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  1. Capital letters. The difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse & helping your uncle jack off a horse
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  2. Thanks very much, Michael. I'm an ex-pat from Risley and my wife's from just outside the City (Nottingham). We moved to Dorset about thirty years ago then returned to Nottingham in 2009 to be closer to our family. This looks an interesting site and I look forward to making an occasional contribution. Best wishes - Pete
    3 points
  3. Being a film buff I probably have a lot of memorable lines from films (I would not call them famous - hardly any of the above are). In this case I prefer the philosophical approach. One that always touches me when I hear it in the film Its a Wonderful Life, is spoken by Clarence Oddbody, the Guardian Angel sent down to put George Bailey (played by James Stewart) back on the straight and narrow. He had wished he had never been born, and his wish was granted, with the result no-one recognised him, and his good deeds of the past were unknown in the town he lived and worked in. At his wit's end,
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  4. I think there's a few little devils on Nottstalgia.
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  5. Found this site at the weekend when looking for info on the old St. Annes. I must say it is good to read other peoples experiences of living in Nottingham. Well done to all contributors, moderators, etc. A little about myself: My name is Anthony, Ant when I was a kid, Tony nowadays. Born in 1956 at the City Hospital. I went to Shelton St. Infants school, before progressing to Huntingdon St. Junior school. I was only there for one year before going to Bluebell Hill school (we moved house). I was there at the same time as Viv Anderson before he moved to Clifton. After Bluebell Hill I we
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  6. I'm a jeans and sweater man myself, but this time of year it's shorts and tee shirt...No idea what happened to my ties, don't have a suit, and most of my old dress jackets would be too tight on me. Basically, these days when it comes to clothes and dress, I'm a slob, but a very comfortable slob...LOL
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  7. You are right, catfan. I can see nothing wrong or politically incorrect with the term 'coloured'. They are not black - Nubians are black (they are as black as the fire back). I suppose their resentment come from the notices that used to be displayed in windows - NO COLOUREDS. As for the term gay for homosexual; such people have bastardised a lovely word. Gay used to have the connotation of a very happy, carefree young lady. Girls' first-names were Gay, and it is still, of course, a surname. Every single time the word gay is uttered now it brings to mind homosexuals, or as some would have it,
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  8. It pees me off that things we classed as normal are now hijacked by weirdos to represent something completely different. II made me gay opening my Christmas pressies or having a few beers on my birthday. Not now. The rainbow has been hijacked as a gay symbol. I used to consider myself a rainbow chaser, always after my ultimate goal. Not now by God.
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  9. the roundabout where vernon road meets radford road and western boulevard and valley road basford
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  10. Re: Lincoln Street crossing. I've posted this before somewhere, but it sort of shows how the earlier alignment might have been. The photographer is on Vernon Road; the lorry going away is going down Lincoln Street and the car poking its nose in is coming from David Lane.
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  11. Just bought myself a photog course, pity there's not a local photog group around me where I could learn more from others with experience. Still, I'm a fast learner on my own when I have to apply myself.
    1 point
  12. Someone give this guy a like PLEASE!
    1 point
  13. Compo Your 20th century tat is fascinating. Have your heard of Beamish Museum? Its close to me, and at the moment they are calling out for any 1950s stuff as they are making a 1950's street. Some of the houses are for therapy for Alzheimer's sufferers who are baffled by modern techy stuff but remember with clarity the 1950s.
    1 point
  14. You're right The current place is called Hornbuckle Court, and I missed it because it's a bit removed from the original Hornbuckle Street - on the other side of Denman Street if that still existed.
    1 point
  15. Tissues .......................using three apostrophes turn this word into belonging to sue.
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  16. The Wigan "flatback" sounds like 75 RTO which was an old Fleetline that was rebodied (along with three others) with a modified version of the Nottingham standard design after a big fire at the Parliament St depot. The rebuild was carried out by Northern Counties - a Wigan-based company.
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  17. Nice to make your acquaintance, Melissa . You might like to take a glance at my YouTube channel. A couple of Nottingham items there - and I'm a bit of a jazz buff. Most of these are recordings I've either made or restored. Pete https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKMqtlcpq2MO9tzbkLaLhpQ
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  18. Yes, I think that's the one, I know it was just off Denman Street
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  19. My youngest grandchild says they sometimes sing different words to Baa baa black sheep at Nursery ( although they still sing the original as well) so I think that it's just a jokey thing... Baa baa pink sheep have you any spots? Yes sir, yes sir, lots and lots One for the master and one for the dame And one for the little girl who lives down the lane
    1 point
  20. Don't MINCE your words,do you Mick, lol.
    1 point
  21. #18. Good job Hippo isn't!
