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I am posting here as although i'm pretty sure i have previously seen a thread relating to american airmen at wollaton park i now can't find it. On a trip to the park on friday with the grandkids i noticed there is a memorial there now, i dont know how long its been there so if the photo's are already on the site maybe you could delete mine cliff ton or move them to the correct place if you know where that thread is, thankyou.

Happy anniversary mr & mrs bk, enjoy your day.

Same here oz, we had our 3 grandchildren yesterday & looked at taking them to alton towers, on the day tickets are £65.00 for adults & £60.00 for under 12's plus £18.00 for parking close to the park so would have cost £333.00 for a day out there & there would have been food, drinks & ice creams etc on top, need a mortgage for a day out there ludicrous.

@philmayfieldThat will be £8.60 for the cod & chips & £10 to cover the cost of the electric or gas to fry them

I've just gone back to read the old posts on this thread & saw there are only four & benjamin1945 resurrected it after 16 years of nothing.

@Cliff Tonah ok, like i said in an earlier post it was the in place in long eaton especially at the weekends being the only night club there.

@Cliff Tonit certainly was, did you go there? & the place diagonally opposite( now beauty by cherie) was the berni inn where philmayfield used to go for his lunch.

@benjamin1945if you wanted a dance in long eaton in the 80's donovans was the in place to go.

@benjamin1945looking at street view it looks like most of the pubs that were in long eaton have now closed, lots of good pubs there in the mid 80's & a nightclub, i really liked living there then it was a good town centre with a variety of shops, a great market too & it still had a wimpy bar there then as well.

@Beekaybig thumbs up to you bk, if there were more folk as kind & selfless as you are the world would be a much nicer place to live in.

You will have to buy mrs bk a chip pan bk & get her to make you some chips.

She must have been bk if she didn't complain about the manning, i hated the place.

When i saw that photo two phrases sprang to mind A: very brave girls or B: very foolish girls Being caught on the goose fair in manning uniform would have probably meant a week standing under the dome and woe betide any girl caught looking over there during lessons. That would have seen one of barmy colleen's SMP books being launched accross the classroom.

@Ayupmeducksyes grandma only used to use one certain type of tater for her chips, cant remember what it was though, & chips & curry sauce lovely.

I do think its also what you use to cook them in too, my grandma used to make the best chips i have ever tasted, cooked in a chip pan in beef dripping, although the healthy eating brigade would frown on this nowdays.

@Cliff Tonthats a great photo ct, I had forgotten about stocks driving school being there, where the embassy sign is was a newsagents owned by roger & gloria cant recall their sirname, they lived in the house next door to the side gate of manning on leslie rd & he would often give me a lift to school if he saw me waiting at the bus stop a bit further up in the photo. Looking on google maps the mayfair is still there, it was there when i went to live in the area in 75 so been going almost 50 years that i know of.

I could be wrong (usually am) but i think there may have been a chippy called queen's fish bar down that end of mansfield rd in the 70's. There was also another chip shop a bit further up on the same side called las palmas, it was just before the mayfair chinese restaurant. These & the noor jahan were mine & hey arnolds eateries after a saturday night pub crawl in town or in the old grey nags head further up mansfield road.

@The Pianoman& @Beekayi have no memory of what the bus number or route would have been, i would only have been about 5 or 6 at the time so could have it wrong, maybe we did have to go to ilkeston rd to catch the blue bus & not outside the coop on alfreton rd.

Thank's lizzie i did have a look on google maps but could not see anything that looked like the police station did back then, as i'm fairly sure that i remember it being a white building, but could be wrong & was also unsure of it exact location.

I don't know when those type of buses stopped being used bk but i do remember them from when i was very young, especially the blue buses (were they midland general?) we used to get one of these opposite the generous briton to wollaton park used to get off somewhere near the wheelhouse at what if i remember rightly was a small police station.

The picture is dated 1979 on the evening post photo's.

Thanks stuart that is the one.

@Stuart.Cthanks for the great photo stuart, this is the one i had in my memory as i have since found via google a photo of the same thing in some picture's the nottm post have online which is dated 1979 so would have still been there in the years when i used to visit my grandparents there. I will try to follow beekays tutorial again later & put the photo on here.

Wow something in the area that has not been destroyed, i was very surprised to see that the houses on wallan st are still there too.

@Beekayi must have followed you around bk as we also went to mary potter dr's stebbings & lavelle, we moved there when our old doctor dr barclay who's surgery was on shakespeare villas retired, then to bailey st when we moved to old basford.