letsavagoo

Hi Nadia and welcome. My sister lived on Lavender Grove in the Rylands from the early 70's until her death 2 years ago. I'm sure you will enjoy this forum.

In letters my grandfather wrote home from the front in WW1 he makes mention of chats, soldiers slang for body lice. He spent Christmas Day 1917 picking chats off himself. I'm Nottingham born and bread and certainly used the word chatty to describe something worn out or dirty as chatty or grotty.

It will be great to see a rare and beautiful Brough SS 100 motorcycle at Newark's civil war centre but I can't recall, was it the Royalists or Parliamentarians that had the motorcycles.

I can confirm that the horn and hoop are still there. Went the other day.

Rog mentioning 'trackless' bought back memories of my grandmother who always referred to Trolley buses as trackless. I'd forgotten that.

Agreed but the power supplied from a power station can be better filtered and controlled from a polluting point of view. Standing on Parliament Street or several other locations in the City you choke with deisel fumes. It's quite shocking.

Thanks for your thoughts on this. However a trolley bus can move around an obstruction unlike a tram. I am sure that they could still make an environmentally sound proposition today. Googling around it seems they are still used in some parts of the world.

I am old enough to recall trolley busses here in Nottingham. Does anyone have any thoughts on why trolley busses fell out of favour and why there are none today. I assume that diesels were easier and cheaper. The cost and disruption of the tram infrastructure is huge yet a trolley bus only needs a overhead power line system, double not single like the tram. No minor requirement but no tracks/rails. Surely with pollution being a major concern there is case for considering trolley's again. I heard nottingham is going to get some electric (battery) busses again but is battery technology real

This caught my eye as one went past me yesterday. It was going the other way I hasten to add. The occupants were sitting side by side and I beleive it was a BMW. Years ago I was visiting a girlfriend and got a lift home from someone who was visiting her family and had a bubble car. It was a tandem seating arrangement and I sat between the driver and his wife. They were both rather large and it was a rather unpleasant journey with body parts jiggling against me front and back. There must have been close to 40 stone on board.

What year(s) did you live here caftan. I ask as my grandmother lived at 104 from 1916 until she was too old to cope on her own in the early 1960's. My father lived there too until he married in 1947.

It's still there, or at least it was recently.

We go to the Trip sometimes when we are in Nottingham but that's not so often these days. As it happens we were there on Tuesday lunch and had a bite to eat. I think it's a Green King now. Had a pint of Shippo's of course, very nice and the food was good pub grub. Nothing outstanding but absolutely fine. It really is a unique building and I still like it. Having said that the toilets until recently were a disgrace and for a tourist attraction pub should be better. What must visitors think. I noted on Tuesday the gents had been improved but still not very nice. Wife said the ladies were still p

I have used some fairly exotic decks, not a £50 Argos special. I did own a transcriptor as in clockwork orange but the temptation to sell,it for daft money on eBay was too much so it went and it wasn't that good imho. I use a Thornes now which sounds quite good. The point I want to make is a clean record will sound better whatever you play it on. Without going to some silly hifi phoolerie it's a pretty good way to clean up your vinyl. DJ 360. I've never tried or had a mono cartridge but would think a stereo connected as mono is about the same. Perhaps the stylus is more suitable. I

I have several hundred LP's and singles from the 1960's on. If a record I've bought is very dirty and finger marked then I clean it with an old fashioned shaving brush and washing up liquid. Rinsing well under running water using the brush in the direction of the tracks until all trace of soap has gone. Drying by patting with a soft towel. Nothing fancy, just common sense and care. Works a treat and I have never had a problem at all and I've done this a lot. I try to avoid wetting the label too much but a bit of water doesn't seem to bother them. Records that have crackled and popped prior to

Of the 1960's cards I remember the Batman set and the American civil war. I even recall that there was some press reports as these were considered too graphic and violent and one card 'crushed by the wheel' singled out for special criticism. The other set I collected was World War 2. This was a big set, something like 144 cards. I never quite made the full lot. Just noticed the post above mentions the gorey civil war issue.

The building opposite Noel Street baths was both a wash house and bath house. My wife's grandfather used to go there weekly for a bath. He did not have a bathroom at home other than a tin bath and it was often more convenient to go to Noel Street for a bath.

I live in a village where there is barely any street lights. I dread to think how much this setup costs. My solution is a torch at the enormous cost of £1.00

Sorry it's late notice but if anyone is interested this film is on freeview tonight channel 81 talking pictures 10.15pm

I still mess about with radios having done so a since childhood. All started with a Phillips Electronic engineer kit. I used to get bits and pieces from Charles Town. There were 2 worked there an older man and one younger. The younger one was very helpfull and helped me trouble shoot projects. I recall he had a motorcycle sidecar outfit. I then started using A1 factors which was cheaper and originally at the very top of North Sherwood Street but moved to Radford Boulevard near Ilkeston Road. The owner was Doug DeHavilland who was a lovely man, very knowledgable. He lived in a beautiful house i

Bump on this old post as my wife has just seen it and told me off. It was the Alma public house opposite Flints newsagents. The Spread Eagle was a little further up the road.

Yes it was Cliff Ton and I know who owned it as the brother lived in the same village as me but the Waldrens family had sold out years before. Maybe the name was kept as it was long established but it wasn't the same owners. After Players closed I should think business took a dive. I think in turn they sold out and it is or was a Polish butchers.

Thanks Jill.

Jill. My wife knew a Mrs Bee. Worked at Cleggs solicitors and lived Player Street or nearby. Could this be your Mrs B?

As a child our family did not own a fridge as indeed many didn't. Not in Radford at least. Shopping on a daily basis was the norm hence me often having to run down to Weathalls before school several times a week. This was fine and I didn't mind at all but on the corner of Wordsworth Road was Waldrens butchers. Now there was Mr Waldren senior and Mr Waldren junior. I dreaded if I had to go to the butchers before school. I'd go in and it was always the son serving. He'd look at my note and then carry on scrubbing or sawing or doing whatever he was doing and take an age before he actually got aro

Hello Derek aka brown bowler. Little David is not so little now. Not especially tall but as strong as an ox. He now runs his own business, an MOT and repair garage at Kimberley on the site of the old brewery. It seems you have the right person in mind as to David's mother. Marina was 'bubbly' (understatement). She was a larger than life character and a very attractive lady and well known in the area. I adored her and she was very good to me. She would always take my side if my wife went to her with to moan about me and would get no sympathy even if she was in the right as she usually was. Sadl