LOTUS STREET
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Lotus St (345 St Anns Well Rd to 106 Hungerhill (Kelly's Directory 1956)
1 Hodgkinson Jack 5 Rhodes William Ltd - bedding mfrs works 7 Marson Jack Pritchard Terrace 9 Shaw Jo, grocer and tea dealer 11 Cain Martin Heaths Terrace 13 Cook Ernest 15 Stalker Jn 17 Alsopp Walter 19 Smith Mrs Eleanor 21 Winfield Mrs Amy 23 Franks Mrs Emmy 25 Stone George W 27 Bartram Harry 29 Daft Mrs Beatrice 31 Joynes Mrs Margaret 33 Sharp Mrs Eliz A 35 Wheatley Henry 37 Buxton Mrs Sarah 39 Ball Samuel C 41 Bartram Fred 43 Wild William (cross over) 26 Boams Frederick A 24 Brakewade William 22 Wood Mrs L 20 Mathews Walter 18 Hankin Bernard & Sons, painters and decorators 16 Worral Jn Darby Terrace 14 Simpson Alfred 12 Blackham Leslie J Queens Terrace 10 Smith Leonard 8 Cocker Jn Lotus Terrace 6 Copping Jn R 4 Richardson Mrs Phylis Dover Terrace 2 Carnelly Ronald |
Geoff Freeman: "This is a poem I wrote in 2002 for the Evening Post Poetry Competition;"
LOTUS STREET Am I always going back home? Back to the hot summer streets of childhood, The black bubble-beaded tarmac, The echoing tribal yells, Scooters, trikes, rollerskates, The whizz and rattle of tin-and-rubber wheels. Doorstep sales and knots of gossiping aunts and grans, Pinafored mams and overalled dads. Shouldering green buses and hot black cars, Stray dogs loping loose-tongued. Washing cracking in tiny, grassless back yards. Back to the luminous sweetshop, The ice-poles in the misty banks of the freezer. The regimented jars; Jap filberts, liquorice torpedoes, Kaylai, chewing nuts, barley sugar, sherbert dabs and black-jacks. The glorious church-chime of the ice-cream van; Oyster shells, Cider Barrel, 99's and blood-red syrup. Back to Coppice Rec' and Morley Junior School, Back to the rowdy, knee scabbing and breathless playground, Dobby, skipping, chasing and footie. Vertiginous swings and the brass throat of the slide, The furious centrifuge of the roundabout. The grasshopper-haunted twilights. It's all long gone now - a long ago street, Sandwiched in the shelved maps of memory. A past redrawn, rebuilt, removed. I though the sun was always shining then, Lotus Street, burnished in the Summers Of Love. The hard world trades on, glacial, irreversible. New streets, new roads, new brick and business. But part of me is still running down Lotus Street, Plastic sandals applauding my childhood. |
Loved watching the milk bottles go round .
In my minds eye ,facing the Tin Hut Church was St Ann’s Valley
That corner shop Darceys a couple of houses then The Dairy a little bit further was the Police houses ,
before coming to the entrance for the
Hunger-hill Allotments cross over to Lotus street Twopenny drink shop on one corner ,Penrose’s Beer off on the other (a shop with two doors) a row of houses before Tin Hut ,
After that Norland Road my abode .
To me the photo is just pure happiness .
