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I found this picture of Berridge Road infants in 1960. I hope that you can see it as I found it very difficult to load as the maximum size for a file on this website is only 50kb which is really small. (Sorry to gripe!). Anyway, I was 5 years old at the time of this picture. I lived on Middlothian Terrace which was behind Gregory Boulevard. The street is long gone. I was only at Berridge Road for a few months as Mam and Dad managed to get a brand new council house at Bestwood. It was quite an upheaval moving as all the rest of the family lived in and around Hyson Green. Grandma and Grandad liv

Do any members watch or play snooker? When I first met the master (hubby) he worked at Ericson's and they had a social club, which had snooker tables in. This is where I first had a game of snooker. In fact a lot of snooker venus were MEN only. I just loved playing. After a few years married and a baby boy asleep in his cot, Snooker was on TV not Pot Black but snooker. Master had been out with his mates when he came home I just said I have been watching snooker final and rhis young boy with red hair is just brillent, who was he YES Steve Davis. Now looking on we still have some

I’ve done quite a bit of work on old clocks in the past. It was one of my many passing interests. I always took photographs from all angles before I dismantled them. I have a copy of ‘The Clock Repairer’s Handbook’ if it’s of any use. My clock restoring days are over. @letsavagoorequest for a lathe reminded me that I have a Harrison M250 in the workshop which I haven’t had cause to use for over 15 years. I didn’t like to offer my services as I wasn’t sure if it still worked. It only took half an hour to find the correct lubricant, inject oil into the lubrication points and wipe it over wit

Up early this morning, 06.30 breakfast of toast and English marmalade cup of coffee and listen to the news on BBC four,atco electric start mower out and unleaded fuel put in the tank from my supply, grass on the back garden cut and looking good, bike ride to Stapleford village then onto Brant Broughton via the back lanes (hardly any traffic) and back home the same way, quick coffee and into the shed for the latest restoration project, completely in the dark over this one but "learn as you go" so in with both feet, this time it is a Torsion sprung antique clock *anniversary clock as some call t

Practically pass your door then. Let’s see what Phil says.

Just a suggestion. I’m not sure where you live planfit but I visit Lincoln quite frequently and usually return through the villages, Bassingham, Stapleford Coddington etc. so I guess I will practically pass your house. I could collect the clock book from Phil if that is acceptable with you Phil and drop it to you PF. I’m going in the morning but might not be able to get the book for tomorrow but next time which won’t be long.

This is my anniversary clock. I tried to picture the fact it has a small cup in the base. This is usefull as you adjust the feet until the centre of the weights, which on my example has barley twist spike with a pip on the end is in the centre of the cup hence dead level. It runs manny months between winds but not a year. Normally all the clocks of this type have some sort of ‘cup’ in the base to stop the weights moving too far. I don’t see any evidence of one on yours plantfit. Often the cup has some way of raising it slightly to take the weight of the balls for transporting this saving break

Don't tell me you're going to fix this so you can put it on your Humber bike.

I'll try to post the Berridge Road photo later, looking after the granddaughter at the moment! Re Pleasant Row, I don't remember what the street looked like apart from the church on the corner which is still there. I notice that the terrace has some lace makers windows at the top. I think that they've all gone now, replaced by 1960s style housing.

First went in there when I was 15 and just got my first pay packet (Moorgreen TC NCB )Got me yes knocked up there once but still went back on Friday nights. We had to catch two busses to get there and leave a 10:10pm. I remember seeing Paper Lace there and Mud before they got in the Pop charts. Two pints of Tartan Bitter and on the dance floor. Must have stood out a mile with the Doc Martins on. Good times

I quite like watching snooker on TV if I'm not doing anything else and there's nothing better happening.....but not if it's Mark Selby sending everyone to sleep. I couldn't watch it in person in the venue because I'd soon get bored and fidgety. It's not for people with short attention spans, but it works on TV because I can move around and go in and out of the room for a few minutes.

OH!!! Mrs B I fully agree.

Personally, I think Sean Bean would make a better Richard Sharpe, as already proved.

Busy day today, first off got the strimmer out with the hedge cutting attachment to chop down the brambles that are getting a bit over powering in the field at the back of my garden, I always keep the grass cut for the length of my garden and about three meters out since the field has been allowed to run wild, some sort of payment from some ministry or other, anyway, strimmer and attachment cleaned oiled and put away, bird feeders washed, dried and refilled, got to look after the little fellas especially now they have a nest full of hungry chicks, now onto the vintage engines and first to get

Just read the adventures of Rog..........now going for a lay down....fix me Brass Bracket later.......

A few years ago we lived in Anderby village Skegness , I managed to get a job at Beacon Medical Practice in Chapel, At the time Chaple was called by the locals Gods waiting room. (Sorry if I upset any one who lives there) Now as the years have gone by and I live in a little bungalow in a small village I now understand why it was called Gods waiing room.

I recently found this old cutting from the Evening Post (I'd saved it for what was on another page). Looking at the places I guess it's from around the early 90s, but others may know better.