digger2347 3 Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Does anyone remember Clayton Square Radford? It was a yard off Mitchell St /Hornbuckle st, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 i remember clayton square close to what we called the brassy rec. in radford. terrible living conditions even back then in the early fifties think i mentioned it on another thread "did you live in radford" block of tenaments built around a courtyard one tap in the middle to serve all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
digger2347 3 Posted May 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 ye thats the place near to the Brassy me mam used to buy our clothes off the ragmen on the brassy . by the way yes i was born in radford in Clayton Square 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 hi digger people wouldn,t believe what it was like back then, did you go to douglas school, i remember jimmy flowers lived up that way somewhere also terry gough, dave sharp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
digger2347 3 Posted May 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Hi, yes i did go to Douglas school,,and yes i know Jimmy flowers very well ,saw him last week on Broxtowe lane the other ,2 names ring a bell with me also Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 yes we were all moved out to the houseing estates sooner or later, we moved from bloomsgrove st to clifton around 55 the ellis twins from a few doors down moved to broxtowe, wasn,t poundalls yard just above the brassy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
digger2347 3 Posted May 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 yes Poundalls was close to the brassy, next to the old Windmill pub on Alfreeton rd, both od my granmars and 3 aunties lived on Bloomsgrove st, small world hey !! and i remember the Ellis twins Johnny Bull etc ,, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 yes digger it is a small world, you might remember the bulls old dog then "jock" always sat outside the house, all the neighbours would take him bones after sunday dinner. about 2 years after moving to clifton i was fishing with a net and jamjar where the fairham brook runs into the trent near clifton bridge who should i see there but the ellis twins, the bulls had brought them down fishing and camping, they couln,t believe i lived there as they were still on bloomsgrove then. that was the last time i saw them. jimmy flowers claim to fame was his studded boots all the other kids would be jealous when hed go sparking down the corsey. happy memories! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
digger2347 3 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 yes happy memories, makes me smile when i read these msgs ,,i`ve got a few pics of Clayton Sq, when ive sussed out how to put them on here i will for you to have a look at 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 11 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Hi !! I was born at 4 Clayton Square 25 nov 1943,I was put into Hartley Rd childerens home at the age of 2 or 3 cant remember exactly, but i did go back to have a look somewhere around the 1950s as my Dad still lived there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Hi Thomas hats off to anyone who was born in Clayton Sq and survived. I would only be two when you went back to visit in 1950 but I remember there were still people living there in the mid fifties when my family left Radford. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,449 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 I'd not heard of it before, so decided to have a look. Not much remains from this 1950s map, so I hope it brings back a few memories for the ex-residents And even a photo of it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Many thanks for posting the map Cliff ton even though its just a square I can see the house where I was born on Bloomsgrove St. often wondered where the grill window from the scullery looked out onto, always thought it was Garden St but now I see it was Garden Terrace. I was less than seven years old when we left there but still remember the families and what the places on the map were. I see the letters PR just north west of Clayton sq could this mean "public recreation" as I'm sure that was the "brassy rec". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,449 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 As I said, I had no idea where Clayton Square was before I looked for this, so when I found it I was surprised to find its an area I have a link with. I had two aunts who lived in Garden Street from the mid 1940s until the mid 1960s when the place was demolished, and I visited them when I was a kid in those later years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Seeing the image jogged my memory, I saw one similar but from older times downstairs at Nottingham Castle only a year ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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