Landseer Street Area

[admin 21]

Landseer Street mentioned by Ilko brings back memories.

I used to play round there in the mid 60's.

There were some girls round there that we used to know (in the days when girls were just mates)

There were two Sue's, (one was Sue Parnham), and another girl.

I think the Parnhams ran a shop in that area?

[ilkolad 9]

I'm not absolutely sure, but I think there was a shop on Landseer street about half way up,

I seem to recall looking in their window at some time or other.. wool/clothes ??

and talking of shops.. as a young lad I always hung my nose over a cheap plastic tractor that was in the window of a shop on Denman street.. imagine my astonishment when about 20 years later the same tractor was still there!.. turns out it was Albert the papermans shop, he'd been resisting change for as long as he could, and his window was like looking into a time warp, complete with dust.

the last time I saw him was in the eighties delivering newspapers on his bike..

I wonder what happened to him?

ilko.

[admin 21]

Shops in the area I remember. there was a papershop on the corner of Hartley Road, above Norton Street, There was an offy on the corner of a terrace below Barratts Sweets.

As a teenager I delivered for The Butcher Alfreton Road/Hartley Rd.

I can't remember his name. Before school I would peddle a bike all round

Bilborough and Asley, delivering Chine of beef etc. In all weathers dressed in a white shop coat, Rain Snow or Shine. It was freezing in the winter. I got lots of tips. Thinking back now probably cos they felt sorry for me.

[mick2me 3,033]

The Newspaper Shop at the bottom of Hartley Road above the junction of Radford Blvd. used to be owned by George Sander, who is Polish I believe.

George now owns the large newsagent shop in Sandiacre near to the Police Station Traffic Lights.

The last time I was on Hartley Road, there was still a small shop called 'Vanity Fair', just opposite the chinese take away ('Tim Fook House').

Vanity fair has been there since I was a kid.

[Mike 1]

There was a shop half way up Landseer Street, but was not used as a shop until after the late 60's because until that time my Grand Parents lived there and it was used as a house..

Mike

[Cliff Ton 10,498]

A bump of almost 7 years! Must be a record?

And it seems to have been near the present-day Landseer Close, off Garfield Road.

Located between Mozart Street and Coleridge Street - what were the town planners on when they named those places?

[mick2me 3,033]

Re George Sanders Newsagent, He no longer owns the Newsagents at Stapleford.

Saw him a few years back and he was retired and living in Sandiacre at that time.

[hotpointdave 7]

I always wondered what happened to George and where he went, I think he was still in the newsagent on Garfield road when we left because our houses were being demolished. Really pleased to hear that he is alive and kicking though.