hippo girl

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  1. yes rog it was a funeral parlour in a past life !laughing!
  2. what about mr haddocks at canning circus now the ropewalk bar...great chips !
  3. the star inn on the left side of the picture was used in the series as the drum inn
  4. not only was he an actor on coronation street Ashley but he has directed and taken part in the playhouse pantos for years....
  5. !clapping! so right beefy what about the nottingham connection to the second mrs barlow?
  6. linda chevesky or something like that...............what about ena sharples famous grandson? and do any of you know the connection between ken barlow's second wife and our fair city?
  7. what about elsie tanners daughter..can you remember her name?
  8. kens brother david married irma ogden..think he worked with cars?........they bought the corner shop?
  9. the white lion in bramcote village has always been known as the TOP HOUSE, but the sherwin arms at the bottom of the hill has always been the sherwin!
  10. we had wheldons deliver our milk over here in bramcote!
  11. i remember van der graaf generator......daughter tells me that they still have great gigs but they are outside on the downs in summer.....get cape wear cape fly, just jack, the macabees, the cortinas , pendulum and the automatic
  12. inside info sussexred!! !laughing! ...thought it was early 1973 but maybe you are right about 1972......
  13. i was there at the elkie brookes gig Zab..can anyone remmember further back to julie driscoll and garnet mims?...my 2 youngest are at nottingham uni living it up on the campus but so sad the portland building does not have the great acts on anymore....ps saw the first ever wings gig at the portland.....
  14. there was a top hat club on corporation road in Ilkeston but the main one in Radford was either the stork club or tally ho ( later the drum )
  15. there is talk in Bramcote that it is going to be an asian day centre......
  16. think it may be dovecote lane park beeston
  17. think i spent some of my youth in the El T on burton street?.....did it have a round window Pat ?
  18. i always fancied myself as a PRO.......MOTIONS girl!! !laughing!
  19. what memories!! can't remember if he was a nottingham guy but can remember the hitch hiking!
  20. i can remember the mushy peas at the belvedere on the way up to the adlib..can you remember Gwen who ran the club? Such was always found in the square with the beatnicks or at the don juan on Parliament street..great days, fond memories
  21. sorry it was the pepper mill not pot....use to go to don juan, el toredor and the pancake house..did anyone else?
  22. remember all that especially matlock bath, the troggs( lived in the caves ) and the pepper pot.was Such's real name Clive?