Charlie

Dog and bear gone! !sickly! Tell me it isn't true! I think the club must have been the Hippo? fridays it was free before ten and we used to go down there and be the first guys in a club full of girls! As you all know, Nottingham has the best looking girls in the world ever! So we alwasy used to pull by 10:30!! Also, at the hippo you got this little card that meant you could have a free meal. Now, the free meal made Vesta curry seem like Cordon Bleu but - and htis is the important bit - it was free! meant you had more ten Ps left for a half pint of...............................WATNEYS

God yes - The Musters! I lived in digs on Epperstone Road, so on a Sunday night we quite often went down there for a beer or six. Is it still there? Is it still a hotel as well?

Just above slab square and just before the Bell (?) there was the Redifusion shop, which sold records downstairs. (Alan Cotterill, tight git, used to give me a six pounds a week allowance for records) Mostly I ended up using my own money! I did get freebies from the reps - but mostly they were rubbish. well, there was this one single by a brand new band called - Roxy Music! !! can't remember the name of the manager, but I did meet him years later in his own shop down in Derby! can anyone else remember the shop and his name? all the staff used to come up to the Penny at the weekend!

Graham was a member of the penny farthing Choir - the Chilwell guys that used to drink half-pints of shorts and sing maggie May, without the record! All of it - start to fimnish. On a saturday night it was an awesome sound 'cos everyone joined in. He was also a nuclear physicist who ended up in switzerland I think. Now, he cam into the PF with the choir for his stag night (big mistake) in a ball and chain which very quickly made his ankle bleed. The choir got him really, really pissed and took him down to the Station. They put him on the milk train to Carlisle without a peeny on him. Sou

Now that would be the Australian sweet white wine - at 10p a shot, as I recall! !jumping! But - it tasted awful - till the third one and then it kind of grew on you! We only drank it when we were almost totally broke. I'm glad the Bell is still there! Brill pub. What about the Dog and Bear and the Fountain - both on Bridlesmith gate? Even in the 70s they had a bouncer at the Fountain - a fine pub if you liked fighting! Then along a littyle and left up to the Cross keys - is that still there too?

I think he was the guy who opened the restaurant on Alfreton road - could it be?

I think Purple elephants are what everyone could see by the time they got there - So it may have been called that! I remember they did serve a lot of chicken legs, so I stuck to prawns - which looked like very large silverfish! I picked a fight with a guy in there one night - a very big one. I told him to take the first hit! They tell me I cleared three tables before hitting the wall. Great curry house though!

I think '72 after I started at the Penny - but maybe a little sooner. I seem to remember it was a slow death for Djs there - so you were probably lucky! Did you know keith and/or pat? Or maybe Alec who also worked the Hippo - but he was strictly Soul - great guy, nearly killed me in a crash coming back from some club he's been working in Long Eaton.............or maybe Al from the Ad Lib?

No - the best story was the copper cauldrons that used to hang in the main walkway -from a beam as I recall. They started with a very small one and worked there way up to a really big one. After about half had disappeared they had the police in (disguised as punters but looking like police) to stop any more going. of course, they kept going. What I can't quite remember is if the were all finally knicked - does anyone else know? it was just the best pub in town - well, except maybe for the Yates's wine lodge - does anyone remember the very old lady (possibly dead even then) on the piano an

God yes - the Intercom!! And I'd completely forgotten the clock tower! Now that brings back even more memories! Thank you very much! Charlie

back in the 70s Errol Brown was often seen around town. Calvin Palmer moved back there in the early 80s and lived at his ex-wifes house on Georg Road for a while - he wore my 'The Wall' LP out! Also I did a gig with Kit Jensen at the Brit and entertained the Chairmen of the Board up at Scamps! PS - if anyone knows Calvin's ex - Norma Palmer (Norton) or (Leivers) or her Son Robin or any of her daughters Joy, Julie and - and - oh bu99er! - tell them i think about them often but don't have an address after Lutteril road. Cheers, Charlie

Yes, the white hart was a Berni - £4.95 fro a 4oz sterak and chips and mushrooms and peas and a puding too - i think they may even have thrown in a coffee. In those days there were only three bottles of wine! Lutomer, Blue nun and mateus! Wonderful days really! Cheers, charlie

Ok - here's a question. For a while there was a night-club that was part of the Victoria Centre - big flash place that never really caught on, but I do remember Chairman of the Board playing there ands then coming up to Scamps afterwards - at about 1:30 ands we never got out of the place till about 3! Then it was all down to the curry house that i can't remember for a massive vindaloo! Cheers, Charlie

Ok - this I can't believe! They knocked the Flying Horse down? As in demolished? It was a fantastic pub! Truly awesome. The gay part - well it is true, but mostly they hung out in the first room on the left as you walked in or if you turned right towards the two smaller bars, they would sometimes overflow into the one on the left. I know htis becasue I pulled an absoultely gorgeous girl in there one night only for Micky Norton (yes the one who managed Annabelles) to suggest I just feel out the territory first - and yes it was a man! Oops. !laughing! Mind you there were a lot of p

Hmm, so when were you at Scamps - I was there from the start till about 75, with a short break while a guy called the 'night owl' did the business. There was also a club called the eight till late - first left off Friars gate and also down a twitchell off wheeler gate. Going up Upper Parliament Street there was also the Pigale - on the left. well dodgy! Cheers, Charles

Well, there are three curry houses that I remember. One was the Golden Curry just down below the railway station on Arkwright Street. This closed down when the meadows was demolished. I can still remember the rats running across the table while I tucked into my medium prawn and mushroom. That's how it came then - mild, medium or hot. There was also one up on Alfreton (?) road and I think it was owned by the same guys that owned starline taxis - one of the owners was Koli (?) Then there was another one down blow Pharoahs on Broadway (?). It was the one everyone used after the clubs had s

Sorry folks, I almost forgot - after Scamps I did a stint in the Bench and Bar just at the end of Bridlesmith Gate and on the way down into Broadmarsh................It was run by two people and I can't remember either of their names (Andy and Sue? He was slim, dark hair and bearded she was dark-haierd and very, very shapely), but I know they were involved dwon at the Brit before that. This would be about'75 or early 76........................... Anyone remember them? And if anyone remembers any of the crew from Cecil Gees which was at the Victoria centre when it opened.................w

Hello everyone, I'm new so if what i write sucks - let me off this one time! Back in the 70s I worked at Pharoahs (which later became the final solution) but can't remember the owner! Do any of you? I also worked at the Hippo once or twice, people I remember were Keith and Pat - two fine DJs, Tony the manager, Gordon Long the owner and Andrea Maher and Wendy on the bar - There was also Brian on the door and a dark haired girl on cloaks. Out on the floor were linda Sanderson and her sister Janice, Kathy Prince and Christine Pringle I had quite a spell at the penny farthing after Dr. Moonl