poohbear 1,360 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Some of you will no doubt remember Crooky Crisps when they were just up the road on Morley Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 I remember Crookie (y) crisps _ AND_ the smell of boiling wort from the Home Brewery as I passed the crisp factory. They must have shared the same yard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Centre row right is my Mother..to her left,the blonde, is Bertha Power.They were close friends all their lives from their early teens.Berthas' husband was killed on the very last day of the war.Shortly after the war she met a guy called Jim Crookshank.She was his common law wife for many years,they never married. It was Bertha,in her kitchen, who invented 'Nibbits' (remember them?) He sold out to Whiteheads the brewers in I think the late 70s and went to live in Barbados.For some reason Bertha stayed here and died in the late 90s.Her son Richard ran the Bamboo Coffee Bar for several years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 What was the building, that is now frank keys. The petrol station that was also built there had a name can anyone remember this, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Depends which part of Frank Keys you mean as they've got the whole block now.That petrol stations' name is on the tip of my tongue but damned if I can recall it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 I mean the building that is in the centre of the photo, it looks like a school. as for the garage I used it a lot but can't remember the name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Thanks Poohbear for the memories of th Bamboo Cafe and those that ran it. I went in there about 1968/9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Just remembered a book I have which has a few photos relevant to this thread, so....... I mean the building that is in the centre of the photo, it looks like a school. I think this is/was the school, apparently called The British School. And to go back to the original query Does anyone remember Alf Hutchin(g)'s barber shop just below the railway bridge in Daybrook? I remember my father buying a fishing rod for me in about 1959ish from the shop next door. I've found this photo which may show what Compo was referring to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Yes, there's Alf's shop on the right just before the bridge arch; thank you. I also remember the garage in question but cannot for the life of me remember it's name :o( Where was the Bamboo Cafe? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Bamboo...left side of Mansfield Road leaving town,near the junction with Huntingdon street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Cliff Ton, the school pictured above is the school that stood on Mansfield Road near Daybrook Square. That's Morleys factory in the back ground. The British school was in the centre of Arnold on Front Street where the Arnold market now stands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Stu I don't know the area very well so I'm sure you are right. I was quoting the caption on the photo in the book I took it from. Seems like they've given the photo the wrong information. Looking at the photo, isn't that Morley's factory behind the building? So maybe the photo is the building which was near Daybrook Square, but it shouldn't be called the British School (which was the one in Arnold). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Yes, definitely Morleys in the background. That building is now apartments. That's Daybrook School on Mansfield Road http://www.pictureth...003043&prevUrl= This is the British School. I went there in it's last year of opening in the mid-sixties. http://www.pictureth...003249&prevUrl= http://www.pictureth...003045&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Cliff Ton, Photo of the bridge, ad' on left hand side not very PC.......................it's a Golli**g!! must be Robertsons Jam mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Cliff Ton, Photo of the bridge, ad' on left hand side not very PC.......................it's a Golli**g!! must be Robertsons Jam mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I still have an enamel Golliwog. One collected tokens from the jars and sent off for a really nice enamel badge. Many depicted sports but mine is just a plain Golly. Gollywogs are now back in fashion and are sold in many outlets - they even had them for sale at the John O'Groats shop last time I was there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Are the still called Golliwogs? Or ethnic dolls? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 They are golliwogs for heavens sake...just because it's a word from the past doesn't mean it should be banned.I'm sick and tired of this PC rubbish. I feed my birds Niger seed...there is a state in Africa called Niger,it's on the Niger river.But somewhere in this stupid country some committee...and I'll bet they're white,has decided the word is too close to a sensitive word and has changed the spelling to Nyger...I note in the UN the representative of that country sits behind a label that says Niger though. Can we go back to Daybrook now please?... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Hear, Hear! to the PC rubbish Pooh Bear :o) Back to Daybrook..... There was an iron foundry on Sherbrooke Road just around the corner from the Grove hotel. I recall standing by the main door watching the men welding and cutting up stuff whilst on my way home from school in the afternoons; this would be in the 1950s. I believe they cut up some small locos and trucks at one stage. It was always a red letter day when they yard man gave us some ball bearings taken from something they had cut up that day. I can't remember the name of that foundry? