Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Looking at the adverts in Michael Booth's previous post, here's Pullman's Sneinton store on Parliament Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 I love it how you can always find a photo on the topics, Cliff Ton. I wonder what year your photo was and if it was still 'cash only' at Pullmans. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Sometimes, nobody's more surprised than me! That photo is apparently 1950. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Was that where Sun Valley Amusements were built around 1963? Price and Beal's the big man shop on the right? Was the building on the left something to do with Boots, a warehouse? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 I think it was Boots Printing Department Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Was that where Sun Valley Amusements were built around 1963? Price and Beal's the big man shop on the right? Was the building on the left something to do with Boots, a warehouse? Here's another view from a slightly different, higher, angle Yes, it's where Sun Valley were (are ?). I don't think they are any longer. On the extreme right of this photo you can see the beginning of the name of Price & Beal As littlebro says, the Art Deco place on the left was owned at one stage by Boots. According to my source "it was built by R Cripps & Co in the late 1930s as a garage but was requisitioned by the National Fire Service at the beginning of WW2. Subsequently Boots acquired it for offices...." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Thank Cripps were Chrysler as I remember, Hillman etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Yes they were. I never knew they had the Art Deco place built but didn't use it. Presumably when they lost that, they went to another place a bit further up Parliament Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Can remember the art deco building from skating days....any photos of Victoria baths and the ugly flats next door....they must date back some time ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Seem to remember Pullmans received a bad hit during a WW2 air rade - thought to have been aiming at Victoria Station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 hippo girl, if you mean Victoria Buildings, I had some ancestors living in there in 1901, so they obviously go back much further than that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Katyjay... Always wanted to know the history behind that building.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Hippo Girl, here's a bit of an answer to the history of it http://www.pictureth...008465&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Also found this http://parkviewcourt.myfastforum.org/archive/parkview-court-victoria-buildings-how-they-used-to-be.__o_t__t_84.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted December 16, 2012 Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 I was always fascinated by the vacuum powered cash system that was used. The sales person put your money in a cylinder with details of the purchase and this was whisked away to the cashiers department who put the change back in the cylinder which then "whooshed" it's way back to you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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