Compo 10,326 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 I used to walk from our house on Gladehill Road, up by the Nell Gwynne, down Arnold Road to Vernon Crossing and then down Lincoln Street to the wakes. As you approached the sounds and smells grew in intensity until the wakes came into sight. Now, was this a bi-annual event or an annual one? I can't remember. It's odd that daft things can stick in your mind isn't it? The two things that really stick out in my mind as if it were just yesterday are two records that were played at one particular wakes: The Beatles Eleanor Rigby and Bob Dylan's Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35. - no idea why. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 I think it was annual, it tied in with Goose Fair. We walked to the wakes too, from Amesbury Circus, quite a hike but never thought anything of it. It was Shank's Pony or not go at all. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Think the proper wakes a week after goose fair? can't recall start day or for how long? do you recall the "overspill" on the shoulder of mutton car park, remember I think a waltzer there plus kiddies rides and stalls, maybe in era you talk of Compo there was 2 fairs say that as have memories of girls in summer dresses etc in 1967 (dated by motorbike I had at time). doubt 2nd one (if it happened) would not have been called the wakes though as quite a tradition thing with proper large adverts professionally bill posted etc. Told this before somewhere here, walking home from there with "gang" of others inc girls I wanted a wee, so at church street bridge climbed over the end of bridge wall on gas light lit foggy night maybe 1960, wasn't till I'd "finished" that I realised instead of being on the edge of that little rest park I was in fact on about a foot wide (still there) wall with a long drop either side! just prior to tram era some school kid did in fact fall into the gap behind that wall when walking on the bridge parapet, quite badly injured and hard to get him out of it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger peatman 337 Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Anybody got any old fotos of the wakes ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Not Basford but Arnold: Picture the past - Arnold Wakes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1906&hl=%2Barnold+%2Bwakes http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page_id__83_path__0p31p36p46p47p.aspx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I went through all 56 pages of Basford photos on Picture the Past and not one of the wakes. Did find one of the Leen on Lincoln St, it showed a bit of Billy Bacon's field. ps. I did put Wakes and Fairs in the search engine first, nowt came up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I THINK NO MATTER WERE YOU LIVED IN NOTTINGHAM MOST OF US HAD OUR OWN LOCAL FAIRS SOME OF THE BIKER LADS WOULD GO TO ONE MOST WEEKENDS THROUGH OUT THE SUMMER MONTHS FRIDAY OR SATURDAY AFTER THEY HAD BEEN TO THE PUB FIRST I KNOW I WENT TO BASFORD CLIFTON NETHERFIELD ARNOLD MEADOWS SOME STILL HAVE THEM LAST WEEK IT WAS CLIFTON THIS WEEK WILL BE WOODTHORPE PARK STARTS TODAY WAS SETTING UP WHEN I PAST ON TUES DAY SO NEXT WEEK IT USUALLY MOVES TO ARNOLD KILLERSICK PARK, THESE SMALL FAIRS STILL RUN BY MELLERS FAMILY AND MEANS THE OLDER MEMBERS CAN GO HOME AT THE END OF THE NIGHT BUT STILL MAKE MONEY WITH OUT SPENDING A LOT ON FULE TRAVLING FROM TOWN TO TOWN AND IT SEEMS THERE IS SOME KIND OF FAIR ON THE FOREST EVERY FEW WEEKS PLUS OF COURSE ILKESTON FAIR STILL HELD IN THE STREETS AND OPEN SPACES AROUND THE TOWN CENTRE ONE OF THE FEW LEFT Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I remember going to Basford wakes in the early seventies when I used to visit my Grandma, who used to live in Bestwood. I can also remember going to Ruddington wakes in the late seventies, early eighties...walking over from Bridgford. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Caravans at Basford Wakes in the early 50s. The road along the back is Vernon Road and Basford Crossing is just off to the left. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 #10. That is the actual ground where the wakes was held - Billy Bacon's field. The road at bottom left is the bottom of Cowley Street, with the Post Office facing, on the corner of the entrance to BB's field. The 44th Battalion Boy Scouts' hut is shown middle bottom of picture. Think that must be Vernon Avenue at top left. Centre bottom is a Vedonis factory. The old Nottingham Road is slanting off at right of picture towards the railway station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,893 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 The wakes and goose fair make our annual fair look pathetic. Just dodgems, kids rides,a few big amusements and stalls with locally made nougat. Oh for October again ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I've just noticed that further along on the right, at the junction where Vernon Road splits from Nottingham Road, there are a couple of caravans parked outside a house at the corner of Fox Grove. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 re photo on post 10, top right can be seen the old level crossing gates and then remains of cart track cutting across Billy Bacons with bridge over the Day Brook, in main picture think only only roof of vedonis can be seen on whitemoor road which ended facing Murphy's, to the left of that about midway between Murphys and Cowley St was the bungalow that my grandparents mother and uncle lived in from early 1920's to 1939, on corner of Whitemoor Ave was a pub think called the rifle volunteer, there was also another pub The Vernon on Nottingham Rd between the railway and Lincoln St Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Those caravans parked at the corner of Fox Grove were regulars there, got them closer to the Shoulder of Mutton where their rides were. Old Billy Bacon was quite a wealthy butcher with a few shops and a slaughter house. His son started to go through the family wealth when he took over and his son Neil finished of the process ending up an alcoholic, living on a small run down boat at Wells next to Sea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Yes that white pub is The Vernon Hotel or Arms or just The Vernon depending on era, but there was another with same name on that stretch of Nottingham Rd long since demolished Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 My mate lived just up Vernon avenue in the 40s and the pub on the corner was the Vernon Arms in his day, took his first drink in there when his dad came home on leave from the army. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 My relations layed up at Basford wakes before going up to Hull. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ValuerJim 277 Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 #10. That is the actual ground where the wakes was held - Billy Bacon's field. The road at bottom left is the bottom of Cowley Street, with the Post Office facing, on the corner of the entrance to BB's field. The 44th Battalion Boy Scouts' hut is shown middle bottom of picture. Think that must be Vernon Avenue at top left. Centre bottom is a Vedonis factory. The old Nottingham Road is slanting off at right of picture towards the railway station. I was in the 44th Nottingham for a time in the 50s, Chulla. Also in the photo is a chemists shop run by someone called Ackrill, who I seem to remember committed suicide. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 I remember Hucknall Wakes, it came twice a year........Always enjoyed it, came onto the rec on Linby Road, just around the corner from where I lived, the wakes's aren't the same any more, just like the markets, everything has gone..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 Taking a closer look at a few old photos of Basford, I noticed this feature on the bend at Mill Street / David Lane, near where the actual mill used to be. The area is now housing (Firecrest Way) but back then it had a long row of caravans parked up a lane. I'm guessing they might've been something to do with the Wakes. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted November 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 They don't really look big enough to be fairground caravans though, Cliff Ton. I wonder if they were "Travelling folks'" caravans? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Great photo cliff ton............remember playing on that Pitch in the 50s.....you can just make out the old stand.........thought we were at Wembley playing there.........in front of about 6 chaps....it was Basford Uniteds home ground......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 When at FFGS, we played rugby on playing fields just east of the field shown, and nearer to the railway viaduct next to Northern Baths. We accessed it somewhere near the middle of Bagnall Rd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 13 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said: ......remember playing on that Pitch in the 50s.....you can just make out the old stand....... According to where it came from, it's 1953 so you might even be on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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