Michael Booth 7,364 Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 I think you need to go for a lay down, FLY2. It's not like you to be so grumpy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 I've only been happy the last hour. Cheeky. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJBrenton 738 Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 Back in 2002 I did a night djing in Kuala Lumpur. In a pedestrian area there was a pond with massive koi carp. Had it been in Nottingham, it would have Bern Fairy Liquided or the dish would have disappearred. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 #224 I've not been to Antibes - yet! - but I saw similar fountains in Malta, I think it was Valetta. They are amazing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redbowen 131 Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 Yes it was in Valetta.I saw them last year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 What is the foliage situation in the Square? Blinkin fountains and Tate modern tat..there is nowhere to sit comfortably. I would have thought that with all the business rates and peoples taxes etc...that it would be nice to park 'yer bum and have a lunchtime sarnie. If I want to look at slime and green lichen.. Bulwell Bogs and the Leen call! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 I can remember when my wife and I first got together. She was working in the City Centre and we'd meet up in the Square for lunch most days. It was lovely to sit in the Market Square in the sunshine. It was a really pleasant place to be when they had plenty of places to sit, the fountains and beautiful flowers everywhere. Today, it's like a place where the North Koreans would do their marching practice. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,511 Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 That's a great description of the Square Michael. So lacking in 'personality' and evidently laid out like that in order to accommodate everything that the Mellors family wish to put there throughout the year. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Sure its been posted before (mods please delete if so) quite fascinating http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-old-market-square-1951/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 I rather liked this picture. Nottingham Market Place 1925. Looks like a hive of activity. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 No sand pit or kids amusements thank goodness. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 wasn't there a time in the past that nottingham was known as the queen of the midlands, well the bloody crown has slipped a bit, now on me own have had the chance to go to Nottingham, looked up the old places i used to go to, all gone, market sq. more like crap sq. traffic routes, round the town, bloody circus, will be going today to look at Trinity Sq. not looking forward to it, truly thank christ for Nottstalgias lovely friends with their brilliant historic picture posts of old Notts. i know we have to keep up with modern times but do these so called clever planners, councillors etc. ever take a walk around the city and compare it with say 50 years ago, morons, spending squillions of quid on cheap tat turning the queen of the midlands into the tart of the midlands, as they say, disgusted of Notts. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,468 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 will be going today to look at Trinity Sq. not looking forward to it, Don't go !!!! It's not there. What you'll see will depress you; just remember how it used to be because I guarantee that will be better. It has been "modernised" to a point where it's been ruined beyond belief. Look at this thread and then go somewhere else. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9431 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 i dont want to go, when i was a kid always kept saying to mam, dont wanna go, she's say, goin to central market, dont wanna go, goin to denman st. shopping, dont wanna go, goin to well anywhere, everywhere, in nottingham, me, dont wanna go, well WHISHED id bloody gone now, can hear her now, told yer so, knew you ought to have gone, now its all gone. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted July 3, 2016 Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 radfordred, #240, what a picture, bloody brilliant, late wife worked in the office at Griffins, her first job after leaving school, what would have been the building between the Griffins buildings, behind the Ford Popular. thanks for the pic anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
freckles 196 Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Been in town this morning had to skirt round the square couldn't avoid it ,what an abomination should never have been allowed and now they making a "seaside again" rubbish. Don't know if this has been asked before but what happened to all the beautiful stone that they ripped up or very carefully removed ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Nicely situated in some councillors large garden I suspect. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
freckles 196 Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Thats what I suspected as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Erected and landscaped by council workers during their working week of course. And at the taxpayers expense I might add, or am I just being cynical as usual? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim in the North East 200 Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 I have posted these before - but here are some early 20th century postcards of the Market Square: 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,468 Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 And to keep the theme going....a fairly close-up view of the Exchange; demolished to make way for the Council House. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 In postcard 2 is that The Mikado about to be built? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 Erected and landscaped by council workers during their working week of course. And at the taxpayers expense I might add, or am I just being cynical as usual? Perish the thought.... However, I must say that I agree. The square has been turned into a boring flat space which just happens to be a bit handy for renting out to commercial operatives for whatever. My fondest memories are of the time in the mid-late 60s when it was just a meeting place. Somewhere to sit. Somewhere for the campaigners and the recruters and the plain barmy to stand on a pedestal and spout their particular version of the truth. Somewhere for the community to gather in their city. It was fun. But then.. I took this a year or so back. It was fun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim in the North East 200 Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 In postcard 2 is that The Mikado about to be built? If you Google old photos of the Mikado cafe you will see it had a pitched roof gable procting onto Long Row. So I think the Mikado is the building to the right of the bulding site and that the building under construction is an extension to Griffin and Spalding Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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