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Welcome to Nottstalgia, Happy Jack. I hope that your posts are going to be as good as your last two. I had to smile when I saw your name because it brought back memories of when I had lots of foster k

For me, the 'Ainsley Estate' thread sums up what Nottstalgia is all about and what a great site it is. On the 3rd November 2008, riff, who lived on the Ainsley Estate until 1994, asked if anybody had

Hi Radford Boy..I lived at 63 Vale Crescent South from 1961 to 70...Ann Crowley and her sister lived next door to me and John Dudley lived next door but one..knew Russ as well..he was in the police fo

I remember the Scales, John Dudley, Russel Palethorpe, Chris Morley, Pat Crowley and Sandra Talbot.

I lived at 44. I remember the shops on AInsley Road and also the Coop. We used to hang out there sometimes in the evening.

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I discovered this site purely by accident but it does make interesting reading. I used to live in Holbeck Road but had friends on the estate. I used to spend a lot of time hanging round the shops on Grassington Road - there was a large Co-op, a ewsagent (owned by an ex Forest Player?) and a grocers I think. Was the grocers called Bradbury's. I also remember the beer off.

I don't suppose anyone has any photos of that area from its heyday that they could post on here do they?

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Welcome to Nottstalgia jamesrob1. You may not be aware of this site http://www.pictureth...rg.uk/index.php which is where alot of the photos come from.

For your particular interest, it has a few showing what I think may be the newsagent you refer to on Grassington Road

http://www.pictureth...019410&prevUrl=

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http://www.pictureth...019408&prevUrl=

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An amazing thread. I was born at 2 Vale Crescent North in 1960, and one of the photos above shows the house, and even the window of the room in which I was born.

I moved away to Sawley, aged four, in 1965, but the whole local area is deeply etched in my mind. The smell of raw tobacco takes me straight back to St Peters Street and Hartley Road! I wandered far and wide, much to my family's concern, even getting to the laundry on Canterbury Road, near the Player's Bonded Store on Ilkeston Road. I'd seen the chimney and wanted to know what it was attached to. And I used to play on the waste ground now occupied by Beechdale Baths.

I used to love going to the library at the end of Beechdale Road, as my mum used to borrow the small "Thomas The Tank Engine " books and read them to me. We went through the whole set.

Names from the estate are Tomlinson (next door to us, The Goviers), Pugsley (soot from chimney sweeping dumped in the back garden), Smith (a family opposite our house with several members all working at Players, walking to work separately, in line, six feet apart). Gloria Morley (a friend of my sister, Jean). Paul Ganney. Mrs Parkes. Alison Maddocks. Aubrey Moult.

The beer-off was "Wilsons" as far as I recall. The Co-Op should be a listed building for it's design alone!

Bill Allen, father of MP Graham Allen, was a cousin of my mum's, and lived not far up Beechdale Road. Graham's mum described him as "bright red" in his political views. His grandma, "Auntie Maud", use to drink a quart of Shipstone's Nut Brown every night, bought home in a reusable bottle having been drawn at a local beer-off.

I went back a few years ago and took some photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/point_and_click/2265053203/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/point_and_click/2265047945/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/point_and_click/2265047943/in/photostream/

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Welcome Hark at it!

You can embed those images in your post.

Regarding Ainsley Estate, did anyone know a Polish lad down there, Tony Opala?

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Did you know Georgie Wood,? ginger lad,worked with him in the 60s.

or the 'Smith' brothers,famous for ru nning Radford ameteur Boxing club

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