evelyne7

To make way for the Kelvin flats they pulled down Barnes Place. This was situated at the opposite side to Gilpin Street which is still there. The Dragon Pub was on the corner of Barnes Place. They were back to back houses, lots of them. I believe there were stables in Barnes Place in the real old times.

When you walked to the bottom of Hoyle St.- Opposite, in between two streets (top road and bottom road as they were known) they came to a point opposite the Roscoe Cinema - was there a pub there ? I seem to remember a phone box ? Was it a doctors surgery or a pub or both ? Anyone remember please

I lived on Meadow St. til 1953. No one seems to have mentioned Golds. I think were sort of a hardware shop. They had a well kept monkey in a cage in the backyard, called Jennie. The hairdressers, Golds, a bakery, a tobacconist and Esthers sweetshop.The urinal by the side of the phonebox and was there an icecream shop opposite this called Fantozzies. Fish Jacks and Gebhards. I went to Netherthorpe school and am so pleased to have confirmation that we had afternoon naps. I have a faint memory - could see myself on a sort of stretcher in a classroom with other children. Thanks for that information.

I remember Cartledge's shop - the building is still there near the Upperthorpe baths. I remember Blanchards on Infirmary Road. The assistants put your money in a tube and it disappeared along the ceiling to the office and came back with change and your bill in it. Does anyone remember Barnes Place ? A large square of houses with the Dragon pub on the corner. It was opposite Gilpin street.

The stationery cellar was approached thro a door under the main office staircase - was that Trent St ? opposite Rixsons, by the side of the main weighbridge. Near the Crown pub - nicknamed the low drop !! Deep inside the cellar you could see the weighbridge above. We were told these were the air raid shelters. You wont know me, I think Edwin Burrell was the Works Engineer when I was there

I forgot to say, we were told this stationery store room was the air raid shelter ! !

I worked at Arthur Lee Crown Works. We used to go through a door under the main office stairway, and there was a big "cellar" which stretched right under the weigh bridge. It was used for storing the stationery, lots of it.