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You wearing owt under your coat-waistcoat-shirt ? Yes Liberty bodice and T-shirt.......with long sleeves.. Can you take em all off please? What about me Trousers? Ask me another time....... Only went to local health centre for me ''Booster'' this morning......great sense of humour from lady giving Jab......bless her....

I was at Primary School 1955-61 and in one of the classrooms was a cupboard crammed with BBC radio for schools booklets of songs and music. Our teacher in my later years there was called David Harries and he was Welsh. Naturally he was very musical and used to organise the choir. He used to make full use of these BBC song booklets and I remember many of the songs like Charlie is my Darling, The Blacksmith and Cargoes. Nearly all the choir members had Jerusalem down as their favourite. It still gives me goosebumps when I hear it. In my early years I remember we were shepherded into a

Good and bad news a few days ago. Good news is the weather will be good until Christmas with fairly high temperatures which is nice but not normal. The bad news is that we have to put up with mosquitoes until then. I have fly screens but they still get through and I can guarantee I’m bitten at least a couple of times a day.I can’t have the front door open at all so it’s a nuisance having to keep the dogs inside then outside instead of them going out to sunbathe! Every now and again we have a chilly day but doesn’t really need CH but just a quick blast firing up the wood burning fire

If you want to listen to whistling, then have an earful of Roger Whittaker 's "Mexican Whistler".

Time for another song:

A Nottingham version of the Twelve Days of Christmas On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me… Twelve Mardy Boggers Eleven Robin Ud hats Ten pairs of Boowits Nine Osses Neighing Eight Maids a Mashin’ Seven Pints of Shippos Six Guzzgogs Five Nobby Greens Four Sausage Cobs Three Snap Tins Two Ralleh Bikes And some Mint Sauce wi’ Mushy Peez

I remember Jim Briers - he taught me French for most of my time at ACHS, so it’s sad to hear he is no longer with us. He was quite shy in the early days so the girls in the class liked to try and embarrass him - he used to go very red. A very likeable man. Having said that in my final year I was taught French by Mr Dockerill (not sure if I’ve spelled that right). He was ok but prone to throwing the board duster at people that weren’t paying attention (he wasn’t too accurate as I found out to my cost on a couple of occasions) Does anybody remember the metalwork teacher Mr Tomlinson (I

So sad to hear about the passing of Jim Briers. This is an extract of the book I started so many years ago, regarding French at Bramcote: The comedians in the class and those who were a bit more cheeky than I dared to be, would see Jim Briers in the distance and at the top of their voices would yell out "Jeeeem", or use one of those funny noises that teenaged boys seem to delight in. Ours resembled the squawk of a half strangled duck. Having delivered this yell, (commonly referred to as "wick, wick, wick....") the guilty and one or two innocents not wishing to be caught would th

Hi I've read many of these posts and recall many of the folk mentioned although I didn't join ACHS until 1962. Before joining I was friends with Ray Green's brother Malcolm (was there another brother David and I lived next to Richard Warsop on Barden Road.) If anybody's interested I can throw into the mix a great many names from our Year Group (1962 to 67/69) and a few more from other years.

Hi Katyjay There were quite a few from Radcliffe on Trent as I recall People got bussed in from all over the county

Not sure where I copied this aerial shot from, it was possibly on Nottstalgia a few years ago. It shows Arnold High School when it first opened. The house I grew up in is also there, in the middle of the photo, Winthorpe Road, running left to right, sort of level with the school’s running track. I can see my house too. In the bottom left quarter of the photo is Kingswell Junior School where I went til aged 11. Top right is Middlebeck Drive and top left is part of Killisick Estate. On the opposite side of Gedling Road to the school are allotments which were soon to be turned into a housi

Commo, I was scrolling through the PTP archives and found the below picture of the Canal that we have spoken about on the cross country runs at BHGS. We would have been running along the towpath on the left and towards the camera - the only thing missing is the ice and snow! http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM006950&prevUrl=