Bulwell Then & Now - The Movie

Photos by myself edited over the last few years.
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[@greenrosenz]

what a fantastic nostalgic viewing. Been in NZ for 30+years. Lived on Bestwood Park as a kid but used to ride all over the place in the 60's and often walked to the swimming baths with siblings and friends. Thank you Paul, you have done a great job.

[@lamalandy]

Wonderfully merged photos giving a lovely window into the past, there was even a shot of my Grandad's greengrocers shop on the marketplace near the zebra next to what was Wilko's (Arthur Richards). Its given me an idea about how to present some of the historical phots I have from around where I live now. Thanks and well done.

[@user-re2fl3sh2d]

Bulwell has all the character of an urban bus-stop, open to the wind and rain.

[@clovelly1946]

Lived in Basford worked for George Brough at his BP garage in Bulwell,left UK 1965.Have since found out my family lived in Bulwell some 2-300 years before.Remember the Vernon and Market each sat.good days.

[@hilarywilkinson9375]

I was brought up on Highbury Vale, and remember during the 1950’s shopping with my mum on Saturday mornings. To see the old and new photos side by side is remarkable, and although I don’t remember the details of the photos, I remember ‘the feel and atmosphere’ of the roads and the market. Times change, I have lovely memories of Bulwell, the Lido.....in 1959 there was a very hot summer and it was my last long summer holiday before I left school. I spent nearly every day there. Happy days.......

[@paulturton9755]

Thanks Hilary. If you check out my other videos, there's another one specifically covering the area between Basford and Bulwell via Highbury Vale etc. There might be a few extra photos in there that aren't in the bigger video

[@hilarywilkinson9375]

@@paulturton9755 Thank you.....I’ve just seen the railway bridge at Northern Baths.... someone use to write across the bridge “ vote Pike”, I might have miss-remembered his name....he was on the council for years. As a child I was fascinated that someone had climbed over the top of the bridge and written it ‘upside down’ !! I am going to go through all your videos to make sure I’ve seen them all. A nice job for a cold rainy day! Thank you for finding and preserving these treasures. I have quite a few books published but I still keep seeing something new in your videos. Well done!

[@paulturton9755]

Thanks Hilary, they take a bit of time to do, and I need to produce some more Bulwell videos at some stage. Don't forget to check the Nottingham videos too, I'm sure you'll find something of interest in those. I think the name might have been "Peck" not Pike. John Peck was a Communist party politician for Bulwell East in the 70s and 80s before changing to the Green Party. Hmmm good idea for a video there !!

[@hilarywilkinson9375]

@@paulturton9755 Thank you for remembering John Peck! Have you checked Wikipedia? There is a lot of information about him and all the local elections he lost and won. There must by a mine of information at the Nottingham Post archive. It was in the 1950’s he first started campaigning. Can I feel another video coming along.......I will watch this space!

[@lamalandy]

Three generations lived in Broomhill Road for a while before we moved to Leicester. I remember playing in Bulwell visiting Woolies and the bogs etc when we visited Grandads shop as a child. I have a trolly bus model as a reminder of those days.

[@paulrossiter9311]

I don't really know what to say lm just mesmerized

[@paulturton9755]

That's good... i hope lol Don't forget to check out the other then and now videos (smaller sections)

[@johnhealy8513]

Very interesting montages.

[@PanPuchacki]

I used to work at QMC in Nottingham with a lady, which was way above the retirement age but still working hard. She must have been about 70y old. She was raised in Bulwell as a kid/teenager and said that it was once a lovely place. It was safe and people used to leave the door unlocked, no one would dare to break in. Looking at Bulwell now, it's a cesspit with socially disabled people. This is what liberal handouts and welfare system does. No respect to people and property (no disrespcet to those working hard and looking afger things).

[@stevecommons3822]

An excellent sequence of montages, Mr Turton; thank you. I was born there in 1947 and, unless I am mistaken, at about 22' there is a shot of Thames Street with Dove Street on the left, and the house in Thames Street where I lived. Moved away at 4yrs old as my father re-joined the RAF, but visited relations in Bulwell many times in the 1950s and 60s. My great-uncle owned and ran Makemson Bros motor coaches based on the corner of Highbury Road and Piccadilly. I see the premises, Vale Garage, remains associated with the motor trade (Google GPS co-ordinates 52.994526, -1.190085).

[@bloadicea]

I was born May 37 at 109 Piccadilly, father was one of the local ‘bobbies’. I see the playing field is still their rather amazing. School was Highbury Secondary, and considering the times (40/50s) we had excellent teachers. Happy memories, sledging on Bulwell common walking through the fields to Arnold etc. Well done Paul. K Goode, Coombabah Aus.

