Charlie

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  1. Again, in my very early days in town, I'm sure there used to be a MacFisheries down on Long Row - can anyone tell me more, including if it was really there? What was round about?
  2. OK, if you've got a few minutes to spare - can you tell me what shops and stuff were in the Vicki way back in the 70s. I think it beagan in about '70 - I remember the footings looking about 50 feet deep! I also remember the flats and for some reason I have a memory of them being closed after someone was attacked in one of those long corridors - but I'm sure that must be a false memory I remember that heat came from a big incinerator in West Bridgford but a) wasn't very good b) was very expensive c) produced no end of pollution I remember that if I walked in off the Milton Steet/lower Parli
  3. Mick - I think (allowing for all the alcohol in between) that the Kardomah was on the right on King street, just about level with the point where it Joins Queen street. But maybe not! There was a cafe there - big window and entrance to the right of that.
  4. When I very first moved to Notts, I lived in digs at the bottom of Carlton Hill - on the left just before the traffic lights. The digs were upstairs and downsatirs was a cafe run by a blonde-haired lady. Shre fed us regularly and well on good grub! Can anyone remember the cafe and what it was called? can anyone remember other deatils about the other shops - I htink there was a bicycle shop!
  5. I did put most of this in another post, but it looks as if it might be bettter here. Apologies if you've been through it before. Basically, I worked at the Hippo in '71 and then the PF/Scamps till '75 and then did about a year at the Bench and Bar. There are loads of people I should have stayed in touch with and now (in my old age) I really wish I had. I want to know how their stories went! So if any of you knew me then - please say hello! If you didn't but you did know (and maybe know how to get in touch with) Tony - who managed the Hippo Andrea Maher - barmaid then Wendy - barmaid t
  6. Now, it's funny you should say that! Nottingham was the first place anyone ever talked to me about alsatian women - In fact I knew a girl called Alsatian Pat (but that was for a slightly different reason) (actually she thought she was just called Pat) (if you're on this site somewhere Pat - I always liked you anyway) The other thing I heard for the first time was 'Twitchel' which I thought was some kind of disease at first and then 'Jitty' which confused me 'cos we weren't anywhere near the river. I have heard this in other places since. I also think Nottingham is the only place where an
  7. PS - it's one of the advantages of being really old - most of my records are also really old!
  8. Well - except my Hoagy Lands is on Stateside from 66!! My Alexander patton is on capitol! I saw where a copy went on Ebay for about £400 - so I figure I could get about £150 maybe. The thing is does Ebay ever work? Everyone i ask tells me a gazillion horror stories about it! So for the time being I'll keep on Holdin on...............
  9. I agree it is brill, although I do like 'the next in Line' a lot and 'Apples peaches Pumpkin pie'!! What I really love is how Kev Roberts and all the other guys have produced all these compilation CDs with such amazing gems on them! It's all souls as deep as you like it and then some! !jumping! I have about 150 comp CDs! You may not agree with me on this one - Cleo's mood' by Junior walker - I think that was an amazing sound!
  10. Nope - most of the soul i know I heard at the Place in the 60s (in stoke). I also picked up a lot from a guy who was a mobile in Notts, but I can't rememebr his name - it may have been Tony and he had three or four younger brothers. I think he was a plumber by day - but also a bit of a wheeler dealer in that nottingham kind of way! lso he used to get over to the States and bring stuff back. Then there was Alec (Alex?) another Notts DJ. I got my copy of 'She drives me out of my mind' by the Swinging Medallions from him!
  11. Yes it was - Thank you very much!
  12. Well................. It's either Mick and the Milk Floats or the packers..........
  13. And 'Hole in the wall' is by...........................?
  14. You can usually get within the price advertised in the Record Collector Rare record guide....................
  15. Dee Dee Sharp - What Kind of lady Mel and Tim - Backfield in Motion and of course, Just little Misunderstanding...........
  16. One of my favourite's too - still have the vinyl 45!
  17. So how much do we reckon I'd get for my 'A' copy of Alexander Patton's 'A little lovin' sometimes'? or Hoagy land's 'The Next in Line' I've often thought about using Ebay - how safe/dangerous is it?
  18. Two questions about Chilwell: I used to go out to a pub there - on a Sunday night. it was big, on a bend and very popular - this is in 73/74 I'm pretty sure it was on the Nottingham Road. can anyone offer a guess as to what it might have been? The other thing is about Widdowson's scrap yard - run by Tony - Is it still there? In business? Could any of you give me a phone number for it?
  19. OK two things in one post! If we can count famous people outside of town, once when I was in Toronto, Cassius Clay was staying in the same hotel! I was waiting to get into the lift one time and as the doors opened there he was. I always thought he was a big guy - but in real life he was a BIG GUY! Then the mention of the Theatre Royal reminded me of one night when one of the PF Choir got really, really drunk. So drunk he couldn't even stand up any more, so his friends put him in his car - which was a Triumph Spitfire - to sleep it off and came back into the club. He of course woke up and
  20. There are two things I remember about the Vicci center, but not all my memories are accurate. One is that, originally, the heat for the flats came from that huge incinerator which they built in West Bridgford, cost a fortune and didn't heat the flats! (I can vouch for the last bit having been in one of them during the winter - as a visitor). The lady in question was called Pip Langstaff and she worked down in Habitat which I remember being on the left, on the way in at the Mansfield Road end........ The other is htat in the end they became really dangerous places to live becasue of thos
  21. Yes - I remember people paying the bills upstairs. Amazed that Selectadisc started on Arkwright Street!
  22. I am so sad to hear about Sooty - I kind of figured he would be gone, but to have it confirmed.
  23. I think it opened before 74 too - 'cos the cecil Gee crowd were coming into the Penny in 73 - mind you I was never actually sure what century I was in so I could be wrong. Does anyone know for sure? Hey guys - I get the feeling that if i cam back to town, I wouldn't recognize the place! Are the boat clubs still down on the river?