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This is what happens when you take a few old photographic postcards, and then play around with Streetview. Not everything gets ruined all the time.

Sadly, I will not be able to attend Chulla's funeral tomorrow due to work commitments but I will be thinking of him, his family and all Nottstalgians who gather to celebrate his life. He will long live on in our thoughts and posts.

Oh yes! If there were 2 of us and only 1 pair of skates we'd balance a Beano or Dandy annual across the skate, sit on it and zoom down the pavement. Straight off the kerb, onto a bum-jarring cobbled street! Thank God there wasn't much traffic around!

A good man willing to share and contribute to an interested group of folk. I will miss his very balanced and trenchant contributions to this forum.

That picture of St Mary's church Blidworth is take from Ricketts Lane which if you follow along takes you past the old Blidworth windmill, "Druid's Stone" and out on to the A60 the Nottingham-Mansfield road near the table top tree and the Bessie Shepherd stone.

I remember chalking a pattern on my top but I knelt on it to spin so the pattern rubbed off. I also used the skate and book but never on a steep hill, my cousin talked me into trying a big hill but I must turn right at the bottom of course I didn't. Broken anke and wrist the bank in question is the one in a previous picture, he had trouble sitting down while was spoilt LOL.

He did too but then I called him the Dalai Chulla! Never saw him in saffron robes but he was very much like the present Dalai Lama. Same cheeky face!

Another in the collection.

I never could get the hang of Whip and top!

I have managed to swap my days around at work and will be there on Wednesday.

Only met chulla four or five times but through his posts seem to have known him quite well. I'll miss this likeable man, who brought some of us together. Sincerely hope that he will be celebrated through future meetings and website topics. See you all there on Wed. ps, Nice post Ian.

The first Nottingham Festival. Views of Slab square, Playhouse, castle, The Forest and Wollaton Park in 1970

I too sadly cannot attend due to prior arrangements, but will be thinking of a good, kind and thoughtful man.

Oh dear Lizzie, the mushroom top was a doddle, it was the carrot that I struggled with as it kept wobbling and falling over.

Sadly Mrs C & i wont be with you tomorrow but we willbe thinking of our oldmate Chulla & be saying a prayer for him.

My roller skates had rubber wheels but the rubber must have been low-grade as the wheels wore down to triangular shape! Had a lot of fun on them, despite the bumpy ride, because we lived on a steep hill. My favourite top was a ‘carrot’, I just couldn’t get the ‘mushroom’ shape to work.

Another tyre place off Arkwright Street. The road on the left is Waterway Street.

Your pic is of what we called a 'carrot' top, very difficult get 'em going but the more usual type was easy. Diablo?.. easy peasy and yes I had steel skates for a long time before going 'upmarket' with rubber wheels. My dad, because of the way the skates gripped, always threatened I'd have to go barefoot if they ripped the sole off my shoe

I think the bottom photo is the barbers on the corner of Thames st.

Top photo is still a barbers,......bottom one is now a Dentist.............

Anyone else have all-steel roller skates with leather straps?

A funny thing happened to me this morning.....Nah, now I think of it, it wasn't all that funny.

The Settlers looked like they were trying to emulate that great Aussie group The Seekers, the singer even sounds a bit like Judith Durham Here is Pan's People doing the same song The Lightning Tree

Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime, Pushbike Song and Lady Rose, De de-de-de de de-de-de-de..... great stuff Guinness - One of the essential food groups during the sixties and seventies

I had a Cadet amp for a while Dave. I think mine was a II. It also had the little phono plug in module.

this must be the one Oz..demolished in 2009.

A snap shot of Watten village taken from my bedroom window. The distance to the village is one mile. Looks shorter because I used a long lens in oder to get the mountain (Scaraben) in the background.

I think they had to be female, FLY, but Howard was usually the worse for the booze...which was his other failing. He liked his scanties...which reminds me of someone else we all know!

My first poem, about the destruction of buildings in Nottingham, was in the Demolished Memories thread back in June. I said that it was one of only two that I had written, and had put them away. The other one, written over twenty years ago, is reproduced below. I have no idea what prompted me to write it, but it was obviously in one of my soppy moments - I get them from time to time! Suki Murden Suki Murden, lovely girl, Brown in eye, hair acurl. Cheeks in bloom, loves to peep, Gingham dress, dimple deep. Started school, doing well, She's