Scoffers Sandwich Bar
Scoffers Sandwich Bar occupies 4 Station Street and has done so since at least October 2008. .
Pappas Take Away
Based on the photo below, Pappas Takeaway was based at 4 Station Street during the period that Geoff Hoon was MP for Ashfield, i.e. between 1992 and 2010. It is likely that it was before 2008 given that it does not feature in Google’s photo archive.
In a comment on Facebook, Garry Ward noted that it became a pizza shop in around 1987/88 when Lukas from Greenwood Drive chip shop opened it as a pizza shop.
Rainbow Café
In the early seventies, based on the photos below, it appears that Rainbow Café may have been at 4 Station Street. However, the first part of the name is obscured by the Fish Bar sign. I found confirmation that there had been a Rainbow Café in Kirkby from a 1987 obituary for Mrs Bernice Hurst who had worked there. Confirmation is also provided by Alywn Bowskill in his comment below. He recalled the Rainbow Café and the fish bar next door.
Memories of the Café
In a comment on Facebook, Margaret Murray noted that, in the early sixties, it was a coffee bar. It had a jukebox so was popular with teenagers at the time. Wayne Shirley recalled it in the early eighties as a “great meeting place for the Railway pub crew“. Jenny Guest commented that she had worked there with Jean Clarke.
In April 1976, the Notts Free Press included an article featuring the Rainbow Café which was run by Jean Clarke. She lived above the business. Originally, she was from Hucknall. She worked in a bakery and then a shoe shop before becoming an assistant at the Music Box Café in Hucknall. She then moved to Kirkby as manageress of a shoe shop and later became the manageress of Rainbow Café. At the time of the article, she had been at the café for nearly ten years.
Previously Residential
Based on a photo that is captioned as being from the sixties, it appears that 4 Station Street was not a shop at that point.
Residents of 4 Station Street
The Rutters
In 1939, Richard and Mary A Rutter were living at 4 Station Street with their daughter Margaret M (b1906). Also living with them was Margaret’s future husband, James A Harrison. They married in 1942. Richard was a colliery deputy, Margaret was a hosiery mender and James Harrison was a colliery stores keeper.
In 1921, the surname of the residents of 4 Station Street has been transcribed as Butler but the original shows it was the Rutters. In addition to Margaret, another daughter Ivy (b1903) was with them at that time. Richard was a hewer at this time. Margaret was still a hosiery mender and Ivy was described as a hosiery turner off.
The Rutters were also at 4 Station street in 1911. In that census, Mary’s middle name is given as Ann and Margaret’s as Mary.
The Tomlinsons
In 1901, Tom and Celia Tomlinson were living at 4 Station Street with their son J G (b1887). They also had four visitors, a married woman, Ann R Proctor, and three boys, James Proctor (b1890), Fredrick Proctor (b1898) and Francis Harding (b1894). Tom was a coal miner dataller.
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