Blondie 1,392 Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 I was born in 1945 and can remember the old Hucknall High Street, starting with he Co op at the bottom of Station Road, next door was Allsebrooks newsagents run by Roy and his mother Mrs Cupit, next door was a dry cleaners which closed down and became Skeavington and Payne Electricals, then Sarah Bodill hairdressers, Butler's bread shop, a couple more shops, a Tobacconists, s Chip Shop, Flossie Brown's hairdresser's and a hardware shop, a twitchel, then an old furniture shop, Mettams Yard, Hartwell fruit/veg shop which eventually moved up the town, a sweet shop, later became a wool shop - The Chequers Pub, Dewhurst butchers, then Hartwell's....Wollaton Street, Barclay's Bank, Shoe shop, Mussons, 3 small shops which stood back off the road, Bobs fruit shop, Paddy Griffin, Barbers, Raymond Payne dentist a big old house.......A cooked meat shop, which later became Fords, the entrance to the YMCA, which became a dancing school, then Fords, then Woolworth's, Albert Street, Mrs Peppers, which Boots took over, Crawley Jewellers, Frank Sisson, a Bank, Rose's shoe shop, a man's Shop, Titchfield Street....Red Lion Pub, another row of shops, Teeds Opticians, a Solicitors, a dress shop with a bus stop in front. Brown's Bread shop, another shop, The Beehive Stores, another small cooked meats shop which later became an Estate Agents and round the corner to Baker Street................. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted April 6, 2018 Report Share Posted April 6, 2018 I remember a day when the baker at Brown's forgot to put any salt in the main dough mix of the day. Almost caused a riot of angry Hucknall housewives complaining that their kids and husband couldn't eat their tea as the bread was so dreadful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john parko 0 Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 i was born on vine terrace.no one has mentioned the indoor market where the spot on snooker club is.it was opened by stan stennet from crossroads early 80s i think,also can anyone remember wendys fruit n veg shop at bottom of duke street now converted back to a house Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoffrey Dennis 124 Posted February 23, 2019 Report Share Posted February 23, 2019 I was born on Albert St in 1943 and the shop on the corner opposite Woolworths for the first 7 or 8 years of my life was Shaws the Butchers with a small slaughter house at the rear. Can not remember who took the premises over from Shaws. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john parko 0 Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 On 2/18/2019 at 10:34 PM, IAN123. said: I can't recall the snooker venue Parko..i worked at Presto..used to drink with Rip..wine Bar was a top spot! snooker club is still going on vine terrace.wine bar was good so was lord byron pub sadly now derelict and half fell down Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 827 Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 Can anyone remember a shoe repair shop i think on Watnall rd. Hucknall the owner was Sid Wapplington this would be in the early 60s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 I think I remember a cobblers on Watnall Rd just down from the Baptist church and George Attenborough's barbers shop (very odd cuss he was!). I can't remember the name of the person who ran it but I do remember the odd construct of the place where you opened the door and you were immediately met with several steps up to the counter where the cobbling actually took place. Timewise, this would be late '50s - early '60s. Not much help, I know but it might jog a few memories. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 Another thing I've remembered about the cobblers is that they had and mechanical model of a cobbler hammering at a shoe in the window. About one foot to eighteen inches high. It use to fascinate me as a youngster. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 968 Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 4 hours ago, jonab said: Another thing I've remembered about the cobblers is that they had and mechanical model of a cobbler hammering at a shoe in the window. About one foot to eighteen inches high. It use to fascinate me as a youngster. There is one of these old little cobbler display figures, hammering away in a cobblers window at West Bridgeford. Saw it the other day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 558 Posted January 13, 2020 Report Share Posted January 13, 2020 Can also remember Wapplingtons, my dad always used them. Never thought George Attenborough was odd Jonab, I went there for years either getting a cut from George or his assistant John Haskey who later opened his own shop on Broomhill Road. I always admired the model aircraft hanging from the ceiling in George Attenborough's shop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted January 14, 2020 Report Share Posted January 14, 2020 As I remember him, George Attenborough was ex-military (RAF, from the models on the ceiling?) and seemed to think that I (a 12 or 13 year old) had the same interests/obsessions as he did and droned on constantly about his military days. That's why I thought him odd. Perhaps I was wrong. I didn't go to Attenborough for very long as I was able to get a discount/ free haircut from Pat Griffin on the High Street. He was a sort of relation through marriage - Pat Griffin was the brother of Jack Griffin who was married to my aunt Dorothy who, in turn was the mother of John Griffin who has a few mentions in these pages. In regard to George Attenborough's assistants, I went to school with Micky Punter who started work there in 1959 - 60. Any recollections? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 827 Posted February 21, 2020 Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 Hi Blondie, the Reynolds offices where you worked in the offices did they make furniture? