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Bestwood Lodge
After browsing this site in search of any information or memories about Bestwood Lodge.
Nothing comes up other than Bestwood Village.
So I thought I would add my own.
So here goes...........Is there anyone out there who had a connection or a memory of Bestwood.....particularly the "married quarters" on Robin Hood Road, or Nell Gwyn Crescent?
There were only the two roads at the time which were surrounded by farmland in the fifties. Check out Google Earth, and it is very different now of course. All built up, although the once MOD owned houses look very smart with all of their new additions, ie Porches, Garages etc.
I would like to hear from anyone who lived there at that time, as I did.
"Brownie Meetings" in Bestwood Lodge (Now a Hotel) I have some great Memories from those times................anyone else out there?
Can you add anything?
When we Came Here
When our family, consisting of myself, Jean Pauline Smith, my mother who has since passed away (also called Jean, but her middle name is Audrey), and my sister and brother came to Bulwell, we came from the famous or infamous Balloon Wood flats, in Wollaton. We were given a three bedroom house on Hornbeam Gardens, Snapewood. It was a cold September when we looked around and going into the back bedroom, I saw the cemetery beyond. I was mortified, having only been at work for a year, I now didn't want to live so close to a graveyard. But since then I have marvelled at it. Our garden transformed from a mud hole with three layers into a lower patio area with a raised rockery. My mum started to collect a wide range of plants and her pride and joy were the heathers and oxalis/shamrocks. As I got older I contributed to the garden and we started to look at the wildlife that inhabited the cemetary and the gardens around... Read more
Happy Days
Although I was only a boy. Me and my two brothers went Percy Street School. Mrs Evans was the teacher I remember very well. We lived on Davids Square. We had many happy hours at the Vernon picture house, the old flea pit. Also on Billy Bacon's Field, Vernon Park and watching old Basford United, and making a lot of a nuisance to older people. I remember some families, the Walkers, Coopers, Browns, Bolshaws, Jordons. I will always cherish childhood. I am 65 now, I pass Basford quite regularly, Old Lincoln Street is that's left, sadly.
Vernon Park Area
I was born at Cheltenham Street at home, my mum and dad were George and Margaret Fisher. Across the road lived my grandad Reg Jenkins. My great grandad lived in Bell Terrace, bless him, he served in the First World War, I can remember him quite clearly even though he died when I was 3. The Turner family lived in Bell Terrace too, there were seven of them in one tiny house, they were a lovely family and we still see eachother. My best friend was Tina who also lived on Cheltenham Street. We had some great times, going to Vernon Park and the fair on Basford Waites, also exploring some caves that were near the botton of Park Lane. We used to mess about in the high rise flats across the crossing, and also go paddling in the River Leen. My aunt used to take me to a shop on Lincoln Street that sold everything, she used to buy my cousins and me a toy each every Saturday. Then... Read more
Mum And Dad
My brother and I are twins, born 1958 in Nottingham, we find our mum Barbara Sanderson. but she d in 1986. we did not see her. We looking for our dad Ron or Ronald Smith. He has ginger hair, he lived at 3 Chatham Terrace, Chatham Street, Bulwell, Nottingham in 1986. We are Rosemary and Peter, we are Foster.
The Good Times
I lived in Westgate then moved to Wicklow Street. I remember the floods on Lincoln Street in 1947, we had to go in little rowing boats. I was in Mrs Evans's class at Percy Street School. After Goose Fair we had on on Billy Bacon's field near the post office, the lady working there was called Mary. It was a great place to live. I left in 1965.
Samuel Page - Umbrella Maker.
This photo shows my great grandfather's shop, nearly opposite the one owned by Jesse Boot. The shop has (on the left hand side of the photo) the name S. Page (Samuel Page) just above the wooden statue of Jonas Hanway holding an umbrella and the name of the shop was Hanway House; Samuel Page being an Umbrella Manufacturer and Dealer in Ladies and Gentlemen's waterproofs and all kinds of Travelling Requisites. Jonas Hanway brought the umbrella to this country from China and Japan. He was laughed at for carrying such an item as it was considered effeminate. Samuel Page was a noted umbrella maker because of the excellent quality of the silk that he used in their manufacture. He registered the name Jonas Hanway and the name 'Hanway' is found engraved in gold letters inside each umbrella.
