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Salisbury Street - Lenton/Radford
Photographs
| Family Memories
| Street Map
This street is situated in an area that is generally recognised
as part of Old Radford. However after Radford and Lenton became part of
the Borough of Nottingham in 1876 the block of housing on the southern side
of the Ilkeston Road were deemed to be part of Lenton. This remained the
case until this area was incorporated into the new parish of Radford, All Souls
which was established in the early 1890s.
Photographs
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| Looking along Salisbury Street in the early 1960's. In the far distance is the junction with Faraday Road and part of the Raleigh factory complex. Lying behind it is the Triumph Road gasometer. |
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May Fines with her next door neighbour, Mrs Larkam, standing at
the back entrance to their properties on Salisbury Street.
Photograph taken c.1950. |
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Beryl Fines and her sister-in-law, Pat Fines, in 1959, standing in the doorway to Harold Fines' shop situated at the corner of Salisbury and Middleton Streets. |
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Pat Fines - Australia
My
in laws Harold and May Fines had a shop on the corner of Salisbury and Middleton
Street, they were there from about 1946 to 1961. This shop faced a pub
which I knew as "The Marcus" [ Marquis of Lorne] and after I married
their son, Barrie, I got to know this neighbourhood very well. I even
spent a year living at the shop while we waited for our house at Bestwood Park.
I can remember watching ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ being filmed which
caused great excitement in those days. The Radford people were salt of the
earth kind of folks and there were some real characters among them. Barrie’s
sister, Beryl, married the son of a very well known Radford couple, Min and
Wilf Wilson from Pine Street. Among the names I can recall are: Alf Keys
(the coal man), Mrs Lakam (who lived next door), the Staplefords, Hudsons (who
had little Cliffy), Doris and Bill Devin, the Yorks and Nellie and Ernest who
lived with Mrs Larkam. I think the beer-off across from the Fines’ shop
was owned by some one named Hawkins. We came to Australia in 1967 and
only returned for a visit in 1980. We went to see the Fines’ old shop
only to find practically the whole area had been flatten to the ground. It
made me feel really sad and remember picking up some of the old brick pieces
to bring back to show Barrie. "The Marcus" was the only building still
standing.
Let us know your memories of Salisbury Street
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