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My maternal grandparents were from Arnold and Daybrook. My grandmothers family name was Ellis and they owned Ellis bakery on Front Street where my mother was born. The premises are now occupied Birds bakery. My grandfather Charles Clarke was the youngest of 5 children. His father was a van driver, (horse drawn) for Jacobees, dyers and finishers in Daybrooke. He was very good with horses and eventually became head of the stables and lived in a firms house alongside the stables which I think was on Sherbrooke Road. My grandfather started work in the lace market where he had to keep the coal

Jill I just cannot recall those decorations at Berridge, but that just must be my memory. In fact I cannot recall Christmas at all there! I do recall Christmas at Bobbers Mill Road, and it breaks my heart to think of it now. How my hard working parents provided me with so much on so little. I know how much joy they got out of seeing me on Christmas morning. When my Dad was dying he said that. My childhood Christmases were full of delight, joy and love. My parents hardly drank at all, but when I was old enough, about 10, they gave me a glass of babycham at the dinner. N

Sue, I've run a test with a PM from Carni, and I didn't get a notification about the message she sent me. I think the answer to your original query is that the message you referred to (where you got a notification) was part of a Group PM which was sent to several people. If it had been sent only to you, you wouldn't have had any notification.

I'll decline the offer, thanks. I'd probably listen to it once and then file it away forever. This is Sherbrook in the 1920s, showing houses which no longer exist.

That's in relation to this presumably; https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/06/operation-votey-mcvoteface-voter-registration-drive-targets-boat-dwellers-and-sofa-surfers https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boat-owners-exploit-loophole-to-unseat-boris-in-uxbridge-elections-mgcbpbgww Shouldn't boat owners be classed as a Floating Vote..

I think it's something buried deep in the operating system of the forum. A bit like asking how a television works. You don't need to know....just watch it.

Sorry CT missed your post, so yes my external e mail Stuart no I don't follow anyone Carni I think your pm was from the same person as my pm

Will it be OK if I stay with the bras n boobs !!!

Just a storm in a J cup.

I doubt there are significant numbers to make any difference, these are not ALL boat dwellers only ones who choose not to stay put. The Sofa surfers will not want to found, that's why the majority are surfing, neither will some of the boaters. Firstly they have to be persuade to apply for registration. Then they have to be sucessfull, having met the (loose) criterior, see below, (note under address1) Then they have to vote, there being no guarantee they will all vote against Conservatives. Some of those people will be minded to vote so will already be reg

You know what they say, anything more than a handful is a waste.

I've just had a letter from Boris asking for my support! Too late, mate... I've already voted and IT WASN'T FOR YOU. It had a return address on the back - perhaps I should seal the envelope again and send it back?

Whatever happened to, children behaving in restaurants ? It seems like kids can refuse their food because the game on the phone/tablet is more important. Or they can run around willy nilly. In my day, and no doubt in yours, you got taken out for a meal and had to behave. Discipline has gone out of the window it seems.

If all cars/vans go electric where will all the extra electricity to charge their batteries come from? They'll have to build more power stations..

I had J816 BRA for a while

Here's the early 1960s. Morris Street is clearly marked. (Something I've just noticed which dates it..........Arno Vale road doesn't extend beyond the bottom of Somersby Road. I can remember that being extended. The old GN railway line would still have been in the way - albeit unused)

Spot on Stu, the chipy was rather small and there was always a queue as it was so popular, if you had just bag of chips you could always ask for some batter bits as well, Billy Wings motorbike shop was on the corner of Morris St. and I bought my first bike from there (BSA 250cc C11G). Remember Byron St. and the beer-off and the row of shops on Mansfield Rd. that it was part of. Think the National Savings Bank and Starbucks the butchers were there but memory fades on the other four or five. On reflection I remember that the next nearest chippy was on the corner of Sherbrook Rd. in Daybrook Squ

I couldn't remember Morris Street, there has always been a garage there in my time. I certainly remember how Salop Street used to be and used the chip shop there sometimes - always busy. There's a health centre there now and a couple of factory units at the back. Going down Mansfield Road from Salop Street, the next road down on that side is Byron Street which had an off-license on the corner?