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Down from the Palais...............bleddy hell DOWN means DOWN.............LOL.

Somewhere on here ?

AEC Renown fpr you WW. !

Digging around in old threads I landed on this one. It started in the days when nobody posted photos, so I'll update things. This is Price and Beal's shop on Parliament Street - (for "big men").

I read you DJ360, interesting subject. About 50 years ago I built a couple of 40 litre enclosures to a Wharfedale spec and fitted their drivers in. I had a modest hifi amp in which I modified the tone circuits to a spec from a hifi mag of the era. The mod was entitled "Enhance your deep deep bass". It made a subtle but very smooth full audio range. Over the following years things like Queen's greatest hits and Radetzky March, Buxtehude, Bach, Widor, Holst and Tomita, all sounded great to my ears through that lash up. It could handle owt I chucked at it. I've still got it somewhere in the

I worked at Boulevard works from 1977 to 1980. In the department most of you loved to hate - Work Study. I had a spell at Harvester Works in St Annes and also went to the factory down near Swansea a few times. Got made redundant along with 900 others, early 1980. Saddest day of my life other than when my parents died. Loved working there with a great team. When alcohol tax went up, we all started making our own wine and beer. Cursed M & S ever since, as they never allowed the company to make enough profit to invest in new technology, to improve efficiency. Stil

PTP have proof you were right about that! This fits the numbering and the location. According to PTP, it was owned by Boots.

Set up a company in the late 70s with an Indian chap.......we called it ''Sisco''.......a mixture of our surnames.....but in my mind it was 'Cisco' from the tv series,.i nicknamed him Pancho''......he never grasped it.........well he would'nt would he........it did'nt last long............i rode off into the 'sunset' with him saying ''ah cisco''........and me saying ''ah Pancho''...............good while it lasted...........

It was opposite the old ice stadium.

Your getting nice new big arch for your market ..... best make sure that 3 & 1s set rock solid?

Not buses in Nottingham but if I may digress a bit. When I were a skinny junior school kid wi' scabby knees and short trahsers, family spent many happy hols at Mablethorpe. We stayed at a b+b in Wellington Square. On High Street opposite Victoria rd is a covered indoor market. That used to be a coach garage which went through to Tennyson st. At 7am I would be dressed and sent out the house while my parents attended to my 2 younger brothers. Which was the time the coaches were driven out of the garage and parked on Tennyson st ready for the day's schedules. I saw a full front D

I remember years ago a company named 'Sound Sales' seemed to be big in school audio equipment. Radios and record players in big grey metal boxes that could be connected to the school classroom network.

I don't remember that MI, but then I mostly shot home for lunch as it was only 5 minutes on me bike.. I do recall a record player in the part of the canteen/refectory that was partitioned off the create Frank William's Music Room. It always smelled of a curious mix of cabbage, custard and boiled fish.. However, I do remember a very similar set up in Henry Whipple Primary. There was a square piece of board which stood upright and had a loudspeaker driver in the middle. It usually lived on the stage in the hall. It was my job every morning to connect this thing by the bare ends

ken brown new to this site, born on Denison street, after travelling all over the world or some of it returned and now in Bulwell. I am nearly 80 and can remember prisoners of war being on Wollaton park they had huts at the bottom of the park, and walked around in boiler suits with a big white circle on the back, as kids we said it was a target to shoot them if they tried to escape,but looking back that would hardly be the case as they were allowed to do just about anything they wanted to and were invited into peoples homes for meals and drinks,which worked well for me in later life

Hi Plantfit just a quick thank you for your post of 1st October that you have the book Bill of Bulwell. A few days later I saw the book for sale ,so I brought it , I found it very easy to read ,it was as Bill spoke, It took you back to the very early days of life in Bulwell , and the stresses and strains of life in those days. It also made me more appreciative of the standard of life now, food of a good quality and quantity , central heating just to mention a few. I will try to get my 21 year old grandson to read it to understand what life was previously like, he is the one who struggl

Thanks for the good wishes. It went well. They have local interest talks quite often.. Not a big turnout but apparently the usual crowd turned up plus 2 extras.

Presumably, radios in schools in the 50s and 60s were also Rediffusion in supply. I recall just a large square of plywood with a circle of mesh fabric in the centre hanging on the wall and a switch nearby. We occasionally listened to Schools' radio or had Music and Movement in the hall....now run and find a space, everyone and then curl up in a tiny ball on the floor.

As far as i know Jodi......no connections to Radford or Aspley........however Nell Jackson married George Cooper a Mansfield Fireman possibly pre 1940, and lived there for many years.....her children were Shirley,,June,,Melvin,, and Anne,.....think they all got Married in Mansfield........i was Page Boy for one of them about 1950...........at the Church at the bottom of the hill as you enter Mansfield from Nottingham..........any help ?

If they are, Jodi, that means Ben and I could be distantly related! Now there's a thought!

And nesh?

Went in Heron at South Normanton earlier & a very relaxed experience at the checkout was had. Not so relaxed when SWMBO clocked the pork dripping & liquorice allsorts that I'd sneaked in the basket. She's a hypocrite as she's scoffing dripping on toast as I type this, & all that shouting & fuss - girls eh...

As I was walking by the ruins of Dirlot Castle, a medieval castle built on a rock (See photo) yesterday I was thinking about old stonework - as you do. It occurred to me that it would be great to take a journey back in time and stop off in three different periods: 1. The Neolithic Age(new stone age) to get an insight into the early stone monument builders; why and how they did it. 2. The Bronze Age to see how they developed their stonework from early Neolithic stuff. 3. Iron Age to watch them build a stone Broch (fortified tower of stone) There is a project ru

It is only a speaker, yes, but there was a switch on the window sill with a choice of 5 or 6 programmes. Certainly covered classical music because we listened to plenty of that!

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