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  1. The Flying Horse Pub

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    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?

  3. Curry houses in Nottm

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    The Purple Elephant? I seem to remember they got busted by the food inspectors for putting meat of "unknown provenance" in their meals. !inthebin!

    I think Purple elephants are what everyone could see by the time they got there - thumbsup

    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. isitsafe

    Great curry house though!

  4. Clubs dj'd at.

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    It was around 1971 that INTERCON opened.

    I attended for an interview when they were looking for DJ's.

    Unfortunately I went on the night they were advertising for Bar Staff!

    There is a recent picture of it posted here somewhere?

    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?

  5. The Flying Horse Pub

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but The Flying Horse pub is now called The Flying Horse Arcade I think. The old yard down the middle of it is a walkway through several smallish shoplets, including a deli and a boutique. It's possible to walk straight through to St. Peter's Square?? near Marks and Spencer What a waste.

    My favourite story about The Flying Horse was about the ex-Forest and Scotland international footballer, Jim Baxter who played in the city around 1968-ish. 'Slim' Jim always known as a playboy and a bnig drinker got into an altercation with a couple of doormen when on a night out and took a beating. The chairman of Forest allegedly had to be called out in the early hours to come and collect him out of the gutter outside the pub. Jim's face was so badly smacked about that the Forest manager had him train in the afternoons when the other players had left for home so that they didn't have to see the state of him.

    Getting back to the actual pub, closing that place as a public house was an absolute crime. You just can;t replace history like that ancient building had. Just what Nottingham needed eh though - more shops!

    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 and the girls with prices on their shoes - oh and the way the folks upstairs used to spit on the folks in the sawdust downstairs!

    C

  7. Have you met anyone famous in Nottingham and where

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    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

  9. Clubs dj'd at.

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    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

  10. The Flying Horse Pub

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    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 places popular with gays, one of the best (and most exclusive0 being a club down on - was it middle hill - with a chinese next door - maybe the pagoda? Now i can tell you the the girls that were guys were truly scary and the girls that were girls were fabulous - oh and the guys - well, they were without a doubt party animals and verry, very funny! A great place to go after hours!

    of course the other great place to go after hours was the Cabin Club, next door to the Hippo and on the way up to my flat! In there you could meet the rich, the crooked and the completely drunk - twenty-four hours a day. I did actually mange one or two twenty-four hour drinking bouts in those days. These days a couple of pints and I'm as happy as Larry!

    Cheers,

    charlie

  11. Clubs dj'd at.

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    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

  12. Curry houses in Nottm

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    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 shut and i was always p...d by then so I'm not even sure what it was called.

    Cheers,

    Charlie

  13. The Bench & bar

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    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.................what a great shop, what totally great guys!

    And if anyone knows anyone who worked at Bertrand russell House and maybe knew Carole Wilson.............

    Cheers,

    Charlie

  14. Nightclub staff

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    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. Moonlight moved down South with Peter metcalf (Flash Pete). Folks I remember were Alan Cotterill, the manager, Brenda the very bent cashier! On the Door were little Dave, Ron, Tom and occassionally Bob Lord and another Karate guy - no hair - whose name escapes me. On the bar there was Kath Rose, Jean Hayes, Julie Warwick, sometimes Norma Norton and Andrea.

    Out on the floor was Jane Boyfield, Pip Langstaff, Judy Doughty and a few other wonderful women! There was also the whole of the Penny Farthing Choir who used to stand behind the DJ box and sing the whole of Maggie May, while drinking 'half-pint' shorts! Nev Townshend, Glynn Newton, and a whole bunch of others all from Chillwell.

    So, 30 years later and overcome with nostalgia as Christmas rushes towards me, I think, as I think every year, how cool it would be to know what happened to any of these folks - but especially little Norma and Julie - Oh and the lead singer out of Limelight who was kind of my pal.

    There were loads of other people whose names I cant remember - Janice from Chillwel, the Basildon Basher (no really), Stinky Stuart's wife, Jackie the swimmer, Marilyn, Andy Ash, Dianne, Sue, Sheila - the Bowie bird Mickey Norton (managed Annabelles) Big Al - DJ at the Ad lib, Mick McArdle, from the Hippo. The list goes on and on.

    If any of you remember any of the above and maybe know how they're doing, I'd love to hear from you! If you remember people I've forgotten, I'd love to hear about them too

    Hope it's OK to ask and I hope one or two of you will post a post!

    Cheers,

    Charlie