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No matter how badly off you are there is always someone worse. I very much admire your fortitude and good humour Ben!

Funny how you mentioned things coming on quick since the magic 70. I've had a similar experience. since 70 it has become more and more everything hurts and what don't hurt don't work. I still do plenty of yard work, but I haven't walked the dogs so much. It was too hot a week or two ago, now its suddenly turned too cold i take them in the yard and play ball with them for their sakes, but I am not walking as much. I'm not keen on doctor visits because my symptoms are vague and I would only end up with a battery of invasive tests which would probably prove nothing except I'm ge

Tell em you're really a female in a male body and the hernia spoils the look of your A line frock! You'll go to the top of the list! ....and you behave yourself, our Ben!

Col, skip the weights matey. You're never going to be Arnie. Just gentle exercises will suffice. I've had back pain on and off for two years, and brisk walking eases it, but makes my legs ache. You can't win. Just put it down to wear and tear.

Dont care who is reading this thread, it's my Birthday and I'm 75 ! so there, I am now going out to the garden centre for a silk cactus and cup of coffee, then maybe shop for my zimmer frame. Have a good day everybody. Cheers !! Beekay

Reckon you all 'namby pamby'' i don't mess with minor 'Ailments'' i get serious Shit '' in for a penny in for a Pound'' thats what i say............lol

I was like a teenager till I was 70, then life was all downhill ! However, you can't beat a bit of exercise. When I'd started work in my teens, an old boy once said to me 'Don't worry son, life gets easier as you get older '. Silly old sod ! He didn't have to live through the 60's and 70's in his youth. Still, wouldn't have missed it for the world.

I loved all the boat clubs.....the bands that appeared were iconic ..... Some of them are still rockin today ....total respect

I'm on the outside not in thanks, and still working at the age of 69

Only cos that means you get fussed over by a lot more nurses! Chulla trained you well!

I'm with you on that Fly. More aching hips legs etc. these days, but I just put up with it. It sort of goes along with the 'schooldays are the happiest days of your life' stuff. We are now living in the 'golden years' Maybe the writer was referring to the amount of money you can spend on prescriptions, pain killers and doctor visits.

Great article Dj360 ........still go to the boat clubs now , sadly no alternative bands more " grab a granny 60s stuff "

Will do ......he has dogs of his own ....my grands are terrified of him, think he is a hobo !!!!!

Bands/artists I recall from the boat clubs and the Beachcomber. Jeff Beck Band with Rod on vocals and Aynsley Dunbar on Drums. and later 'Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation' Tull Ferris Wheel fronted by Linda Lewis Tim Rose Long John Baldry Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Chris Farlowe Zoot Money Status Quo ... and believe it or not.. Love Affair and The Bee Gees... You can't win 'em all... Interesting article here.. https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-20-greatest-british-blues-albums-1960-1966 It inclu

I can remember the first time I went to the Dungeon. Went down the stairs and Baby Love by the Supremes was playing. Don’t think H&S would have let it open nowadays with just the narrow staircase down to it. I was about 15. Luckily my friends and I missed the raid but I heard that the floor crunched when it was walked on because of all the pills that had been dropped. I went to Bilborough Grammar and we were told we weren’t to go there, it was a den of iniquity apparently, so of course everyone went. We were never offered anything when we were there. I can remember the dance marathons the

Must admit only went to the Dungeon club a couple of times, went with Elaine the other junior, when it was first open. We both were junior stylist and would finish work 8 00 Friday night then go into the boss's bathroom, get ready and go down town get down town for 10 30---11 00 then next morning around about make our way home and back at work to start for 8 00. Goodness know what the clients hair would look like. My father found out about mw and Elaine going down town and put a stop to it, but when little older found "Hippo" and "Scamps" also went down the boat club a few time's. Then came t

I never went to the Dungeon. but made up for it by many nights at the Beachcomber and the Boat Clubs. Them wer't days...

I totally agree Fly .....the dungeon club started my musical journey, the beachcomber and boat clubs gave me the confidence to explore different genres..... I will always be grateful for that period of my life as today I still work and enjoy what the music industry has to offer

Yes, I wasn't there either for I'd also seen the Drifters previously, and wasn't about to see them again. Likewise, I've heard folk say that they were there. Many of them would have been too young, but liked a moment of notoriety.

I worked at the Employment Exchange in Basford from 1960 to 1966, in the days before it moved to David Lane. I used to catch the number 13 bus from Bilborough which I think only ran in peak times. Unlike the other Bilborough buses which went into town up Ilkeston Road, the 13 went up Alfreton Road so I would get off at Bentinck Road to catch a 43 or 44 to Basford. One lasting memory of my journeys to work is of Tuesday mornings which was the day Shipstones delivered beer to the Alma pub which was just across the road from the bus stop on Bentinck Road. The dray would be parked by the kerb and

It may not have been the managers’ faults. Maybe the players are rubbish. Sacking the managers may have been the cheapest options but it’s proving not to have worked.

