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Oh! the great memories of Skills Mystery Tours! We never went on holiday so these evening trips were wonderful get-a-ways for us. We got dressed in our bestest clothes, got the tickets and waited outside the shop for the bus (a single decker coach). It was always a trip around the outskirts - countryside- of Nottingham and a stop off at a pub with a garden. A few pints for the folks, lemonade and Smiths crisps for the kids and back on the bus...singing all the way home ending with 'For he's a jolly good fellah" and a whip round for the driver! Skills have been in Nottingham for years....som

View the whole film here for free and for nothing ! http://viooz.co/movies/9408-saturday-night-and-sunday-morning-1960.html Ignore the 'pop up' that tells you that you need a special player to watch it on, it's starts automatically after a few seconds.

News this week that the toll is rising at Dunham Bridge to 40p...... I didn't realise that Dunham was the last surviving Trent toll bridge. When you get so used to something you tend to take it for granted I suppose. Dunham bridge was built in the 1830's replacing the ferry crossing. Wonder what it cost then to cross. When I moved to North Clifton in 1993 the bridge fee was 25p, rising to 30p in 2007 and then the EU slapped VAT on toll charges raising it to 36p in 2012. Considering the rising costs I'd say it's not a bad price to pay. The alternative being a 30 mile round trip either via Ga

Maybe, but the smell that came out of the gas stove if you left a ring on, or it didn't light, smelt pretty similar to Basford gas works. That should get the Health and Safety people gasping - a stove that didn't turn itself off if the gas wasn't lit. And of course, it was a favourite way of committing suicide.

I'll give you £200 for it....CASH!

I'm beginning to feel young with the talk of cars and motorbikes. In the first half of the 60s the only transport I was buying were Dinky, Corgi and Matchbox cars.

Yes, the BBC were making big news of it for being such a huge rise of only 4p! It's free on Christmas Day and Boxing Day though, I think. There is a list of toll bridges here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_toll_bridges - another one close by being the Humber Bridge.