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  1. I thought Paddy Tipping was a name for Irish fly-tippers?!
    5 points
  2. The producers of 'The Saint' wanted a British car for Roger Moore portraying Simon Templer & approached Jaguar to supply a vehicle. The producers explained that the show would be weekly & expected a wide audience throughout Britain & possibly overseas thereby giving Jaguar a massive promotion & advertising platform simply by supplying a car. Jaguar responded by saying "we at Jaguar do not give away our cars! If you want a car then you will have to buy one" Volvo heard about this & informed the production team that they would not only supply a car to assist the ma
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  3. When I was at primary school some of the rich kids had elocution lessons to learn them ow to talk propper. We couldn’t afford those so I just copied the way the posh kids spoke and got elocuted for free!
    3 points
  4. Never liked having me picture taken at school Rog
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  5. I remember a few years ago the company I worked for gave every employee a frozen turkey for christmas,enormous things they were,far too big for just the two of us so I called in at the local retired folks home to donate it for their christmas dinner, "No thanks " they told me "we don't accept donations of food,but if you want to give us the value of the turkey in pounds and pence we will take that", Gave it to the Sally army for the homeless,they accepted it willingly so thats where all my donations go to now,helping the homeless Rog
    3 points
  6. We were so poor we couldn't afford to heat the servants' quarters.
    2 points
  7. Rob, I can go one better than that and it's perfectly true. When about 10 years old there were a couple of us kids who only had wellies. In summer you rolled them down, in winter left up. When they got too tight the toe fronts were cut off !!, then they worn like sandals. I remember having some hand me downs and I thought they were the bees knees, Black sneakers with studs, Great ! Until I got to school and some bird said " Why are you wearing girls Netball Boots"? I was devastated...
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  8. Shoes? You were lucky. For some of us, it was plimsolls in summer, wellies in winter. Not easy to run to the outside toilets in wellies, but at least you could warm your feet if you didn’t get there quickly enough.
    2 points
  9. There weren't any rich kids at my schools, you were posh if you had a snake belt and matching shoes!
    2 points
  10. Only your very best friends will recognise you from that!
    2 points
  11. Hopes were on Long Row as on Ian's photo, just up from Yates and before Pearsons. They were eventually taken over by a national chain as Ian mentions, can't recall the trading name before it apparently became Just Pants Plus, after I had been exiled to The North!
    2 points
  12. This really P*sses me off. Taken from the Leicster mercury and also an article on the TV news. When will the Health and Safety police realise that Goerge Orwell's "1984" was meant to be a novel - not a flipping rule book! If any group could be said to be self-policing it's the WI. Anyone found baking substandard cakes or using dirty premises would be forced to undergo such humiliation that they would never dare bake a cake again!: "....Women’s Institute members have been stopped from baking cakes for a Leicestershire hospice due to health and safety rules. The Leicestershire a
    2 points
  13. Ok, so long as you don't bring Fat Freddy's cat!
    2 points
  14. It's looking a bit black ovva Bill's mother's!
    2 points
  15. As Lizzie mentioned. It's currently a Burger King. Note also the building across the road (now Nottingham Building Society) is also Hopewells.
    2 points
  16. Trike in front of the village pond,only two hundred yards to go til I get home and a well earned coffee Rog
    2 points
  17. Apparently the woman that owned the number plate ST1 did quite well from it.
    2 points
  18. I reckon that the only good part of Van Der Valk was the theme tune, Eye Level by the Simon Park Orchestra amazingly it got to number 1 in September 1973.
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  20. Ah Phil, but he owned it didn't he ?
    1 point
  21. Must have been when Compo was delivering my paper and milk.
    1 point
  22. I think..... hang on phwooar... i just thunk again...
    1 point
  23. They said that to me too. I always thought it wrong when adults lied to children.
    1 point
  24. And quite right too Compo, we can't have a load of naked middle aged ladies wot lunch chucking raisins all over the place. Mixing batter after a large vino collapso and singing Jerusalem at top of their voices. My word no indeed sir I should jolly well hope not. They'll want to start sticking flowers in vases and where will it end after that I ask you...
    1 point
  25. Get thee behind me Satans spawn n talk proper!
    1 point
  26. Eee lad, that's rate.
    1 point
  27. In many ways 'Nottinghamese' is not so much an accent as a 'lazy' way of speaking. That should spark some controversy! Both my parents were born in the Meadows and ultimately moved to the Sneinton Dale/Greenwood Road area before marrying. Neither of them had a Nottingham accent. Perhaps living in Woodthorpe cured that!
