Peter Garner Photo Collection
Album 3
1966 - 1971 Before and during the 'demolition'
St Anns Well Road and Bombay Street area
36 images
1966 - 1971 Before and during the 'demolition'
St Anns Well Road and Bombay Street area
36 images
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- Individual images and descriptions (scroll down)
1966 - 1967 Before the 'demolition'
"The roof of the Newmarket built to commemorate the New Central Market is in the foreground. the Letter Sorting Office on Huntingdon Street, now Marco Island, is mid right. The Gardens of Rest and and Victoria Park upper left, so too Bancroft's building, Robin Hood Street. The building with the scaffolding upper right, the Parcels Concentration Office, built upon the former Surplus Stores and Office Equipment building, on Bath Street, once the Beck Engineering works of Robert Cowen, misspelled Cowan Street. The PCO itself recently being demolished to make way from a new multi storey building. I would suspect that at the time of the photograph being taken, Peter was on the roof of the Castle Telephone Exchange, which was constructed in 1938 extending the former National Telephone Company Exchange located at 26-32 George Street. The building was sympathetically constructed in the form of a lace working factory to keep in line with the Lace Market to utilise the natural light for operators."
Paul Key
Paul Key
"......you have brought to mind, images of parents sitting an the grassed embankment watching children compete at sports day, the Daisy chains and the Buttercup, "do you like butter test", a positive result being the yellow reflection on the chin. The alternative name of the Dandelion, Wee the bed, and "telling the time" by blowing off the seeds, for them to be scattered far and wide. Hunting for Dock leaves after a Nettle sting, perhaps unintentional conservationists and users of a natural world, but my favourite was Dandelion and Burdock, usually in a bottle from a local shop be it Fish and Chip, Sweet or Newsagent. the long shaded secluded pathway leading to the Coppice Hospital very few would venture up. The Pears from the trees in Horses field, surrounded by long grasses. The Hawthorn hedging, beyond the Rec fencing and allotment entrance, adorned by white trumpet flowers of the Bindweed. Games of Snooker, table tennis and British bulldog, Lifeboy and BB meetings in the Memorial Hall and using damp sawdust to clean the wooden floors. The queues waiting to use the public phone box near the Police station. Older residents, sitting in the summer shade below the tree awaiting the Wessie to open, in the evening a teenagers meeting place under close supervision of the Police station and at the bottom was home. In such a setting many would not associate with our St Ann's."
Paul Key
Paul Key
There's Sally Sanders shop on corner of Livingstone and Moffat Street, she used to let you have things on tick till pay day kept a little book she was such a lovely old lady
Flo Garton
Then still a living community. The Prince Leopold started life as a Beer House, possibly opened around 1881, the name perhaps stimulated by the visit to Nottingham of Prince Leopold in 1881. The suffix on the TK Bedford is H which would place the photo 1969 or a little after.
Paul Key
Feb - July 1971- Preparing for demolition
The gleaming Eagle Lectern, stone pulpit and order of service board, not seen displaying Psalm and Hymn number, the list of the fallen, well polished pews, many once familiar faces in the choir, the distinct dusty smell from the grated heating duct. Our Grandfather and his elder brother were baptised at St Ann, in September 1889. Following on from October 1869 when his father along with 3 sisters and a brother were christened at St Ann. For many, a long association was lost to the swipe of a pen and the swing of the wrecking ball.
(Commetary from Paul Key)
(Commetary from Paul Key)
Southampton Street The road fully surfaced with setts, called fondly by many, cobbled stone, brings to mind how difficult, to say the least they were to negotiate when wet iced or snowed over, but evokes memories of residents using ash and embers from their fire grate, assisting the few vehicles trying to access such roads back in the 1950's winters. These would have included the coalman, milkman, coop bakery and for some the popman, with few cars owned. Pot holes did not exist in such roadways, (unless created by children for a game of marbles), they were resetted after excavation, around the 1960's tarmac patches began to appear due to new methods, cost reduction and lost skills of setting. In the right far ground appears to be the Emmanuel church, which will remain there for another year and housing towards Woodborough Road. The cleared ground directly at the bottom of Southampton Street, once shops between Cathcart and Dickinson Street, the steel chimneys, components of the interim St Ann's Heating before Eastcroft was brought into service. (Paul Key)
Mr and Mrs Gascoine lived at no.44 Livingstone Street and were the last people to leave the street.
Mr and Mrs Gascoine lived at no.44 Livingstone Street and were the last people to leave the street.