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Mothers as a club name opened on Friday 9th August 1968. The opening performance was by Duke Sonny.

I'd like to share a story while I'm still around to tell it, but there is a language warning for those of a sensitive disposition. Firstly, it was a rite of passage at school on your 16th birthday to overstate your age and sign up for a Mothers membership card. Some of the guys even managed it...

Bernview, thanks for posting up your photo, which looks down along the course of Orphanage Road. It took me a while to realise what that object in the immediate foreground is: it is of course the top of the safety railings around the top of the tower. In 1964 I was in Yenton class 4.1, and I...

You would think that 'Normanhurst' would be a unique name for a house, but there was another 'Normanhurst' just down the road on the corner of Boldmere Road and Station Road.

I remember that the site of what is now Highclare next to the Abbey church used to house a catholic school known as 'the Abbey'.

l understand that these posts on the Lyndhurst Estate houses are to be moved to a pre-existing thread. Meanwhile, I've now looked at that thread, and the first post details the occupiers prior to demolition, which must have come from the same source that my info came from. However, whilst I have...

I believe that Lyndhurst Estate was built on land owned by the Walter Stanley Trust.

Kelly's 1907 Directory cites William E Clarke at 52 Orchard Road. No sign of the 2 Misses. Meanwhile there was Miss Sarah Spiking's preparatory school listed at 9 Holly Lane.

This dating is in line with my thinking. The house is typical of those built shortly after WW1, and it is not shown on the 1912 OS survey. So 1914 - 1919 seems reasonable.

That's interesting Mrs B - I've got 'Norlands' at #70 not #78. I have the Booths at #80 same as you.

I'm a bit puzzled by this 1937 map, because the house shown as 'Lyndhurst' was listed as 'Norlands' on earlier maps, and was referred to as 'Norlands' in relation to its final 1950s occupants.

The houses on what is now the Lyndhurst Estate were large merchants' houses built in the 1850s on 99 year leases, typically in the white stucco Victorian neo-classical style. Come the 1950s, the leases expired and the houses fell into disrepair and demolition. After the War, my grandparents...

I believe that Sir Josiah Mason's home 'Norwood' became St Agnes Convent following his death. It was later redeveloped as Edmund Campion School, which moved from Pitts Farm Road.

OK, I'll try again over the weekend. I want to post up the various censuses, photos, historical knowledge, etc that I have of Moor End Lane in the form of a comprehensive history of the old buildings and the people who lived and farmed there rather than a reunion of Moor End School attendees.

Blimey, I only downed tools for an hour for a late lunch, I come back and the thread I'd just started has been hijacked and merged into another thread, before I get the chance to post up the details of the rest of my story. I've lost my thread now. :oops:

I was brought up in Moor End Lane, where I experienced happy and memorable times, and I still own property there. I've contributed piecemeal to other threads from time to time that touch on the subject, but now I'd like to draw everything together in one thread concerning the history of this old...

I remember John Peel as a much loved guest DJ, but I think that the resident DJ was Dave Erskine who ran the Diskery off Bristol Street in Town.

Hate to sound like an anorak, but prior to Mothers I remember it being called the Carlton Club, and even before that it was called the Carlton Dene. My mate's father used to play drums there for the Bob (or was it Dave) Pegg Seven.

It's on my list of things to do, but it isn't technically quick and easy, because the photo is about 2 feet wide. I'd somehow have to scan it in pieces and then photo edit the pieces back together. Not going to happen in the short term.

I can only describe this as a revelation Penny. I'll re-post transcripts of these when I've been through them.