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It gets better. Elizabethan restaurant in colour! Just found this http://wayneburrowsnc.wordpress.com/lost-city/#jp-carousel-410 http://wayneburrowsnc.wordpress.com/lost-city/ There's some brilliant ads for Nottingham shops from the 60's on this site.

Radfordred. Sydney Pearson Hill was my grandfather and like you say an old boy. He was Sherriff of Nottm in 1959, Lord Mayor in 1961, BEM in 1963 and later on knighted. Not bad for a person born out of wedlock and later became an engine driver. He died of multiple cancer in 1968. Not everyone agreed with all his politics and I was one of them, but he was a gentleman and was a true Labour Alderman - there for the people of Nottingham. Not like the present self-serving bunch of Richard Heads.

Surely you don't make her sit in the freezer to eat her tea?

Until I saw the Comet speakers I thought I might have sold you that system in the 70's lol. I used to work at Laskys on lower parliament st, next door to the Miltons Head pub and the Golden Egg cafe. My first system was a Yamaha Sa600 amp, Technics Sl2000 turntable with shure M95ed cartridge and Ambassador speakers which I soon upgraded to Kef caprice 2's I also had an Audiotronic dolby cassette deck (Lasky's own cost £39) oh and a pair of Sennheiser HD424 headphones. I remember selling Kid Jenson a pair of Koss headphones when he left radio trent to join Radio 1. He had to provide his own hea

I remember peoples houses where they had newspaper for a table cloth, lard, sauce,stained tea cups on the table ,lino ,no carpets i knew kids that had nits fleas there was hard times for some ,i knew kids whose parents were alcoholics,and housework and laundry were not a priority,teachers thought such kids were scum and rarely sympahthetic. Kids grand parents had it even harder, these tv programmes never mentioned what some of these people had gone through during war years, either direcly or because of .Forign hardships were different they endured horrible hardships, but a lot of ordinary folk

I think this topic is going rapidly down the pan...

I recommend this to those who have not yet seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-cSNAas2k

Thanks mick2me. Some interesting threads. I hadn't thought of Pleasure Park as a search tag! I remember the anticipation of the funfair, having moved from a seaside area, I was missing that beaches and fairs. The boat trip, I think it must have been on one of those pleasure cruisers was good. Then we arrived and I was looking round for a Big Dipper and dodgers. A couple of swing boats and a kiddies roundabout didn't quite do it for me! One of those occasions where it's better to travel than arrive. I liked the row boat hire at TB. Thinking back, as someone commented, H & S wouldn't

The rest of the parts were transported to a secret location yesterday. I went there in the evening to meet the group and start to divvi up who will do what. I brought the control panel, the mechanical plate (with the clockwork on it), two of the motors and a gearbox back with me. There is a gearbox (worm and wheel type) that drives the petals with a bung on the side that says "oil level". This wouldn't have been accessible in-situ. Thought I'd better check the level....... are you ahead of me?.........dry as a bone. Luckily it only runs for around seven seconds eight times an hour so I t

Forgive me and point me in the right direction if this is discussed somewhere. I've been trawling the threads but can't find any info. Recently, I said to someone that, as a kid and new to Nottingham, in 1961 I went to a place on the Trent with a funfair. The memory was pooh poohed! Can anyone help please? Was there such a place and where was it? I remember going once by car, but no idea of the route. But I also recall going by boat. With a friend, we got a boat from Trent Bridge and went down river...I think. We went under the bridge then, somewhere on the left, there was a little pla

If I ate anything fast(usually sweets) My father would say. "It's like givin' pigs cherries"

They'd have to slow down on the old Ethnic slaughtering and land stealing for todays better educated viewer. And even show one or two black cowboys who mysteriously didn't exist in the 40s/50s movies.

The Spread used to be great in the mid 60,s upstairs in the cocktail bar. There used to be an extremely camp bar man called Simon who worked there. We would often ask him for something we knew he didn't stock upstairs, and when he'd gone we used to help ourselves to free drinks. Very naughty but some of my mates were poor students. The landlord banned us several times but always relented as his profits were very soon down. Great days.

