NOTTINGHAM - B/W - NO SOUND

[@theresadevine638]

This film makes my heart ache with longing; we can’t go back except films like this give a glimpse to those old enough to remember Nottingham like this. Thank you for this film. 🙏

[@blindpugh12]

I can just about remember the last of the trolley buses; and the beautiful Market Square which later they ruined in the name of 'progress'.

[@johnbarlow6990]

No litter, no graffiti, everyone smartly dressed, no traffic apart from public transport, the wonderful Victoria Station still in use - what's not to like?

[@b.goodfellow465]

No Coronavirus either! 🙏🙏🙏

[@Veniceredmask01]

@@b.goodfellow465 there isn’t today just re named flu, and the government poisoning its citizens just like porton downs

[@johnross2924]

​@@b.goodfellow465 arrr the scamdemmic, I remember it well 😡

[@ykrgfk]

@@b.goodfellow465 Just the occasional epidemic of polio, diphtheria, smallpox, tuberculosis.....The good thing was that we didn't have fantasist idiots claiming that diseases were a government scam.

[@ykrgfk]

@@b.goodfellow465 Just the occasional epidemic of polio, diphtheria, smallpox, tuberculosis....but fortunately no mad fantasists around making claims that diseases were all all just a government scam.

[@mrkolasa.]

Great watch. Thank you. No cars i bet it was so peaceful and a lot less pollution

[@Veniceredmask01]

Less pollution l? Lol everyone had a coal fire you couldn’t breath

[@mrbojangles7577]

​@@Veniceredmask01And pea soup fog too I remember. Was a bit grim.

[@mrgoodintent]

What .....yes WHAT a brilliantly designed station architecture!! .....& the so called 'official authority' agreed for it to be demolished I believe???? Shame on them!!

[@pedric54]

What a find! Excellent for research purposes. Not a dated clip. I looked for tell-tale signs. White painted margins on the mudguards of buses and some cars/vans point to c1944-46. Fashions, cars and vans - all of interest. The arrival of two passenger trains was shot at Leicester Central downside (northbound) platform.

[@kaliksenna]

3:52 When I was a student many - many years ago, I did gardening work to get a little money in and around the Redcliffe Road and Elm Bank, Mapperley area. I used to work for an elderly Lady who told me that her Father designed the Freeze on the Council House. She was an incredible Lady and I still remember her decades later. I think the Star pattern in the paved area represents the Centre Of Nottingham. I'm Not 100% sure, but I've been told that by many people.

[@jameswatson8316]

Loved watching these.BRILLIANT.

[@gregoryvnicholas]

Those are out-takes from a 1946 film, "They Knew Mr Knight". It starred Mervyn Johns and was based on a novel by local authoress Dorothy Whipple.

[@kevinchamberlain5978]

Can anyone identify the location at 1.15 to 1.35. I've lived in Nottingham all my life and don't recognise that scene at all. I've posted the question on other forums and no-one knows where that street is.

[@kenstevens5065]

Kevin Chamberlain, The first scene looking down is on to the Lace Market, could be from the Council House clock tower over Fletcher Gate. The factory is demolished and is now occupied by an apartment block, No 1 Fletcher Gate. You can see the clock tower of Midland staion middle distance for reference. The second scene may be on a bus route, note the centre road markings. It could be Wilford Grove the Meadows looking north but a lot at the north end was re developed in the early 1970's and the old houses have gone. Hope this helps. Interestingly the platform scene at 5.42 is actually Leicester Central, same line as Nottingham Victoria.

[@akc5150]

I was soo expecting to see Tug Wilson standing on those council house steps!!

[@TheGeoff2209]

Good old trolleybus no 43 market square to Trent Bridge caught in many a time to go fishing on the "steps" gudgeon bashing

[@williampercival7662]

Is this the 1920s, My dad's birth place. William Percival New Zealand Kia Orana.

[@twittykins]

It dates from 1945 to early 1947 at the latest. As another poster has pointed out, markings on car mudguards and the women's clothing seem to indicate this time frame. Also, in 1947, Dior's 'New Look' was launched and none of the women are wearing anything that even remotely resembles that style.

[@GyitMulhaneski-GloriousYears]

0:01 Zat ees not Nottinghom. Zat ees San Paul's. Efans I know zat. Nottinghom ees pants. I musch prefeur nearby Esseex and Croydorn. Yes?

[@lesbird2074]

The shots taken of trains arriving at the platform are surely Leicester, not Nottingham.

[@torfrida6663]

Leslie Bird I know my memory is suffering with age, but to me that looks like our old Victoria station before it got kno key down and the faster route to London was abolished.

[@neillf8552]

Definitely Leicester, Nottingham Victoria was all below ground level

[@lesbird2074]

@@neillf8552 Absolutely. The exterior shot is Nottingham Victoria (the clock tower is all that remains) but the platform shots are outtakes from a film the name of which escapes me.

[@ENGLISHCHIEF1]

Seem better builders back in the day #Gameplay

[@sarahfields288]

The streets look so quiet and under populated

[@stefanoprivetto6744]

Yes isn't it lovely.

[@boobarr1]

Boring video. , why stay on the same areas for length of time ,,

[@stefanoprivetto6744]

Someone who has no affiliation with the past has no soul.

[@johnross2924]

Why rush it?