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THE GREAT WAR
Herbert Arthur BROWNE Regimental number 578 Place of birth Nottingham England Religion Church of England Occupation Labourer Address 3 Lotus Street, Nottingham, England Marital status Single Age at embarkation 20 Next of kin Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Brown, 3 Lotus Street, Nottingham, England Enlistment date 2 January 1915 Rank on enlistment Private Unit name 21st Battalion, C Company AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/38/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on 10 May 1915 Fate Killed in Action 5 October 1918 Place of burial Bullicourt British Cemetery (Plot VI, Row T, Grave No. 4), France Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 93 Remembered on
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
COCKER, WILFRED
Rank: Private Service No: 28487 Date of Death: 3/09/1916 Age: 18 Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 17th Bn. Grave Reference: E. 20. Cemetery: KNIGHTSBRIDGE CEMETERY, MESNIL-MARTINSART Family History He was the son of John and Gertrude Cocker and the brother of John James, Gertrude, Ernest, May, Harry and Leonard Cocker. In 1911 they lived at 4 Queen's Terrace, Lotus Street, St Ann's Well Road Nottingham. Employment/Hobbies He was a bookbinder's errand boy in 1911. Remembered on St Ann's Nottingham - Parish and Congregation War Memorial as Cocker W Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
WINFIELD, ENOCH
Rank: Private Service No: 41156 Date of Death: 25/04/1917 Age: 19 Regiment/Service: Royal Scots 13th Bn. Grave Reference: IV. E. 23. Cemetery: DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN Additional Information: Son of Henry and Lizzie Winfield, of 21, Lotus, St., St. Ann's Well Rd., Nottingham. Family History Father: Henry Winfield, born in 1873 in Nottingham and working as a corporation road labourer. Mother: Elizabeth Winfield, born in 1877 at Cole Orton, Leicestershire. The family lived at 12 Livingstone Street, Nottingham before moving to 21 Lotus Street, St. Ann's Well Road, Nottingham. Military History Winfield was called up for service and following training he was drafted to France. The battalion took part in the Battle of Arras and Pte. Winfield was killed in action on 25/04/1917. He was buried at Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. Extra Information St Mary Parish Register page 471 (1917). 2 Lotus Street. WINGFIELD OR WINFIELD. Father and one son, father a soldier, father St Ann’s choir, Enoch (killed April 1917). Remembered on Loggerheads War Memorial as Winfield 41156 St Ann's Nottingham - Parish and Congregation War Memorial as Winfield E Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
LAMBERT, John Edward
Rank: Private Service No: 48736 Date of Death: 14/10/1916 Age: 35 Regiment/Service: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 13th Bn. Grave Reference: I. C. 32. Cemetery: EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS Additional Information: Son of John and Sarah Ann Lambert; husband of Sarah Jane Bower (formerly Lambert), of 3, Pritchard Terrace, Lotus St., Nottingham. Remembered on Nottingham Central Virtual Memorial War Memorial as John Edward Lambert Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
LOWE, Samuel Ernest
Rank Private Service number 841506 Date of death 06 Nov 1917 Age at death 21 Military Unit Canadian Infantry 24th Bn Family History He was the son of Thomas and Emma Lowe. In 1901 they lived at 6 Lotus Terrace Lotus Street St Ann's Nottingham. Commonwealth Grave No 461370 - CWGC Website MEMORIAL Passchendaele New British Cemetery Grave Reference: XI B 14 Remembered on |
11/11/2018 Glennis Smith
"I know we remember all the forces in both wars I lost an uncle in WW2 but can we also remember the men that were told they couldn't enlist as the had to serve down the mine- the great Bevin Boys- a lot of these men were needed to get the coals out to keep the country running. My uncle was a Bevin Boy but I do feel they are the forgotten ones. Many were sent white feathers as people thought they didn't want to fight but this is so not true. My uncle was Robert Betts who lived at 2 Lotus Street - he lost his brother who served in the navy. I think these men who were in the mines served their country too xx |
Name:
Kyme Smith Birth Date: abt 1900 Residence Place: 19 Lotus Street Enlistment Age: 17 Enlistment Year: 1917 Regimental Number: Regiment Name: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment |
Name:
John Cocker Occupation grinder and polisher Residence: 8 Lotus St Birth Date: abt 1877 Age at Enlistment: 37 Regimental Number: 63285 Regiment Name: Royal Field Artillery |
Name: Claude Cavers
Birth Date: abt 1895 Enlistment Age: 19 Marriage Date: 24 Oct 1918 Marriage Place: St Anns Church Nottingham Enlistment Year: 1914 Residence Place: 3 Lotus Street, Nottingham Regimental Number: 34559 Other Regimental Numbers: 037579, M2 034559 Regiment Name: N Mid D Supply Col?? 1911 he was living at 27 Cromer Road father Robert aged 49, mother Mary elizabeth aged 45, sisters Florana 24, Mary Elizabeth (21) Harriett Hilda (11) and brother Arthur William (25) Arthur died 1974 Claude Cavers was cousin of William Culley Cavers who was killed in the war |
Name:
Wallace Harper Occupation bottler Residence: 9 Lotus St Regimental Number: 23665 Regiment Name: Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) |
Name:
William Henry Percy Occupation french polisher Residence: Lotus St 8 Pritchard Tce Birth Date: abt 1892 Age at Enlistment: 23 Enlistment Year: 1915 Regimental Number: 27939 Regiment Name: Notts and Derbyshire Imperial Service Battalion |
Name:
Walter Henry Williams Birth Year: abt 1887 Residence: Lotus St 6 Pritchard Tce Occupation: window cleaner Age at Enlistment: 29 Enlistment Year: 1916 Regimental Number: 41860 Regiment Name: Nottinghamshire Regiment |
Name:
William Evans Residence: Lotus St, Queens Tce Regiment Name: Australian AIF 55th bat |