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Radford Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 5GU

This fine example of a traditional small tiled retail butcher still flourishes in Hyson Green. There are traditional tiles inside too, but not visible due to the reflections.

I remember coming with my mother to Raithby’s, to buy sausage rolls - the best in the area - from a butcher with a fine moustache. That was in the 1950s. The shop is now a Polish butcher and delicatessen, but T W Raithby’s tiles remain. Alan Murray-Rust took a closer view on a sunnier day in May 2010: Image

Looking towards Basford, with a southbound tram heading for Hyson Green. The more modern building on the right, on the corner of Scotholme Avenue, is built on the site of the old Lenos cinema.

This modern block replaced the old Lenos Cinema.

One of the few streets in the area which is still cobbled. The former St Paul's Vicarage (by S S Teulon, 1855) is one of the only Bulwell stone buildings in an area of Victorian red brick.

The truncated Berridge Road West is on the left and Berridge Road Central on the right.

When I walked or cycled past The Old General on my way to school, I assumed with the certainty of youth that the statue above the porch was of some obscure military man of no conceivable interest to a pacifist sixties teenager. The truth is much more interesting http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1926/itinerary1926p9.htm (and scroll half-way down the page). Benjamin Mayo, who died in 1843, was a poorhouse boy who became a popular local character, an eccentric who considered himself second only in importance to the Mayor. An epitaph in the General Cemetery read "Benjamin Mayo, commonly known by the name of The Old General, died in Nottingham Union Workhouse 12th January 1843, aged sixty-four years. A few inhabitants of this town associating his peculiarities and eccentricities with reminiscences of their early boyhood have erected this tablet to his memory." The pub has been closed for some time, and the old boy boarded up, so I was pleased to find him on show on this visit to my childhood haunts.

When I walked or cycled past The Old General (on the corner of Bobbers Mill Road and Radford Road) on my way to and from school, I assumed with the certainty of youth that the statue above the porch was of some obscure military man of no conceivable interest to a pacifist sixties teenager. The truth is much more interesting http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1926/itinerary1926p9.htm (and scroll half-way down the page). Benjamin Mayo, who died in 1843, was a poorhouse boy who became a popular local character, an eccentric who considered himself second only in importance to the Mayor. An epitaph in the General Cemetery read "Benjamin Mayo, commonly known by the name of The Old General, died in Nottingham Union Workhouse 12th January 1843, aged sixty-four years. A few inhabitants of this town associating his peculiarities and eccentricities with reminiscences of their early boyhood have erected this tablet to his memory." The pub has been closed for some time, and the old boy boarded up, so I was pleased to find him on show http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1869405 on this visit to my childhood haunts. The southbound tram track and overhead along Radford Road are in the foreground.