Farrands, Marsdens, Maypole, Dewhurst, VG, Vernons, etc

[MargieH 7,394]

@philmayfield  I can remember maypole dancing at Arno Vale, but ‘stripping the willow ‘ is part of certain country dances (not round the maypole)

One of the  things we performed in maypole dancing was making braids/plaits in sets of 3 people.

[MRS B 279]

I can also remember doing maypole dancing every year at the garden fete behind the old rectory in Tollerton. Loved it but had to practice very hard beforehand, it wasn’t easy. You only had to have one person go wrong and it was an absolute disaster!

[Oztalgian 2,857]

Big gangly fourteen year old lads doing Maypole dancing at school in a north Notts pit village "Oh the embarrassment"

[Oztalgian 2,857]

For any that want to look back at what things cost, cars, trends and especially for "our Ben" to check his pricing memory I found this site an interesting read.

http://www.retrowow.co.uk

 

[David sheridan 157]

On 6/22/2022 at 8:29 PM, katyjay said:

There was a big shop in Bulwell Market (Pascoes?) that listed all those owing money, in their window. I remember seeing this in the 60's.

Was my name on the list ???

[trogg 1,740]

Here is a Marsden from next to Pretty Windows, our Ben may have worked here years later than the photo, but what stories could he tell.

[benjamin1945 15,495]

Looks even before my time @trogg ....i did work in one round the corner on Lower Parliament street....in 1965 as relief manager....i know it was 65 because i remember closing the shop for 5 minutes for Winston Churchill's funeral.....

[Stuart.C 428]

Might have been posted before,

 

 

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/sneinton/sm88_15-27.htm

 

[Cliff Ton 9,951]

Reading Stuart C's link, it mentions something which I think has appeared here before; a ghost sign for Marsden's on the corner of Kentwood Road, Sneinton.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/TzZbVnaA6i6f8xtB6

[DAVIDW 1,615]

1 hour ago, trogg said:

Here is a Marsden from next to Pretty Windows, our Ben may have worked here years later than the photo, but what stories could he tell.

I saw that pic on Facebook yesterday and could date it to March 1934  (not 1944 as posted), judging by the movies being advertised on the hoardings . 

[Cliff Ton 9,951]

That photo is originally from Picture Nottingham and they date is as 1934.

 

https://picturenottingham.co.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/ntgm002144/posterid/ntgm002144.html

[benjamin1945 15,495]

2 hours ago, Stuart.C said:

Might have been posted before,

 

 

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/sneinton/sm88_15-27.htm

 

Great find Stuart......think you all know my love of Marsdens where i spent about ten years of my working life thru the 60s.......never knew its origins till reading this .........1880 blimey !!!!....thanks again Stuart...........

[Cliff Ton 9,951]

Beeston High Road (as it says) in the 1920s. The extended blind on the left is Farrands, and further along is a Woolies.

 

[Jill Sparrow 9,572]

This is how Beeston looked when my father was born there in November 1924, at 21 Church Street. I think it's gone somewhat downhill since then. My maternal uncle bought a house in Endsleigh Gardens when he married in 1935. It was a brand new development and was a gated community. All residents had a key to the gate which was sited between the shops on High Road.  Many years ago, I went to look and the gateway was still there...but the gate had gone!

[Cliff Ton 9,951]

Endsleigh Gardens still exists and looking on old and current maps, this appears to be the closest equivalent to the path into there from High Road.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/V9Z7ZMNQe37vUNM2A   

 

If you click through it, you go down the driveway and come to a footpath which takes you to Endsleigh.

[Jill Sparrow 9,572]

Looks like there has been some rebuilding there since last I visited but that will be the footpath. The gateway has gone.

[letsavagoo 795]

My mum had an uncle who kept a newsagents on High Street. She would visit him when she was young so 1935-45. 

[letsavagoo 795]

This came up on Fb today. Aspley Lane 1950’s

[Cliff Ton 9,951]

Looking at the car and general lack of traffic, I wonder if it's a bit earlier than 1950s.

 

There's what could be a date in the lower right corner of 29-2-32.  Even before Ben was around.

[letsavagoo 795]

20 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said:

Looking at the car and general lack of traffic, I wonder if it's a bit earlier than 1950s.

 

There's what could be a date in the lower right corner of 29-2-32.  Even before Ben was around.

Totally agree CT. There were a lot of older cars around in the post war years but that does look like a date in the corner. When was Aspley built. 

[Stuart.C 428]

Picture no 29 as above, says 1930, but is is Nottingham (close enough for us) Post, so it will be as dated 29-2-1932

 

Britain from above have photos 1931 / 32 showing Aspley well developed

 

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/gallery/30-pictures-aspley-over-last-3570569

[Beekay 4,272]

The above view of no.29 looks like it was taken from corner of Melbourne road, looking up Aspley Lane. The curve to the right would be Amersham rise. Where the advertising board is on the right, is where a newsagents stood, and that's where the NCT sited a time clock for us lowly conductors, back in the early 60s.

[Willow wilson 856]

Beekay, Deaton's newsagent. (If my memory is still working OK)

The big building in the distance beyond the telephone pole was CO-OP, now M'coll's

[Beekay 4,272]

And that bus stop outside Deatons was Fare stage number 15, on both sides of the lane. (Just for those officianados of transport)

Remember all those shops on the left. Have used them all at some time. My favourite was Andrews fish bar. Had many of lunches in there. Cheers W.W.

[Oztalgian 2,857]

Ben, I have just seen a picture on FB of a Marsden store on the corner of Bishop Street and Portland Street Mansfield.

Bishop Street ran up to the Stags Ground at Field Mill so I was down that way many times but I can't remember that shop, can you?