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I'm sorry to read about the loss of your sister, Paulus. My condolences to you and your family. Does anyone remember the Everly Brothers Show at the Nottingham Odeon on the 23rd October 1963. Also on the bill was The Rolling Stones, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and a few other less well known people. I took my girlfriend to see the show and it was absolutely fantastic. The Rolling Stones were on their first major UK tour after forming in 1962 and had just released 'Come On'. I loved the raw R&B sound of the Stones and became a big fan in their early years. Bo Diddley had his famed rectangul

Ayup Basford Red, you and me could happily be ratchetty old farts together. LOL. Seriously, life is hard when you can't understand young people walking about obliviously dabbing away at i-phones with stuff stuck in their earoles, especially when cycling. I love my computer but I do have a life away from it. Another resolution - I must stop looking at beautiful young women. It gives me the shakes LOL. And I might take steps to get rid of me man-boobs this year.

Less biscuits, cake, chocolate, nuts, cheese all eaten late at night with not much chance of burning calories overnight . More red wine, fruit, veg and walk more. Less bigotry (very hard) , less moaning, sharp tongued, instant anger if things don't go right immediately , less evil looks especially to fellow customers in supermarkets, less hatred towards small children and teenagers. More consideration for family members, older folk, shop assistants and service workers, Oh Bo77o6ks, I can't do it. Pass me the gun mother. Seriously, I must give it a go.

Can anyone remember the L shaped room coffee bar on Goldsmith street? I also remember 'Sutch' as he was usually to be found in the market square with all the Mods. I really do think we had the best of times. We all seemed to be clones of each other. Long hair (Cathy McGowan style)' Bell bottoms, white tights, jockey caps, daisy earrings fur coats black patent boots and coats etc. nights out at the Beachcomber (saw Jimmi Hendix there)all nighters at the Sherwood room etc: Fabulous times. I also remember the Nottingham group the Children. Steve Taylor's father used to keep The Wheatsheaf in Crop

What do we want? a brand new diet When do we want it? after lunch.

Hi Everyone, and HAPPY NEW YEAR. Thank you for helping to return some good old memories of Carlton and Netherfield. I have been reading a lot of posts from the archives. As the years have passed, I have lost a lot of memories of that area. I was born and lived in Carlton for the first 21 years of my life, I lived on the railway track right opposite Chandos Street School. I went to Carlton Central Primary school and then on to Chandos street Boys school. Left England in 1969 now live in a part of the world many miles away from you where people do not speak my native language. As I said I

Can you imagine the elf & safety requirements to go down there nowadays. Lamps + emergency lamps, safety ropes + emergency safety ropes, hi vis jackets and trousers, hard hats, gas detectors and a certificate saying you are competent to use it. The list would be endless. Colin

Everything is supposed to good in moderation. But - and I can't remember who said it - except moderation of course. Paulus, I'm not so much fed up with politics but rich, self interested, self satisfied, greedy, out of touch with the electorate politicians. So my resolution is to give up (on) politicians.

This isn't advice, it really isn't. But since I started drinking a bottle of decent red wine every other night I've lost over a stone in weight. There may be other things responsible, such as NOT drinking beer so much but I prefer to think that grape juice is one of my 5 a day even though fermented '3 grain juice' probably would be too.

Well Done Catfan, You are doing a good thing, I did the same twenty years ago, not easy, but well worth it in the end. Best Wishes.

Digging around Picture the Past I came across this photo which shows something I'd not heard of before - a toll gate at Meadow Road, Netherfield. Looks like this today. Meadow Road was originally called Toll Bar Lane, and the gate survived until the early 20th century. Was it to keep people out, or to keep Netherfield-ites in? How much would you pay to get in to Netherfield?

Forest 5 West Ham 0. Forest played some good football today against the Premier League side and sent their fans home happy after hitting five goals and being on top for most of the game. Here is a video of Billy Davies speaking after the game.

Mine is a simple one, that is to live to see next year, and I have kept it every year up to now.....

Ayup Basfordred, it's not just celebrities. They are all over the place. There's loads in town. Ooohhh!!!! here I go again.

You forgot that if there was an uncommon worm or beetle down there we'd have to close the whole City centre down.

