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Attended that one. There were a few quality players in the Notts side that day. Spot an ex-Red in the opposition too - via Meadow Lane if I recall correctly.

Remember the florist, dry cleaners and lusted after many a bike in Merins! I'm a member of Arnold Local History Club, Blackie. Well worth looking into all their stuff.

You're maybe right, mate. It seems strange though when you think about how much as been invested in the ridiculously huge squad they have this season though? I notice some Notts fans are of the opinion that he likes to have a 'puppet' in the managerial seat. There is an inference that he interferes in teams matters but I have no idea about that. It's hard to see the way forward for Notts. Some are clamouring for him to sell the club but there can't be too many possibly suitors out there due arguably to the slight basket case that the club has become.

I saw your comment in the NP online, Gibbo! Pray for a miracle!

Interesting subject. I can't comment on the above sounds but I can often hear the rumble of Goose Fair in early October when it's on from three miles away.

Another person here who has collected them at Lambley. Another trading place many years ago used to be The Lord Nelson on Front Street, Arnold - along with a handsome trade in rabbits, mussels etc!

I've love everyone to be wrong and Ray Trew to be right, Merthyr, really would. I don't see that happening, mate. I think he has gone for another cheap option and a manager he can 'control'. Considering how much he has laid out on players this season it seems like a gamble he didn't need to take. The club desperately needed experience at this level. The lack of it is partly the reason the last manager collected his P45.

Brian Clough was a complete one-off genius. Are you suggesting that Fullarton might be in the same bracket? He doesn't even fulfill Trew's own very recently uttered criteria for a new manager - a man with managerial experience at League One/ League Two level.

#15 I love them too and enjoy that different texture. Agree about the bacon. Used to collect them down at Hoveringham pastures too. Still plenty of plain field mushrooms down there.

Welcome Linda. Will be nice to have another person on here with some memories of Arnold.

Seriously, i wonder what Trew is playing at? He apparently calls this appointment 'not a gamble'. He's just employed a guy who has never, ever managed a club before - that's what I call a gamble. I'm a person who likes to see all the local clubs do well and this does nothing to bring the local scene out of the doldrums it's generally been in for a little time now. There is a certain arrogance about Ray Trew which I think is easily detectable. He seems like a typical chairman who knows nothing about football but thinks he's an expert. He should go and talk to the Notts fans. Pretty sure they'

That's within twelve months. Ray Trew - football genius.

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Don't suppose it matters, Den. He'll be sacked within twelve months anyway. They all are.

If we're to believe bookmakers odds (and no, I don't think we necessarily should) then Jamie Fullarton, former development coach at Forest has jumped dramatically to the head of queue to be appointed as Notts manager tomorrow lunchtime. If so, it looks like a classic Chairman Trew decision. Fullarton has no managerial experience whatsoever and is a complete rookie. He left Forest citing that he wanted to get into management. Whatever the final decision on the new man, I sometimes think that Notts' leader could do worse than canvass the club's beleaguered and rapidly disappearing fanbase. Hi

I don't think it can have been on broxtowelad's shift, Lizzie!

The old Arnold baths was a particularly good place to pick up a veruca!

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing your dad on the buses when I was a lad, Michael. What years was he at NCT?

That was a Mighty Fine job to do.

Properly looked after roadside verges and green areas. Close to where I live in Redhill, the local bus stop had two well kept wooden bench seat for waiting passengers. Adjacent the bus stop were two lovely tended grassed areas with shrubbery and trees at either end. These areas collected butterflies, bees and birds etc. and the grass was mown on a regular basis by the county council. Both areas were surrounded by smart, white painted railings. There was also a fully enclosed bus shelter, not open on one side with the rain blowing in. The slightly moribund scene now still has grass but often

The buildings in the city centre, Shakespeare Street etc are all owned by Nottingham Trent University (NTU). They term it as the 'City Campus'. The modern buildings in the old Raleigh works area form Jubilee Campus which is part of the original and oldest university, University of Nottingham (UoN) University Park (Highfields) is the original UoN campus. Clifton Campus is part of NTU as is Brackenhurst out near Southwell.

If we're to believe Wiki he was born 'in the slums between Long Row and Parliament Street'. So not far away. I'd be interested to know exactly where. One of 21 kids!

I've worked in several of the unusual buildings on that campus. All were very practical inside and some of the most pleasant places I've worked.

Probably the best place for it.

It's not actually a rooftop cafe, Ian but I can recommend it. It's an interesting little meander up that court too, another little 'hidden' corner of Nottingham. That's a really good question which I can't answer! Present day and the Saltwater Bar in the Corner House offer a bit of rooftop atmosphere from the balcony. The Roebuck, natural meeting place of many a Nottstalgia diehard has an outside deck upstairs too. Saltwater Bar