Rob.L

I remember many visits to Fords in Mapperley precinct (now a bed shop) in the 60s. I think the only reason my mum took me there so often was that while i was preoccupied with picking the right toy, she could nip into Ladbrokes next door and put some of the housekeeping on some nag or another.

Are they City Council parking attendants in the foreground?

Checking his Wiki entry, he was a bit before my time, I'm afraid. I can ask my big brother though, as he was only a couple of years younger than Dave R.

David, Yes indeed it does. Don't recall those other names, though.

Just the one? I'm not that cheap!

Or slightly further afield, the Robin Hood and Woodlark in Lambley are both excellent.

Looks interesting. Bookmarked for future use.

Seems to have done the business. I've tried a few threads with multiple pages and can now go back and forth at my pleasure. Many thanks

At one time as a lad, I used to walk our dog all over that area. Surprising how many little alleys and footpaths there were, and probably still are, hidden away between houses.

That seems to follow the same route down from Standhill Road into the valley as Ernest Road does now.

Early 70s, with the headmaster's daughter - but that's another story.

Any one know if any of the Gedling and Carlton pubs serve meals,the last time i went for a meal in Notts was the Windsor Castle on Carlton Hill, I am not sure if it is still there,or The Chesterfield Arms, Main Rd Gedling. The Chesterfield is now the Gedling Inn, and does meals although I've never tried it. Last I heard, the rebuilt Windsor Castle was due to be demolished to allow Tesco to expand their store. You've awoken memories of going to the original Windsor Castle for a folk night - hours trapped in an upstairs room with people wearing chunky knitwear, beards and fingers in their ea

Best ask LizzieM. She's known me for years.

I better let my missus know then. I'm her third husband. Oo-er.

Stephen, If they lived on Fernleigh in the early 1930s, they would have been neighbours of my dad, as he moved into the first house built on Fernleigh in, I think, about 1933, and stayed there for the next 70 years.

I was brought up on the Goons and Round the Horne - I remember as a naive nine year old asking my dad why Julian and Sandy spoke the way they did (using a few words of what I later found out was Polari), and him turning red and changing the subject. Sing Something Simple on the car radio as we came home from our regular day trips to Derbyshire - always seemed to start as we came through Ripley and Heanor. How I hated that programme! Later, as my music tastes developed beyond pop, Radio Luxemburg and Radio Caroline, a must-listen-to was Extravaganza on Radio Nottingham with John Holmes and

Ta. No rush.

Having got one of those new-fangled iPads, I've started to use Tapatalk to browse the forums I use. I've noticed that with Nottstagia, I can log in OK, and view topic headers, but if a thread goes beyond a single page, I can't get beyond the first page. It only seems to be on here as I don't see the problem anywhere else. If I use a normal browser (Chrome or Safari), or a PC, it works fine. Any ideas? Is it a settings thing - either on the server or Tapatalk? Thanks

And to add to my rather rushed reply (thanks, work!), having tried them all, I'd say that the Ram and the Wagon & Horses, both a bit further out towards Redhill, have better menus. http://www.pubpeople.com/waggon-and-horses http://www.sizzlingpubs.co.uk/theraminnnottingham/

I had a look in my copy of "The Village Atlas"*, which has reproductions of OS maps from between 1834 and 1904, and an original OS map I have from the 1920s, and neither show any footpaths marked. I suppose the large-scale maps in Angel Row library might throw some light, and had the question been asked a dozen or so years ago, I could have asked my dad, as when he bought his house in the early 1930s, Westdale Lane was still just a track and the Valley Road area was still nowt but fields. * http://www.lookupbyisbn.com/Lookup/Book/185540026X/1-85540-026-x/1

A bit of a curate's egg. Both the Tree Tops and the Old Spot are both sometimes OK, but can be awful.

Welcome? Been on here for five years, just don't post that much.

Used to use that as a short-cut when I had to get from Westdale Lane to Carlton Hill to work by bike in 1973. (Pushed up, rode down ) Luckily, that was after the bottom end of Marshall Hill Drive had been surfaced.

The lodge at the Nottingham Road end is still there, but despite living two minutes away for the last 20 years, and walking the dog round the park twice a day, I never knew about the lodge at the 'top' entrance until I saw Cliff's map.

I recall reading somewhere that the front garden walls of the houses on Thackeray's Lane either are the original walls as shown in the pic above, or re-used the stone. Whichever, it's sad to lose such a nice looking building. I also see that on the OS map in Cliff's post, there was a lodge at the 'top' entrance to Arnot Hill Park. I wonder what happened to that.