Yep, I remember Stewart's, that was one of my lunch-hour haunts! What an amazing garden shop that was, I've still never found anywhere better than that. Started my first garden with plants, tools and advice from there. Sad loss, now yet another bar...

I think it is time we had a New Year Revolution! Oh... resolution... sorry! (Hehe!)

Well said Bilbraborn, in starting the topic, I'm bl**dy fed up with politics................ Resolutions: lose weight!!, try to overcome my weakness for good red wine...............oh yes, & be nicer to people who rant about politics

What year? Only jokin'

Not had a fag since xmas eve !

I should think in places with close knit community the locals would sort out the scum who fleece the elderly. Personally I would chop their (expletive deleted) hands off right up to their shoulders.

The funny thing about that tour list is how sensible it was geographically. With modern transport now you'll see a tour that goes Southampton, Glasgow, Birmingham, London, Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, London again then North again to Sheffield.

Nice to see that you're Forest fans, basfordred and a charlesworth. I'm looking forward to the F.A. Cup game against West Ham and I think that the money will be available to Billy and we'll be in the mix at the end of the season. It's sad to see what's happening at Notts County at the moment and I hope that they'll get it sorted and be safe come the end of the season. As I've stated on Nottstalgia before, I want every Nottingham team or individual to do well, whatever they are involved with.

Another great songster of our youth gone. Thanks' for all the great music Phil, RIP. My sincere condolences Paulus, for the loss of your sister.

Thanks everyone for your kind words! As David says, it's like solving a puzzle - I'm a big fan of cryptic crosswords too! I do mainly Military research but also family history. Don't have time to do my own family anymore.......

As it gorran `azelnut in every bite ?

Thanks for the recs . However researching family history is a bit of an addiction and I'm sure it's the same for Ann , though she is a professional , working in a logical manner and I'm more of a bumbler ! Just like crosswords ,these are puzzles we have an urge to solve. Though I have researched my own family history for nearly 20 years and have info on various hard drives , online storage and various bits of paper , I've still not actually printed a full tree off yet . Just in case anyone connected to these Bryants googles this in the future they may be surprised to find that the family pro

I thought it was on George Street just a bit further along from the George Hotel on the same side. I can recall going in there as being a veggie in the the 70's put you straight in the weirdo class, they used to have a few veggie cookbooks on variations on a lentil burger can anyone remember Stewarts garden shop just opposite the George hotel, they closed a few years ago I believe.

That answers the question "whats blue and got 4 bums?"

Welcome SFB. ....frequented squeak on numerous occasions, not been to the new place... Enjoy Nottstalgia, keep posting your memories of Hockley to jog my memory.

Welcome to Nottstalgia, SFB. I look forward to reading your posts and sharing your memories. An interesting first post that I hope is the first of many.

Welcome SFB

Hi there, I stumbled across this thread, and as I worked at Mushroom Bookshop for a few years in the mid-90's, can add a little bit to it: Mushroom Bookshop started on Arkwright Street in 1972, set up by the late Keith Leonard and his then partner Chris Cook. Not entirely sure of the order of things, but at some point it moved to Heathcote Street, taking over the site of the Drury Hill Bookshop (which I presume had been on Drury Hill before that whole area was demolished to make way for the Broadmarsh Centre - anybody know?). By the time I first knew it (1990), it took up numbers 10-12 Hea

"opposite Marks and Sparks was a young chap imitating Jet Harris with an upturned heavy duty plastic bucket and sticks. " If I'd have known I'd have brought my bass and done a Tony Meehan impression! (sorry, TGC couldn't resist it)

Hello all,just read this with interest. I used to go in the subways' on King and Queen street as part of my work with Severn Trent Water. I think we used to access it via a grid somewhere near the building which used to be the Post Office in the 1960's,near where the two streets connect. I think there was a short permanent vertical ladder. We used to take a gas detector with us as a safety precaution. On one occasion we isolated a service pipe down there,believing it to be redundant. Shortly after,there was a sound of sirens and fire engines. We climbed to the surface to find two fire applia

I remember the coffee bar & taking a girl that was in there to the movies that only showed cartoons she paid i was broke cant remember the name of it though, It was around 1964 I remember a guy named Sutch that seemed to be always in there, It was a Mod place but i was a Rocker