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Aerial View of Reedman Road c.2006
There is some controversy about where the photo was taken. Maybe this photo may solve the dispute! Irrespective of where it was taken there has been some interesting discussion:

No. 1 Geoff Hicklin.

No. 3 Frank and Gertrude Carter. Carter's Taxis.

No. 5 (not mentioned)

No. 7 West's Taxis



Says KEITH REEDMAN: ' I was given a copy of the photograph by Geoff Hicklin who lived at number 1 and who told me it had been taken from his upstairs window. The flat roofed Modernist style house on the even side is number 12. This was built for Laurie Moore who was a principle of Myford lathes in Beeston. Laurie designed the house himself, obviously with plenty of examples to crib from during the early 1930s. The street up to the bend was built in 1934-5.

The supposed evacuation from the houses on the west side by boat is, I
believe, mistaken. People were not evacuated, they simply moved upstairs. Only
those in bungalows, such as my grandparents in Mikado Road, moved out. People
were used to danger and privation during the war - and floods, though
alarming, damaging and inconvenient, were dealt with stoically and
pragmatically. The boats were used to supply provisions. I assisted myself
with water-borne transport delivering bread in Shaftesbury Avenue in a
make-shift boat.

The bomb - and it was certainly a bomb - was dropped on houses in Netherfield
Road in August 1940. The air raid had as its target the railway bridge over
the Trent but although the bridge was not hit, the railway line was damaged
and the fields around were pock-marked with craters. The Netherfield Road bomb
was just a bit further off mark than the others. A pair of houses was
completely destroyed and many others badly damaged. Three people died
including two in the next street, Reedman Road. I was in an air raid shelter
in our garden at the time, only a few streets away, and we wondered whether
our house had survived, such was the enormous thunder and shaking of the
explosion.'



Says DAVID WEST: ' The photo of FLOODS IN REEDMAN RD was actualy taken from No 7 Reedman Rd, I know as I have the original and it was taken by my Grandmother who lived there, I was born there in May 1947 and my Uncle still lives there, next door to what was Carters Taxis and No7 was WESTS TAXIS, run by my uncle, still living there but obviously retired..
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