Nottingham stopping ground-Smiths Field? Help

[skyshot1990]

I have a question for people in the know...

A camp site has started to interest me...
I wondered if any one knows of the history of it.

Date 1900 -/+ 10 years, area Nottingham, name Smiths field meadow road?

I have censuses of great uncles and aunties being there in caravans, and now have the name turn up on a birth certificate for a cousin. I would love to hear about this place and its history.

[kaziah]

Hi,
Would you mind sharing the names of your relatives that were there at the time...  I have a lot relatives that were in Nottingham during the 1901 and 1911 census... 
kazi

[medpat]

The Meadows is an area of Nottingham south of the railway station. Wonder if that's the area.

[kaziah]

I'm sure it's the same area as my Smith/Bacon etc...  Hawthorne Rd, Cremone area??
Kazi

[medpat]

Cremorne area is part of the Meadows

[skyshot1990]

A great many of my Wilsher family... my 3rd great grand parents and 4th great uncles and aunties, I am interested in the grounds....

[kaziah]

Our William Smith was in Watson's Yard Wilford Rd area with a William Wilshire, all in Vans...  Others members of the family were in some waste ground in Hawthorne Rd,  I've not heard it referred to as Smiths field...  I have heard though many years ago the the Miths own a field at Bobbers Mill where they over winter their vans.
Kazi

[skyshot1990]

Well the area I talk of is defo called Smith fields, kings meadow road Nottingham...

I have this on census records and birth certificates, the William you talk of, I believe to be my 4 th great uncle.

There is a case where he and his son also William were having a fight with the smith family in a caravan...

[kaziah]

I think I've found your Wm Wilshire in a newspaper report where our relatives attacked him in his caravan over a debt!!!  I'm away at the mo, but will dig it our when I'm back.
Kazi