (1962) somewhere near guildhall, old building with big wide staircase, one of those driving schools mentioned in thread moved to mansfield rd, can't recall which, I remember my first driving lesson, in a Triumph Herald from said school, came down Woodborough Rd and he complained re me braking, said in 3rd it would hold it at just under 30mph, how I was meant to know that fact still not sure? He also asked had I ever had an accident on motorbike as too fast! (didn't know I'd been driving on and off for years)

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I mentioned The Ace Record Shop (dirty book shop) when I started the thread, good to see ya keeping up!

Joking apart, re Flanaghans, it was an Irish guy who had a dodgy eye, and he would seem to look at the door of the shop, as opposed to looking at you when he spoke to you!

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At the bottom end of Goldsmith street (now the stage door) were 2 boutiques. One was called Paraphernalia, and the other was called something beginning with G. They were unique little shops with lovely window displays. Does anyone remember Razzamatazz on Trent Bridge which is now a vacant lettings shop? Also Image which is now Savills round the corner from Bridlesmith Gate? I bought Ossie Clarke and Radley dresses from downstairs in Image. Bus Stop on The Poultry and Chelsea Girl all took most of my spending money! There was also a cafe called The Rainbow on Chapel Bar? It was a very short lived little place probably 72 - 73 and very avant garde when compared with The Kardomah! Love to hear your fashion stories and revelations about boutiques-gone-by!

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Image was a great shop. Thought i was very grown up buying clothes from there (well my mum was buying them as i was about 14 at the time). Also Chelsea Girl. There was one on Wheeler Gate and one in Vic Centre (i think where Gap is now). Loved Chelsea Girl as they did 'odd' sizes in their jeans (ie size 9 and 11 as well as 10, 12 etc). Also remember 'Mates' by irvine Sellars on Wheeler gate. I had my first ever store card there.

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ah yes, although i never ventured in there, but it was very popular (obvisouly me mums purse strings didnt stretch that far!) !rotfl!

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Can you remember a shop ( upstairs in Vic center )...had no doors ( once the shutters were up )...same side as jessops but a little nearer the first set of stairs ...sold loadsa 'hip' clothes ( around the mid 70's ) ..wasnt there long tho....( i remember its name ...but who else can ) ??

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Wakefields Stores in the 60's, corner of Wheeler gate/houndsgate/lister gate....................that was a real trendy boutique..........................army & Navy stores!!

There aren't many people in Nott'm at that time who hadn't bought something from there!!...............own up, tell us all & no fibbing...................

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