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 827 Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Is the Masons Arms still at Hucknall near Ruffs est. Annnie Holgate school and a road they called the Black Pad always seemed scarey my friend lived on Avon Ave. across from the runway at the aerodrome but he passed away a few years ago.As kids we would walk from Nuthall across the fields and through the woods to Bulwell springs on the Bulwell side of the runway to catch tadpoles we also went on that side of the runway to watch great airshows no crowds on that side with a better view one time the military police came over to us thought he was going tell us clear off but all he wanted to do was sell us a programme but being just kids had no money. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,099 Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Masons Arms is no longer there Ian it;s now Tesco or Sainsburys not sure which bottom of Nabbs lane is either Tesco or Sainsburys, black pad also gone. Did you go to Masons when Cottee's kept it ? Marks motor spares still there. Roll's Royce now gone all testing bed now full of new house's. All that's left is Rolls Royce social club. Watnall Road just passed Avon Ave on Watnall Rd two new roundabouts, must admit when i go back to Hucknall can't get use to the roundabouts. Not sure if you can still get from Watnall Road from Ruffs est to Bulwell. Reynolds factory gone, next to go fire station bottom Ruffs Drive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 497 Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Sainsburys on the Masons site, Co-op next door; https://www.google.com/maps/@53.026167,-1.2191823,3a,75y,332.19h,89.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sS3Kj-osnO7d8OAHKrY-hqw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trogg 2,032 Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Hucknall fire station has gone moved to next to National School on Annesley Road, with the Ambulance Station and Police. New developments include 100s of houses on the farm land on the right as you leave Hucknall on the way to Newstead. As this land is in Gedling District Council its going to be a new "village" and not Part of Hucknall. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,099 Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 trogg can you remember when they said Hucknall would never join up with Bulwell. well it did. After the Zoo and Fine Fair wet there was no holding the council. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 497 Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 They didn't join up, look there's the green belt between them; 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,099 Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 OH! why did I not think of that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 827 Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Hi sallyshoes the Reynolds offices where you worked in the offices did they make furniture? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 827 Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Mary i did not know Cottees at the Mason Arms i was last there a couple of times in 1964 i would not know Hucknall at all if i come back for a visit i will need a map sorry to see the aerodrome gone thanks Ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,099 Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Hi Ian lived in Hucknall in the 70s I was one of the protested that went against the by-pass, after going to an iner-city school I thought Annie Holgate campus had every facility for sport you could wish for. The road was built to take the pit lorry's out of the town, after the road was built Maggie closed the pit's. My boys would go and play up the woods near Mist-skills hills, then Nabbs Lane came along with all the new developments , Robin Hood line, Tram and the nail in the coffin TESCO!!! My boys still live in Hucknall, would I like to go back and live there? not sure although I do miss it. Still have a lot of friends there. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,234 Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 I remember my first job, back in 1958, I had to attend Hucknall further education centre, when i joined the N.C.B. It was just below the Byron cinema, next door to, I think what was the police station. If memory serves me correct, there were about 3 or 4 prefab wooden buildings. Had to do week about between there and Hucknall no.1 pit. Seem to think it was about a six week training before going to Bestwood pit. I worked on the screens and bath house until I were 16 and old enough to work underground. Nowt to do with the thread, but just thought I'd chuck it in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trogg 2,032 Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 I started same as you Beekay but in 1962 at top pit , then the FEC, also at Arnold and Carlton FE on Digby Avenue. Then good old Bestwood Pit the good old days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,234 Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Hiya Trogg, when we went to work up at top pit, we were told that as we were the first group to train there we would be developing the training area, including a pretend coal face. Another thing was when it were our week at F.E.C., we used to have a gym lesson, as well as first aid. This was done after a short walk onto Watnall road to what was a church building, I think. Even after all these many years and lots of first aid courses, I still use methods I were taught back in the day. It's always stood me in good stead. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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