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I remember travelling on the 53 when I was a kid (and maybe you were driving !) It seemed a bit of an exotic journey because the normal bus route just went into the city centre (Broad Marsh) whereas the 53 went round the ring-road to strange 'foreign' places.

Funny you should say that Phil. At the time we took Tina's mum to Queens, I was working at 'Springhead' xray centre. I had to dash out to fetch Tina back from visiting her mum. I didn't have time to remove me white coat, so I was able to walk through the hospital to mum's ward, wearing white coat and sporting a Radiation protection badge and no-one queried who I was. Pity I didn't have a stethoscope hanging round me neck.

From the Long Eaton Advertiser 17th Aug 1978. FIRST PATIENT FOR £60 MILLION QUEENS MEDICAL CENTRE. This week that centre-whichtakes in the University Hospital and Medical School- opened its doors to patients for the first time and the giant building on the edge of the city went into action. The sort of advanced equipment within the building is absolutely astounding and thenumber of rooms likewise. Nottingham and district will be proud of it in years to come. It is known as the Queen's Medical Centre and is si

My mum had both cataract ops at QMC. On the first occasion, she was on a six bedded ward and I stayed there all day. They let me accompany her up to the theatre ante room where she told me to go away and find some breakfast. I'd eaten nothing that morning because I was more wound up than she was. After toast and coffee, I made my way back to the ward, after getting hopelessly lost several times. I then heard a very unpleasant nurse berating an elderly lady in the bed near the door because she had wet herself. The elderly lady was some way down the list for cataract op that day, my mum being

I reckon if you put on a white coat and carried a clipboard you could move into the QMC and live, eat and sleep there for free!

I remember going there before it was fully completed and opened, around 1977, to deliver some urgent legal documents to someone or other. I worked at Browne Jacobson and Roose at the time. The site seemed like a city within a city. I believe it has expanded even further since then.

Happy Father's Day

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Sixty females in one room alone? You do realise that Ben is now a sobbing heap on the floor, don't you? Even Marsden's can't hold a candle to that!

Only on Nottstalgia...........

I was at Forest Fields Grammar School on Stanley Rd 1961-6 and they made great use of Noel St swimming baths as part their PE activities. I lived on Russell Rd and often went there on Saturdays too but the real bonus was that one evening a week Players social club used to use it. I had a school friend called Trevor Clarke who lived at the top of Noel St near the baths and both his parents worked for Players so Trevor and I used to get in for free that evening. It helped Trevor become an excellent swimmer. Remember getting "crinkly" hands and smelling of Domestos like it was yesterday

Some poor devils regularly came out with scuffed knuckles, broken noses, black eyes and slashed faces....wonderful eh?

Looking for work? Is like running round the inside of a p**s pot looking for the handle :)

Secret Paradise my A???......

Bulwell is an awful place ........it smells....

Global warming, everything's sliding!

Even the Alsatians go round in pairs up there don't they?

Yes Denshaw - It is a long way to Tipperary, I've been there and it is a nice place, much better than Bulwell...........

I can remember the Carberry brothers, John was the dentist and Paul was the doctor at Bulwell Health Centre, I used to work for Drs Carberry, Ansell and Grant back in the 1970/80s...........

Them scary 'Bacon Slicers' were 'Berkel and Parnall's' and always Red,every 'Marsden' shop had one,still have a'Scar' on me thumb from one of em,oh and the 'Fishing tackle shop is still there. Funny how Scar's invoke memories,.....IE,..Thumb,Marsdens,several others from Football days,and even more from EX Wives,

MORE SHOPS Just remembered another shop at bottom end of Bannerman Road; Frank Hunt (be careful in pronouncing his name!), general grocer with one of those scary bacon slicers (a machine, not a person). Fishing tackle shop was next door. Round the corner on the Vale was another Frank: Frank Ellis, greengrocer (his father had the shop before him so it must have been well established). I remember mam regularly buying a 56lb bag of King Edward potatoes and Frank Ellis would deliver in person at 'close of play' - he walked to our house with the bag on his shoulder.

Yes Blondie, it's a long way to Tipperary.

Nah nah kids, be'ave thessens.

Bulwell is an awful place, cannot imagine anybody wanting to go there........

Ah,thanks again Cliff Ton,.....30 yrs after that pic.i was in there with Jack the manager and some lovely lady staff,.....June,Ivy and Christine,weighing up Tub butter,Sugar in blue bags,loose Lard,Currants,Sultannas and mixed peel,........wearing my white coat,apron,shiny shoes and white shirt with a 'slim jim tie'.i was a happy 15 yr old,

Horse & Jockey before demolition in 1931 to be replaced by the later version; and the clearly-visible shop next door should keep Benjamin happy.

Saw some great fights in there Shirley, usually ..................................women !

#211 Thanks Benjamin, you set me thinking and researching where we went in Bulwell. I remembered it as being a club but it was not, it was a pub. It was a long time ago! Found a picture on the website: http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/nottinghamshire/nottingham_ng6_horsejockey.html On the site it says it was a busy and boisterous pub. I remember the busy but not the boisterous! Just pleasant and friendly. Demolished in the 1990s. Even in 1968 it did seem old fashioned.

How about sticky floors and carpets in pubs when the plebs have kicked all their dropped food under the table?

No, Lugosi didn't have a bolt through his neck.

I've seen him in the flesh, Blondie, and he looks nothing like George Clooney. He does remind you of a film star, though - Boris Kar... Kar.... Sorry, the name escapes me.

Hopefully I have got this reply thing right! I went to Mr Carberry the dentist from the first time he opened and was still returning as a new mum from West Yorkshire until the mid seventies . He was lovely and good to hear his son is now in the profession. Prior to him opening the shop it was a sweet shop and general store! The practise mentioned on Piccadilly was barbarous,I remember coming back from there with my mum on the bus with quite a large blood stained cloth in her mouth after five extractions! However still better than the school dentist at The Bogs ,I know where I would put hi

I went to John Carberry when he was new in Bulwell.

I can remember that practice, I always thought that their staff were nice and helpful - the ones I knew were, the doctor's there were very good........... I was there from 1974/78 and then 1984/86 ...........before and after my daughter was born........I was very nice to the patients as a lot of them were my friends - there was a very nasty bitch working there at the time, not on that practice though, she treated patients and staff like dirt, she pushed me out of my job by telling lies to the Doctor's about me as she wanted my job for her fat friend - she got away with murder for years until

Dr Paul Carberry was the doctor, his brother John Carberry was the dentist - both had practices in Bulwell............

Blondie, was Dr. Carberry a dentist?

Which practice of doctor' s was you with ? I worked for Drs. Carberry, Ansell and Grant's Surgery.............

Ayup Blondie, was you that "Dragon" receptionist ? !!!!

I used to work at The Bulwell Health Centre.................1970s - 80's...........

The most likely explanation is that there was a local builder called Isson. What is now the Forest rec was originally a horse racing ground.