No 3 is top end of Union St., with the junction of Rosemary St. No 4 is the corner of Gilcroft St and Church Side. No 6 is Stockwell Gate, with Bancroft Lane in the background. No 7 is Rosemary St., just pass the Rosemary School, which has now gone. No 8 is Leeming St

Picture no.7 is of Rosemary Street in the 60's. I knew Bob Nuttal and Alf Thompson, they used to do a lot of work for RLJones where I worked as foreman painter and signwriter.I also knew Jack Copley and always had a chat with him when passing his shop.

Photo No.1 shows the lower end of Sutton Road (opposite the old Victoria Hospital ). The photo would have been taken in 1952/3, before the demolition of the lower row of cottages.The cottages further up the road are still in existence and below the bill-boards stood a public house.

No 1 is Stockwell Gate my grandparents lived at 192 which was demolished when my Mum was about 8/9 yrs old about 1957.

Agree with Angela Roch re number 6, the Mace shop was a butcher on the left half and a grocery store on the right half, next door was Wardman's paper shop, and next door again was the Trent booking/parcel office, for the 'red' bus service to Nottingham via Alfreton. To the right of that photo, after the waste ground was the Empire cinema. The shops all faced the Mansfield Shoe Company factory, now demolished.

re photo 6, I should add that the shops are still visible under GoogleMap Street view, the 'Mace' is now 'No Creases' and the newsagent + Trent office re-moddelled into Rista Indian Takeaway. The houses up Bancroft Lane are still visible.

Picture number two is the passage way that ran beside Waverley House and the old stokes castings by the Old Meeting House coming out opposite the no 7 photos. looking down on the left is stokes castings on right was another factory which are now the four seasons. I'm not sure if this passage was part of Lurch Hills which started on Woodhouse Road

Photo 5: The houses on the far horizon remind me of Ravensdale Rd when I visited my Grandmother in 1973.

Further to my response about picture 2. The alleyway is called Meeting House Lane. It went to the alley called Back Lane still on Westgate . over Clumber St to Lurchills. These alleys were used to keep vagrants from going into the town centre.

No 4 Is it at the junction of Church Side and Midworth Street? If so it was taken before the inner ring road was built over Church Side.

Yup bloke who owned the newsagent before it closed was called Barry I think I used to deliver papers for him in 1980 ish also No 5 I think is the top of Heyward St looking toward Sandy Lane and Ravensdale Area.

I can agree with Peter Cooper that image 7 is of Rosemary Street. The row of shops shown ran up the street from the edge of Rosemary School's playground. My mother, who worked for Nuttall & Thompson at one time, tells me that besides the retail outlet they did a lot of electrical contract work for both Notts County Council and Mansfield Brewery. Apparently Mr Nuttall was related to one of the Nuttalls at the barbers shop next door. Adding to Joe Sutton's observations about image 2, "on right was another factory which are now the four seasons", I believe this was one of the three entrances into the bakery belonging to Mansfield Cooperative Society. You can just make out the gates on the right edge of the image. Just inside those gates I seem to remember was the doorway to the bakery's boiler house.

Photo no 5 is off Newgate Lane looking onto top of Heywood Street where the old Co-op shop used to be, the kids in the photo could be me and mates in the mid 70's

No 8 is Leeming Street the Cavendish Furniture Shop became Cavendish Woodhouse which boasted they were the worlds largest home furnishers,the Turners Bakery Shop closed in the early seventies I think

No 5 is of top of Heywood street and those kids are sitting is a block of four flats. the street you can see in the distance, on the hill, is Alcock avenue. Now with trees occuping the back of those houses and with three poplar trees along the fence line the allotment site.

I too worked from 69 till 71, delivering papers and collecting money for the newsagent in picture 5. Barry Wardman was his name, he did the early mornings in the shop and his wife the afternoons. His dad, known as 'the old man' sometimes opened up at 5.45 a.m., he was quite a grumpy sort and had a great distrust of us lads, unlike Barry who was very easy going. Old man Wardman took over/opened the shop after the war and they did very well out of such a small outlet (it was just one room about 10' x 15', no toilet or telephone,) Wardman senior lived on Skegby Lane and Barry and his wife had a property on Berry Hill. He also paid well too, though cycling up Bancroft Lane and all the way to the top of Ladybrook with 50 papers ( and nearly 100 on Chad day) was no mean feat for a 13 year old! The photo also shows the 'Trent' bus company office next door, much of the business there was parcels, delivered by bus to the company shops in several towns. No UPS in those days!

Is Picture No 4 The Conservative Club? it seems to be if it is at the bottom of Midworth Steet/Church Side if that is the right Location If not could it be the Employment Exchange on Belvedere Street

I`m pretty sure picture no.3 is looking down Union Street from it's junction with Rosemary Street.

I went to St. Johns School and at dinner we would go through the big doorway in picture No2. It was the Co-op Bakery my dad worked there for a while. This led to the slaughter house - we would watch cows pigs and sheep being slaughtered for meat then walk down onto Stockwell Gate across from the main Co-op