Streets

A recent item in the Nottingham Evening Post Bygones column concerned a news story from 29th January 1977. The old street nameplates taken down from streets scheduled for demolition were being sold at a Nottingham antiques fair for £15.00 each. The signs were cleaned up by a local metal dealer then put on sale at the fair, where they proved to be quite an attraction. One of the longest of the street names proved to be a bit of a handful, however. The nameplate for Kirke White Street cracked as it was being unloaded.

A recent email from Maggie Perkins started me wondering about what happened to all the other nameplates. Have you got one up in the attic or in a garden shed? Have you got one on show somewhere in the house? If so, why not let us know which nameplate you have. Emails to the usual address.

This is a picture of me, aged three, in 1960 on Ryeland Cresent. My grandmother's house, number 6, would be to the right of the picture. The white building at the top of the picture is one of Shipstones "pubs" whose name escapes me at the moment, but I think it was the Cresent. The door to the left of that belongs to a Shipstones "beer off." The company had quite a presence in the old Meadows.