The Last Nottingham Trolley Bus

[Jill Sparrow 10,304]

 

First time I've ever looked for a photo of the Pelham Street shop, and surprisingly there is one - just.

  

  pinched this from the Beecrofts thread. I think the shop with the glass case was next door to Beecrofts.

[Commo 1,292]

J & H Bell Ltd at the top of Carlton Street was one my go to shops for stationery equipment, and being HMSO suppliers, as Jill mentions, stocked the full range of OS maps.

Bells promoted themselves as Printers, Bookbinders and Booksellers and at one time in their past also had a private circulating library, although I don't know what form this took.

They were a long standing Nottingham firm having been established in 1800.

I can smell that wonderful fragrance of new paper and books even now !

[Jill Sparrow 10,304]

Indeed, Commo. A sad day when it closed. No shops like that now. They're boring, bland and to use a phrase of my mother's 'much of a muchness'.

 

The smell of books is a delight!

[katyjay 5,090]

In a later photo of Pelham St, Trippetts has been taken over by Boots.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

23 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:

ere was a shop on Friar Lane which had a marble fascia and my sister always embarrassed us, around the early 60s, by impersonating Harry Worth's antics with his arm and leg!  We just used to walk away and pretend we didn't know her!  

Jill, I suspect that your sister was just one of many. Dad always did this too. First pantomime that at I went to see at the Theatre Royal starred Harry Worth in Babes in the Wood, would have been 1969, 1970 or 1971.