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Earlier this week an Extraordinary meeting of the WW Household Domestic Effects, Chattels and Maintenance committee was convened. Item on the agenda; a new house number plaque. Investigations were made using junk mail brochures and on-line sales sites. Mrs WW saw and suggested buying an on-line one at £30. Mr WW insisted that he could make one from items stored in the 'might-need-this-one-day' reserve. It was explained by Mr WW that a suitable wooden background could easily be made with chamfered edges and corners, sanded smooth, suitably stained and varnished and brass numbers attached, all

Well done to him Lizzie. He's doing brilliantly despite several ailments you've mentioned over the years. I worked for 49 years, and enjoy my retirement, but I still try and do many jobs myself. Not just to save money, but to keep me fit mentally and physically. I love doing anything constructive such as making my own trellis's in the garden. They're much better than those flimsy things from garden centres. Also where possible fencing. Bricklaying too on my raised beds (I should have gone into construction from school) I'm not over keen on DIY, but anything in the garden defi

He will attempt to repair anything rather than spend a lot of money on new Loppy, always been the same. Summat to do with growing up with nothing, big family, working on a chicken farm after school at the age of 8, to get money to buy sweets. He’s still working now, at nearly 75 and that work ethic has been passed on to our boys fortunately, just hope they don’t all burn themselves out.

When Lideo decided to sell his restaurant we actually thought of buying it, can't remember why we didn't . When it became Cafe Di Paris we use to go regulary at lunch time when we were closed. My husband worked with the two brothers. The younger one ( for the life of me I can't recall his name) was in partnership with a French chef. Giulio the elder one was always on reception. Franco one of the waiters also worked with my husband. When I was in Nottingham in January I called in to say hello but none of the original staff was there. Apparently a nephew ( of whom I don't remember) had taken ov

I take my hat off to you Jill, restoring anything comes with a great sense of achievement Rog

Every ten years or so, as and when needed, I reupholster my Victorian chairs, using matching fabric. They will last forever. Once tried to put olde English, black & white webbing and 8 guage springs on a modern chair frame. Wouldn't take the tension. It split the timber! DFS rubbish!

Are you sure about the last sentence, FLY? Sorry, I don't mean it really, I just couldn't resist saying it x

I knew Nonna would know!

Hi Meely munch welcome hope you enjoy being part of our group. The Italian restaurant was Lideos called Il Nido ( the nest) he sold it to become Cafe Di Paris which later became Petite Paris as the original Cafe Di Paris objected to the name.

Well said Fly. Here as long as you've worked 35 yrs you can retire. So there's a lot of them just sitting around the bars playing cards all day long, not drinking apart from the extra communitarian 's who have never worked here and do not intend to have full time work. I don't know how they get by , there's no dole handout here.

Someone's got to compensate for the idle beggars who just want to sit in their fat backsides nonna ! Too many just see retirement as an excuse to do nothing worthwhile and hope to be mollycoddled for the rest of their days !

Lizzie , what are we going to do with our men eh. They don't recognize the word " retirement"

Planned obsolescence, if they made them to last who would need to buy new one? In part it's what killed the machine tool industry, when sixty and even seventy year old lathes/drills/millers still worked why replace them?

Rog, I thought the factory units were all on the left going down. I seem to remember opposite Beecrofts, the only reason I went down Drury, was Postern Gate or Place which went into a little square where there were various works, including the electroplaters. I only remember shops on the right, but I'm thinking around mid 60s, am I getting mixed up?

Thank you Nonna and everyone who answered much appreciated.

Margie ! I'm distraught. Sympathy needed now folks, or I'll play the hard done to martyr, and that we don't need ! Ok, ok, you're forgiven !....... Just.

On overtime I used to work on export, a job there was called "Teabagging" not sure why? Just before the 5000 box was sealed you placed a t-shirt on top, if they was going anywhere I considered a poor country they got two.

Used to work in the stores for a large engineering company with its own assembly area. Often used to add 1 extra screw or component and watch the assemblers trying to find out where they had missed something. My excuse is I was only a lad at the time and that sort of thing tickled my sense of humour back then.

I'm renovating my parents' old dining suite. I went with them to choose it in 1965. I wanted a different one but they had their choice...well, I was only 7 at the time! They chose an oval gateleg table and wheelback chairs. I wanted a refectory table and ladderback chairs. I've always liked it but it was starting to look a bit tired so a bit of cleaning, sanding, staining and waxing has made it look a lot better. 1965 is probably the most recent date for any piece of furniture in my house, apart from white goods. You can keep your latest biscuit jointed cr*p. The old

I remember at the top of Drury Hill there was always a smell - always the same and quite pleasant. I was told years later it came from an electroplating shop located above one of the shops on the left (going down to Broad Marsh). The smell was probably cyanide from the plating baths.

I saw a program recently that showed that you are lucky if you get five years out of an appliance these days. They don't want appliances like Mrs L's dryer, which is still going strong after twenty years. I replaced a control on our stove recently, but while checking for the part online I found that the glass top is no longer available. So if that goes it's off to the dump. Ridiculous! Re. retirement. I think we should stay as active, mentally and physically as we can. I'd rather wear out than rust out.

Article in the Post with many photos of the old Victoria Station. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/gallery/nottinghams-victoria-centre-might-never-2046855

And mine is owned by me Rog

The Meadow Lane workshop was known as Anchor Works. The original logo was an anchor with the NCS superimposed on it.

