Kit Kant

Do untie others as you would them untie you..

[Kit Kant @kitkant]

Please drive carefully, you are now entering West Bridgeford #Nottingham.

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Reg Varney and ("I'll get you for that Butler!") Blakey take a break from filming On The Buses in old market square #Nottingham back in the day. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo taken in the early 1930s of the tram to Arnold in old market square #Nottingham. Foulds Pianos had a shop near by on Chapel Bar at this time. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo of the Boots Chemists/Post Office shop on Mansfield Road taken from the corner of Huntingdon Street about 50 years ago. One of the trees in this photo is still there today. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo taken in 1990 showing one of the fountains that used to be outside #Nottingham's Council House... as today, Notts County get ready celebrate moving on up to EFL League One in old market square. 🙌🙌 #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Grainy old photo taken from outside the Theatre Royal #Nottingham looking down Market Street. In the background you can just make out the Classic Cinema frontage on the right which closed in 1984. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo taken from the right lion outside #Nottingham's Council House looking across old market square in the early 1960s. Long Row was one long line of bus stops in those days and you could park almost anywhere you liked. A real smoggasbord of carbon dioxide. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo of Saint Peter's Gate #Nottingham taken in the 1940s. Half the buildings on the right have now been replaced by developers using Microsoft Word designs to maximise the ubiquitous desire for ephemeral blandness..... They call it cost-effectiveness.
#ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Love this photo of Lady Bay Bridge taken by Peter Crouch when he used to play for Nottingham Forrest.

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Here's a photo taken 125 years ago of three posh people gathered in a cordoned off old market square #Nottingham to celebrate the return of the South Notts Hussars from the Second Boer War in South Africa. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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The Dog &Topper pub facing Abbey Bridge roundabout #Nottingham opened in 1999. Originally known as the 17th/21st Lancers pub in the 1970s it eventually closed down in 2016 and is now a Sainsburys shop with Bunneys Bikes next door. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Just an inconsequential photo of George Street #Nottingham taken during WW2 in 1944. Above the cobbled street are the electric trolley bus lines. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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A couple chat next to the right lion on the left outside the Council House #Nottingham in the summer of 1966.

Just a few of the singles from the UK pop charts of May 1966:
Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel
Wild Thing - The Troggs
Strangers in the Night - Frank Sinatra
Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
#ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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In 1971 a man who was found to be wearing white socks with black slip-on shoes dangles from a crane in old market square #Nottingham. Photo Rick Wilde. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo of #Nottingham's Yates's taken in the 1990s.

Opened in 1929 it finally ceased trading 90 years later and is now a protected grade 2 listed building.

One of Yates's specialities was "The Blob," a signature drink made from sweet Australian wine, brandy, sugar, lemon, and hot water.
#ThenAndNow @No1tingham
#ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Grainy photo of the right left lion taken outside the Council House about 30 years ago. You can just make out how much the little trees have grown on Long Row. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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A photo of the Hippodrome Theatre opposite the Theatre Royal #Nottingham taken the in 1920s.
The statue is Samuel Morley (1809–1886) a famous MP and philanthropist. It was later transferred to the Arboretum but fell off the lorry on the way and smashed. Only the head survived.🙄
They originally arranged to name quite a few pubs after him but remembered that he was an ardent teetotaller and changed their minds. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo from the 1970s of the Peach Tree pub (left) and Turf Tavern (right corner) - opposite the Theatre Royal #Nottingham.
FUN FACT
D.H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe both frequented the Turf Tavern (not together obs).
#ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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Photo of High Street #Nottingham taken in the 1950s from the corner of Pelham Street/Long Row. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham

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@Colin_Mad @No1tingham Thanks for that Colin. I was guessing by the 'M' reg numberplate on the green bus.

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Two buses on Long Row #Nottingham about 50 years ago. #ThenAndNow @No1tingham