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Thanks Cliffton and Phil for the info on the Welbeck hotel. I have no memory at all of the original place but have found a couple of pictures of it via google looks quite grand compared to what replaced it.
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1 hour ago, DAVIDW said:
Advert from the EP. 21st Feb 1973 showing the New Welbeck was a Berni Inn.
Thanks for the info i didn't know the pub was a Berni inn.
I do now remember the entrance on Milton st had wooden louvre type swing doors, the kind you used to see in old western films on tv.
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@philmayfieldI am assuming that the New Welbeck would have been a replacement for the one that your uncle worked at? Do you know where the original one would have been please?
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1 hour ago, Cliff Ton said:
Your memory isn't wrong. Looking at a map of the shop units when the Centre first opened, there was indeed a 'New Welbeck' in that location.
Thanks for confirming that CT, i am amazed that i got the name right as i really dont know where it came from it just popped into my head as i was typing my post.
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43 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
I remember a friend and I used to meet in whichever establishment it was that was accessed from Parliament Street at the far end of Boots shop frontage. It was quite nice in the mid to late 70s but I can't recall the name.
Think that would be the one that cliffton said a few posts up was the Prince Albert Jill.
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I'm pretty sure there was another pub in/attatched to Vic centre, although i can't remember whether it could be accessed from inside the centre or not.
But i do seem to remember an entrance on Milton st where the Superdry shop is now opposite Bistro Pierre.
The name the Wellbeck or new Wellbeck is in my mind but this could just be a figment of my imagination
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When we were allowed out at lunchtimes from HMP Manning (fourth form upwards I think) a few of us used to walk down and sit in the Hyson Green Library in the winter months as it was always nice and warm in there, unlike the classrooms at school.
I can't recall at all how it looked inside but strangely I do remember like it was yesterday, the very distinctive smell it always had. Sort of old books,wood and floor polish but not unpleasant.
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31 minutes ago, PeverilPeril said:
I share Jill's fond memories of the library on Gregory Bvd. Wonder what it is like now?
Well its not the lovely old building that it was for starters
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36 minutes ago, Beekay said:
Don't want your dad coming after me for corrupting you
You are safe there BK he can't run so fast nowadays
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@Beekayi second what MrsB has said, when myself and Hey Arnold joined in July you were one of the first to welcome us to the site and helped him with posting pictures too.
A true Gent in my book.
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10 hours ago, benjamin1945 said:10 hours ago, benjamin1945 said:
Brilliant DA...........Better days....nicer people.....even though we had nowt......
Couldn't agree more.
Times when you knew everyone who lived on your street and neighbours would look out for and help each other out if needed, and groups of kids all played in the street together.
Until the powers that be deemed that our homes were all slums!
To them they were just demolishing rows of houses but in reality they destroyed whole communities in the name of what they called improvement.
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@benjamin1945i used to quite like Mansfield back in the 80's as an alternative to shopping in Nottingham or Bulwell, it had a good variety of shops and a great market back then as well (loved a good market back in the day).
I think Mansfield is like a lot of former mining towns. The closure of the pits spelled the begining of the end for them and saw them rapidly go into decline. Very sad for the folk who still live there.
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7 hours ago, Cliff Ton said:
That makes me feel old because I can remember when it was new......and in an appropriate location.
Me too, i remember my Grandma taking me and my sister to see it when the Victoria centre first opened. It used to draw quite a crowd back then to stand and watch it on the hour.
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We were also given radio malt and Haliborange, or aliboing as my younger sister used to call them, as kids. My Mum used to buy these from Norman Greaves herbalist shop on Alfreton Road. Also remember my Grandad taking some little blue tablets which i'm fairly sure were De Witts back and kidney pills if anyone can confirm?
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6 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:
Never believe anything anyone tells you. That's my maxim!
And mine is: Trust no one,
believe nothing and question everything!
Must be something to do with the education we had that has made us so cynical?
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I very rarely eat pork pie as I'm not much of a pastry fan and I hate the jelly in them. It reminds me of that awful ham in a tin that my Grandma used to buy for Sunday tea, and although I've never eaten any the jelly has always reminded me of frog spawn...yuk!
I do love jelly babies though BK.
Green and Black ones are the best.
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6 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:
We can both think of somewhere that contained a lot of old bats, though!
Yes and quite a few old crows as well
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23 hours ago, West Bridgfordian said:
reports of children identifying as cats and dogs in Manx schools
Sheer lunacy in my opinion and they wonder why there are so many kids nowadays with so called mental health issues. The world has gone barking mad.
Social media has one hell of a lot to answer for.
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When i worked at the Lord Nelson in the 80's they would open 12-2pm on Christmas Day but never in the evening.
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@BeekayI didn't think buses even ran on Christmas Day. I remember in the late 60's my Grandparents used to come to our house for tea on Christmas Day and always came by taxi,which we as kids thought was very grand at the time. I have no idea where they would have got the taxi from as they didn't have a phone to call one. They lived on Manchester St near Victoria Baths so could maybe have walked into the city and picked one up there.
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0I don't watch either of the programmes I mentioned PP. Like yourself I don't watch much tv at all and never daytime telly, with the exception of the coverage of The Queen's death and funeral.
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@Jill SparrowDidn't there always used to be a couple of teachers patrolling the fair on the day it opened and probably a few days before? Hoping to catch any girls who were brave enough to risk it!
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@PeverilPerilPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby presenters on This Morning and Dancing on Ice amongst other things.
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@Beekaywell you could have jumped the queue BK, you just had to tell them:
"Dont you know I'm a King"
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@philmayfieldI dont think I have ever heard Basford being referred to as upmarket. I wish I had known this before as we could have got a few more thousand for our house there when we sold it