WESTMINSTER STREET
Lotus St
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Westminster Street - with the many terraces both sides of the street.
Kelly's 1956 directory
source: Kellys Directory 1956
taken outside 15 Franchise Terrace Westminster st.I am kneeling with dog I guess I am aged 8 my two brothers Kevin and Peter aged 7 and 4 (Stephen Wagstaff)
Links to the terraces:
Franchise Tce
Simons Tce
Reform Tce
National Tce
Westminster Tce
St Legers Tce
Franchise Tce
Simons Tce
Reform Tce
National Tce
Westminster Tce
St Legers Tce
At the time of the 1911 Census the number of people living here:
Westminster St 110
Franchise Tce 49
Simons Tce 73
Reform Tce 56
National Tce 44
Westminster Villas 31
St Anns Villas (not found)
St Ledgers Villas 64
TOTAL OF 427 PEOPLE
LIVING IN 85 PLUS HOMES
Westminster St 110
Franchise Tce 49
Simons Tce 73
Reform Tce 56
National Tce 44
Westminster Villas 31
St Anns Villas (not found)
St Ledgers Villas 64
TOTAL OF 427 PEOPLE
LIVING IN 85 PLUS HOMES
1911 Census records for Westminster St and the terraces :
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at the top of the Westminster is Hungerhill Rd.. and almost opposite can be found the - Hungerhill Gardens (allotments)
Looking up from St Ann's Well Rd
i lived at the bottom of the street... we use to play hide and seek dobby run of had great times
Hi Mavis you would have walked over this a few time, returning home on the 40 or 47 bus, perhaps to Tom Tacey's for fish & chips, later run by Pat, the Coop Butcher, strange I recall our coop number was 43712 and Albert comes to mind, Smiths barbers, for the Gentlemen, Swift's for veg or posting letters in the mailbox just visible behind the telegraph pole...Paul Key
We used to live on Westminster St, Raymond Margaret David Seaton. My mother Dot and father George. My sister Marilyn was born there. We moved to Clifton on the new estate till we were evicted for not paying rent and we moved back to Livingstone St. Our house on Westminster St had a big bay window at the front, onto the street. The yard had the toilets in a row. I'm not sure but I think a terrace ran along the front of the houses.
Looking down from Hungerhill Rd to St Ann's Well Rd
Westminster St WW1 Honour Roll - scroll down to bottom of this page.
= died in active service
21 Westminster St - THORPE, Frank
3 Westminster Villas - PARNELL, John William
14 Reform Terrace - TAYLOR, Albert
15 Reform Terrace - SMITH, Walter
13 Simon's Terrace - FOWLDS, Edward
15 Simon's Terrace - BOYINGTON, Thomas Alfred
16 Simon's Terrace - WOOLLEY, Arthur
Grandad Charles Spooner brother of Bill Spooner with Dorothy Spooner Westminster St (photos from Roy Beryl Morris- )
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Grandma Flo and Walt. 1948 Westminster Street
Tom Morris and Beatty Morris nee Spooner in 1939 Tom from Jackson St, Beatty from Westminster St...also above: Roys mam &dad .
Roy and Beryl Morris nee Ward 1963.
I remember bonfire night Westminster St I was in what we called the bottom gang top gang yous,d to nick our rubbish the days leading up to it. We used to see who could get the biggest bonfire.everyone you're to sit around on old chairs and anything we could find and eat roast potatoes and chestnuts cooked in the fire everyone happy and telling stories if only it was like that now,happy days . Click here to follow this comment by Carol Pearson
Franchise Tce, Westminster St
14 Reform Terrace - John Carter
My grandad who I never met. John Carter 14 Reform Terrace, Westminster Street. Royal Marine Light Infantry, invalid on account of Disablement received while in the performance of his duty.
