Lenton Times - Marlborough Street

Lenton Times
The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

Marlborough Street - Dunkirk

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Photographs
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	The view looking down Marlborough Street from its junction with Montpelier Road. This end property has clearly undergone certain alterations in recent years. The TC picked out in tiles of a different shade refers to Tony Carroll who owned this and several other properties in the Dunkirk area. By trade a roofer, Mr Carroll evidently wanted his involvement in the property’s refurbishment to be recorded for posterity. This particular piece of information has been supplied by Matthew Worth who provides some additional memories of his own		After the extension was added, this shop at the junction of Marlborough Street and Montpelier Road had its entrance repositioned towards the rear of the property. Originally it would have been located at the corner of the building where the shop sign can be seen today.

Memories

Matthew Worth - Nottingham University 1995-1998, Nottingham Law School 1998-1999

I lived in Dunkirk as a student between 1997 and 1999 and residing nearby on Brailsford Road. The garden wall of the property with the letters TC on it also has "THE PIT II" picked out in different coloured brick, incorporated in the boundary wall fronting on to Montpelier Road. The original PIT, also owned by Tony Carroll, could be found on Lace Street painted on the front garden wall and was the nickname by which students knew the property.

I remember both Geoff's (the shop at the corner of Marlborough St.) and the Rubber Duck pub (now the Dunkirk Inn) especially fondly - particularly the latter's offering of free pool, and lunch and a pint for Ł2.50, on weekday afternoons!

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