colly0410 1,181 Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 I could always recognise the the Bristol lo-deckers transmission whine, I've not heard that sound for a long time. Can't remember the VR's having a distinctive noise.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 To be precise (pedantic?), the Bristol chassis were manufactured by Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd and the bodywork was by Eastern Coachworks of Lowestoft. The Tilling Group was the part of the bus industry that was nationalised in the late 1940s as part of the British Transport Commission. Midland General, Notts & Derby & Mansfield District were not actually part of the Tilling Group but were owned by Balfour Beatty. According to the website below, 'When the electricity industry was mostly nationalised in 1948, Balfour Beatty sold the Midland General Group also, to the British Transport Commission.' http://www.timebus.co.uk/rlh/onu.htm So they were BTC companies but not actually Tilling. Also, there were several Tilling/BTC companies that had a red livery, e.g. Eastern Counties, Cumberland,West Yorkshire and others. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mickyp 23 Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 I quote from the link to which is refered "...The three* operators then became known as part of the Tillings Group..." *The three operators being N & D, MGO, MDT I'll try to post a photo of my Yarmouth 329 Bristol decker. It lives on our clifftop in North Norfolk overlooking the North Sea - a nice place for an evening drink, summer or winter alike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 Don't want to split hairs, but "known as" is slightly different! Officially the Tillings Group ceased to exist when it was nationalised. From that time it became correctly the BTC Group, although it is certainly true that many people continued to use the old name as a handy title - and indeed still do. Basically at the time of nationalisation it made no sense to include a bus company in the electricity industry - not its core business and all that - so it was put into the newly nationalised transport organisation instead, where it was probably regarded as a bit of an ugly duckling - its fleet blue Weymann-bodied AECs contrasting with the uniform ranks of green and red ECW/Bristols. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mickyp 23 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 OK. Slight change of tack - I was born and lived in Burton Joyce until around 1951 and I remember when Staythorpe A power station was being built by Balfour Beatty. Each evening at about 4.30 - 5.00 a fleet of about a dozen old grey/blue double deckers would chase along Church Road in convoy taking the workforce back in the Nottm direction. They almost terrorised the villagers because, when I say 'chase', they did just that - it was obviously a race between them and they all had to keep up. They were obviously old wrecks of pre-war petrol-engined buses and the noise of either unsilenced exhausts or misfiring, knackered engines drove us kids running yet we still had to turn up daily and watch and listen to the racket! I never could say Balfour Beatty back then but, instead, called the daily 'display' the 'Belle View Beauties'. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 Love it ! Yes, there were plenty of superannuated wrecks running round as contractors' transport. When I worked in Derby in the early 1970s, General Industrial Cleaners (GIC) of Borrowash had an ex-Crosville lowbridge Bristol KSW. It passed along London Road about the time I was heading for the train home, and I used to loiter near Midland Road traffic lights, hoping it would be stopped there so that I could listen to it pulling away in second gear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 Talking of "loitering' did a load of that in Chesterfield rd.south bus sheds..when I was at art college. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Another picture uploaded, in case we don't have it? 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Thanks M2M - for happy memories of Huntingdon Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 And for me, could well have been me at sometime up to 1966 in that queue for the 25. Great image with the central market in the background. I can't quite get my bearings, is that the Palais also in the background? I suspect it isn't, but I can't remember, perhaps a pub, been a lot of years since I saw that view. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 I used to get the bus from there and change at Leicester when going to visit relatives in Coventry. IIRC it was a Barton's to Leicester then a Midland Red to Coventry. I also remember doing the second leg on a 'Black and White' coach in the early 1950s. Col Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Yes carnie its a pub,think still there Central or Market Tavern,Palais behind it.........On Huntingdon street near the bus depot there was always a Flower seller,when i was a teenager (18/19) i would always buy me mam flowers there on a Sunday morning,if I had been lucky on Sat.night,and if I walked in with flowers for her she wouldn't shout at me so much for being out all night,.........in fact there is still always someone selling flowers in the same spot. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 The building you can see in the background on that photo is this....https://goo.gl/maps/j1mKccvpoGy I'm not sure if it's still a pub or something else. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Aint it a drab miserable looking street now,.........all the hustle and bustle long gone.................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sue B 48 1,226 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 #187 Market Tavern I think but I could be wrong. I worked with a woman who with her Hubby and some friends went there every Saturday night. What a pair of characters they were, went in one Saturday night with my boyfriend to see them the place was packed with a haze of smoke hanging in the top halve of the room. They all made us welcome and we had a right laugh most of them were market workers. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 I think it stopped being Market Tavern when there was no more market, but In the 80s and 90s it was called Gatsby's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Haha, Chris reminded me that we used to go in there when he came over. Funny that, an outsider can remember the name but I can't. As soon as he said about it, I remembered. Every where has changed so much since I left. I would love for one day to go back in time to see all the places I remember and see again the ones I have forgotten. When someone puts a new picture on, I get a lovely feeling. being transported back in time. The question is, "Would I have been happy if life hadn't taken a turn and I lived my life in Nottm and not W-ton". We will never know, but to see my family and friends again back in that time would be lovely. I certainly would cherish them a bit more, knowing what I know now. In my new adventure, all the people that were part of my everyday life over night became people I saw very little of. Now look, see what an old photo does to me. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Another picture uploaded, in case we don't have it? Huntingdon Street Bus Station Nottingham c1960s.jpg That's one of my photos and it appears at #81 on this thread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
meeowed 314 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 anyone remember robin hood coaches running from the art deco building and before that black and white coaches I believe running to Devon and Cornwall Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 I remember Robin Hood Coaches. Were they taken over by Bartons? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 Yes they were. A lot of buses and coaches had both logos down the side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisB 150 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 As benjamin says, it's a miserable and totally dead area nowadays but both the old Barton and Robin Hood garages (which were literally side by side) are still there, although nobody seems to want the nice art-deco Barton one anymore. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 #188, Cliff Ton, I looked at your google shot, it appears to be a Chinese restaurant if you move to the RHS...........perhaps I'm mistaken? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 There was quite a bit about Robin Hood Coaches and their garage on the Buses in Nottingham thread in 2013: http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8348&page=18 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 Re #194 - You always started out for Devon or Cornwall on a Black and White, but mostly they only went as far as Cheltenham, which in those days was the coach equivalent of Crewe (or the wretched Birmingham New Street) - a hub where everyone from anywhere changed to go anywhere else! From Cheltenham you would usually go by Royal Blue on the Devon and Cornwall. (I say usually, because the old Associated Motorways network did an awful lot of borrowing, swopping and hiring in to cover the peaks - so it was certainly possible to continue all the way in a Black and White. In fact, on August Saturdays you might find yourself for several hours on an ordinary bus standing in for a coach.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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