Charlie

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  1. I went there with Micky one Sunday lunchtime - Micky came out blind drunk. Well drunk and blind - one of the strippers bent over him (he always had a way with women) but nearly poked his eys out with her hat-pegs!
  2. BBC3 should have such scriptwriters. But, I do have a feeling you may be pulling the wool over my thighs.
  3. A window 40 feet high and wide? - the only one I remember had pink elephants on it - but that doean't mean it wasn't there - or the elephants come to think of it. Actually, when Stu Morris was angry he looked 40ft high and wide and no one hung around to measure him!
  4. See now, Jan has wriiten to me on the message board on Mary's show - and I do remember him vaguely (everything is vaguely). Apparently we drank two-and-a-half bottles of scotch one Christmas (how could we do that and he remembers - although I do remember the hangover) Can anyone tell me more about him?
  5. For some reason I only ever used it as a short cutt off Parlaiment Street 0 wasn't is quite a small entrance at that end?
  6. Ok, now I'm thinking Griffin & Spalding. Given the weigh I spell things it looks very much like Waring & Gillows! Did G&S sell lots of things furniture, TVs and - well everything?
  7. OK - just guessing but I bet it's the Temptations and if it isn't my second guess is the Drifters......
  8. I have all that North of watford stuff! I always thought his 'lost hits and golden memories' was a very strange compilation - 'Surfin' USA'? Can't believe you're an old timer - you just started very young - right?
  9. Now that little lot had me laughing out loud at 9:30 on a saturday morning! When I was last up there they were OK - but that would be in about '75. Thing was, if you were pissed and got on the wrong lift and out on the wrong corridor there was no way to know - as I recall. You could then spend days walking around trying to figure out where you were and where it was in relation to where you wanted to be!
  10. Hey guys - was there an enormous departmental store on King Street? Waring and Gillows? Don't know why but as I was reading the thread it just popped inot my mind
  11. Hi guys - here I am! Lee Dorsey - duh! C/W - coupled with! Double A-side! Well, I want to just hang back a bit here - I remember it as that, but sometimes my memory plays tricks! By the way - I'm in touch with Stu and he remembers me! I'm chuffed as nuts! Thanks for the info Craig! Also - guys the Northern Soul show on Radio Stoke is fantastic! !! You probably all knew that! Craig - here's a question for you! When did people first start calling it Northern Soul as opposed to Soul? I know when I used to go to the Place in Hanley in about '67, it was just soul then and there........
  12. Well! we live and learn! Thank you very much everyone! I'm quite astonished to hear that there was an actual wood - although now that Black Ice has mentioned it, it does seem obvious! But, it begs the question - why balloon woods? Does anyone know. As for those flats in Hyson Green - At night, you didn't go there. I alwyas thought that must have been a real problem for anyone who actually lived there!
  13. once, back in about '74, Micky Norton took me to a party out at a council estate (?) at Balloon Woods (?). This was the weirdest place I ever went to in my entire life! (Sorry if you live there and love it) Mostly it seemed to be apartments and some had no doors or floors - Micky told me that folks used them for firewood! Still the party went with a bang as they say! Now, was that a real event or did I imagine it? Do any of you remember the estate and was it like my memory?
  14. Wow - a picture of Stu! I see he still keeps his hair short. (just kidding Stu) When was it taken? - He doesn't seem to have changed at all!
  15. Oh God - Craig'll go apeshit - I spelt tell wrong! no2
  16. bu99er me! I remember Lloyds too - I kept my overdraft there! I do now rememebr MacF turning into Halfords. I did a Google on images for South parade and Slab square nowadays - can't say I think it's much of an improvement, but maybe you need to be there! I must be totally senile - I'd forgotten Clumber street - and I must have walked down it every day for three years! Thinking about Tug reminds me that back then you could actually speak to the police without being too worried as to what might happen - these days they scowl at me and i hurry by - and I'm respectable now! I have made a
  17. I'll teell you what - the more you all write, the more I remember how brill Nottingham was! Mind you, I have seen the new town centre on the telly - as the clubs kick folks out and that doesn't look quite so brill! I rememeber going out to get pissed - with everybody - and everone succeeding. Sometimes we fell down too, but nothing like theuy manage these days - maybe it's just for the cameras! In about '71 the Kardomah was known as a place frequented by 'liberally minded' people - which meant drugs. I hadn't met drugs at that point, so I used to walk by wondering what it might all be lik
  18. I think that may have been Burton's the tailors - sort of on the corner with Queen Street? Or maybe it was Hepworths?
  19. I had SO forgotten Burtons! I always thought it was a little bit of Harrods (although I hadn't actually ever seen Harrods) - Very occasionally I'd go in and walk around! Thanks everyone - funny how MacFisheries has faded in the memory. It was on your left if you stood on the steps - I too think it may have become Austin Reeds, but not for sure. Does anyone know if it was part of a chain or a one-off in Notts - I don't remember any others anywhere.
  20. Wow! Thank you very much!
  21. Just to say thank you to all of you - it's almost like being there again! Do they still have the flats?
  22. Beefsteak - is there anything you don't know! It must have been the bakery, becasue it was next door to the bike shop! maybe it became a cafe or turned into a bakery. I think it would have been in autumn 69 when I was there. Tea was always somehting with loads of mashed potato and gravy! Checked plastic tablecloths and a young girl, daughter of the landlady who was usually in one of the lads rooms upstairs - i was never one of the lucky ones! I remember the pub, now that you mention it and the endless bus-ride to and from town! I wish I'd know Lizzy drippin' - sounds like my kind of la
  23. OK, I aslo lived in Hyson Green on Gregory Boulevard/Radford Road crossroads - just where the trees are to the left on the satellite pictures. Across the road were shops - a post-office and a pie shop - are all I remember. Going left at the crossroads with radford road was a laundrette. On one corner was a concrete apartment block, small estate (?) but I can't remember what it was called. On the city side of the crossroads was a small supermarket and a little up the road was a greengrocers, just on the left at the bus-stop. Across the road was a pub. Those are the bits that I remember -