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Eric’s shoe shop was next door to Flints newsagents which was owned by my wife’s grandparents. The shops here did very well as they got a lot of footfall from Players factories.

Despite the outcry of the public and the relatives of the deceased and injured spectators I have never been convinced that the fault rested with the police force attending to control the crowds that day. In my opinion as follows is my perception of the main causal effects of this major incident, 1. First, the stadium venue was far too small for the expected crowds of spectators. Poor planning and no risk assessment carried out. 2. Access was severely limited to allow that vast number of spectators through the turnstiles in a safe and controlled manner. 3. It

My first car was a Herald, it cost me £20 which was half a weeks wages. After 6 months it was MOT time, straight to Podders scrapyard.

When I was 18, my dad offered to teach me to drive in his Triumph Herald. It was a sort of brown/mushroom colour and I said no because I said someone might see me in it and I’d be too embarrassed. I know, I know I was a stupid, ungrateful teenager but that’s what I said! so he never asked again and I never learned to drive. I had a few lessons when I was in my late thirties but didn’t like it. I suppose I’d got too used to being a passenger by that time ..... watching the scenery instead of the road. You can’t enjoy seeing the little lambs frolicking in the fields if you’re driving.

My Grandfather after coming home from the Great War decided that after doing his bit for the country he would take a share back. He decided to build a new fangled bungalow in Colwick Woods....No permission of course. My Mother told me accompanied by his daughters he drove a horse and cart into the woods with the materials for the foundations,and was doing nicely until a bloke with a bowler hat turned up and explained that even in 'A land fit for heroes' this wasn't the Wild West and you couldn't just build on Public land ....Those foundations could still be seen 50 years later.

What about one of these Lizzie?

You wouldn’t have had me as a passenger on your bus Den, I left Nottingham in 1975, not returning until 2004.

I used to drive Arnold buses 1980 - 1990 it could have been me driving that one.

Thought I would throw summat in for a change. Hope you approve...

Yes, I've got those plus a timing light, a Gunson's multimeter and an exhaust gas analyser. They will be used if and when I recommission my son's MG Midget.

Phil you reminded me I still have some old stuff in the garage , I managed to find these as I still know where everything is , dont believe that. Its many years since I used them.

Second jab this after noon and a little different. In ten minutes early (forgot my card), and this time felt the needle. Sat for a few minutes and felt a little disoriented but it soon passed. Thirty minutes on and I have a slight taste in the back of my throat but all in all fine... Many have had worse..

Blast from the past...

One up - Where did Pete the retired cop go? The Trent Wing opened in 1972, demolished in 1994.

I have suddenly realised that since the first lockdown I have become somewhat of a hoarder of food. Well perhaps less of a hoarder more of a squirrel getting stuff “just in case”. I don’t mean I have got enough toilet roll to last a year or have a room crammed full of tinned goods and bottled water, but when I went into my freezer yesterday I had a bit of a panic when I thought there was only one frozen loaf of bread. I pulled open the drawer above and there were two more in that which was a relief. There are also two 4pint milks in there which I rotate each week when I get another one. I w

32 years ago today several thousand Liverpool & Nottingham Forest fans packed into Hillsborough stadium to watch a football match 96 didnt return home YNWA

Sorry HSR but there was a 'Pitch & put course' at the top of Greenwood Rd. opposite Ripon Rd. tickets to play were 'bought' at the Bowling Green keepers hut, trouble was it was out of sight of the keeper so if you had your own clubs no one was around to check you, same problem at Southwold(?) so we lost both of them! Colwick woods have some very good memories for me being in the Army Cadets at Jesse Boot School (1942-46) and training in the woods but before that during the war time "Dig For Victory" campaign the playing field at JB was dug up by hand, quite a lot by Sneinton Boulevar

I thought that I might get bored when I retired having worked all my adult life from the age of 16. I was made redundant at 60 as the firm I walked for was bought over by another and moved to Billingham from Doncaster so I was retired by circumstances really. I did get a part time job at the small local McColls (which some weeks was nearly full time as I was called in when needed especially as I tended to do the evening shift). When I moved back here I decided I had done my bit and decided to retire, although I do have an occasional job as an invigilator at a local school (whenever exams start

The only three things I remember about the hospital is as follows:- #1. Had a huge penicillin injection in my thigh when I was a bobby back then for an abcess on a tooth. Within hours my face was back to normal size. Thank you nurses. #2. A bit of a sad one this one. Called to investigate that someone had entered the morgue and opened one of the freezer drawers. Turns out that the body was that of a baby, but was still wrapped in a white sheet. Nothing had been disturbed. Weird! #3. Was called to the ER one day for a violent person who was refusing to have a tube shoved down his throat after t