Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 It's a nice sunny day today in the real world, and the photo in this link looks sunny and rural and idyllic. Assuming you haven't seen it before, any ideas where it is? The location today has changed beyond belief Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Owdtite 2 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 At a wild guess I would say Basford, somewhere around Southwark Street??? Ok, I did say it was a wild guess!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Edwards Lane? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Vernon Road? There is a railway to the left, and if the sun is in the south, the shadows indicate the people are walking to the northwest! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 the Fosse Way? ............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,874 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 I would guess Edwards Lane too Katy. Looks like the bridge over the Leen before the Five Ways was built. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Vernon Road? Surely Vernon Road is flat throughout its length? I'd guess Cinderhill Road, heading out towards Bulwell... Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 I believe it to be Derby Road Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 me too...Derby Rd..bramcote end Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted September 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Sorry for the delay. I did it at work in a quiet moment; then work got in the way and I couldn't reply Edwards Lane it is. Five Ways is just behind the tree on the right, ring-road goes across left to right, and City Hospital would be up ahead As far as I can work out, this is where you'd be today. And I know which one I'd prefer to be walking in Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,874 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 The house on the left is still there. One to Katyjay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Drove down Google street, but cant identify the house. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted September 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Drove down Google street, but cant identify the house. I'd wondered..., the one on the old photo with the smoking chimney, is it this one on Google today? It doesn't look old enough here http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Daybrook,+United+Kingdom&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.144864,76.992187&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Daybrook,+Nottingham,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.990197,-1.150239&spn=0.003546,0.013486&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.99008,-1.150181&panoid=5oIGq5ECQ_azW2xytKC-lw&cbp=12,279.4,,0,5.93 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Then the first new picture is wrong side of the Ring Road? Upward gradient on your G.Streets link makes more sense? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 I would have said a bit further forward Cliff Ton..The brickwork does look like a bridge over the stream which puts it closer to the present day pub.On old maps that house is marked as 'lodge' It also shows the stream as being a small lake at that point.The area was called Daybrook Vale.With Daybrook Vale Farm a few hundred yards up the road.In the sixties I used to live where the farm was, and the postal address then was just Sherwood. In 1959 a bungalow was being built next door and they uncovered a horse skeleton.We were astounded to see guys in white overalls collecting soil samples.They couldn't work out why the horse was buried and not sent to the knackers yard.It seems they were checking for signs of anthrax in the soil.Nothing was found and they surmised that the horse was a family pet so was buried instead of being sent to the knackers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted September 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 I'm wondering now. On the old photo, the road is still going downhill, and I agree my first modern image should probably be on the other side of the roundabout going towards Bestwood But then the current house which I though might be the same as the old one, is definitely on an up-hill; but it doesn't look far enough up the hill on the old photo So I'm not sure of anything Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Hope nobody minds my putting these on of Edwards lane...Can't work out where the high sandstone used to be.One of the pictures shows a lakeside house that I believe is where the pub now stands.Edit...Picture the past confirms the lake was where the pub now stands..It belonged to a nurseryman called Mee...My mothers maiden name...I wonder???? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted September 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 And now I've just raided Old Maps and come up with this 1900 version of the area, which I appreciate is similar to the one poohbear posted a few minutes ago. But note the "Lodge" in the center of the map. That must be the building which keeps cropping up in all of these photos Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Magic!! That puts the lake at the back of the pub...I wonder if those nursery fields belonged to the lakeside house? If those pictures with the sandstone cutting are back up the hill towards Sherwood?...then they must've moved a hell of a lot of rock to build the housing estate. All in all it looks like a cracking area to live in those days...provided you weren't in the workhouse of course. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 The sandstone cutting pictures look a lot like Redhill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Very similar.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Look alot like the lane at the back of Balloon Woods too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Look alot like the lane at the back of Balloon Woods too. i agree with you Kev, looks like moor lane cutting at the side of the Bramcote Hills school, looking towards balloon woods and coventry lane Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted September 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 How about the bit of Hucknall Road near the junction with Perry Road.. Like this..... Hucknall rd It's closer to Edwards Lane Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 I reckon Picture the Past have cocked up...those pics are Hucknall Road I reckon not Edwards lane.I can't see they would move thousands of tons of stone to create the look of this modern picture.Hucknall Road looks just like those old pics just below Perry road...or would have done before road widening.Is Hucknall road in existence on that old map of yours Cliff Ton?? But there again Hucknall road isn't dead straight like those old pics...today it bears to the left as it starts to climb the other side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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