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  1. My claim to fame is, I once parked my battered old Ford Anglia outside the Council house. My son had been invited to tea with the Lady Mayoress. We had two disabled badges for our two sons. A police sergeant told me to park in front of the left side lion. The invitation letter, addressed to Andrew said, 'If you wish to bring your parents, you may do so'. (He was about 10 at the time).
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  2. I would prefer you not to quote my post @Brew I do understand it a nostalgia site & we are dealing with an older generation, if it helps you remember what you are replying to, then so it be
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  3. This view is looking to our Riverside cottage on the River Bure. Our cottage is left of the apartment with the black weatherboard, with the sign on it. We have our own patio and the big Riverboat trip boats pass right in front of us. We can sit there with our morning coffee and watch the tourists sail by.
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  4. Would you believe it. After spending all that money on me for my birthday; the bo99er broke down. First of all one of the keys became loose, almost completely off and quickly followed by the pad freezing! Son was not a happy bunny. All that dosh and it was faulty. To cut a long story short, it was taken back to Curries on Friday and no problem, refund straight away and a new one ordered. That came yesterday and we are up and running again. Missed you all.x
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  5. That's always been the case around the world. The same thing happened with native tribes in Africa, Central/Southern America, and Australian aborigines They were regarded as 'savages' who had to be 'educated' by Europeans, often via missionaries trying to convert them to christianity.
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  6. ‘Strange isn’t it, how the ‘Indians’ were usually considered to be the baddies and the cowboys were the goodies. The ‘Indians’ or ‘native Americans’ were only defending their own land which had been theirs for probably thousands of years, to stop it being taken over by ‘the white man’. I know who I sympathise with now, but I didn’t know any better when I was a child
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  7. Here's one of the incidentals in The Alamo. It was good to be young then...
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  8. The next move will be to get them attending functions on the electric scooters which are cluttering up the streets everywhere.
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  9. Parking in front of the Council House. It reminds me of the occasions when the local council bigwigs would meet there. There was the Lord Mayor and Sheriff's matching pair of African-dictator style Phantom Vs (NTV1 and NTV2) and then the motley collection of modest saloons that were the lot of the Chairman of the County Council and various UDCs and RDCs. It was all down hill from there on - the Lord Mayor and Sheriff now have to make do with a couple of Mondeos dressed up as Jags and a bus pass.
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  10. Paul Pry has a thread of its own from a few years ago. https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/19957-pub-paul-pry/?tab=comments#comment-549855
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  11. In 1941 looks like Bridgart was at the Paul Pry pub , snippet of article here : Charles B Hunt 25 miner of Hardys Drive pleaded guilty at Nottingham Guildhall to-day to being drunk and disorderly on Boxing Day, and to assaulting Emily Corbett and Bridgart Hunt, his father, both of the Paul Pry public-house, Sneinton-road. . 27 December 1941 - Nottingham Evening
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  12. Tommy tanning? Do tell more @Paulus& @yorkiegal
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  13. Yep, Caulton was the slipper (or plimsol) whacker. I remember the name Bonser but I now think the one who accidentally kneed me in the groin was a PE student from Loughborough College on placement at HP.
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  14. I never wear shoes in the house and to walk on the lawn barefoot is heaven, even more so if it has been raining. One problem.....always got mucky feet. No not from the carpet, from the lawn?
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  15. Can I quote you on that RR?
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  16. Ignore the acting and dubbing on spaghetti westerns. Best thing about them is the music. All the whistling and effects with tons of echo.
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  17. I would like to wish you all a happy, peaceful Easter & many new beginnings.
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  18. Just remember Albert, the image you're seeing on your tv is from your daughter's camera not yours..your camera image is the little one in the bottom right corner. You mention the lass uses a phone camera, so she may need to set it to landscape mode, rather than portrait.
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