Carnarvon Street (Woodborough Rd to Marple St)

Kelly's 1956 directory

Malcolm Fox: "My father in law Danny O'Mara would have been 99 today. A man who told it like it was - I thought the world of him. He came to St Ann's Nottingham after war service and worked at Nottingham City Transport till retirement. He was not a royalist, but admitted he would like to be the Duke of Edinburgh! He embarrassed young Stephanie Fox as she became by marching her out of the cinema whilst "the Queen" was playing. He talked little about his war, but kept a notebook of his travels which turned up after his death. He was taken aboard a destroyer at Dunkirk which was then struck by bombs. Put on another boat he returned to blighty only to be sent to the Channel Islands with his unit and pulled off after two days. He later served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, the South of France and Germany. He laughingly told me that arriving in Nottingham after demob early one morning in 1946, he sat in Slab Square and was promptly told by a copper to "move on". He loved Nottingham and especially his allotments on the Hungerhills. He also loved supporting the England football team - visits to Wembley were a great pleasure to him - I went with him on several occasions. That said he could not hear an old Irish Song without a tear in his eye. RIP Danny, always remembered."   
"The O'Mara family lived at 12 Carnarvon Street off Woodborough Road until demolition when Danny and wife Clarrie moved to Clifton. Their son Michael Patrick moved to Bowers Avenue when he married Margaret Fowler in 1964. Like so many couples they were on the housing list and soon had a nice house at Clifton. Mick now lives in Barlestone near Hinkley but Margaret has passed. I married Danny's daughter Stephanie in 1971 and we set up home in Beeston Rylands. After several moves we are now in a new house down the Meadows"

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This is the back of 12 Carnarvon Street with my mum at the scullery window. Two bottles of sterilised milk on the cill (yuk) no fridges then just dark cold cellar steps. The brickwork had seen better days....Stephanie Fox

This is also the back of 12 Carnarvon Street. Taken through the window. Our little oasis....Stephanie Fox

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THE GREAT WAR
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour
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Name:
Joseph Brookhouse

Residence:
8 Carnarvon Street, Nottingham
Occupation
unknown

Enlistment Year:
1915
Regimental Number:
1486
Regiment Name:
Manchester
demob
1919

Name:
John Ernest Pulfree
Birth Year:
Residence:
3 Carnarvon St, Nottingham
abt 1885
Occupation:
furniture remover
Age at enlistment:
30
Enlistment Year:
1915
Regimental Number:
38206
Regiment Name:
Labour Corps
demob
1919

Name:
Arthur James Mee
Birth Date:
abt 1899
Residence Place:
4 Carnarvon St, Nottingham
Occupation
shorthand typist

Enlistment Age:
17
Enlistment Year:
1916
Regimental Number:
287239
Regiment Name:
Army Service Corps (Mechanical Transport)
discharged
1917 unfit