Unidentified Premises

[The Pianoman 1,535]

Does anyone know where this is? I think it is Sytners current place on Lenton Lane - or at least that is my best guess.  The person who is asking me where it is thinks it is Truman Mitchells old place on Triumph Corner/Derby Road. I'm saying definitely not!

 

[Paradiddle 146]

Looks to me like it could be Huntingdon Street!

[Beekay 5,151]

Thats what I thought Para, an' I aint been up there for years.

[Stuart.C 491]

Sytners old place on Huntingdon St, without a doubt.
Trumans just off to the left.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

I agree with everyone else; it's Sytner's old place on the corner of Huntingdon Street - Union Road.

 

This is it today -  https://maps.app.goo.gl/D7aEQ9TC1zakKx4q9

 

And this shows it from a higher viewpoint - https://picturenottingham.co.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/ntgm019586/posterid/ntgm019586.html

[The Pianoman 1,535]

Thanks, I'll go with that. Am I right in thinking that it would not be Truman's old place. I don't remember that being on a corner.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Trumans (if we're talking about car dealers) were on the corner of Mansfield Road/Bluecoat Street - https://maps.app.goo.gl/wE3ZjhuTpLbmRU9F8 

[mary1947 2,082]

Trumans was this not a Pub which had one of the longest bars, Was it not in Nottingham centre??

[philmayfield 6,140]

It became Nottingham Autocar and then Chris Variava. I bought Shoguns from there when they were Mitsubishi agents.

[philmayfield 6,140]

Atkeys had the place on the corner of Union Rd. and then it became Sytners who moved from Mapperley. I’ve bought BMW’s from both places.

[The Pianoman 1,535]

9 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said:

Trumans (if we're talking about car dealers) were on the corner of Mansfield Road/Bluecoat Street - https://maps.app.goo.gl/wE3ZjhuTpLbmRU9F8 

Yes that is correct. They moved onto Huntingdon Street at some point. But then I often confuse Huntingdon Street with Wollaton Street or even Talbot Street. They all seem to have the same 'feel' to them.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

45 minutes ago, mary1947 said:

Trumans was this not a Pub which had one of the longest bars, Was it not in Nottingham centre??

 

There was a pub named Trumans, on Beastmarket Hill - 

 

https://picturenottingham.co.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/ntgm012624/posterid/ntgm012624.html

 

On the far right in the photo.

[Brew 5,419]

I always though Burtons were the fifty bob tailors but in the picture they seem to be different premises

[Jill Sparrow 10,307]

My father knew some chap who had ordered a suit from John Collier, many years ago.

 

John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch!  

 

So ran the advertisement.

 

The suit wasn't quite the ticket. The trousers were fine but the jacket didn't 'sit' properly. One shoulder was higher than the other which made the poor chap look like a scoliosis sufferer. He did his best with it but soon tired of people looking askance at him and declaiming, "A horse, a horse. My kingdom for a horse!"

 

For years afterwards, whenever the John Collier advert appeared on tv, my father would get up and walk around the sitting room doing a fair impersonation of his chum wearing the suit.  John Collier went out of business years ago. If that was an example of the goods on offer, I'm not surprised.

[Brew 5,419]

As a student I did a short stint at Burtons, both the grocer and the tailor. John Coliier was at the time considered slightly up market from bob down. bob a week and misses. Eventually Butrons bought them out.

[Beekay 5,151]

Would the tailors be the same Burtons as the grocers that used to on Long Row ( the Council house) that I used to deliver Birds Eye to on a Friday morning, back in the early 70s.?

[Brew 5,419]

Burtons tailors was opposite the Miltons Head, the grocers in the council house arcade.

Did you go down the lift with deliveries?

 

[Beekay 5,151]

No Brew, for frozen food deliveries we stopped outside the front door and took the goods straight to the freezers in the shop. It were always a big delivery of about 23 to 28 bags.

I have delivered other goods though, down in the lift. You had to park up then press a call button for the operator to come up a fetch you, then drive on the lift,  go down and turn left on the one way system to whichever delivery door you wanted.

[philmayfield 6,140]

It must have been cavernous underneath Burton’s Barrie. Back in the late 60’s my accountancy firm moved from 18 Park Row, where there was ample street parking, to more ‘prestigious’ premises in the rhs rear of the Council House occupying two floors over the shops beneath. It was inconvenient for both client and staff parking but the partners thought it was the bees knees. On the rare occasions when I was in the office I parked in Broad Marsh and walked up Drury Hill. We were over Ross Sergeants the chemists. Coincidently one of the partners was John Ross Sergeant, obviously a relation.

[Beekay 5,151]

It was massive under there Phil., when going down the lift I often saw cars parked down there. The one way system went all the way round the the council building. It were a bit unlucky if you were delivering near the first drop, because then you you had to drive all the way round, even if you were right near the lift. They would'nt let you reverse back to the lift. ( you need a bit of a wide swing to drive on ). Iv'e never seen a lift that big before.

[philmayfield 6,140]

I often saw the lift in action and wondered what went on down below. They must have had a powerful fume extraction system to keep the air clean.

[Brew 5,419]

The is a sub station and switch room at the turn around point under the front of the council house. The road is very narrow, the biggest vehicles able to go down were Morris LD's Burtons used for deliveries. When more than were couple down there at a time made for some interesting manoeuvres and some quite inventive language

You were not allowed to back onto the lift, it meant reversing blind across a busy pavement and into the traffic.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Am I correct in thinking that the entrance to the legendary Burton's lift was the green door here ? ............

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/d8zqBq7oSSKArZYz8

[philmayfield 6,140]

That’s it. Our office, Hubbart Durose and Pain was next door but it wasn’t called Angel House then.

[Beekay 5,151]

Looks like it, but I don't remember a green door there. It looks smaller, but my lorry definitely went in there. I'm pretty sure that the lift door from the road was a sliding collapsable type, with the outer door being two sliding sections, half coming up and top coming down, meeting in the middle. But maybe theres a chance I'm getting confused.