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Post by Steve (Spondon Online) on Jan 16, 2007 18:35:44 GMT 1
As a relatively recent resident of Spondon (9 years), it's amazing to think how much change has occurred in the village just in this short timespan.
I remember the sprawling Spondon Caravans ground which is now the Notts Road/Station Road estate with Raj's of Spondon sat on the corner.
I remember the plumbing/DIY store opposite the Liberal Club which is now the Courtyard estate - and the Notts Road Teich Flexibles factory, now being quickly turned into the largest new housing development in the village.
All this change and more from just the last decade alone makes me think just how much the village must have changed over the decades.
We can see from the various old photos of Spondon some of the former great buildings in the village but I wonder what long-gone buildings in the village stand out most in your memories?
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Post by hardtailbiker on Jan 19, 2007 15:41:44 GMT 1
I have only been here a couple of years but I believe my house is built on the site of an old scout hut but have seen no pics of this to corroborate this fact. I know from having the garden paved that there was also two brick built houses in my garden probably before the scout hut which would have fronted on to Gladstone Rd.
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Post by oldbill77 on Jun 22, 2007 11:33:44 GMT 1
I was born in Spondon in 1930 lived in Moor End until 1950 I now live on Chesterton Rd which was all fields belonging to Yates farm Where the precinct is now was Bartons farm On Church St opp the shop was Cradocks Bakery Sitwell st near the garage was Houslys Chemist the one they are in now was Goodwins In the village was Stevens groceries Bob Sims cycles and radios Mortons haberdashery Callys Abbots mens barbers Skinners the butchers Barton butchers Elsoms paper shop on the corner of chapel st and gladstone rd was Barnes toffee shop These are only a few I can remember when Spondon was a village and you knew everyone on the bus
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Post by gareth on Jun 22, 2007 16:51:21 GMT 1
I can confirm that the scout hut fronted Gladstone road. I was a wolf cub there in the 1940s and we attended a huge rally in a Derby park to welcome Lord Rowallan the chief scout.In those days children had very little and so what we did have was very precious to us. My cub uniform was my most precious possession and I wonder how my parents who were always hard up afforded it. I was not allowed to join scouts ostensibly on the ground that we had returned home too late from a cub sporting event but in reality because my parents could not afford the uniform. I have always regretted that but my own kids revelled in cubs brownies scouts and guides and one son attended the world scout jamboree in Seoul. Scouts and cubs faced a few jeers from Spondon yobs even in those days but they soon disappeared when a certain scouter about 6foot8inches tall and about the same broad turned up. His nickname was Tiny. Does anyone remember him?
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Post by hardtailbiker on Jul 2, 2007 15:46:32 GMT 1
Thanks Gareth. I suppose you don't have any pics then. Was the Scout hut a brick building or wooden. I ask this as I paved my back garden last year and there was the remains of either one or two brick built buildings fronting the Gladstone Rd end
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Post by lindsayredfern on Oct 15, 2007 23:03:10 GMT 1
Scout hut, Gladstone Road. This was a brick built building. It's original cost was £200 and the money was raised by holding 6d dances at the 'little school' in Chapel Street. I know about this because my father, George Hill, was a founder member of Spondon Scouts and later became the Scout Master. My mother, Elsie, was Cub Mistress. My grandparents lived at Gladstone House and for a long time they held the key for the scout hut.
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Post by geoff on Oct 16, 2007 23:46:16 GMT 1
I have lived in spondon for most of my life and can remember all the buidings that oldbill recalls. what about some of the little shops that were scattered all over spondon? to name a few - Kingmans & Frosts on Nottingham rd, the little shop opposite the church on the end of the terraced houses where the flats are now with Hooleys the cobblers on the other end of the terrace, and just round the corner the grocers in Potter st. And in the village centre - Coxons butchers, the H & B Stores, Montons outfitters, Kents chip shop and there was another chip shop in chapel st run by Mr Hopps I think this stood approximately where the doctors surgery/ thornhills stands now., apart from this building, the butchers and the row of terraced houses all the others remain as different outlets or houses.
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Post by johnedunnicliff on Jan 24, 2008 21:37:54 GMT 1
Gareth, I was also a cub scout in the 1940's. We were the 66th Derbys if I remember correctly. I have a photograph of myself shaking hands with Lord Rowallen at that Jamboree in Derby. I certainly remember "Tiny" who went off to join the Grenadier Guards. Our Scout Master was "Pop" Davis who was a teacher at Springfield school. He and the Vicar had the best influence on me at that young age.
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Post by malchall1 on Jan 25, 2008 19:42:15 GMT 1
Seems strange as to way everyone remembers the Scouts although no one has mentioned the Life Boys or the Boys Brigade Long gone now due to a lack of interest nowadays but still apart of Spondons history.
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Post by malchall1 on Jan 26, 2008 16:53:41 GMT 1
It was ran by a Mr Budge In the Methodist Chapel on Lodge lane off the A52. it was started up with the assistance of Lord Baden Powell so we are back to the Scouts.
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Post by gareth on Jan 27, 2008 13:51:52 GMT 1
I was at the Methodisr church in the 40s and 50s and remember the very active girls life brigade captained by the formidable Isobel Coxon with assistants Phyllis Rotton and Mrs. Paulsen. The boys brigade came in the fifties captained by Harold Rotton but when the Rottons left Spondon in the late fifties I had the feeling that boys brigade then folded. I also left Spondon at that time so can not be sure. Gareth
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Post by cricketer on Apr 18, 2008 0:39:55 GMT 1
The Scout hut was taken over by our Spondon Flight of the 609 Squadron of the Air Training Corps in 1941-44 as a H.Q. and club house. We had the occasional dance there with some of the A.T.S. girls from the Dale Road A.A. site, and also did some square bashing drills in the yard. Mostly though, we drilled at Springfield School and some long distance marches on Sunday afternoons from there through Locko Park and down Dale Road.
I have some photos of the Squadron for anyone to see who may be interested.
Ken Porter
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Post by amyjurrison on Jul 14, 2008 20:01:38 GMT 1
My father was an active member of the boys brigade when he was a lad. His name was Michael Jurrison and would love to hear from anyone who knew him.
The scouts is still 66th Derby and I was Akela at Thor cub pack-going back 10-12 years now.
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Post by dockgreen on Jul 29, 2008 14:41:26 GMT 1
We, the Dixon family, lived at The Wilderness, on the corner of Sitwell Street and Poplar Avenue, between 1946 and 1969. Does anyone have any photos of the house? There are many pictures of Sitwell St and yet they all just miss our house. Thanks.
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Post by stephaniebc on Jan 14, 2011 22:09:10 GMT 1
My Great Grandparents, the Glovers, lived at Spondon House (which later became the Rajah) where they ran a tea room and post office. There are pictures of it standing in 2001 but it has been demolished to make way for the new housing estate. As with the post above, should anyone have any pictures of it I would love to see them. Thank you.
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