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  22. The wonders of Hornby Dublo, my brother and I out in the back garden, summer 1959, the only problem was the dodgy extension cable required to connect the transformer to the main socket in the kitchen. My brother 'accidentally' forgot to disconnect the plug resulting in me getting a nice 240V shock when I unscrewed the junction box connectors. I had a Triang Minic motorway ( still have it ), it was only compatible with Triang Trains, not Hornby Dublo, I thought it was pretty boring watching cars trying to whiz round a track before coming off at corners almost every time. I preferred shunting
    1 point
  23. Re #40. That's quite sad Chulla. It made me think that if I had not been born nobody would notice. I was adopted at six weeks and didn't know till I was in my thirties. I recently managed to get my birth mothers name, by obtaining my original birth certificate thanks to Social Services. I can't be bothered to trace any surviving relatives. II was happy with my childhood though, and everything I've done in adulthood I thought was right. "I don't need no monument, let this life be my testament"
    1 point
  24. Running Horse, White Lion, Rose & Crown maybe...... Mmmmm I'm struggling now. Alma was full of druggies, odd balls and general detritus even in the early 70's.
    1 point
  25. #40. Chulla, I would have double liked your post if there had been a facility for this!
    1 point
  26. I'm BROWNED off with all this P.C. nonsence. What next I soon won't be able to cal a spade a spade.
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  27. I once came last in a spelling centost
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  29. #77 our youngest grandchildren are only 4 and 5 so they are not grown up enough yet to be amazed at my childhood toys, I'm pleased to say. They love playing anything from Snakes and Ladders to looking for worms in the garden. When we find a worm we carry it to the other side of the garden and pretend it's going on its holidays! I used to do that 65 years ago. Another 5 or 6 years and I expect they'll be glued to their phones ....
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  30. Thanks friends, mates, chums and fellow Nottstalgians for giving me 2,000 likes. At least I know that most appreciate my posts, although one or two have been waffle. I know I've always attempted to inject an element of humour into my posts. So glad you like them. To those who don't, then go and reproduce with yourself !!!!!!! LOL
    1 point
  31. I absolutely adore classic cars also any old form of transport. I would love to own something like a Morris Minor but funds won't allow. Beside, I already have an old banger.
    1 point
  32. I think it was maybe some kind of general bus / coach parking area. NickA has found one of the relevant photos; here's a couple more. On both, the signs on the walls include Barton, Skills, and Hall Bros.
    1 point
  33. That horrible juddereing when reversing the car.
    1 point
  34. Yes, you don't mess with a German Shepherd. Way back, one of my earliest jobs included debt collecting Hire Purchase arrears. One day I visited a house on Farnborough Road, knocked on the front door and was asked to come to the side gate which was opened. Before I could do anything, an Alsatian bounded out and sank it's teeth into the first bit of flesh it came to. We managed to prise it off and I had a trip straight to QMC where the teeth marks and damage were inspected by several nurses. After a tetanus shot and a dressing I returned to base and reported to my boss that I had been grievously
    1 point
  35. I have a small museum of 20th century tat if that's what you mean I collect other people's junk.
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  36. Congratulations Malcolm and you had a good tutor in Carni... However, it was a big shock when I started using the Instant Streetview and navigated around the centre of Nottingham and along the two main thoroughfares that we once used to enter the City; Arkwright Street and London Road. I have watched with sadness the changing face of the City over the years and read, mainly on this Forum, of the changes that have been visited on it by enlightened planners (?) but this Streetview was something else again! Apart from a handful of sites that I remembered, everything else has gone - changed
    1 point
  37. Don't say that, it isn't true, it related to the morals of the time, whatever they were supposed to be, left overs from another age I suspect. Compared to some of the teenage filth that I get in the bike centre, or meet on my patrols around the Nature Reserve, we were angels, would we have ever considered hurting anybody, threatening anyone, being abusive, ripping anyone off, destroying anything, particularly related to the natural world, or stealing anything ( apart from railway stuff that would have been destroyed anyway ), no, we wouldn't do any of that, bottom line was that we did actually
    1 point
  38. At school, they told me I was dyslexic. And I spent a couple of school years going to these 'special' classes for writing. 9 years on and I would say my spelling is ok. I hope so... Because I somehow got qualified to being a preschool teacher haha m)
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  39. My skin is white (ish). When i'm cold i turn Blueish, when i'm embarrassed i turn red, when i'm sunburned i turn Brown. Who are these coloured people?
    1 point
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