Harry Wagstaff
1914,,
Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry
...he had two older brothers who were in the Sherwood Rangers both killed in Belgium obviously both from St Anns i have details of where they are from Commmon wealth War graves Commision. We have uncle Ken killed in 2nd WW killed 3 day before his 19th birthday
..Stephen Wagstaff
Harry Wagstaff
on Franchise Terrace late fifties or early sixties
William Wagstaff
(Harry Wagstaff's father)
(back of photo: on the back of pic is written 17 Paxton st)
my great grandad he ended up working at Nottingham council house as a commissioner
..Stephen Wagstaff
stories of Fred Varley a boxer and Cyril Stapleton
8 February 2015
I grew up on Reform Terr. I vaguely remember the Varley's and my Dad mentioned going to school with Cyril Stapleton. He (Cyril) would carry his violin case to school and get a lot of jeers from the kids. Guess the last laugh is on them eh?...lol
9 February 2015
8 February 2015
I grew up on Reform Terr. I vaguely remember the Varley's and my Dad mentioned going to school with Cyril Stapleton. He (Cyril) would carry his violin case to school and get a lot of jeers from the kids. Guess the last laugh is on them eh?...lol
9 February 2015
Was looking though this site and it made me remember lots of things I had forgot about. At the bottom of Westminster St was a bookies. My father in law Charlie Williams would go in there but they never put their real name in case the police came as it was breaking the law.
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Charlie Williams lived on Westminster St
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.. in-laws lived on Westminster St in Westminster Tce. They were call Ivy and Charlie Williams, they lived there from around 1954 till around 1968
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Hello, my name is Darren Walker, I was born in 1961 and lived in St Ledger Terrace off Westminster St.
My mam and dad were Freda and Ken Walker, my dad was mates with Brian Corner
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My mam and dad were Freda and Ken Walker, my dad was mates with Brian Corner
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The Withers sisters - click image to follow photo link in facebook
Sid Wells (Sept 2013) :
Hello to all, thank you Tony Ann Miller, what a great idea! You have jogged many memories for me. (I now live in Canada since 1967). I was raised at 4 Reform Terrace, Westminster St.
My Dad & Mum was Tom & Norma Wells and we came from India in 1948. There were 5 kids: Albert, Paddy, Norma, Ronnie and me (Sidney). We all attended St Ann's Junior school. I went from 1950 to 1956. I fondly remember Mr J.A.Salt, Miss Brown, "Pop" Galloway, teachers. I was the only one that didn't go to Morley School. I went to High Pavement. Then we moved to Clifton Estate. I would love to connect with old friends from St Ann's Well Rd. Sadly my brothers and sister are deceased now but their children and grandkids still live in Nottm. Looking forward to more pics & memories!
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Hello to all, thank you Tony Ann Miller, what a great idea! You have jogged many memories for me. (I now live in Canada since 1967). I was raised at 4 Reform Terrace, Westminster St.
My Dad & Mum was Tom & Norma Wells and we came from India in 1948. There were 5 kids: Albert, Paddy, Norma, Ronnie and me (Sidney). We all attended St Ann's Junior school. I went from 1950 to 1956. I fondly remember Mr J.A.Salt, Miss Brown, "Pop" Galloway, teachers. I was the only one that didn't go to Morley School. I went to High Pavement. Then we moved to Clifton Estate. I would love to connect with old friends from St Ann's Well Rd. Sadly my brothers and sister are deceased now but their children and grandkids still live in Nottm. Looking forward to more pics & memories!
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Top of Westminster St (just beyond the bus stop on right - Hungerhill Rd). Hungerhill Gardens on the left in this photo
Strange thing our memories to mind came the large yard between the back of the shops on St Anns and the house on Westminster Terrace of the bookies run I believe by Reuben Sharp the butcher from the bottom of Jackson Street copies of newspapers and plain paper slips and nom de plumes used by punters, picking up 19/6 from a tanner bet 19/6 from a horse I believe called Kilmore chosen because it sounded like Kildare.Harry and Jack Henson and the pile of coal for bagging, the sale of toffee apples a little further up Westminster Street displayed in the house window such entrepreneurs.
8 February 2015
8 February 2015
My granddaughter was feeling a bit fretful one night at bed time so I asked her would she like me to tell her a story, so this is what I told her........
A long time ago when I was a little girl if I needed a friend to play with all I had to do was to go and stand under a special lamppost across the street from my house, and within a few minutes all of the kids would come out to play, We would play tin lurky, sly fox, skipping or snobs or we would just sit on the steps of my next door neighbor and Helen used to put on her records and we would all be singing (I think she was the only one with a radiogram that played ten records (how good was that). We also threw a rope over the bars on the lamppost and made a swing. We could all stay out until Dick Barton was on the radio, (a radio drama) and all the mums would shout "ITS ON" and we would all run in until it finished. Then we were all out again to play. We had such good times. She asked me to take her to see this special lamppost but sadly it has gone and been replaced by a modern one.