Yorks answer to Nottinghams Drury Hill Such a sad loss to Nottingham Rog

The Canadians are still here. We all dined in Cannes yesterday at my friend's seafood restaurant. They want to go to a real Provençal restaurant for lunch so we're going to a little place in Mougins where Picasso used to live and eat. The restaurant is little known to outsiders and it is said that Picasso never paid for his food there, he just did a drawing or sketch instead. Tonight I'm taking them to Restaurant Alain Llorca in Colle-sur-Loup just outside St Paul de Vence - in my view the best restaurant in the region - and it's Provençal cuisine. I hired a 7 seat SUV

There is an error of fact in the article: " Many of the city’s market traders also brought their businesses to the undercover Victoria Centre market, moving from the original Old Market Square pitch" The market traders actually moved from the (also undercover) Central Market, Huntingdon Street. It was a good number of years since there had been a full-time market on old Market Square. Otherwise, very interesting article.

We had a Hoovermatic twin tub. It worked for a couple of years (until it was out of guarantee) then the 'impeller' stopped moving although the motor could be heard working. I looked at the workings and found that the tub of the machine had dropped down so that there was no tension on the drive belt. It looked as if the tub had been attached with something akin to Evostik which had just given up its adhesive properties. We contacted Hoover who said that the machine was irreparable. I said that was b*ll*cks and I repositioned the tub and reattached it using bolts - as should have been done

Well that work ethic is getting to be something we don't see so much of anymore. He sounds like me. I'll have a go at anything. Crawling under cars, fixing appliances. I even built a sunroom on the back of our house. Got it inspected and everything done right. Truth is I'm cheap!

Allegedly he was doing 59mph in a 40 limit. Apart from at least 4 points on his licence and a possible ban, his speeding fine would have been 100% of his weekly pay, estimated at over £250K. Not as daft as you think.

I was a bit occupied as well TBI but not with my latest purchase Rog

I think the factory doorway if thats what it was,was on a bit of a left hand bend in the road,maybe 3/4 the way down on the right, very dark wood or paint and might have had thick wooden frame possibly painted black but very dirty/dusty, this would be 1969/70 Rog

Nottingham Post use a lot of students studying journalism at Trent, I was in contact with one via my Son, it was like pulling teeth, most of the articles are inaccurate, you'd find more info out on here. The nightclubs one was shockingly shocking?

It's a nice feeling Col Rog

As is mine.. by me. :)

Nice shot of Dank's next to Nequests on South Sherwood St.Think they had a shop on Thurland St.Lovely skylight on The Empire roof.

I do recall some 'wag' on the Telly explaining that his house name.. 'COBWEBS' was actually an acronym for 'Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society'.

No old photo but this YT video brought back some memories. Well done Bob Brindley. There is a full list in the text, a few that I had never herd of or been in

I'm with you all the way on this WW, here's my attempt at customising a house name plate, as you can see it's been relegated to the shed Rog

Thanks Ian, I remember the one at the top. I thought that that was the Shippos' one.

Wasn't sure where to fit this picture in but here seems as good a place as any, thought it would go with Compo's new avatar, dancers in our village a few years ago celebrating St Georges day outside the now closed pub Rog

Brilliant answer Nonna, Nottstalgia is a wealth of information Rog

sorry member's but this is how's your yesterday. Went to john my cousin's cremation Wednesday it was at Gedling Crematorium now I don't know if your like me, but I had never heard of a Crematorium at Gedling, so put post code into "flossy" and found it just a short ride from Traveller's Rest(pub) This Crematorium put Wilford Hill's to shame. It was built one and a half years ago, now I know Wilford Hills is old but last time I went to a cremation there the heating was not working and they could not get the gates to close, maybe the council will spend a little money on W/H, and update it

I’ve got a confession to make. My references here to Gedling street should read Boston Street.

Goose Fair It's always the first Thursday in Oct. From where we lived in St Ann's you could walk to the fair, at the time we were teenagers we would walk down to the fair every night, no not for the rides just to see what boys were around. Love the noise, crowds, fortune teller's. Miss the side shows, and the 2 big swing boats, the cakewalk, and the fair chap who used to jump on the waltzer's and swing the car round till you were dizzy. When setting the date for our wedding it had to be Goose Fair Saturday. Getting older saw a young girl fall all the way down the steps off one of the

The annoying thing about all this is a few weeks ago the council went round to all the council tennants in the close and offered them a new efficient heating system,to be fitted free all it took was one day to fit the equipment and all the old stuff would be taken away free of charge, everyone in the close had the new heating system put in with the exception of her and her neighbour,, so we still have to put up with the smoke problem, most of the folks in the close are elderly and as such suffer from heart problems or respiritory problems both compounded by smoke and some of these people are i

Don't forget the electric floats were not just for milk. There were also greengrocery floats and the enclosed one for bread. Ex-Mundellans will remember the co-op bread van, which called daily at morning break-time. We'd all rush to be first in the queue for our cobs, crisps, kitkats etc. Litcho1, apart from the wheatsheaf and the NCS shield shown on red float I'm unfamiliar with any other logos. I can't think of any connection that would involve an anchor.

I always think that the plastic milk crate was one of the world's greatest inventions. One of the everlasting sounds of my childhood/youth was the continuous crashing of metal crates and bottles as the float went over uneven ground. All went relatively quiet when the plastic crate arrived.

The Coop logo from the 50s and 60s was usually a stylised wheatsheaf and CWS for Cooperative Wholesale Society. I seem to remember it was quite common.

Not very clear, and at the wrong angle, but is this the one you mean?