Nice card Carni, thank you.

Hi Katy, better to be late than not coming at all. Grab up a chair, we've saved you a slice of birthday cake.

Thanks fly will let you know

Nice one Braddy.......69? just a boy yet.............

Sod the NHS Braddy. I've got some rusty secateurs in the greenhouse, and a well used Junior hacksaw. They'll do adequately.

Did'nt know you were in Prison Braddy............lol

Our cats! We still have mice

Yes, that's where I worked for 6 years - lovely to see it again, thank you. The building is still there then? What is it used for now? The Driving Test Centre was in a tiny single story building at the back of us and the examiners used our "facilities" including our rest room so we knew them quite well. I can only remember two of them and I suspect that includes the one who someone here describes as miserable. He hardly ever spoke to anyone. The other one I remember had a daughter the same age as me who he was teaching to drive. He offered to teach me....and I declined as I was ver

A great article Col. Got / had most of the albums, and seen most of the groups mentioned. Plus TYA, The Nice, Family, Elmer Gantry, Deep Purple, Groundhogs, Taste, Tull, Chicken Shack. Aynsley Dunbars Retalliation..... Superb, especially their version of Sabbaths The Warning. Theres a great informative book by Bob Brunning ex Fleetwood Mac and others, on the British Blues Connection . Well worth it.

Phil...…… SSSSSSSHH!! Stop it immediately or I'll be forced to report your post and set the D.O.G.S. on you. (Doddery Old Geezers Society) You can't just go around revealing secrets like this.... there will be consequences!

Yes, I took mine at Valley Rd. Basford. The only comment the examiner made after he passed me was that I drove a little too slowly. I took his words to heart and never drove slowly again!

Quo, Tull, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, to name but a few. Oh, Sir Rod, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood etc.

The music scene was changing dramatically, and some folks didn't want to spend a night dancing. They wanted alcohol and a different style of music. The Boats suited me down to the ground.

Yes HG, by that time I’d moved on to the Beachcomber but had been going to the Boat Clubs from about early 1966.

Me too Lizzie .....as you know I have documented the dungeon club days along with most of the Nottingham clubs and my research led me to nottstalgia .....we now are involved with the reunion group which has brought so many of us together again .....I was there on the night of the raid but I think that was my last visit as the beachcomber and boat clubs became more current

It is taken in the playground at Berridge, PP. The structures backed onto the gardens of houses in Kenslow Avenue and, I believe, at one time they served as some sort of canteen. You had a projector for hymns? We had a massive flip chart which hung on the wall but we only ever had one hymn because it was all Mr Parr could play!!

None taken Brew.........can't talk now, just Hammering'' some Screws in.....................

Yes BK, there are several 'experts' on here. Cliffton finds photos DavidW will search newspaper archives Ann Swaby is the person to help on ancestry queries Carni is the cake expert Albert is the trains and dancing expert Jill can tell you anything you want to know about The Manning School Loppylugs is the musician Peveril Peril is our resident keep fit enthusiast Benjamin is the DIY expert We all have our specialities, we're a good mix!!

Not been here for a while, few health issues been keeping me busy but settled down a bit now, just caught up with this thread and a few memories came forth. Dr Foy my family doctor when I was a child, also did a home birth when my wife had our son in 1968, midwife called him out as the baby was becoming stressed, no phone then so I remember running up to mapperley tops to use the payphone. We were staying at mums place as we only had a flat in Hyson Green and it was cold and damp whereas mum had the central heating. Twigdons, used to deliver papers for them, opposite the war m

Some of the shops and establishments on Woodborough Road, north of Porchester in the 1950's. Not all and I know there was at least one other green grocers. Reg Leafe the butchers - football referee I believe Frudd's - plumbers? Dr's Carson, Lock etc. Was it Twigdens newsagents or was that the one at the top of Westdale Lane? Judges - bakery and groceries and the Post Office The 'Clinic' - where we all got our pre school smallpox jab and that disgusting cod liver oil - and small bottles of orange juice to avoid rickets. A Vauxhall garage corner of Bre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BknhUMWEdgM Interesting video on the history of the Bilborough Estate: Good old propaganda!

Have you seen these? Tissues required for the second one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66OimWfAcD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgCkKCwufY Your comment about snobbery is very interesting. My husband remarked that he always felt inferior to the Wollaton lot, even though he actually passed for the High School. Of course his place was rescinded when his parents were interviewed. Too working class I suspect. I certainly felt as if the Wollaton crew perceived themselves to be real cut above us Bilboroughites. Hubby feels that t