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Yes jill mrs maddison was a lovely lady unlike most of the other teachers there & she did have a prosthetic hand/arm which she always wore a black glove on, mrs hall left as head as i went into 3rd year or may have been 4th & a mrs margaret clark or clarke came in as head then, remember mr abbey music teacher now you have mentioned him, miss colthorpe(not colclough) you say she died recently she must have been quite an age as i would have swore she was at least 80 when i was there.

Just as i was starting there then beekay 74.

Thankyou ct for pointing me in the right direction, have just said to jill i will be having a read of that.

Barmy colleen great name for her jillin the winter she used to take her shoes off & put her feet in the bottom drawer of her desk, i'm sure she had a hot water bottle in there whilst we sat freezing our butts off in that cold draughty classroom, i remember mrs christie she taught me french & was my form tutor in the 4th year, cant recall ada barnes maybe didn't have her, i do remember miss greig, others i also remember are mrs hall : head miss colclough?: deputy head miss long: biology mr edgely: chemistry miss newlyn : history mrs darroch : needlework

Same here jill i hated every minute of every day at the place, its teacher & their teaching seemed so out dated compared to friends i had at other schools, i started there in 1R miss ramsden was she there when you were there? also had this irish maths teacher mrs davy who was barking mad & used to launch books or blackboard rubbers if she thought you were not listening.

Eyup benjamin what number cheltenham street did your relatives live at? we lived at no 17 from 1986-96.

Hi jillsparrow, just read your post above & noticed you went to manning, what years were you there? i was also a manning inmatefrom sept 74-79.

Thankyou rr for your help, am still trying to find my way around the site & learn where everything is.Thanks again hope i will get the hang of it eventually.

Where in nottingham do live margie?.

Thankyou for the welcome margieH, am enjoying being here & hoping to read & post in some of the other topics in the next few weeks when i have found my way round a bit more.

Thankyou for the info ct i'm sure we will get the hang of it in time & yes am trying to read some of the older stuff too hoping to add to it & stir up a few old memories of our. I have in fact just made a post in things our parents used to say, thanks again.

When i was a child my grandma had a big old sideboard in her front parlour as she called it which had a top drawer that was always locked, i used to ask her whats in here mamar & always got the same answer which was layers for meddlars, in other words none of your business, have never heard this saying again so just curious to know if anyone else has heard it & where it may come from.

Well brains arn.'t everything beekay & you certainly dont sound old.

Sorry if i have posted my message in the wrong place,my hubby hey arnold says it should have gone in the who are you topic, if this is the case then maybe some kind person could redirect it thanks, i,m still trying to get to grips with how the site works.

Firstly thankyou to all of the members for the warm welcome & for taking the time to read & reply to my posts, thought that i should give you all a bit more info about myself. Born 1963 at adcocks yard, russell st, radford which was my grandparents home where my parents lived with them after marrying, then moved to gamble st in 1965 when they got their own house after my younger sister was born, started school at raleigh st infants in 1968 & then windley juniors in 1970 1st at the old building then moving to the new building after a couple of years, In sept

Wow great photo, & lots of those houses still there today & both of the churches.

Yes i left nottingham in 1996 but am still a regular visitor as still have a lot of family there.

Rr thankyou for that i had the name dawson in the back of my mind but didn't think it was right.

Yes beekay sudbury prison, Inmates do a runner from there often & i think forton may be an open prison too.

Philmayfield i can remember ristes being on forest rd when i was a kid.

@Beekaybet you used to stop at the salt box for a cuppa then.

Am looking forward to chatting & sharing memories with you all.

Thankyou for the welcome beekay, i remember denman st well, used to walk down there often to fetch my dad maggots from the fishing tackle shop down there but cant remember the name of the shop.

Ok thankyou just curiosity she may have lived in our house before us.

Eyup all, i am hey arnolds other(& better half) @beekay i lived on gamble street off alfreton road canning circus end, @katyjay what number cheltenham st did your mum live at? we lived at 17, am looking forward to sharing some memories with you all. Owt else you want to know just ask.