Buses in Nottingham

[TBI 2,351]

3 hours ago, DJ360 said:

I can understand why people might think it's Arnold Road shops.. but I'm not convinced. There were shops in similar style in a lot of places.

 

Proof of the pudding would seem to be ... the present Select & Save is 119-121 Arnold Rd... 1950's maps show the address of the properties that would be behind the bus as ... 119-121.

[mary1947 2,081]

It is the shops on Arnold Rd were the Vape shop is used to be "Aurdreys" hairdresser's it was upstairs. I worked there for a time.

Cliff i remembr the chemist it was just below our salon, lots of things have changed the Green Barrel Pub used to be a little futher down on the other side of the road, it has probably gone now and house's are in it's place.

[Cliff Ton 10,466]

20 minutes ago, mary1947 said:

Cliff i remembr the chemist it was just below our salon, lots of things have changed 

 

The world gets smaller........the chemists was Morley's.

[Stuart.C 491]

Green Barrel now Mary, like most of the pubs around Bestwood, they had problems and closed down;

 

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[denshaw 2,872]

45 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said:

 

The world gets smaller........the chemists was Morley's.

 

Irene's?

[LizzieM 9,508]

I met a chap whilst on a weekend jolly to Hamburg on the QM2 a few years ago, he has a pharmacy on Arnold Road, same location I wonder? 

[DJ360 6,730]

Ok. I surrender. It's Arnold Rd.

It looks like the chimneys on the shops have been shortened at some point.

This still leaves us asking why the bus has 17 on it as those shops are way off the 17 route.

I remember the 6 running along Gainsford Crescent,... theee was a stop right outside HP and still is... but I have no memory of a No. 18

[mary1947 2,081]

Morning DJ360 did the 18 bus go near Daybrook or around Edwards Lane est then went past Home Ales brewrey up past Bestwood by Nell Qwyn past the Oxclose then Arnold Rd then into the city, ? 

just a thought

but as Cliff says most of the pubs gone never to return. Home Ales as well.

[notty ash 370]

The 18 started where the photo was taken and headed round Gainford Crescent and down Hucknall Road into the city. I suspect the conductor just forgot to change the number. Both the 17 and 18 went to Trinity Sq, so once the bus got to the City Hospital they were on the same route anyway.

[Cliff Ton 10,466]

Looking back at one of my earliest posts   https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/7151-nottm-bus-routes-1940s/?tab=comments#comment-91118

 

the map is from the 1940s and the service which goes around Gainsford is the No 6, with the 18 nearby on Edwards Lane.

 

Click on the 'Download' icon at the bottom of the first post, then zoom in on the map.

[notty ash 370]

I suspect something may have changed over time, as the map I found seemed different - will have to check, but can't access it at the moment

[benjamin1945 16,160]

Sorry to disagree 'NottyAsh'' but i'm certain the 18 never went onto Bestwood estate,,,the only two buses that did were the 6 and 28,,,not sure where the terminus for the 18 was exactly but i assume it was what it said on the tin ''Edwards Lane''

                     I grew up on Bestwood estate and caught the 6 or 28 for many years to get home,,,yes the 18 left from Trinity sq same as the 6 and 28,,but definitely didnt terminate on Bestwood,,

[notty ash 370]

sorry, i must be mistaken. Apologies!

[Beekay 5,147]

I'm pretty sure the 18 ran from Edwards lane. It had a time clock (as did most of not all termini). This was opposite city hospital about where the Skoda showroom is/was.

[Stuart.C 491]

Ah, Renshaw and Newsome,

Gone just like the pubs.

Moved to Daybrook then became part of the Sandicliffe group.

 

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[Beekay 5,147]

Thanks for that Stuart. Bloody Hell ! Don't think I'd recognise that area now. Turning the picture round I did identify the City Hospital exit. I believe they had a Social club just inside there. Went to an Aunts 80th birthday party there and now I'm only three years off that meself. 

[mary1947 2,081]

Hi Beekay yes your right the City Hospital did have it's own Social Club have spent many good Saturdays nights out there. My sister in law  used to work as pa to a doctor, the doctors and nurses would have parties and used to get invited. 

What's a Party?

[denshaw 2,872]

I used to be a member of the social club, it opened in1974 and Will close on Nov 1st.

[trogg 2,016]

  Further to the number 17 bus outside the shops on Arnold Road I have been looking at Cliff Tons post of August 13th 2010 in "Nottm Bus Routes 1940s" , the map there shows a bus route to Bestwood Estate which indicates that the route went up Gainsford Crescent and ended at the far end of the Crescent.  The number 18s Terminus was on Edwards Lane Estate and never went near Bestwood Estate.

The terminus would be outside of the shops on Arnold Road hence the clock there, I was unable to determine the number of the route, but the map does show that the 17 went to Bulwell and that there was no number 28 at that time , it may be it was the number 6 and the driver had not put the right number on the bus. Hope this clears the matter up or maybe more confusion.

[benjamin1945 16,160]

Trogg,,i have an excellent memory from when i was 4 or 5 living on Bestwood estate,,,in 1949 my Mam or Dad would put me on the 28 bus on Andover road near the first cul-de-sac,,the bus then went along Andover up Hove road onto Leybourne dropping me off more or less outside your house.,,and from there i crossed the road and into my Grandma's house,at 126...

                     Sometimes even way back in 1949 i caught the number 6 bus with my Grandma and travelled 2 or 3 stops to the far end of Arnold road to the rent office,,which was the number 6 Terminus...

                            Even caught the 17 from Marble Arch to Adelphi with me mam,,,probably to see 'Gone with the wind'...........

IF there was another bus route it would have been before my travels in the late 40s................

[trogg 2,016]

The City transport map was most probably from the early 40s  with the 28 route starting later in the 40s together with moving the number 6 terminus later in the 40s. As their map shows,  at the time of printing, there was no number 28 route and the 6 stopped at the far end of Gainsford, your memory is from the late 40s.

[benjamin1945 16,160]

Bet you recall some of these names near you on Leybourne Trogg.............Witts,,Clarke,,Starkey,,Copeland,,Collins,,Freestone,,Mculloch,,Camm,,Jackson,,Walters,,Arthur,,Allcock,,Shepherd,,Hopkins,,Spencer,,Durham,,........i wont go past Eardley or Hove road......lol

[trogg 2,016]

I can remember the names of Witts, Clarke,   Spencer and Hopkins but cannot put faces to them except a Trevor Hopkins  who had ginger hair.     

[benjamin1945 16,160]

He still lives there,,next door to where he used to be,,,he had lots of brothers and sisters.......Barry,,Brenda,,Lynda,,Andrew,,and Angela,,and even more cousins ,,of which i am one.....

[davep5491 360]

Thanks for the link of the bus routes Cliff Ton it helped unlock a few memories for me and confirms in my mind where the 18 terminus was. I was born in my aunts' house on Longmead Drive 75 years ago this week. When I was about 10 I used to catch the 18 bus from Trinity Square to Longmead and can remember clearly now sitting on the top deck and looking in the churchyard. During the journey there was a water works/pumping station somewhere near the junction of Hucknall Road and Haydn Road. The route then carried on to Edwards Lane and turned off into Alderton Road, at the crossroad with Longmead Drive it turned right and the terminus was on the right a couple of hundred yards up opposite a block of two shops one a grocer and the other a greengrocer. Another memory was sitting close to a heater on the bus, it was a large chrome circular unit bolted to the bulkhead, fantastic as I lived in a world where my dad's cars didn't have heaters.