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 My memories of Daybrook only go back to 1959 when I moved there from Nuthall Road near Aspley.I find it very disappointing the lack of info from that area when there are so many photos of other areas on Picture the Past. Searching the site...the majority of photos are of the library on Nuthall Road...none whatsoever of the dozens of shops North of the Newcastle Arms at Basford Road...or Bar Lane/Melbourne road...and few of Cinderhill.Anybody got any? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Searching the site...the majority of photos are of the library on Nuthall Road...none whatsoever of the dozens of shops North of the Newcastle Arms at Basford Road...or Bar Lane/Melbourne road...and few of Cinderhill.Anybody got any? Here's a couple of contributions which I hope are vaguely in the direction you are asking about..... The road going up the right is Aspley Lane towards Nottingham. The almost-horizontal road across the top is the ring road (you can see the Wilkinson Street triangle in the centre); and the next horizontal road down from that is Melbourne Road. Note the fields to the right of Aspley Lane.......the photo is 1930s. And this one says it's Bells Lane The colliery in the background is apparently Cinderhill - later Babbington Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 The aerial photo of Aspley is excellent, in the fields to the right of Aspley lane was a small settlement of a few houses called Cherry Orchard, that is where the father in law was brought up, it is shown on some old maps. I think it might have belonged to Aspley Hall, It probably went when they built the offices at Chalfont Drive. He would have been living there ine the 30s, when the photo was taken Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 in the fields to the right of Aspley lane was a small settlement of a few houses called Cherry Orchard, that is where the father in law was brought up, it is shown on some old maps. That is about the same location as these surviving cottages which are still on Aspley Lane and can just about be seen on the old photo. http://maps.google.c...,210.33,,0,1.26 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Roy Mills 11 Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Just caught this topic whilst browsing Daybrook railway Station Have joined up so that I can contribute. I actually lived in the house on the Arnold side of the bridge with a large "Pork Farms" advertising hoarding in the front garden. from 1961 to 1969 and spent many a happy hour chatting to the old ladies ( The Missess Barrow ) who ran the small sweet shop opposite. They would sell small glasses of pop for about 3d a go and would be very happy to chat for hours about what had gone on in and around Daybrook. The house was originally provided for the goods agent at Daybrook Station and as my father was a railway employee, when he needed larger accommodation for our expanding family, he was allocated this house. It had three downstairs rooms and three bedrooms, however there was no bathroom and the toilet was situated at the bottom of the garden in asmall brick built hut - a chilly event especially in mid winter!! Alf Hutchings was my barber and also for the rest of the male members of the family - my dad trooping us all round to the shop - usually on a Saturday morning for a monthly (or thereabouts) short back and sides - it was the sixties after all!!! Across the road alongside Barrow's shop there was a shop called Wetherall's which sold sewing and knitting supplies and also a grocer Beech wher my mother would go on Saturday morming for the weekly "order" of groceries. There was also a wet fish shop and a butcher as well as the Post Office. Opposite the junction of Mansfield Road and Nottingham Road stood a detached building housing a newsagent and sweet shop "J H Rollings" for whom I was employed as a paperboy for a couple of years. Whilst we lived there the railway was lifted and the bridge demolished - a grandstand view from our front garden! I was a pupil at the school on Mansfield Road just to the north of Morley's factory from 1961 to 1963 If I remember correctly it's formal name was St Alban's County Primary School and I have a school photo showing me wearing the school blazer from that period. In 1968, I was fortunate in passing my 11+ and went to Arnold High School on Gedling Road ( now Arnold Hill School ) and walked home along the old railway line from just across from the school back all the way to my house alongside the bridge. Where the old Nottingham Suburban line branched off it was possible to walk all the way to Woodthorpe Parl along the old formation. Where the current new Gedling Council offices are now was an open field which usually contained a horse called Kitty who was very pleased to accept gifts of apples or carrots. I do not know to whom she belonged. Hope this is of interest to anyone Roy 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,454 Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Welcome Roy. If you have any more contributions like that, I think you'll do very well here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Great first post Roy, keep 'em coming! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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