A long time ago when I was a little girl if I needed a friend to play with all I had to do was to go and stand under a special lamppost across the street from my house, and within a few minutes all of the kids would come out to play, We would play tin lurky, sly fox, skipping or snobs or we would just sit on the steps of my next door neighbor and Helen used to put on her records and we would all be singing (I think she was the only one with a radiogram that played ten records (how good was that). We also threw a rope over the bars on the lamppost and made a swing. We could all stay out until Dick Barton was on the radio, (a radio drama) and all the mums would shout "ITS ON" and we would all run in until it finished. Then we were all out again to play. We had such good times. She asked me to take her to see this special lamppost but sadly it has gone and been replaced by a modern one.
Franchise Tce - image from Picture the Past website http://www.picturethepast.org.uk
I was born on Westminster St in 1945 at 12 National Terrace. I went to Board School then went to live down the Meadow.s I came back to St Ann's when I was 12 and went to Morley. My father had an off licence at the bottom of Bombay St and later he was the owner of the Queens Arms corner of Lotus St. His name was Reg Hill. I have lost contact with most of my school friends. I now live just outside of Skegness, thanks John Hill" Click here to follow this comment link
2018
current members who have connections with this street and terraces:
WESTMINSTER STREET
Barry Seagrave
Brenda Newcombe nee Seaton
Bruce Lakin
Cyril Voce
Darren Wharton
David Rowbottom
Eileen Goodman
Geoffrey Gascoine
Ian Varley
Josephine Pritchard
Karen Walker Nse
Michael King (Michael Harvey)
Paul Lakin
Stephen Wagstaff
Susan Flecknoe ne Barlow
Val Hill (John Hill)
Yvonne Peacock
FRANCHISE TERRACE
Ian Varley
Josephine Pritchard
Julie Fryer
Sue Asman
Trev Bakewell
NATIONAL TERRACE
Carol Pearson (went to Morley)
Patty Owen nee Osborne
REFORM TERRACE
Bernadette Terrington
Bruce Lakin
Christopher Lakin
Dawn Ingram
Malcolm Rickett
Sid Wells
SIMONS TERRACE
Frank Kerry
ST LEDGER TERRACE
James Harrison
Kenneth Walker
WESTMINSTER TERRACE
David G Smedley
Wendy McFarlane nee Husbands
current members who have connections with this street and terraces:
WESTMINSTER STREET
Barry Seagrave
Brenda Newcombe nee Seaton
Bruce Lakin
Cyril Voce
Darren Wharton
David Rowbottom
Eileen Goodman
Geoffrey Gascoine
Ian Varley
Josephine Pritchard
Karen Walker Nse
Michael King (Michael Harvey)
Paul Lakin
Stephen Wagstaff
Susan Flecknoe ne Barlow
Val Hill (John Hill)
Yvonne Peacock
FRANCHISE TERRACE
Ian Varley
Josephine Pritchard
Julie Fryer
Sue Asman
Trev Bakewell
NATIONAL TERRACE
Carol Pearson (went to Morley)
Patty Owen nee Osborne
REFORM TERRACE
Bernadette Terrington
Bruce Lakin
Christopher Lakin
Dawn Ingram
Malcolm Rickett
Sid Wells
SIMONS TERRACE
Frank Kerry
ST LEDGER TERRACE
James Harrison
Kenneth Walker
WESTMINSTER TERRACE
David G Smedley
Wendy McFarlane nee Husbands
For facebook conversations about these terraces - click on any of the 1956 Kellys directory listings here:
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THORPE, FRANK
Rank:
Corporal
Service No:
69385
Date of Death:
9/06/1917
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Garrison Artillery
153rd Siege Bty.
Grave Reference:
XV. H. 1A.
Cemetery:
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Clara Thorpe, of 21, Westminster St., Nottingham, and the late Frederick Henry Thorpe.
Employment/Hobbies
Member of the choir and a Sunday School teacher at St Ann's church
Remembered on
Rank:
Corporal
Service No:
69385
Date of Death:
9/06/1917
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Garrison Artillery
153rd Siege Bty.
Grave Reference:
XV. H. 1A.
Cemetery:
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Clara Thorpe, of 21, Westminster St., Nottingham, and the late Frederick Henry Thorpe.
Employment/Hobbies
Member of the choir and a Sunday School teacher at St Ann's church
Remembered on
- Nottingham - St Ann's Church Men's Intitute War Memorial as F Thorpe
- St Ann's Nottingham - Parish and Congregation War Memorial as Thorpe F
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
PARNELL, JOHN WILLIAM
Rank:
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
Service No:
M/23270
Date of Death:
28/06/1919
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Lion."
