Thomas 11 Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Thanks, Thomas. You say that you have stories that will make our hair curl. Well, we are all interested in hearing what you have to say.. It may save some of us going to the hairdresser at the weekend...lol. Well said Michael...... I like it lol Some of my experiences did certainly make my hair curl......... or was it all the bread crusts I was forced to eat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 That's what you get for loafing about. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nice1rose 0 Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 hi. i have just joined the forum. i was trying to start research into hartley rd homes and school and came across this thread while doing so. i lived at the home approx. 1946 to 1956 and attended the school. although possibley slightly ahead of him the post from danny explained a lot to me about the set up at the homes. i was in the girls only but just down the end of a long corridor were the boys. we were looked after by an uncle john and aunty homes/holmes?. they had a baby son called jeremy who i had to rock to sleep before going into the band room to watch a film or something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley Evans 0 Posted January 18, 2021 Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 Hi Guys, thus is Ashley who is referred to in the conversation above. My parents were house parents at Welbeck House and Woolaton House. i guess we must have been there from about 1951 to 1961 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,552 Posted January 18, 2021 Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 Welcome to Nottstalgia Ashley. It's always interesting when someone revives an old thread. None of the people who made the previous posts have been back here for several years so they may not see your comment, but if you have any more stories we'd be glad to hear them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rich A 1 Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 My name is Richard l was in Hartley Rd homes when l was 10 years old and knew Ashley and his parents who we had to call Ma and Pa l was there for about 2 years Lots of stories to tell 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,268 Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 Welcome to Nottstalgia RichA. You should have some interesting memories to share. I lived near Hartley Road home, off Denman Street, passed it many times on me way to the Windsor cinema. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,401 Posted January 11, 2022 Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 Welcome from me, too, RichA. I remember passing the home every week as a child. Looking forward to hearing your memories. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,401 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 Hartley Road is in the national news today for all the wrong reasons. Discovery of two deceased females who, according to the police, have been deceased for some time. There's a photo of Hartley Road as it is today. In the main, the buildings are those that were there in my childhood but everywhere looks much scruffier. My childhood heart throb lived on Hartley Road. He was easily the most intelligent boy at Berridge but, alas, my passion was unrequited. Wonder what became of him? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-69047416 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,268 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 Just had a look at the picture in your link Jill. That is not the Hartley road home I remember. Your link just shows a row of council terraced houses. As for your heart throb, what happened to him? I'm here ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,401 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 I remember the old Hartley Road Children's Home, Beekay. It was on the corner of Hartley Road and Norton Street. It's long gone. The tower block in the distance is also fairly recent but, apart from that, the Victorian buildings remain much the same. The terraced houses look to be on the site of the former children's home and posstibly where this tragedy of the deceased has occurred. No idea what happened to Christopher. He had a lucky escape and perhaps I did, too, but we were only eleven!! Edited to add that the picture Beekay saw is not the one BBC News was originally displaying. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,552 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 The house in the story seems to be on the corner of Trafalgar Close. https://maps.app.goo.gl/SjUzJnLPzVEcrUMP8 Most of that side of Hartley Road has been 'modernised', whereas most of the other side has survived, albeit looking much scruffier than previously. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,681 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 My mother always threatened to have me put in there every time I misbehaved when I was little, frightened the life out of me, both the thought of being put in a home and my mother, (I didn't have a very happy childhood) Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,401 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 That's awful Roger. Mind you, my parents threatened to send me to boarding school if I didn't stop moaning about Manning! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,681 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 I was vice chair of the governors at Manning in the late 80'searly 90's but when it was on Robins wood road not the one that you were forced to attend Jill Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,401 Posted May 22 Report Share Posted May 22 It was a very different place by then, Roger. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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