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  1. When the Contemporary Art Gallery was built at Weekday Cross, someone associated with its construction said that it blended in with the surrounding architecture - High Pavement. Where was Specsavers when we need them!. This tactless statement encouraged me to put pen to paper and in a poem relate the way that our city has lost its architectural heritage. I wrote it in the style of John Betjeman and then put it away. This thread has reminded me of it, so it seems the best place to give it an outing. Betjemanian Lament Come friendly bombs and fall on Notts, On hideous structure, munici
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  2. Lot of dead people loved it too...
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  3. Don't know if this will work. Taken at a photo booth in the old Vic station. With my girlfriend of 1963 who later became my wife.
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  4. On the news, there was mention of protesters at RAF Waddington, and their involvement in tracking US Drones flying over Afghanistan. Don't these idealistic, hair brained low life realise that it's done in the interests of our troops safety and in the long term, our own safety. These are spineless, underhand traitors .
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  5. loppylugs, it's a nice photo of you and your wife (#19). I was quite surprised to find that you didn't have really big ears though, loppylugs.
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  6. Brightest blessings for Litha, have a great summer solstice
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  7. That's the way I remember Old Coach Road Bridge. I remember the shouts of the train spotters. First it was BELLS!!!!! as the signalman at Radford or Trowell sent 'Call Attention" (one bell which was duly returned). Then the more knowledgeable lads would recognise the different bells for different trains. 4 for express passenger, 3-1 for suburbab passenger, combinations of 5 bells for different freight trains etc. Then the cry would be PEGGED!!! as we heard the signal wires whistling through the pulley wheels and the clang as the old semaphore signals went up. From which signals were used we
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  8. Try this one. Billy saw some dynamite Couldn't understand it quite. Curiosity never pays It rained Billy for seven days.
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  9. #7 Gosh Dave, fancy being in the same class as Harold Shipman! Who'd have thought! From what I recall Melissa he was a very quiet person and didn't mix much with others.
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  10. No idea if this will work! 1964 Woolies on Okleh
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  11. Hi , this year I was at wollaton park for the vintage car rally , think it was 1st June . On one stall bizarrely sat a framed photo of the J.Players and son Roll of Honour of their war dead and the regiments the served in and the dept they worked in . A guy from Chesterfield had the stall and was selling the photo for 4 quid .... I went to asked him where he,d got it from ...... When another guy picked it up and paid for it before I could make my purchase ..... Hey Ho .... He was kind and generous enough to let me photo the photo which was in a glass frame ... So didn't get the bet result .
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  12. One expression I haven't heard for a while, used in an argument:'You and whose army'!
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  13. Basfordred, we all did at 15. Now I've a grand-daughter who thinks she knows everything. And she tells me at mega decibels.
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  14. Does exactly what is says on the tin http://www.railmaponline.com
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  15. Nice photo, carni (#6), very attractive lady. (Don't forget my £5 (#10).
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  16. Photo booths just remind me of Gregor Fisher (baldy man) in a very funny ad' as he tries to get his 'pose' right.
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  17. Thanks guys. Lizzie # 16. Real easy to share a pic. I use photobucket, but other photo sites might work this way. 1. Upload your picture. 2. Choose it in the sites menu. 3. Right next to it is a little box. I think it is marked Link as IMG. 4. Just select the link and click copy 5. Go back to the text box in Nottstalgia and click paste. Add whatever you want to say about the photo and click post. There! Now your excuse is gone. Lets be seeing one. :-)
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  18. Thank You Darkazana, And I wish the same for you.
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  19. Happy Alban Heruin to one and all
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  20. I must go down to the sea again, The lonely sea and the sky. I left my vest and knickers there, I wonder if they're dry. Spike Milligan
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  21. Watched a documentary not so long ago about him and may recalled him the same way. You never can tell, can you?
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  22. Definitely prefer Vintageann's picture from the Dungeon. Thank god fashions moved on!! Bye for a while folks!!
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  23. Just before my time I was around in 1966/7 and recall the mohair suits with the vents, pockets and buttons on sleeves. I still have a mohair jacket made from fabric off the back of a lorry through mates that stood market in Ilkeston and made to measure by a young Mario Joseph in about 67. Prior to that I recall blue pacamacs if you couldn't afford a leather/suede coat, I seem to remember the swish of these as you walked around town. Hush puppies or desert boots, blue denim button down collar shirts with blue knitted tie or roll neck shirts. Did do the drug scene and loved every blessed minut
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  24. My ancestors in the 16/1700s were farm workers in that parish.Then my side of the family moved to Nottingham in the lace trade.
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  25. I am not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son but I'll be plucking pheasants When the pheasant plucker's gone.
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  26. Same pic RGR. I do think us Nottingham girls had a lot more style than this lot....... they look so fat and frumpy!
