Compo 10,328 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 The tattoo studio used to be a Maypole grocery store. The pharmacy used to be a newsagents. I think the Abacus was once a hairdressers or perhaps butchers and around the corner was a sweet shop, next to the hosiery factory. Hammond's garage, where my dad used to park his van overnight in a locked compound, used to sell Cleveland petrol. He bought a Ford Anglia 7cwt van from them and my brother and I saw it in front of the showroom before he collected it. We were gaping into the interior with excitement (I was about 10yrs old at the time) when a bloke came out and chased us off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,483 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 the Nell Gwynne pub on Oxlcose Lane! It had such a distinctive illuminated sign. This might be as good as it gets http://pubimages1.pu...pia.me/7940.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 The sign that caused the fuss was just out of sight to the right of the picture. It was a jolly, smiling woman, wearing a low-cut dress and carrying a basket of oranges. She was offering an orange in a seductive pose. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 The tattoo studio used to be a Maypole grocery store. The pharmacy used to be a newsagents. I think the Abacus was once a hairdressers or perhaps butchers and around the corner was a sweet shop, next to the hosiery factory. As I remember it there was a barber shop 'Rex's' to the right of the pharmacy and just to the right of that there was a newsagent (where I'd queue for my Football Post on a Saturday evening with much anticipation!) I remember the sweet shop around the corner. Was there also a little greengrocer there somewhere? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Re: #173, Ford Anglia car. There was a time when it seemed every other car on the road was a Ford Anglia; its revolutionary design was what sold it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Hey Compo - as Stu already knows, I was born at the back of the Wagon & Horses at Redhill! No, not at the back of the pub, but at 26 Lodge Farm Lane - the road that runs parallel to Mansfield Road behind the pub. In those days there was a footpath from Lodge Farm Lane to the pub! This is the house - left side, upstairs original window was where I was born! https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Redhill,+Nottingham,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=53.012724,-1.131444&spn=0.001468,0.00306&sll=42.441492,-83.681801&sspn=0.01441,0.024483&oq=Redhill,+No&hnear=Redhill,+Nottinghamshire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.012807,-1.131404&panoid=iQg-xJQA_NrrcFENuEKXhg&cbp=12,115.86,,0,6.07 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 The greengrocer rings a bell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Do you remember a pond near a farm just up from the Waggon? I seem to remember a "Private Fishing" sign and steep embankments. This would be about 1960. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 A thought just crossed my mind - didn't take long - it's only tiny. There was once a tip on the left hand side (Going up the hill) of Calverton Road, Arnold. Wasn't there a pub just before the tip? Around the area where the No.20 bus terminated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Compo - the pond at Redhill was Gadsby's pond - much beloved of newt collectors! It was just behind their old farm house, the original 'Guide House'. I'm pretty sure that both Eric and myself fell in it as youngsters (it's a rite of passage thing in these parts!) The pub on Calveron Road you describe is still there, it's called The Longbow. There was also one further towards the centre of Arnold on the other side called The Seven Stars. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Here's Gadsby's farm house. The pond was round the back near the yard in the first pic. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCG000174&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCG000172&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Here's The Seven Stars. The PTP description says it's license was transferred to The Longbow. I recall it's old license Keith Robins who kept The Flying Horse on High Street for many years afterwards. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCC002368&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 The seven stars was where my grandfather used to drink before he became a teetotaler and joined the Good Templar movement. The longbow, as I recall, was a newish pub with little character. Gadsby's was the name I was looking for. I wonder if it was a natural pond or man-made? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Think it was man made. They also had a couple of ponds near the Lea Pool Roundabout for irrigation which are still there. Gadsby's were a large farming family. Had an aunt married one of them and lived on Lodge Farm Lane, quite near where Eric (Limey) would have lived. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Yes - back then our house was the last one on Lodge Farm Lane. Next to us was one of Gadsby's fields, then the field with the pond (at the back of the farm) - which I fell into! At that time, Lodge Farm Lane was unpaved and ended at the field with a footpath that ran along the west edge of the field, then turned west and ran behind the houses on Roscoe Avenue (where my uncle lived). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 I was born at the back of the Wagon & Horses at Redhill! No, not at the back of the pub, but at 26 Lodge Farm Lane I could not see the plaque from street view Eric? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Ha, bloody ha! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 March Hare pub carlton road, thurs nights strippers[female] just 20p to get in what a night, many years ago Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Rats - I didn't see the last three words! I was on my way south just then. !yowza! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 March Hare pub carlton road, thurs nights strippers[female] just 20p to get in what a night, many years ago What decorators in while the pub was still serving who put up the new paper? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 Nottingham was my stamping ground from the alte 70s to the late 80s. I certainly recall the Flying Horse, and one bar was predominantly gay, but I cant recall anything near homophobic trouble. Warrows of course, with the cider which had twigs in it! White Horse on Oxclose Lane had probably the closest thing to an American Drive -in and was full of posh totty. Boarded up now. The Wheatsheaf on the bottom of BobbersMill Bridge. Always a sociable place, but looks like its going to close. The Old General at the top end of Bobbers Mill Road. Again sadly boarded up. I never particularly liked the Owd G. I preferred the Clock on Birkin Avenue. Remarkably the Clock is relatively intact and unchanged. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 White Horse on Oxclose Lane had probably the closest thing to an American Drive -in and was full of posh totty. Boarded up now. The White Hart at the junction of Mansfield Road and Oxclose Lane, Daybrook? Now a pile of rubble. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 I don't remember a White Horse? I think Stu is right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 I don't remember a White Horse? I think Stu is right. Yes the White Hart..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 re anagrams, someone I knew had a habit of arranging the "beer clothes" on the bar so as to cover certain letters in SHIPSTONES to annoy the landlady at The Fox and Crown Old Basford! not guilty! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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