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Just been to pay my lottery. I'd somehow managed to win £13 on Thunderball last week. The assistant and other customers looked aghast as I put it in the collecting box and took two poppies, and a little wooden cross. I turned around and said that it all helps, and it's no skin off my nose. I hope in some small way they followed suit.

I dispute the "run of the mill". It was a first rate grammar school in its day with high academic achievement. Many of my year became lawyers, accountants, doctors, pharmacists, university professors and business leaders and I am still in touch with some of them. It was only in the later years, after becoming a comprehensive, that it went down the pan and eventually into "special measures". A sad end to a wonderful school.

The Boulevard of Dreams All praise to my Alma Mater, On my boulevard of dreams. Three cheers with fond recall for, It's netball and hockey teams. How I wish I was back at the Manning, Wearing my navy blue drawers. How lovely was the experience, Couldn't wait to enter its doors. Smartly dressed out, in red and in grey, With chic little beret on head, Oh, weren't we just the dog's dinner, Calm down, was it something I said. Revered by most girls, but not all, It held a good repu

#79 Good for you, FLY2! I've not seen any poppies yet this year but I'll be sure to purchase and wear one. I'd feel guilty if I didn't remember the 5 members of my family whose lives were cut short by war, along with millions of others.

I'm not sure what you mean by the design. I thought it was a rather attractive building which was well laid out for its purpose. I attended the closing "ceremony" some years ago and met up with many old school friends. We were all saddened to see how it had fallen into decay. It's was even sadder to see the demolition of the place where I spent many happy years. I had to spend a lot of money to send my two to the Nottingham High Schools to get an equivalent education.

No disrespect to any former pupils of HM, but this topic has certainly drawn an amazing amount of interest, memories and information from what was apparently a rather run of the mill secondary school. Far more than what mine did (FFGS) An amazing response and although initially of no interest to me, has developed into a good topic. Well done to all concerned.

Bob was very disappointed about the shift in the Mellish to comprehensive. I think it was about the time he retired and he was glad to be out. I never got into the details, I was in Canada. Looking back it is interesting to think he paid for his daughter to go to the girls high school. She came out of there with enough A's and O's to have gone to Oxford, or Cambridge, but she married an apprentice electrician. I gues NGHS gave her good taste.

The night I met Janet I asked her what her dad did for a living. When she told me he was a teacher, I cringed. The only teachers I had met were, with a few notable exceptions, sarcastic, sadistic, over inflated twits. I really liked Janet so I didn't want to bail out even though I felt like it. I'm glad I didn't. He changed my thinking about teachers. I don't think I have ever met a kinder, more reasonable, trusting guy. His attitude tended to bring out the best. I didn't want to disappoint him.

I remember a cement tanker discharging at Basford concrete plant back in the 90's when I was fitting for RMC aggregates,when I turned onto Radford road from Wilkinson street all I could see was a grey cloud heading towards Shipstones building covering everything in cement dust including the car sales place accross the road from the readymix plant,spent the rest of the day washing all the cars in the show room and on the forecourt,the tanker driver was in a rush to get back to his base in Rugby so thought it would be a good idea to increase the engine revs and pump to get the job done quicker,h

Post 332,Quite right Mike,It was only within the last couple of week I read about a cement tanker that over pressurised on discharge because of a blockage and boom the tanker exploded and shot about 30 tons of cement into the atmosphere,I think the pictures and write up were on a website called "safe quarry.com" Rog

Very much a headmistress of the old school variety!

#202. Which secondary school, Phil. Wasn't Chandos was it? Guy by the name of Marsh? I knew a few of the high school girls through my wife. They were quite the crowd! I always referred to it as St Trinians. She did not like that so I used to do it to wind her up. Edited to add. Why didn't your mom want you to go to NGHS, Jill. Are there any NGHS gals on here?

We bought two poppies today, I attached one to each of our coats. Between now and 11th Nov; we will probably purchase another three or four each, depending on which coat we are wearing. Over the following weeks when going out, as I discover them, I remove them. We never transfer a poppy from one coat to another. It is a small price to pay to say thank you to the men who gave so much for us.

I take my hat off to you FLY !

#204 With a pinch of salt!

#201 And a very modest apprentice electrician at that, Loppy!

Not at all FLY2. I'm past taking offence at anything but I do feel I have to stand up for the old alma mater! Living in Woodthorpe I had a choice of Mellish, West Bridgford or the new Carlton le Willows. The High School was an option but you had to have top 11+ marks to get a scholarship. It was only a 10 minute walk from home to Daybrook Station and a 4 minute train journey to Basford North so it was the obvious choice. Yes, it was a bit art dec with some Georgian thrown in - quite an impressive edifice. Only in the sixth form could you enter through the hallowed front portal.

You didn't have to watch!

FLY...... To be airborne, an insect, to rush, to be a bit sharp and caddish...... Oh, and that nice chap on NS. LOL

Hi Oldie, We must have been in the same choir, I am 74 so would have been 12 or 13 at the time. did you know Cannon Leeper ? your thoughts about him? I lived at Bobbers Mill and later at Cinderhill. Wow such a long time ago.

I hope that it now has high lift camshaft, twin carbs and a go faster stripe

I used to sing in the choir at St Micheal and all Angles. Cannon Leaper was a great man and had a great influence on me. He would spend countless hours with the choir boys,teaching us about many things. He later went to Southwell Cathedral. I believe the tower was incomplete due to lack of funds.Weddings were conducted some Saturdays and I used to get a couple of bob for singing Ave Maria while the bride and groom signed the registrar.Even though no spire was built their was still a bell tower which we would ring 3 x 100 times before Sunday,s sermons would start.I was sad to learn that the old

#20 ..........no bubble...lol.....and did'nt recognise any of the others in the waiting room.......we all wore a white mac ccollar turned up and sunglasses,..lol.

Wish I could show you lot a cartoon from years ago...At many prerecorded TV quiz shows the studio audience are directed by a guy in the wings off camera holding up a board which would say "Applause" In this cartoon the two competing teams on stage sat behind a banner that said 'Sexually Transmitted Disease Staff Quiz...... Off stage was the little man holding up his board for the audience which simply said 'CLAP'