KILBOURN STREET
Kilbourn Street ...........the last street on Alfred Street North before it joins Huntingdon Street and Mansfield Road.
It was a different world in the 1940s: the street had gaslights and the lamplighter used to come round at dusk with his long pole and put them on. Coal men would pour their sacks straight down the grate on the street (a favourite entry point for burglars). The backyard had an air raid shelter and behind the yard there were stables for horses that pulled milk carts. These attracted stink and flies on hot summer days but my father collected manure from them every week and took it in his barrow to his Hunger Hill allotment, to the envy of other gardeners. There was a NAAFI beyond that and a brothel which backed onto St Anne’s Hill and faced onto Elm Avenue. You could walk up there and come eventually to Robin Hood’s Chase and St Ann’s Well Road. more here
It was a different world in the 1940s: the street had gaslights and the lamplighter used to come round at dusk with his long pole and put them on. Coal men would pour their sacks straight down the grate on the street (a favourite entry point for burglars). The backyard had an air raid shelter and behind the yard there were stables for horses that pulled milk carts. These attracted stink and flies on hot summer days but my father collected manure from them every week and took it in his barrow to his Hunger Hill allotment, to the envy of other gardeners. There was a NAAFI beyond that and a brothel which backed onto St Anne’s Hill and faced onto Elm Avenue. You could walk up there and come eventually to Robin Hood’s Chase and St Ann’s Well Road. more here
THE GREAT WAR
BOOTH, Arthur Frederick
Rank: Company Serjeant Major Service No: R/2556 Date of Death: 28/02/1917 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps "D" Coy. 10th Bn. Grave Reference: V. J. 27. Cemetery: A.I.F. BURIAL GROUND, FLERS Family History He was the son of Arthur and Amelia Kate Booth and the brother of Doris and Minnie Booth. In 1911 they lived at 15 Kilbourn Street Alfred Street North Nottingham. Employment/Hobbies He was a clerk. Remembered on St Ann's District Virtual Memorial War Memorial as Arthur Frederick Booth Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
BURTON John Henry Langford
Rank Lance Corporal Service number 23013 Employment/Hobbies In 1911 he was a warehouse man. Date of death 26 Aug 1916 Age at death 36 Military Unit The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 8th Bn Family History He was the husband of Ellen (née Taylor) Burton and the father of Winifred Martha and Arthur R Burton. In 1911 they lived at 25 Kilbourn Street Huntingdon Street St Ann's Nottingham. Nottingham Evening Post notice (abridged), 19 September 1916: ‘Burton. Killed in action August 26th 1916, Lance Corporal JH Burton, LNL, age 36. Wife, children, mother, father, sisters, brothers.’ Thiepval Memorial Pier & Face 1A Research by Rachel Farrand Remembered on
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