philby 21 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 i've been meaning to do something like this for a while now. i found the older pics on picturethepast. i learned to swim here in the early 70's. we used to walk up from southwark junior school, then later i used to catch a bus along vernon road (from the shoulder of mutton as it was then, now macdonalds) going under the old railway bridge to get off at henry mellish hasn't changed much huh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Thanks for your pictures..... Stirred some memories, as I also learnt to swim there...but 20 years before you! How long has it been closed/boarded up now ? Could be 10 years, or more Are any of the older Edwardian inner-city swimming baths [Noel Street, Muskham Street, Northern Baths, Victoria Baths etc] still in use, I wonder? I can only think of the more modern structure at Beechdale, and the one at Mucky 'Uckna... Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 The mucky Ucknal baths have gone replace with a shiney new Tram car park.....went to those baths in the early seventies while i lived at Ucknal. never thought then to take a picture 'bu99er! Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Just beyond bridge was Highbury Hospital where my daughter was born. wish i had a pound for every time i passed under said bridge. i beleive too that the more recent picture was taken from Catchems corner with the pub behind one. Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zacsmum 0 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 the pictures bring back memories , we live on saxondale drive [first turning on the right under the bridge ] for 35 years Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,582 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Ayup all, Great pictures and bought back many memories of my visits to Grannies every Saturday in Bulwell, I did hear that the council sold the baths off to a storage company then rented them back for council property to be stored in???? make sense to someone I suppose Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted April 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 right on black ice! except i didnt get out my car so the catchems is sort of next to me. zacsmum, whereabouts? i had a mate who lived in the next but one house to dobby bridge. i myself lived at gayhurst green until 1979 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zacsmum 0 Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 we lived 3/4 of the way up saxondale drive facing naworth close , my son-in-law lived on gayhurst green. we lived on saxondale from 1974-1999 then we moved to the coast . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zacsmum 0 Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 hi phil box . was yor mates name robert? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted April 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 no, believe it or not his name was juan! he had an elder brother called sean. when was your son in law at gayhurst green? i lived at number 12 from about 1971 to 1979. also have you seen my standard of england thread? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zacsmum 0 Posted April 25, 2007 Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 HI PHIL, I REMEMBER THE CHAP YOU WERE ON ABOUT , HIS MUM STILL LIVES THERE, AND IV,E JUST ASK MY SON IN LAW AND GUESS WHAT THEY MOVED INTO NO 12 IN 1979. TALK ABOUT SMALL WORLD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted April 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 small world indeed! in that case do you have a son called ian? his sister moved into our old house sometime (if not directly) after us, and if so that also means me and you have met previously. does your son in law remember the rockery in the back garden? me and my dad put it together with stones "liberated" from a wall off the old railway cuttings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zacsmum 0 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 no he lived there with his mum , before he married my daughter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 i must be getting mixed up! thinking about it, if you were ians mum at that time they lived at the back of vernon park. the reason i ask is because i went babysitting in number 12 after we left, for ian's sister (juan was there too, but the girls we invited blew us out!) but this could well have been later in the early 80's. i then did'nt set foot on that estate (although i still lived local and drove by thousands of times) till a couple of yours ago when i did some work at my aunt dolls house which was on stoneycroft road. it was a saturday morning and to be back there after 25 years was quite eerie, i almost expected to hear tiswas on the tv and to see the old estate kids knocking about a life on mars moment for sure! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Now thats Nottstalgia Phil! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted May 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 plus the two lads who came by croggy-ing on a bike, one of them shouted to me "do you want a go mister!" and of course i replied "i was doing that here since before you were born kid" .........i feel so old! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dick Hatts 1 Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 I like the then and now pics. Sometimes places have changed so much it's hard to picture where it is. Not this one though. I can still just remember the railway arch there. Anyone know what the plans are for Northern Baths? It's such a unique building it'd be shocking if it were bull dozed. It's been boarded up a long time now, wonder what it's like inside. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zab 47 Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Used to go swimming there. It also used to be home to Northern Swimming Club. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 I used to go swimming there with school ( henry mellish ..just up the road )....I remember it was the first baths i ever saw with the water polo nets hanging up in the roof......got a dinner time job in the chippy just up the road too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nnsc 131 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Used to go swimming there. It also used to be home to Northern Swimming Club. zab - I've not long been on this forum so I've only just seen your post. It was indeed the home to Northern SC which started on August 27th 1908 one week after the baths opened. Some of the present day members, me included, went to have a group photo taken outside the baths exactly 100 years later. I am still in possession of the first minute book from 1908. The Club was formed by a Mr J E Pendleton who was a councillor at the time and he became the first chairman. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Photo please lets see... Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nnsc 131 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Photo please lets see...Bip. From August 27th 2008 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nnsc 131 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 From August 27th 2008 sorry couldn't get the image quality any better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fenner 1 Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Hello. In about 1949 I was a player in the Northern Baths water polo team at the moment I only have contact with one of the old players he was the Goal keeper and I know of three who have died. This is my first attempt on here so hope the information given is enough for further conversation. Enclosed, I hope, a photo of the team. Sorry no luck with photo, anybody know how I can. Mick. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Mick To post a photo in one of these threads you need to have an account (free) with one of the picture-hosting sites like Flickr or Photobucket. Set up an account there, upload your photo to it, and then link it back to here. (Not as difficult as it might sound) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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