poohbear 1,360 Posted May 28, 2012 Report Share Posted May 28, 2012 That Austin truck is a 60s collectors piece now.It had a 'step in easy cab' where the doors were angled backwards...when the delivery driver opened his door it just stuck out from the bodywork 2 inches...a good safety feature for regular stop/start vehicles. I must have driven one of the first in Nottingham for Crawfords Biscuits...it's livery was red and white stripes over the whole body...boy! did that stand out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 28, 2012 Report Share Posted May 28, 2012 I like the 'up-skirt' window in the lower part of the cab. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted May 28, 2012 Report Share Posted May 28, 2012 Not many lorry drivers wore skirts in the 60's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 28, 2012 Report Share Posted May 28, 2012 Maybe not , but their passengers did - Phwoar! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Sadly none of the features of the building have been carefully removed and preserved? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 nope just torn down, wonder what eyesore will appear there now. ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Bearing in mind the area, I'd bet quite a bit of money the site will become "student accommodation" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 The trucks were nicknamed "The Threppeny bit" due to their shape , all lumps and bumps all over the place !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Was that the type of cab that was The DJs Box in 'The Mill' bottom of Hockley? A Davenports truck if I remember right? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 That's the one Mick. I had the pleasure to spin a few platters on the 'wheels of steel' (Yes indeedy doo!) in there on a few occations when my mate was double booked. They used to pay well too. IMMSC it was a hundred and fifty quid for the Friday/Saturday night , which was quite a few bob back in the late 80's (More than I was getting driving a lorry for 48 hours a week !) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Those were the days Ian. Remember the lasers that used to draw shapes on the walls and ceilings? How could a pub like that ever close down? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 I remember The Mill, as well as Browns Wine Bar, as being the two businesses that really initiated the kicking of Hockley and the Lace Market back to life in the early eighties. I used to wander over Hockley to see the newly-reformed Nottingham Panthers from 1989 and the area seemed quite dead as far as night life was concerned. I also worked on Plumptre St in the Lace Market at that time. Suddenly people were walking over from pubs which were 'on the route' in the centre of town, over that way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 The last time i was in "The Mill" was June 5th 1999 on my 'Stag night' It had become 'Gay Bar' . So that could explain it's demise !! We did all the pubs down Hockley that night , Browns, The Nelson, (Complete with it's famous well) and of corse The George Hotel, I was rather tiddly by home time !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 A few days ago I went past the site, and here's a few photos which update those of taxiray a few months ago Radford Baths as they are now A bit further down the road Top end of Highurst Street with the ugly office block and Forest Mill Forest Mill, a bit further down Highurst Street Further down, and looking inside the old Forest Mill Round the other side looking in to Forest Mill. from Thackery Street/Boden Street Looking like avant-garde art, one of the small tower blocks off Highurst Street about to be demolished 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Very sad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Just one point... it's not Radford Mill...it's Forest Mill. Radford Mill is between Garden Street and Norton Street further down Ilkeston Road. Radford Mill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Just one point... it's not Radford Mill...it's Forest Mill. Radford Mill is between Garden Street and Norton Street further down Ilkeston Road. You're right, and I should've known . I've changed it now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 I hope I find out before Radford Mill disappears...There was an old beam engine in there that powered the whole mill....wonder if it still is? The clatter of the belts running the machines must have made a helluva racket in their heyday. Generations of Nottingham folks working in there since 1850...they must have looked forward to their holiday week each year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Poohbear's Streetview image in #41 has a few memories for me. It's Garden Street, Radford, and moving a bit further along, as in this view....... ...the inset area where the cars are parked used to contain a row of terraced houses. I had two elderly aunts lived in one, and I just about remember visiting the place, and being aware of how their house seemed to be surrounded by factories. Even by Victorian standards, the industrial parts were close to the domestic parts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 25, 2012 Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 The modern part of The mill, Jersey Kapwood, had a car lift/carpark in it, like an elongated big wheel. I have this in my mind as it was being built? I lived opposite above Dewhurst's butchers around 1964? Or did I dream it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
beamerr 1 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Here are a couple of shots taken inside Radford Baths in, I think, 1976 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Poohbear's Streetview image in #41 has a few memories for me. It's Garden Street, Radford, and moving a bit further along, as in this view....... ...the inset area where the cars are parked used to contain a row of terraced houses. I had two elderly aunts lived in one, and I just about remember visiting the place, and being aware of how their house seemed to be surrounded by factories. Even by Victorian standards, the industrial parts were close to the domestic parts Our house on Bloomsgrove st used to back on to the terraced houses on Garden st, I remember you could see part of them through the scullery window. Its all a far cry from the cobbled st with its gas lamposts that I roamed as a child Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MELTONSTILTON 452 Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I worked in Radford mill for J.B Armstrong and co, from 1972 to 1976, as a cutter on the 3rd floor, it was a good place to work and full of places to hide if you wanted to skive off for a few minutes We finished work at 5pm, but I had to catch my bus in Broadmarsh at 5:22pm I used to run like a mad man to Alfreton road and catch a bus to the city, outside Gagg & Sons then I walked very quickley to Broadmarsh to get my bus to Langar. The bus fares were 2p for the NCT bus and 18p to Langar . How far whould you get for that today , or has any one got an Idea what you would pay today ?.............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 Meltonstilton, I lived in Langar from 1968-75, where did you live there? [it's not that big, you couldn't have been far away from me!] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MELTONSTILTON 452 Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 I lived in Earl Howe Cresent, I might have been your paper boy, I deliverd The Evening post from 1966 to 1970 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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