Hi there-funny I was just looking stuff up as you posted.
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot more in Lenton*, but I am fairly sure that the swimming pool scene in TIE was filmed at Noel Street Baths. See what you think:
www.4docs.org.uk/competition/view/134/Noel+Street+BathsIf you're lucky forum member Rich K (who is the locations manager/scout for many of Shane's films) will drop by-sure he has some tales to tell. He might also confirm whether it was Noel's Street because there are a few of these old Victorian bath houses around Nott'm.
Noel Street is on the border between Hyson Green/Forest Fields about three miles from the Lenton locations-so it depends on the route your ride takes.
I don't have any film anacdotes about Noel Street-me getting my learners certificate there isn't very impressive (although my mum was chuffed), but here's a bit of stuff I pulled off the 'net (sadly memories commemorating its closure last year
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"I've spoken to several people who remember going there for baths and to do the laundry in the old days. A lot of people didn't have bathrooms in their homes and that used to be the place to go."
In the 1930s and 1940s, the pool was also covered over to allow dances and boxing matches to be held there.
Bill Horton, 57, of the Nottingham Leander Swimming Club, said he has been swimming at the pool since he was about 10.
He remembers swimmers having to pick out cockroaches before early- morning training.
"They used to come out of the boiler room overnight and for some unknown reason just fell in the water. That would have been in the late 1960s. I don't know what they did to get rid of them!" Tony Taylor, 67, of Gedling, is also a member of Leander Swimming Club.
He estimates that over the last 60 years, he has swum more than 2,000 miles in the Noel Street pool. He said: "It's been a big part of my life."
He said he was inspired to swim when he was around six or seven, after going to watch crosschannel swimmer Tommy Blower train at Noel Street. He said: "He was the first man to swim the Irish Sea and was a real local hero."
Btw, the chip shop scene in Sillitoe's The Rag Man's daughter was also shot in the same area (Hyson Green/Forest Fields) in the 70s
www.imdb.com/title/tt0069160/I'll try to think of a few more Meadows related things............
Yes, I did know about Control, although wasn't some of it shot on Bestwood Estate? You can take 'em there and tell them all about Shipman
* A lot of it was shot in St Ann's I think and I think that Smell's Party might have been Rise Park-looks like it, but again, Rich would need to confirm.
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