[@SlapnastyMcTavish]

Have not lived in Nottingham for forty years, although most of my family still do, some in Highbury Vale. But my Dad and Grandad are both from Bulwell and my formative years took place, there. What a wonderful trip down memory lane.

[@paulturton9755]

Don't forget to check out all my other Bulwell videos 👍

[@SlapnastyMcTavish]

@@paulturton9755 I am all over it Paul, thanks. Getting very nostalgic. Went to Henry Mellish School.

[@richard-lm4zf]

Extremely well put together 👏🏻👏🏻

[@hdhdjjdjdxjjjejskkedjdjdj]

Great work man.

[@paulturton9755]

Many thanks :) Don't forget to check out my other Bulwell videos !

[@PureFate]

Great Imagination bro, Love it, keep it up to think the souls of Bulwell have gone, is there for us all to see. they are all still here.

[@paulturton9755]

Many thanks 👍

[@Adventures_with_Sog]

Wonderful video.

[@joyrice2244]

I can highly recommend Paul's presentation's. He will be there as part of the Bulwell Arts Festival on ThThursday 14th July Bulwell and Basford Then / Now talk 11am Community rooms, Bulwell Riverside A fun and informative talk to accompany Paul Turton’s photographic exhibition at Bulwell Riverside; on display all week. (Free

[@davidappleton2208]

Happy memories. Born and bred in Bulwell. My parents went to the Salvation Army on Main St. I used to love the lido.

[@paulturton9755]

In that case, don't forget to check out my other Bulwell / Nottingham videos, including one on The Lost Lidos of Nottingham

[@kiwithemartian]

wow 😍 i can actually see my housw

[@aryansobe2737]

I live in bulwell

[@Puglife-vh8tc]

aryan sobe same

[@JezzyJerseyCow]

I'm from Bulwell.

[@terry1529]

same which part

[@alisonlee3314]

Well matched photos. I only lasted 5 years in Bulwell, until my son and I were driven out by gangs. Simply for having southern accents. Vile tbh.

[@paulturton9755]

+Alison Lee (TruthAlways) Sorry to hear that you had such a bad experience :( Hopefully not everyone was like that to you.

[@alisonlee3314]

+Paul Turton I'd moved with my little boy to Snapewood. We didn't know anyone and got bullied. It was Hell. But we got out. Thank you for your kind words.

[@theyliebutwhy8101]

Alison Lee snape wood is were thy demons dwell

[@greenrosenz]

Alison Lee -realy sorry to learn that Alison. I thought England was full of predudice based upon accents and so called class. So left for NZ duuring the Thatcher years.

[@peterjackson1096]

Brilliant vids Paul. I used to live up Sandhurst Road and played around Bulwell Hall,and the ‘Big Lakes’. Loved the shots of the Bogs. Anyone have a photo of the prefabs on Sandhurst, Ludford road etc?

[@LeoMeller-c7c]

I live in bullwell

[@KILLEMALL1066]

Im about to blow a gasket, and I make no apologies! Bulwell, once a great town where every one knew each other, families who'd been there for generations! Alas, its now turned into a shit hole and it started at the end of the 80's! Nottingham City Council planners started to fuck it up in the late 60's. Crabtree Farm Estate built, what a shithole, the fore runner of Balloon Woods! Snape wood, that was a picturesque place, but was slashed and burned to build houses in the mid 70's! They demolished whole streets, pedestrianized main street, screwed up Bulwell Market, turned most streets into dead ends! All the industries vanished, and it ripped the heart n soul out of Bulwell! If your my age, 55, and grew up in Bulwell, you don't see hardly anyone you used to know! On a market day it sounds like the fucking Kasbah, it reminds me of Highson Green in the early 70's, full of ethnics!! There aint many who can call themselves proper Bulwellians left at all! I guess most have left. The best thing about Bulwell nowadays is the road out! Nice montage Mr Turton, but several of the photos are mismatched! By the way, there used to be an old lady who lived at 76 Hempshill Lane in Bulwell, Her name was Turton, any relation? Also, there used to be a girl who went to Henry Mellish in the 70's, Angela Turton was her name, any relation?

[@ballshippin3809]

Same can be said for many other parts of Nottingham. St Ann's where most of my family is from had a tight knit community that lasted up till the late 80's, then it all started going way down hill from there. Nottingham is not what it used to be, now it just feels like another soulless modern day London full of degenerates and migrants.

[@markmitchell2282]

As the kids would say today sick

[@jonselby1879]

were on the world map😀😀😀😀

[@paulturton9755]

Keep looking, lots of Bulwell videos on my channel 👍

[@kevinfield3891]

this is why we have no markets thank to the greedy council

[@claytontyrell1180]

1992 world war 2

[@davidappleton2208]

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