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  27. I went to London recently with a colleague of mine who is a very accomplished plastic surgeon, not one of those who does cosmetic surgery but does the real hard core plastic surgery- burns, unhealing ulcers, skin cancer, etc, that the private sector wont touch with a bargepole. We got into a discussion on the train back, (admittedly after a few pints in the Lamb and Flag in Covent Garden and a good curry) we talked about wound healing stuff. I mentioned Melissa's potato for burns. He said that it would act as a heat sink for the burn, and having lots of starch, would start to coagulate the s
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  28. Well I don't know RGR, I just hope I didn't dress like this bunch when I was 15/16. I think (hope) I was a lot 'cooler' than that ......
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  29. Wollaton Pit sidings from the railway bridge I thinks
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  30. Couple of photo's from when I cannot remember. But they are of areas that I recall so I presume they must be from the 1950's. The first one is of the railway bridge on the Old Coach Road
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  31. Just been into our local Co-op tonight and I noticed that they have still got England flags for sale. As a light hearted joke, I mentioned to the Manager that they had been knocked out of the competition as a result of todays match. He doesn't know much about football and does not keep track with any of the games. He turned to one of the assistants and asked her to mark them down to half price tomorrow! The funny thing is he wasn't joking.... Smiffy
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  32. must be awful,stuck in the south of France Lizzie'
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  33. Sad day for English football. I read the link on #41,"We hope to win in 2022 world cup". I hope they find a new manager,I'll be well into my 70's by then,if I'm still this side of the daisies. My consolation is that I have seen them win the world cup in my life time
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  34. Gosh Dave, fancy being in the same class as Harold Shipman! Who'd have thought! Oh and welcome Katrina
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  35. You look fab Carni and you still do!
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  36. I recall that Miss Bloom was the headmistress but I think she retired and a man took over as the Head. Teachers I remember include Miss Widdowson - Mr Saunders - Mr Anderson - Mr Gregory - Miss Maltby and Mrs Barber. The infamous Harold Shipman was in my class but we knew him as 'Freddie Shipman'.
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  37. Yes all of the main world religions are made up of the same basic and fundamental ideas and principles i.e. PEACE. What many fail to recognize.
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  38. I guess we didn't know all those years ago that we were eating 'fast food', way before McDonalds was even thought of.
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  39. In the early 80s I noticed that the Mapperley fish bar was throwing away fish at the beginning of the tea time session. I asked why and they said it was left over from lunchtime and they were not allowed to reheat it on health and safety grounds, so it had to be chucked. I immediately volunteered my dog to eat the waste fish and thenceforth had free fish whenver I went in at tea time - the dog, of course, didn't exist
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  40. And Dad always said 'moderation in all things' and 'always listen to the other persons point of view' ................nice one for this forum ?
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  41. My Grandfather, Sydney Newberry was in the Great War and was gassed at Ypres. Lived well into his eighties. Lived at 56 Guthrie Street, Radford
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  42. Hi Bugsy sorry about the delay in contacting anyone but could not get signed in hopefully fixed now my grandfather served in 2nd/1st berks bty 158 brigade RHA He was killed 2nd of April 1918 age 34 He was a gunner He is buried at Duisan near Arras He lived on Citadel street Radford I have visited the grave but can find no record of him on any memorial here apart from the book of the war dead in the council house My grandfather on my mothers side was Andrew Marsden he lived on Redoubt street and survived the war but was badly gassed I have no trace of his war record but I think he was either
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  43. The one big problem in researching the files of regiments and battalions,is that many casualty returns were lost or destroyed during an artillery bombardment or a forward movement. I have been researching 'The Great war'on and off for 35+ years.You come up against a lot of dead ends.Many soldiers would turn up days later after being listed MIA,not with their original unit,but at an aid post,miles away from their own battalion. There were those who just wandered around suffering from 'Shell shock and mental fatigue,these guys were looked at as 'skivers',and for the longest time would be hel
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  44. My grandad used to drink in the white hoss and the marquess ..... Family legend was that Alan Sillitoe was my aunts Barbara's first boyfriend .... Well a couple of years before Alan died he came to waterstones in nottm on a book talk and promotion . I went along to listen to the legendary man . After the tallk he was signing books , I had purchase two and asked him whilst he was signing if he could remember the Sisson family In particular Barbara ...... He talked for 10 minutes on his memories of the street of Radford and his first kiss with Barbara ....... He was a wonderful raconteur .
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  45. Ey Up Bugsy, welcome to The Forum, if you're interested in all things Notts, you'll find plenty on here. My grandfather Leonard Palmer was lost in action 23rd March 1918 and his brother, William on the 26th December 1917. They are both remembered on the In Memoriam board in St Peters in Radford. Both were with The Sherwood Foresters.
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  46. Ayup Bugsy. My granddad - Sidney Hill - lived at Radford and was in the Great war. He volunteered after lying about his age and was sent to Ireland. He didn't want to go there as he had a lot of Irish friends. He did end up fighting the Germans however. My other Grandad lived on Salisbury Street and was a machine gun sergeant. His name was William Stevenson. He was badly gassed and given only a few years to live. However, after a lifetime in the building trade he managed to live into his nineties. I don't know what regiment William was in but Sidney was in the Robin Hood Rifles - Bicycle Co
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