Used to have a pint of Bass in here in the evening when I was doing my HNC (Chemistry) at the Technical College (later Trent Polytechnic) around 1969/70. The landlord was a dour old geezer but he did do a mean cheese and onion cob No wonder I couldn't get a girlfriend in those days. What a geek. Studying at college and smelling of chemicals, fags, beer and cheese and onion!

Agree bog standaard behaviour ,it should be wiped out.

http://wayneburrowsnc.wordpress.com/lost-city/#jp-carousel-687 The Grosvenor Mansfield Rd. The Berni upstairs was my first experience of "fine dining" lol My dad played dominos at The Grosvenor on Friday nights in the 50s, It was my local in the late 60s. I well remember standing in the courtyard one hot summers night in 1968 with a pint of warm Home Ales bitter in one hand and a Players No 6 fag in the other whilst the smell of grilled steak wafted out the upstairs windows and "Lady Willpower" by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap blared out the jukebox downstairs. I wasn't 18 until August

Having suffered from sciatica for the last 6 months or so, I felt quite a bit better yesterday. Went for the longest walk I have taken in a long time - not a marathon by any means, but two or three miles (without feeling that I was walking on broken glass, and my legs about to collapse under me). Nice afternoon - took the bus up to Stanton by Dale, then walked along the road to Dale Abbey. Just right - and no adverse after effects. May take a walk across Wollaton Park this afternoon.

Mess posted this in the "Co-op" thread but it is so good and wide-ranging that I think it deserves a thread on its own, so I've separated it.

Stephen Frears who directed the documentary was given by Nottingham City Council guidelines of what to film. To those who didn't live in Nottingham the documentary was shocking, and gave the council the extra strength in their argument that St Ann's had to go . . . Sadly the whole project was fraught with problems and issues. When the first phase of houses were built many it seemed were happy to have the new housing, but wanted to retain the pubs, shops and the sense of community many had lived with...... I was interested to learn yesterday that the Chase Shopping area is now being demolished

Bridges School of Motoring...my next door neighbour, in Watnall. I was 18, 1975. Had 6 lessons, then off to Chalfont Drive for the test, and passed first time despite going through a red light. The examiner put his glasses on as I reversed round the corner and ended up in the middle of the road. I suppose I should add I was wearing tight jeans, low cut top and my lurve beads. Sometimes you just have to play the girly card!!!

Thanks for this Compo. It was shown early last year at The Lakeside (Nott'm University) as part of the Saturday Night Sunday Morning exhibition being held at the time. The audience was a mix of older St Anns (pre-demolition) and current, younger residents. When the film had finished, most comments came from the older people, most of whom, like posters on here, said things were not as bad as the film showed. But demolition didn't start until late'69 early '70 and many houses owned by private landlords, having been under threat of demolition for some years, were not all properly maintained as a

back in the 50s all schools football was played on sat.mornings,kicking off mostly at 10 am,i plyed for Henry Whipple then Padstow and remember catching the bus to different school grounds,we played local Derbys in Bulwell against,St.Marys,Rufford,Springfield,Highbury and Bonnington,and travelled to foriegn parts to play haydn rd,Claremont,Huntingdon st,Berridge,William Sharpe,Players,Cottesmore,Whitemore, dont think they play sat.mornings now,could be wrong,thinking back we took the Teachers for granted who gave of their time,had some brilliant ones,H.L.taylor,mr Barnes,mr Harris,mr walker,m

When I was a kid in Nottingham, I used to enjoy the field trips, some were abroad or trips to London etc. These trips took the kids out of their comfort zones and helped them to adapt to different situations. In Australia I had a thriving business. I used to organize school field trips for the schools (mainly primary schools). In the contract I organized the bus, food, menu and activities program for a 4 to 5 day trip. All equipment was supplied, tents, cooking equipment etc. (we had a fully equipped trailer). The camps were usually conducted in National parks which had limited facilities

The age of political correctness and discrimination gone stark raving mad! The comments following this article are sufficient............... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/firearms-officers-win-sex-discrimination-3157108