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By the end of the year the new building put up to replace the demolished one opposite the Midland Station will be occupied by 4000 staff working for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Anyone else think it’s amusing that the VAT and FIDDLE pub is right next door?

I am an interloper - I wasn’t at Berridge! However, I first saw my future wife, from a distance, on the night Kennedy was shot. Friday 22nd November 1963. I met her properly in summer 1964 when House of the Rising Sun was number one. She was 13, and call me a cradle snatcher but it really was love at first sight. I was absolutely infatuated. I used to walk the long way home just to pass her house and catch a glimpse of her. Bitter, sweet memories! We began to “go out” in the summer of 1965 when the Help! album was release (You don’t realise how much I need you ....) We were married in 1968, sh

Another horrible building to Grace our fair City..........how Ugly.............

Oh Yes. Met at sweet sixteen and married 2 1/2 years later. I didn't have an engagement ring until my 25th wedding anniversary. Always did things in the wrong order. Funny enough, I was doing a bit of sorting out today and found my wedding announcement in the Evening Post,Dec 1966 I saved it all this time.55yrs. It's rather tatty now. I haven't got a copier so I can't put it on NS. Aint love grand. Young Love oh Love, Filled with sweet devotion......Benj

The harmonica much maligned musical instrument Sound of Silence on harmonica, brilliant Enigma. I like this piece of harmonica music too. Who remembers Morton Fraser and his Harmonica Rascals or Larry Adler? How do they get such sounds from a little instrument. The William Tell Overture towards the end is amazing.

Stunning transformation.

You must be worn out, Ben. You've been dancing all day! Put your feet up, boy!

We share with deep devotion........mi duck.........

Grundy Street I know. Trevor Davys is not a name I recall. Let's try something different. I met an American girl around 1965. She came up to me and told me she was going to marry me. She was 15 at the time. Liz Gentry was her name she was the eldest of three sisters the others were Theresa (Terry) and Janice. They all lived above the funeral shop at the Bentink Road end of Radford Road. I wonder if you know any of them. Oh by the way, I married Liz in 1970.

That road is still there with its abandoned cars and vans and buses. It's the old line of Colwick Road before the Loop Road was built. https://goo.gl/maps/3KUxymTzNJFh2uUT7

Soon be dust ..... as you were