Beekay 5,196 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 On 10/18/2018 at 4:36 PM, PeverilPeril said: CT's picture has got me guessing? The trolley bus turning place around the bank looks odd. Did the bus go behind the bank? On previous pictures there were buildings behind the bank. The bank is currently joined up with the shops but it looks like there was a bit of road behind the bank for a few years. In the late 40's early 50's the buses turned in front of the bank. In answer to PP the trolley bus at the side of midland bank, top of pevril street was in actual fact doing a 'u' turn, having just come up alfreton road from Bentinck road traffic lights. This was a turning point for trollies not going on towards city centre, probably heading back to bulwell depot. Hope this helps, ( I worked on the buses 1962_1966). B. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,325 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 Re- bobbers mill area. The nearest pit would have been Radford colliery. I can only just remember Radford Colliery. From a certain bed room window in our house, we could see the wheel. My mother, who was born in the same house in 1926, remembered the miners walking home from their shift, covered in coal dust. Before the days of pithead baths, in those days, much of Churchfield Lane was still fields. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 When we visited my grandparents on Grimston Road, I remember hearing the sound of steam trains on the line which went alongside Radford Colliery - and past Bobbers Mill. At that time I wasn't aware of Radford Colliery so I've just looked it up to see if it was even still there in those days. Apparently it merged with Wollaton Colliery (not sure exactly what that would involve) and the combined site closed in 1965. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,325 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 Where exactly was it, CT? I can only remember watching the pit wheel go round. What's on the site today? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 Jill, the colliery was on the lefthand side of Nuthall Road as you went up Bobbers Mill Bridge from Alfreton Road 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 I never knew there was a shaft that close into town. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 The building in the lower centre is the Capitol; the Colliery was behind and to the left, now occupied by a bit of green space and a bit of housing. Not sure I'd want to live in one of those houses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted October 28, 2018 Report Share Posted October 28, 2018 I once lived in the cul de sac above and left of the Capitol, and could clearly see it, and hear the trains. The Leen runs parallel to the green strip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,325 Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 10 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: The building in the lower centre is the Capitol; the Colliery was behind and to the left, now occupied by a bit of green space and a bit of housing. Not sure I'd want to live in one of those houses. Yes, I can now work out which window I was looking out of as a child. We had friends who lived on Lynmouth Crescent and the Colliery must have been directly behind their back garden. Often visited them and never realised. I suppose the whole area is riddled with mine workings. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 I had friends on there too Jill. The Whylds, who owned a filling station on Ilkeston Rd near the Loggerheads pub. A crowd of us would often play in their garden which ran down to the Leen. Yes, we often fell in ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,325 Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 Our friends were Bernard and Jean Hutchinson who lived at, I think, number 7. I remember how quiet it was down there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted January 18, 2019 Report Share Posted January 18, 2019 Back to the top end of Peveril Street, where it comes out alongside the bank building at Alfreton Road.... 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 The ugly 1960s building standing empty for years on Alfreton Road has finally been demolished. 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,203 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 Was that Jersey Kapwood's offices at one time? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 Yes Phil. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 Years since I've been on Alfreton Rd. Where exactly was this office block? Nr Bentinck Rd? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,203 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 No, much further up towards the City centre on the RHS just above Boden St. It was attached to the original mill factory, since demolished. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,325 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 3 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: The ugly 1960s building standing empty for years on Alfreton Road has finally been demolished. The worst thing is that I think I can remember it being built! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Jill Sparrow said: The worst thing is that I think I can remember it being built! I'm increasingly having that problem with a lot of demolition sites around Nottingham. Broad Marsh bus station and car park have recently gone. Not only can I remember them being built, but I can remember what was there before they were built. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,196 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 Good case for " All our yesterdays" CT. Are yer gerrin owd ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 I don't think I'm gerrin owd, I reckon I probably am old. I have photos of me as a kid with various of my grandparents. I'm now older than my grandparents were in those photos. That's when you know you're old. 5 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,900 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 I found that out years ago when I was hairdressing. The children's hair I cut when they were tiny grew up and brought their own children in to have their hair cut. It took me by surprise and I would have only been 26/27 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,325 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 You must have started young, nonna I remember my mum talking about a hairdresser on Alfreton Road, just around the corner from Bobbers Mill Road, in the 1930s. My grandmother was a regular customer there. In later years, the premises became Streamline School of Motoring. I learned to drive with them when I was 17. Now, all the shops have been knocked into one large bathroom/tile showroom. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,900 Posted June 6, 2019 Report Share Posted June 6, 2019 I worked at Godfrey's on Noel st opposite swimming baths. My boss and all her family ( sisters, brother and father) . were all hairdressers and fantastic competition winners. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vic Clarke 22 Posted November 2, 2019 Report Share Posted November 2, 2019 Can anyone remember a guy called Ken Clarke, he used to go in the Stork club. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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