    1 point
  28. Apparently the sexiest accent is 'Essex' - so God help us!
    1 point
  29. No, it’s true, I speak in Received Pronunciation BBC English.
    1 point
  30. Don't kid yersen youth!
    1 point
  31. Make sure you have booked the "BROADS" and not the "B ROADS"!
    1 point
  32. Hope Brothers, the mens’ outfitters was on the corner of Clumber St. and Long Row in the premises previously occupied by Skinner and Rook.
    1 point
  33. After washing the car,strimmering my bit of meadow over the back garden fence and having a nice eight mile trike ride I am now chillin in the back garden in 30.4 degrees of lovely sunshine Rog
    1 point
  34. Congratulations Lizzie, 44 years eh ! and you only get 14 for murder. Its our 54th this year. Had our Golden at Thoresby hall in 2015 and we planted a pear tree (Golden Pear), in celebration. Tina has a cousin who lives a few doors down from where Chulla lived and she often goes to Thoresby for coffee, so she nips into the garden to check on our tree. Our name is still on it. I'll have a drink to you today, Cheers! Barrie. xx
    1 point
  35. Mother in Law used to pay into a Christmas Club at Landers in Sutton in Ashfield to buy a Christmas hamper of Chrissy Cake, mince pies, bread, mincemeat, all presented in a festive box, usually used after for storing odds and ends.
    1 point
  36. Here's one for Ben. A Landers price list from 1963 The smell from the bakery on Woodh'us Rd near the Black Bull made your stomach rumble Image from ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk You can see the full listing of all their products there.
    1 point
  37. It was both of them, as Ford were quite pushy about getting their cars on TV. Hence the Sweeney had Granadas and the Professionals had Escort RS and Capri. Unlike BMC, who apparently refused to supply Minis to the Italian Job film makers.
    1 point
  38. Was it the Sweeney or the The Professionals or both where the good guys always drove Ford's..The bad in something British normally Jag's? early product placement? Do recall Reagan having a white mini in one episode.
    1 point
  39. Castle Meadow Road. used to do a bit for them when I was with Mayday; bloke called Keith McEnallen was the manager.
    1 point
  40. We were talking about the lottery and I said I had little in the way of luck. Her reply was that I was very lucky, I got her, she on the other hand only got me.................. grrr one of these days my girl...
    1 point
  41. 14th May 1975, remember it well. Today it’s our 44th Wedding Anniversary. Can’t believe how the years have flown by. We’ve just been out sort of celebrating, had a nice meal in a Thai restaurant and a few glasses of wine and got back in time to see England beat Pakistan in cricket. When we exited the church in Arnold at about 3pm on 14th May 1975 there was a roll of thunder ...... bit ominous but all is well here and we still agree and smile at each other most of the time, getting too old for aggro .......
    1 point
  42. Then surely you mean Her Outdoors if she's on the roof?
    1 point
  43. BK, We don't actually live in Cambridge, but if you could see certain parts of the city, 'posh' certainly isn't the word to use! As with most cities, once you get away from the parts visited by the tourists and the main thoroughfares leading into the city, some of the other areas house people who are definitely not posh...
    1 point
  44. I remember, many years ago, whilst I was out on the Henry Mellish games field in Bulwell they were testing the Rolls Royce engines on the P1 Lightning jet out of Hucknall airfield. The pilot, using the engines’ contrails traced out a magnificent ‘testicular’ design in the sky!
    1 point
  45. It looked a bit busy up there this morning.
    1 point
  46. Cheers mate ! Much obliged.
    1 point
  47. Reminds me of the time I was driving over the Tomintoul Pass in teh Cirngorms and I caught up with a string of cars all doing around 20MPH behind a caravan. I had been in the mountains all day and just wanted to get home so, knowing the road well I realised that if I didn't get past right now I would be stuck on a series of bends for the next umpteen miles. So, off I went haring past them all, only to find that fresh road chippings had been laid and that the leader was going slow to avoid sliding off into the valley below!. A few slurring slides and I was back in control but with a rather big
    1 point
  48. they wont be able to go out if its raining they would go all soggy All the drivers would be doing Norman Colliers act We would be better off with Rowan Atkinson
    1 point
  49. We had a cardboard cut out of a Policeman in a coop,,to put shoplifters off,, It got Nicked,, lol
    1 point
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