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Yes !! we did live in house's unfit for humans or so the council said. I look back at my life in St Ann's and feel very proud to have lived there. We had a very large allotment so we had our 4 a day plus what was left over went to the harvest festival at St Ann's church, my dad worked hard also my mum went to work but when you have good neighbours who looked after your children till you came home from work that's a community. If any one passed away on the street there was always a collection for flowers, If any elderly person was ill all neighbours would take it in turns to look after them. If

Sheltered housing, me too, can't beat it.

Another bloody funeral today. Deffo not exciting! I certainly won't be going to mine!

Way off topic I know but back in the 1950's I was a railway fireman at Nottingham, one of our weeks work was the 5.20 pm'all stations' to Newark Castle. The 'rule book' said that the driver must platform the train but the 'brains' overlooked the fact that the train had 5 coaches whilst all the platforms except Rolleston (for the race course!) was only 4 coaches in length! Luckily the passengers, mostly from Head office Station St. helped us to almost to keep time by occupying the coaches nearest their exit. so at Carlton we ran the first coach past the platform knowing there were nobody for C

Thanks for that CT and yes you can see Carni's house it would take me about 30 seconds to get from my back gate to Carni's back gate. It was a well worn path

CT, you should get some soft of award for your ability of solve other folks dilemmas, genius, just genius. Not taking away contributions from other nottstalgians, but how you come up with the photos and maps just beggers belief, well from me anyway.

Hi, Managed to attach this one, Richard Greene and Alice Faye in Little Old New York. Will send others separately. Second is of Nottingham Exhibition .