Grave Reference:
G. 3. 49.
Cemetery:
NOTTINGHAM (NEW BASFORD) CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Husband of Lucy May Sudworth (formerly Parnell), of 172, Bobbers Mill Rd., Hyson Green, Nottingham.
Family History
He was the son of John and Lucy Parnell and the brother of Martha Alice, Leah and Edith Marion Parnell. In 1911 they lived at 3 Westminster Villas Westminster Street St Ann's Nottingham. He was the husband of Lucy (née Rigley) Parnell and the father of John Parnell. Lucy married William Sudworth in 1923 and they lived at Bobbers Mill Nottingham.
Employment/Hobbies
He was a boiler maker rivet hotter.
Remembered on
Rank:
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
Service No:
M/23270
Date of Death:
28/06/1919
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Lion."
Grave Reference:
G. 3. 49.
Cemetery:
NOTTINGHAM (NEW BASFORD) CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Husband of Lucy May Sudworth (formerly Parnell), of 172, Bobbers Mill Rd., Hyson Green, Nottingham.
Family History
He was the son of John and Lucy Parnell and the brother of Martha Alice, Leah and Edith Marion Parnell. In 1911 they lived at 3 Westminster Villas Westminster Street St Ann's Nottingham. He was the husband of Lucy (née Rigley) Parnell and the father of John Parnell. Lucy married William Sudworth in 1923 and they lived at Bobbers Mill Nottingham.
Employment/Hobbies
He was a boiler maker rivet hotter.
Remembered on
BURTON, Joseph Henry
Date of birth
25 Mar 1877
Rank
Gunner
Family
Joseph Henry was the son of George Cooper and Laura Louisa Burton later Cooper. GBy 1891 they were living at 3 Westminster (-) in Nottingham.
Employment/Hobbies
He attended St Anns Well Road School. He was a labourer before joining the Royal Navy on 28 July 1893.
Date of death
01 Dec 1917
Age at death
40
CWGC
Commonwealth Grave No
3043261 - CWGC Website
Military Unit
Royal Navy
Military History
HMS Tower Joseph joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 28 July 1893 when he was 16 years old and on 25 March 1895, his 18th birthday, entered on a 12 year engagement which he extended on 21 March 1907 'to completion'. His first ships were HMS Impregnable (28 July 1893), HMS Lion in which he was rated Boy 1st Class, and then HMS Colossus in which ship he was rated Ordinary Seaman. He was awarded the DSC for gallantry while serving in HMS Lion (Admiral Beatty) at the Battle of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915. His last ship was HMS Tower and he was drowned when he and Lieutenant Mackeson were swept overboard from the destroyer in heavy seas off the Firth of Forth. Joseph's body was not recovered for burial and he is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Remembered on
Date of birth
25 Mar 1877
Rank
Gunner
Family
Joseph Henry was the son of George Cooper and Laura Louisa Burton later Cooper. GBy 1891 they were living at 3 Westminster (-) in Nottingham.
Employment/Hobbies
He attended St Anns Well Road School. He was a labourer before joining the Royal Navy on 28 July 1893.
Date of death
01 Dec 1917
Age at death
40
CWGC
Commonwealth Grave No
3043261 - CWGC Website
Military Unit
Royal Navy
Military History
HMS Tower Joseph joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 28 July 1893 when he was 16 years old and on 25 March 1895, his 18th birthday, entered on a 12 year engagement which he extended on 21 March 1907 'to completion'. His first ships were HMS Impregnable (28 July 1893), HMS Lion in which he was rated Boy 1st Class, and then HMS Colossus in which ship he was rated Ordinary Seaman. He was awarded the DSC for gallantry while serving in HMS Lion (Admiral Beatty) at the Battle of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915. His last ship was HMS Tower and he was drowned when he and Lieutenant Mackeson were swept overboard from the destroyer in heavy seas off the Firth of Forth. Joseph's body was not recovered for burial and he is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Remembered on
- St Ann's District Virtual Memorial War Memorial as Joseph Henry Burton
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Harry Wagstaff 1914,,Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry
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Name:
Bingley Birks Occupation porter Residence: Westminster St (10 Westminster Villas) Birth Date: abt 1877 Age at Enlistment: 40 Enlistment Year: 1917 Regimental Number: 368506 Regiment Name: A S C. Londey |