Stapleford
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Map of Nottinghamshire
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Stapleford books (3 available)
Newark Photographic Memories
Paperback
Nottinghamshire Living Memories
Hardback
Nottinghamshire Pocket Album
Paperback
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first show house
My grandparents (now deceased) owned the first show house on the Clifton Estate. They had a picture with the mayor at the time which we have somewhere. The house was on Farnborough Road. I think it was 1951 or thereabouts.
I lived at Southchurch Court in the early 1970s then Conifer Crescent for a year before moving to West Bridgford in 1975.
Clifton is ok! J
A memory of Clifton contributed by Janine Toulson
Holidays from the Past
I have so many happy memories Of Nottingham. My parents would take me to visit an aunt & uncle there in the early 50s. My aunt lived in Ratcliffe, my uncle had the Ratcliffe Golf Club and they lived on the premises. I was very friendly with their neighbours, and the one thing that really stuck in my mind was how beautiful Mr & Mrs Kettlebank's garden was, the array of flowers and the perfume from them was so beautiful. When my aunt & uncle left Ratcliffe they went to live in Hucknall and I remember staying with them on vacation and my Aunt Paddy taught me to do embrodery. Many happy memories too of visiting Sherwood Forest and Nottingham Castle. ...read more here
A memory of Nottingham contributed by Brenda Vanderwert
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 ...read more here
A memory of Nottingham contributed by J Hammond
Diamond Anniversary
My parents, June Delicia Hancock and V. Neville Wright, now living in London, were married at St. Giles Church, West Bridgford, on 3rd April 1948 and are celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary this week.
A memory of West Bridgford contributed by Helen Gordon-Smith
Extracts From Stapleford & Nottinghamshire books
The second section of this
chapter starts to the west of the
city in Stapleford, close to the
Derbyshire border, which follows
the River Erewash southwards to
the River Trent. Stapleford, now
virtually a satellite of Nottingham,
grew up from a village of lace
factories and framework knitters’
houses. Its character is now that
of a Victorian industrial town, as
this view shows; we are at the
main crossroads in the town
centre, with Church Street off
to the right. The corner shops
are now a Nottingham Building
Society branch.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
In Church Road there are some older houses and the parish church; the south churchyard boundary runs along Church Lane
to the left. St Helen’s churchyard contains a great historical treasure: an Anglo-Saxon churchyard cross, the most important
pre-Conquest monument in Nottinghamshire (right). Over ten feet high, with a protective hat-like capping of 1820, its date is
uncertain, but it is probably 8th-century. The iron gates in the foreground came from Wellington College in 1922.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary
and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park. The style is classic 1950s: rows of windows are surrounded by stone or concrete
projecting jambs, heads and sills, as we can see on the first floor at the left. Bramcote Park School is now a comprehensive.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
Our visit to Stapleford concludes with an oddity: the Hemlock Stone. This wind-eroded sandstone outcrop, about 30 feet
high, is situated on the eastern edge of Stapleford Hill, just off the A6002 Coventry Lane. Needless to say, it has accumulated
legends, including one that the Devil threw it at the now almost completely demolished Lenton Priory.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
The Church 1890
In this picture the ancient village church
looks brand new; it was. The Reverend
Edward Hadley had All Saints completely
rebuilt between 1886 and 1888, and paid
for it himself.
An extract from from"Newark Photographic Memories".