Help with this Radford photo (PLAYERS RADFORD)


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A couple of years ago I downloaded this image of Radford. It is quite low resolution (I reduced it a bit more for uploading here). I think it was from Picture the past as I can't think where else its from. I would now like to order the full size image as it contains where I was born, lived and worked for 36 years. Problem is changed the title when I saved it. I have searched P the P using various search terms for hours and hours and worn my eyeballs out and just cannot find it again. I know its a long shot (no pun intended) but has anyone here seen it before or knows where its from please.

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Yes Hartley Road.

The block of houses further up on the left were demolished to make a car park?

I lived there mid 60s and I dont remember there being houses there then?

I wonder what year they were demolished? On the other corner is Mr Wans Chinese.

Taken over by current owners on his retirement. He had a Volvo reg "Wan 1"

Obviously the building is an old cinema.

What cinema, and when did it close, it wasnt one mid 60s?

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In the seventies that building was a showroom, store for all the things that you could buy with the coupons that you got in players packets, it looked a bit more elegant than is seen in the photo.

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that's the cinema I got mixed up with in a post re "Ilkeston Rd Picture Palace", about 10 yrs it was still as per a cinema stage, curtain etc but less seating, Leno's used to be the same long after it's closure.

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Interested in Hartley Road. As I mentioned in a previous thread my mother was in a children`s home in Hartley Road in the 1930s and I`ve never been able to find any official records of it.

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Interested in Hartley Road. As I mentioned in a previous thread my mother was in a children`s home in Hartley Road in the 1930s and I`ve never been able to find any official records of it.

Ever seen a photo of it? There doesn't seem to be one on Picture the Past, but I've been digging around in various books, and.............

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I only know this from looking at various motoring websites, but apparently they were known as "Town and Country" tyres.

They seem to have been quite common in the 1950s/early 60s. You can see them on average cars like Ford Popular or Hillman Minx (or, in the case of this photo, Ford Consul/Zephyr)

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