Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 Don't recall Richard Brooke but do recall Richard Swann who, I believe dealt with bad debts. Bit of an eccentric. Grice was a consultant by the time I worked there and Howard Jacobson had just become the same, leaving Thomas Norman Stanley Roose as senior partner. He checked the waste bins every night to establish how much paper had been thrown away! Will parchment, conveyancing paper, judicature paper, manor of Bulwell and brief! It all cost money! Wills were produced on manual typewriters in those days and mistakes were not permitted. If you made one, you couldn't rub it out, you had to start again on a fresh piece of folded A2 parchment. If you had any sense, you'd fold the first piece up and stuff it in your handbag, take it home and burn it! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,134 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 Dealt with Richard Swann on a regular basis. Between us we never had a bad debt! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,134 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 I believe I recognise the chap on the left. He was, I think John Pearce, who specialised, with his father, in licensing law - pubs etc. I knew him when I worked briefly in the leisure industry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,159 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 knew mr Pearce (on the left) think he retired early 80s, a mr Dilks or Wilks sorted out my last case,even caught the train with me and Donna,down to Peterborough 6/11/86, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 Never had any dealings with Young & Pearce although, of course, I knew the name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,292 Posted March 19, 2018 Report Share Posted March 19, 2018 On 18/03/2018 at 6:45 PM, Commo said: The Reception was held upstairs in The Denmans in Sutton and I did not imbibe any alcohol other than the glass of bubbly for the toasts. Here is the Denmans Head, I have had a few pints of Home Brewery 5 Star in there in the past, it is now a coffee house! 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 Ravaged by postimage! However this image gives an indication of what was cleared to make way for Marian Way.morris oxford shooting brake? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted July 10, 2018 Report Share Posted July 10, 2018 Reg. on the Mk2 Consul would be worth a bob or two now. Looks like 3 FAL 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,417 Posted July 10, 2018 Report Share Posted July 10, 2018 Heh, string backed driving gloves, don't see them any more.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted July 13, 2018 Report Share Posted July 13, 2018 What these pictures of MMW fail to do, unfortunately, is to give any idea of the proximity of the Castle. Non-Nottinghamians may not realise that only a few metres away are buildings of major historical importance, not only important to Nottingham but to a wider British history - the Trip to Jerusalem, for example. Who knows what else may have been destroyed by this mindless destruction of a historical part of the city? What was achieved, apart from the construction of a box-like abomination (People's College) and the Ugliest Street in Europe? 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Article about Maid Marian Way with some photos https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/view-air-one-ugliest-streets-1783154 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted August 20, 2018 Report Share Posted August 20, 2018 An unfinished Maid Marian Way Subway in 1966.Later...all ship- shape. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,292 Posted August 21, 2018 Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 I can't believe that it is 50+ years since the monstrous Maid Marian Way was put in. It was called the ugliest road in Europe and destroyed so much of the Midland Queen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Another triumph for the City Planning Department allowing a building like that to be built onto Newdigate House, it really enhances that lovely building don't it !! Nice Vitesse! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 There's no doubt that someone was determined to ruin Nottingham and they certainly succeeded. Had they been prevented, we'd now have a city to rival York and Chester. Sheer vandalism! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,417 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 And yet as I've said before there were no voices raised against it. We look at York as an example of what Nottingham could be like but back in the 50's in York there were 'anti-ugly' protests with the motto 'build for the future, not the past'. They wanted the old replaced with shiny new buildings and held Nottingham as a forward looking city! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 I was seven when MMW was opened..but even then i thought it looked cold. The majority of Nottinghams citizens bused it to work...probably had little or no bathroom..never stepped on a plane..and the concept of owning a property was alien. But the guys with the fountain pen and slide rule..didn't endure the slum shame of many. They Knew!...that fine architecture and spacious houses were being levelled for ticky tacky boxes. We were not as savvy as we are today..and i have seen my Dads wage slips from 1969..he'd be more interested in trying to make it stretch and feed four lads...than picketing outside The Black Boy. Pity there wasn't more tree( building) huggers back then. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,417 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 About the only gesture to the past I can remember is the dismantling of Severns restaurant brick by brick and rebuilding it on Castle Road. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HSR 286 Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 Wimpy Bars, Remember those big realistic tomato lookalike sauce dispensers & the round frankfurter sausages shaped like castles. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HSR 286 Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 Venue 53..I was told Dire Straits played there. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HSR 286 Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 Sorry, me thinks it was Venue 51 not 53! Maybe related to the number of the property? Very small inside..had a mirrored back wall greeting you when walking through the door. This was in 1982. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 The only good thing about Mount Street was Midland General..and the Midland Red. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN123. 9,325 Posted May 27, 2019 Report Share Posted May 27, 2019 The new layout!...the Salutation thankfully survived...Prestons Newsagent for the underpass pedestrian. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,292 Posted May 27, 2019 Report Share Posted May 27, 2019 A similar shot from a lower angle, mid sixties (photo Nottingham Post) 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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