Note the people being rescued from the upstairs windows and is that chap about to jump? Also - just what is the purpose of that box on a post lower foreground.
Says DON TAYLOR: "When my sister died in Feb 2006, I collected all the photos/local memorabilia she had saved over the years. Much of it was of Long Eaton, 1890 to 1950 ... plus there was a large collection of photographs of old Shardlow ... the bargees and such like. My grandparents ran the Canal Tavern there; so I got to hear many tales of the bargee families, etc. Along with the photos I collected my school reports and my LEGS cap. Alas, since I'm the last in the line, I didn't imagine anyone would be interested. I destroyed everything but my LEGS cap; and quite by chance I also saved this photo of Reedman Road. If I remember correctly it is taken in the area of number 3 -- Carter's Taxis was the house next door, I think. If you look at the photo, note the white house. That house sticks in my mind. If you enlarge the photo, you can see a boat and people! I also recall that during wartime a house was razed to the ground further down on the right-hand side. I seem to think there was some dispute about whether it was a bomb or a wayward shell. Whatever, the house was wiped off the map--I remember seeing the pile of rubble-- and I think a young girl was killed. The wayward shell seems possible because I certainly remember one night at Charles Street, an air raid was in progress, and we heard a shell whine over the roof, and perilously close! I'm now really sorry I didn't save the photos. There were four or five photos of the wartime street parties held in the streets along Tamworth Road, and I was amazed that I remembered all the faces."
Says GEOFF CARTER: The house in the foreground left is 3, Reedman Road and was my grandparents house. The sign is a taxi sign. My grandfather Frank Carter. MBE started his taxi service in 1947 when he was invalided out of the fire service as a Divisional Officer having been Chief Fire Officer at Long Eaton since 1924. They lived there from new in 1931 until the house was sold in 1990 My grandmother Gertrude Carter worked in the school canteen. The photo was taken from the Hicklings bedroom window who lived at no 1.
Says DON TAYLOR: "When my sister died in Feb 2006, I collected all the photos/local memorabilia she had saved over the years. Much of it was of Long Eaton, 1890 to 1950 ... plus there was a large collection of photographs of old Shardlow ... the bargees and such like. My grandparents ran the Canal Tavern there; so I got to hear many tales of the bargee families, etc. Along with the photos I collected my school reports and my LEGS cap. Alas, since I'm the last in the line, I didn't imagine anyone would be interested. I destroyed everything but my LEGS cap; and quite by chance I also saved this photo of Reedman Road. If I remember correctly it is taken in the area of number 3 -- Carter's Taxis was the house next door, I think. If you look at the photo, note the white house. That house sticks in my mind. If you enlarge the photo, you can see a boat and people! I also recall that during wartime a house was razed to the ground further down on the right-hand side. I seem to think there was some dispute about whether it was a bomb or a wayward shell. Whatever, the house was wiped off the map--I remember seeing the pile of rubble-- and I think a young girl was killed. The wayward shell seems possible because I certainly remember one night at Charles Street, an air raid was in progress, and we heard a shell whine over the roof, and perilously close! I'm now really sorry I didn't save the photos. There were four or five photos of the wartime street parties held in the streets along Tamworth Road, and I was amazed that I remembered all the faces."
Says GEOFF CARTER: The house in the foreground left is 3, Reedman Road and was my grandparents house. The sign is a taxi sign. My grandfather Frank Carter. MBE started his taxi service in 1947 when he was invalided out of the fire service as a Divisional Officer having been Chief Fire Officer at Long Eaton since 1924. They lived there from new in 1931 until the house was sold in 1990 My grandmother Gertrude Carter worked in the school canteen. The photo was taken from the Hicklings bedroom window who lived at no 1.