Lenton Times

The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

Peter Holland took this shot of Alderney Street in 1978. The properties on the left came down in the early 1980s and the site was later incorporated into the present housing development known as Castle Gardens.  

This photograph taken in 1966 features the back of one of the shops at the corner of Grove Road and Alderney Street along with No.1 Alderney Street to the right.  In the distance you can just see Glovene's Elastic Yarns factory.

As a youth Geoffrey Smithson allied himself with the rockers and this photograph, taken in the back yard of No.8 Alderney Street, shows him with some of his 'hand-tooled' rocker gear.

These May 2003 photographs show that, 25 years on from the previous picture, much of Alderney Street still remains. Whilst the shop entrance on the corner has been bricked up and the houses on the left side of the street demolished, the residencies on the right hand side are unchanged.

This 1959 photo, supplied by Gordon Jackson, shows a young Gordon at the junction of Grove Road and Alderney Street. The shop on the right was owned by Mrs. Clarke until the late 60s when she retired from business and sold the shop to Len Jackson.

A 2004 view of Alderney Street looking northwards.  On the left are the terrace of properties built by Frank Johnson in the late nineteenth century.  On the right is part of the Castle Gardens complex built by Barratt's.

The original layout of Alderney Street was as a cul-de-sac.  But the arrival of the Castle Gardens development involved the construction of this new portion of roadway which connected Alderney Street to the section of road then known as Marcus Street. Thereafter Alderney Street became the name for the entire section of roadway and 'Marcus Street' became just an historical memory.

In order to build Castle Gardens Barratt's needed to acquire a portion of land on Grove Road then owned by the City Council.  The Corporation agreed to the deal but required in exchange the portion of land that ran alongside the canal.  This was later sold to a housing association which erected the set of properties shown on the right of this 2004 photograph.

The end of Alderney Street with the canal lying beyond the wall/railings as it looked in the mid 1980s.  In the far distance is the marina which has yet to fill up wih boats.

Like the previous photograph this was also taken by David Smithson in the mid 1980s.  The Steada Raywarp factory had been demolished and the City Council had constructed the canal side footpath that links Alderney Street to the Castle Bridge Road but the housing association properties had yet to make an appearance.  In the days when the factory housed Elastic Yarns David recalls there was a house in the factory yard about here which used to be occupied by the Bartol family which included the four Bartol children Paula, Teresa, Marilyn and Ken.

The following set of photographs come from the family album of Gordon Jackson who lived at 13 Alderney Street.  All were taken in the early 1960s.

The buildings on the western side of Alderney Street are still with us and part of that terrace of houses is shown in this photograph of Joyce Pepper.

Seven local children posing for their photograph including on the front row Tony Wright (left) and 'McNulty' ( right) with Geoff Hallam standing in the middle.

Gillian Pepper is the girl on the left with Ray Wright and Chris Mullen in the foreground.

Steve Pepper and Tony Wright

Gordon Jackson with Mandy, his dog, posing in the back yard of 13 Alderney Street.

The railings at the end of Alderney Street - the Nottingham Canal lies immediately behind them with Gordon Jackson seated on the wall.