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Carlton Forbes

#1 zab

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 06:13 PM

Carlton Forbes who played for Notts for many years passed away last Thursday after losing his battle to cancer.

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Not...il/article.html

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 07:00 PM

Thanks for the information, sad news indeed.

Saw him bowl on many occasions. Fair to say he was unlucky to have played at a time when so many great WI quicks were in the game. Certainly, in other eras, he'd have been a shoe-in for the West Indies Test X1.
Sobers, for one, held him in high regard...

IIRC, during his playing days, he owned a popular night-club in the City Centre.

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 07:03 PM

Never bothered about cricket...but used to chat to him in the early hours at his club...nice bloke.

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 10:26 PM

The club was in the Lace Market If I remember, but not the name?

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 10:27 PM

Calypso club?

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Posted 01 June 2009 - 06:44 AM

Yep...three floors up...Byard Lane I think, just over the road from the Windmill.Blacks and whites mixed with no hassle...

After the club closed in the early hours one night a group of the staff came back to my place.
We were still wide awake (Oh to be young again) Booze? Drugs? Women?....Nope...We settled down for a game of Monopoly as the sun came up

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Imagine telling that to a passing cop nowadays...Yeah right!!!

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