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  1. Wish I had seen that. Cheerful and fun. Well done Nottm Council
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  2. Dear Friends (if I may be so bold as to address you thus on such a short acquaintanceship) I feel I owe you an apology. Whilst I began by correctly addressing the rare privilege and unalloyed pleasure of being brought up in Bilborough, I fear I strayed unthinkingly into the unchartered territory of EMEB showroom colleagues, N.E. Glam and FFGS (Forest Fields Grammar School to the uninitiated – and who wouldn’t want to be? – uninitiated I mean). Nevertheless, it would be helpful to know what are my Bilborough boundaries. Am I for instance allowed to stumble inadvert
    3 points
  3. Just been looking at our wedding photos. This one shows how the front steps of the church came straight out on to the street. The little girls were giving me a horseshoe and a lucky black cat. I don't believe in such stuff but some would say they worked as we married in 1966 and are still together!
    2 points
  4. MargieH The Britain of the first verse is the one I remember too, the country lanes along the Trent valley, and in north Nottinghamshire, the hills and dales of Derbyshire and the windswept lonely fens of Lincolnshire were all part of my childhood and still evoke memories today. Having spent most of my life down under the rest resonates inside me too.
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  5. It certainly does DJ360, I cannot remember when I last listened to a LP from beginning to end. It must have been at the same time I was transferring vinyl to digital too. It is embarrassing to say that I remember the LP it was "The Sound of Music" as the leader of the opposition likes that sort of stuff. Recently spent time transferring from CD to USB as our new car does not have a CD player and at the same time I backed them up to a separate hard drive. I am not a fan of using the phone in the car for music. Having spent the last twenty years of my working life beholden to a pager t
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  6. When I were growing up in Radford, having three brothers it was a case of first down, best dressed ! Never saw the sea until I were 15, and I must admit, it terrified me. Didn't have my first holiday until I was about twenty, courtesy of my future in laws generosity. I did get a couple of long weekend school trips to Ravenstore youth hostel, near Bakewell. Allus said we weren't brought up, we were dragged up. We lived in a slum clearance area, but it never occurred to me we weren't well off, we just got on with it. We were all in the same boat so it didn't matter.
    2 points
  7. And I suppose that the bodies in the concrete(supposedly) have finally given up supporting the weight!!!
    1 point
  8. I've got 5 screws in my right ankle you can have, apparently they are surplus to requirements,but can you hang on until my other bits stop functioning?
    1 point
  9. This lot came out of my son’s leg yesterday, I would think they are titanium but they weighed quite a lot.
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  10. At our dearest friend's funeral , they played "I'll be seeing you, in all the old familiar places". He used to live off Thackerays lane, Woodthorpe. His wife still lives there
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  11. Sue recipes do vary. It's a few years since I made it and I can't find the original Limoncello one but the one I'm in the middle of making is as follows. This is what I made. 8 organic lemons 1 lt of 95 vol alcohol (or vodka) Peel the lemons very thinly avoiding getting any white part . Put them into a container ( glass) and pour alcohol over and leave 8-10 days shaking the jars every day. Put 600 gr sugar into a pan with a litre of water and bring to boil without actually boiling.,stir to dissolve sugar and leave to cool slightly. Then add jar of alcohol with lemon
    1 point
  12. http://www.aviation-safety.net/wikibase/142003
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  13. I was looking at this area on Google and I can see an end terrace house with a stable in the backyard on nearby Eaton Street. Back in the 50’s my uncle who lived nearby in Woodthorpe use to stable a pony there. At weekends we would hitch it up to a trap and go hurtling along the Plains to the top of Woodborough hill and back. The pony had been couped up all week and was full of energy when he was let out. There were very few cars and I think we overtook most of them!
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  14. I think this might also show the shop in question. On the right-hand side (although it's been artificially overdrawn) you can see a vertical sign on the wall saying 'Ale and Stout'.
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  15. I live down one of the picturesque lanes of the Trent valley with views of the wooded hills on both sides. I can be in the hills and dales of Derbyshire within an hour and we regularly visit Bakewell. Like you I love the fens of Lincolnshire, again easily accessible. I especially like this area on a bleak winter’s day.
    1 point
  16. No, the off licence was closer to the Porchester, where you can see the new bricks, immediately to the right of the brick wall next to the Porchester. Caretaker for the church lived at the bottom of Eaton Street, on the left and you had to go down and get the keys to open up for Cubs. From memory he had one or maybe two daughters who were in the Guides. Paradiddle may well remember them.
    1 point
  17. Few people, hard workers or not, become millionaires by the sweat of their brow. Most of the rich either inherit it or have others who make them rich. I'm firmly of the opinion that the ability to make money is a talent, much the same as painting a picture is a talent. The was a survey some years ago, I think it was the Times, that reported 7 out 10 of the top earners in the country did not have a degree. Education is important but Steve Jobs, Philip Green and Richard Branson among others had no or very little higher education and became billionaires. Walking through N
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  18. I think they line up outside.
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  19. I have taught many children whose parents or, more often, parent spent every spare minute at work so that they were able to take their offspring to Disneyland for a holiday every year. This necessitated the child being farmed out to after school clubs, relatives, friends...anyone who would look after them. So many of those children expressed the opinion to me that they weren't loved, nor wanted. Money was more important. As children, my sister and I never had foreign holidays and, most years, no holiday at all. Our mother didn't work but she was always there at the school gate, lun
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  20. I never thought myself as poor , I thought it was normal to have holes in my shoes and not having things others had. Only when I was 11 and being offered a place at a school where you stayed till you were 16 and needed a uniform did I realise that I came from a poor family. I was lucky I stayed at that school and had a better education till I was 15, when I made the decision to leave as I saw the problems my mother was having on how to purchase new uniform for the next year. I am not complaining as I knew many who were a lot worse off than me. People do start off disadvantaged , only a good ed
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  21. I think back in the 50’s most of us were ‘poor’ but didn’t realise it at the time as it was the norm for most people. At grammar school many of us came from similar backgrounds but our parents had aspirations for us and we studied hard to get into university or enter a profession. I came from a Methodist family so the ‘work ethic’ was instilled although I ignored the religious aspect. I’ve always enjoyed work and the subsequent rewards that effort brings.
    1 point
  22. Trip into Bulwell this morning,,,considering it was Market day' it was very quiet,,,only about 4 Stalls working,,,cold weather perhaps?.....never used to make any difference. Went in Tesco,,fancied some 'Pyclets' couldn't find any,,,came out with a pair of ''Skinny Jeans'''.........Bumped into an old school mate,,,who cheered me up ,,telling me about a couple of old football mates,who had hung their Boots up for the last time....,,got cheered up though,when my next 'Bump into'' was a girl from my year at school,,,to me she still looked the same,,,,and still turned me down......
    1 point
  23. You'll cop it, our Ben. Radford Red will be gunning for you!
    1 point
  24. I was told that playing Snooker was a sign of a miss spent youth. When I met the master he worked at "Plessey" Beeston and in the Plessey social club were snooker tables, at the time women were not allowed to play snooker (can't think why just male ego I suppose) but give Plessey their do women could play on there tables, so I learnt to play snooker and enjoyed it from the grand old age of 17. Still like to get a game when I can.
    1 point
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