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  3. Cocked hat pub

    in 60's Nottingham

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    Hi Chieftain,

    Sorry i don't have any photos of your Grandfather, he used to introduce the acts as well as play thepiano. I am sure he used to ride a motorbike with a sidecar. Was your Mother his daughter?

     

    Ian123,

    I have just watched the film but I don't recognize the room as being the big Assembly room at the back of the Cocked Hat, but I wasn't still there in 1979, I thought NJD were still doing the discos then. The item on you tube an ATV documentary is rock and roll, and that was definitely not Arthur's type of music. One of the comments on this video says it is not the Cocked Hat, but the Beacon.

    Val   

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  4. Cocked hat pub

    in 60's Nottingham

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    Yes quite correct it was Arthur Jacklin and he did have a club foot. Can't remember how many years he was there, I lived there from 1957- 1968, but still worked the disco till 1972 and I am sure he was still working on Friday and Saturday nights then 

     

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  5. Broxtowe Lane shops

    in 50's Nottingham

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    Chulla

    The barmen also had white coats and Gordon Bell who worked in the lounge bar always wore a bow tie, when dad left to take over The Rose Grower Gordon went with him. Dad did run a tight ship, bar customers stayed in the bar not allowed in the lounge unless they were dressed up. The room off the lounge was called the smoke room and was all wood.

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  7. Broxtowe Lane shops

    in 50's Nottingham

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    Hi davep5491 and chulla

    Les Daft did indeed play for the darts team he was also a barman at the Cocked Hat in the late 50s he used to climb over the back fence at the back of his house into the gardens to get to work. I was friends with Madeline when we first moved there in 1957 but she went to Player School and I to Crane, often wondered what happened to them, I know they were a big family

  8. Broxtowe Lane shops

    in 50's Nottingham

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    Yes ErnieF there used to be a gang of motorbikers who met up next to the Cocked Hat, think they mainly used the chippy not the pub. Can anybody remember a family who lived on Bidford by the name of Daft, think there was 2 girls called Hazel and Madeline their father was a barman at the pub.

  9. Local shops or beer offs that you remember

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    True KatyJay the little room on the left was the off sales where they used to fit jugs up with ale to take home and they often had a crafty one before they went home and it was mostly women,the men were all in the public bar we used to sell a lot of mild in those days. Kids used to come in for chocolate I used to grab a bar on my way to school

  13. The Cocked Hat

    in 60's Nottingham

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    I can remember the Cocked Hat, what a dump it was, but it was lively and fun, there were some good groups on from time to time -----My hubby ran a butcher's shop at the bottom of Bells Lane with his dad, Joe Taylor & Son for years, we lived there and sometimes walked up there for a quickie.........very njoyable...

    Hi Blondie, I can remember the butchers, my husband lived in Harpenden Sq just up the road from the shop. Your husband would probably know Terry Taylor my brother-in-law.

  14. The Cocked Hat

    in 60's Nottingham

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    Can't believe people are still reminiscing about the Cocked Hat. Not sure if I can remember your Grandad Anne Marie but think there was a Kennedy family lived on Broxtowe Lane. A lot of bands played there in the 60's some were from London. I lived there from 1957 till 1968 but carried on working there till 1972.

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  17. Car dealers

    in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum

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    Borrowing this from the Cinemas thread, I don't remember the "Quality Cars" dealer on the corner of Mansfield Road/Shakespeare Street - complete with a Ford Consul Classic in the showroom.

    (And a bit further along Shakespeare Street was Dawsons the motorbike dealers?)

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    Found this old thread about Quality Cars, this is where my husband got his first car from, a Ford Anglia in 1964 still got the receipt see attached

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  23. Boots restaurant

    in 60's Nottingham

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    I remember the cafe in Boots I used to love that shop on the corner of Pelham St. I worked for Boots on Station St. for 10 years when I left school. We used to have to go to college at the Beeston site once a week for the first 2 years