West Bridgford
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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.
Contributed by Helen Gordon-Smith
Nottinghamshire memories
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
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
Extracts From West Bridgford & Nottinghamshire books
The core of the old village lies at the north end of Central Avenue, where the road becomes Bridgford Road. Here stands the
Hall and the parish church of St Giles, where my uncle was married in August 1955. The tower and part of the south aisle
are medieval. The rest, much larger in scale as befitted this now prosperous suburb, was started in 1896, and is a convincing
essay in Perpendicular Gothic. This view looks through the Church Drive gateway towards the west tower.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
This downstream view, taken from almost the same vantage point as N50079, shows the ugly and large hotel built in the intervening fifteen years close to both Trent Bridge cricket ground and Nottingham Forest's FC football stadium. The hotel has now become a civic centre and tall stands for spectators surround the stadium's floodlights.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
East of the Central Avenue/Bridgford Road junction is Bridgford Park; the house’s extensive grounds are now a very popular
public park. The house itself, now the offices of Rushcliffe Borough Council’s Social Services and the Register Office, was
, but extended later. This view shows the south front; behind the house, in the northern half of the park,
are tennis courts, sports fields and a car park.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
Further back in Tudor Square, Frith’s photographer was looking into Central Avenue with Albert Road to the right and
Rectory Road to the left. The left-hand corner is occupied by an early 1960s Electricity Board building, nowadays Lunn
Poly, and the Derbyshire Building Society. From 1931 until 1960 this site had been occupied by the Tudor Cinema, an
extraordinary building with a tall timber-framed wing and a weird circular stone stair turret on its frontage.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
The low two-storeyed rendered building on the left in the
middle distance is the 16th-century, timber-framed Saracen’s
Head. Here, in May 1646, Charles I spent his last night
of freedom. Tactfully, the pub changed its name from the
King’s Head to the Saracen’s Head soon after Charles was beheaded.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Pocket Album".