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Lovely CT...........So many memories along there........... Thursday half day Dates.....early 60s. Playing Cricket with my sons......with tree as a wicket.......70s AND 80S Rowing down the river with the Girl of the moment.....60S Fishing with Uncles John and Jack..........50S Playing music on Portable record player with my mate 'Columbo'' 1960 Walking along there with Mam and Dad 50s Catching a Trolley bus....and a football bus........50s and 60s Walking hand in hand after summer time Pictures with a girl who was singing (loudly) songs from sound of mu

For anyone who hasn't been in Nottingham recently, there are bits of it which don't look too bad given the right conditions. And these are them trees.......this morning.

At Manning, we had a girl who could open any door in the school...with a hairpin! At lunchtimes, all the classroom doors were locked as we were supposed to be outside in the grounds,unless fourth form or above, when we were allowed to leave the site. If it was cold, we sometimes sneaked back inside. Side doors had to be left open for access to toilets. Susan, bless her, would unlock our classroom door with a hairpin and we'd silently sneak in and sit on the floor at the back of the room, with our backs against the pipes which were never more than tepid but it was better than the s

The first time I saw a coffin was when I was five years old. It was my grandfather's funeral. I was in the dining room with my mum when the coffin was brought down the stairs. It had blue flowers on. Everyone was silent when I asked "is that my granddad in that box?" Mum just said "yes" and all was silent again. I stayed at the house in Harrington Drive with a relative while everyone else went to the funeral. I missed being able to talk to him and I wish I could have asked him to tell me about his early life. I was too young. My other grandfather died when I was 14 and so from him I heard lots

Does the first time I saw my wife count. There used to be an triangular area of ground near my house in Radford sandwiched between the bottom of Kingsford Avenue and the river Leen. It was narrow at the entrance, widening as it followed the Leen on one side with steep banks on the other 2 rising to the gardens of houses on Woodstock Avenue. We always referred to it as the Woodward but the time I knew it there were a few small corrugated iron sheds with a few car repairing garages and a paint spraying place. The remainder was used as part scrap yard and haulage yard. The owner was a local man c

Caravans have a switch on the fridge to choose calor gas or electricity. Gas is obviously useful when the van is on a site with no electric!

It is, like the one in Trafalgar Square, a Norway spruce which may have had led to some confusion and the urban legend of origin. It was probably home grown, why not ring the parks dept and ask?

I worked briefly in a factory in Fletcher Gate Nottm. If I recall correctly, it was called the United Rubber Company. They made surgical stockings with a rubber thread knitted in to give support. I was expected to know how to use the hand operated industrial knitting machines. I mean.. I don't think I'm stupid.. but with no training, I had no chance. I'm not sure who gave up first.... me, or the rather objectionable little man who ran the place. They also had the most Godawful coffee machine in history.

The first fridge we had at home was powered by gas. My then wife to be took some convincing it was not electric but eventually accepted it was true after reading the manual - she never did quite believe me though when I said the TV was also gas...

The first time I ever saw stereo headphones was in a record shop that sold other electrical gear. That was back in 1966. The shop was on Mansfield Road, Sherwood , next door down from the Garden Gate pub ( I think). We happened to be looking in the window and the shop owner came out and invited us in to take a 'proper' look. When he showed me some posh looking headphones and plugged them into a music centre and I couldn't believe what I was hearing, music coming from both sides of my head. Couldn't afford them at that time. Another amazement was at Holme Pierrepont water sports centre. Ni

In those days television was a 405-line set where you could see two channels - BBC and ITV. By the mid-60s BBC2 was available but you needed a 625-line set and a different aerial. First time I ever saw BBC2 was in 1968-69 when we had a new set at home. It was only black and white, not colour, but it had BBC2 and I didn't know anyone else in our area who had one at the time. It was a talking point for people who came to our house. Now everyone has hundreds of channels, and most of them aren't very interesting.