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Sometime in the early 60's Dianna Dors came to open a Newsagents shop, Taylor's on Alfreton Road. A big American car parked on the bottom of our road and out she got. I can't recall now if the car was white and she wore pink or the car pink and she wore white. Oh yes, I remember it well. She seemed very glamorous in gloomy Radford.

I've got a Raleigh 20 I'm selling but it is rather good, probably too good to mess up.

I used to play in this area as I lived quite close, just off Churchfield Lane. At the bottom of the photo above you can see the river Leen and even make out the large diameter pipe that runs parallel with the bridge over the river just to the left.. We would fish for tiddlers and pick blackberries that grew along the edges of the road. We would also stand on the bridge over the railway lines to get engulfed in smoke and steam. The signal box wasn't there and lomax was just the other side. As for the he crossing keepers house I remember looking down onto it from the bridge. There was one boy wh

I well remember when this church was knocked down. I was about 15 or 16 which dates it to the early 70's. I didn't live far away, in Radford but knocked around with a mate from Oldknow Street. The pews were just heaped up in a pile, presumably for burning so we liberated one. It was pretty long and weighed a ton and we carted it someway down Alfreton Road but being skinny gutter snipes had to give up so it we abandoned it a few hundred yards away near Players. No idea what happened to it but I don't think it was there long. Wish I'd got it now though.

I just wanted to put an update on here to say I am feeling much better now. Although it's not been that long I am avoiding any contact with my brother in law who isn't worth a bo@@ock so calm is resuming. I have a large pile of letters that my Grandfather wrote home in ww1 and I am typing them out as they are getting pretty tatty so being busy helps. I am going to publish them via a Wordpress page soon and there is another project in relation to them being planned which I will mention on here when it's properly sorted. But a big thank you to all that took the time to reply. It did help a l

I've just sold about 400 78's. They were some good ones among them, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly. Too many to list but the majority were dance bands etc. Not worth a great deal though.

Re Porchester Road. I think the victim was Lucy Flynn. Her and her husband were market traders and were turned over because the offenders thought they would have plenty of cash. Three men were arrested and convicted.

The internet is a place where all sorts of weird and wonderful theories can be expressed. Naturally it gives voice to well meaning people as well as complete nutters. Some is sinister, some just plainly deluded. There is plenty of speculation about the large hadron collider at Cern which you can make of what you will, but did anyone here see the ceremony that marked the opening of the worlds longest tunnel. What was that all about. How weird was that?

It is a bit irrational to dislike someone who you don't know and likely never met just by seeing them on tv. They might be really nice in the flesh. Like wise celebrities who you quite like might be complete tw@@s in person. Having said that although I have never met him I can't stand Noel Edmonds. I read recently he does a lot of work for charity that he does not publicise at all and if that is true then I am prepared to be swayed. My wife read the autobiography of 'national treasure' Tony Blackburn. Now if you think Chris Evans loves himself....He could learn a lot from Tony.

I am in the process of transcribing some letters that were written by my grandfather to my grandmother during the First World War. He would seem to have been well educated and I note that he hyphenates the words to-morrow and week-end. While I'm on I am going to publish transcripts of the letters via a Wordpress site as near to 100 years after they were written as is practical. The first I have is dated 16th June 1916. I'll put a link on here when it's done.

Ner. That would be de-corem.That's where the ifen comes in.

Gentlemen please. This post was about spoken English. Have a bit-more decorum.

I am not a snob having been born and raised in Radford but on the BBC local weather tonight just before 7pm we were informed, and I quote 'it will be a bit more fresher' I would prefer the BBC to be proper like what I do. Is it me?

Forest Fields were almost the same as yours Oztalgian. Rufford Welbeck Annesley Clumber I was in Rufford.

I cut the lawn the other day. Went in and unplugged the mower and as I walked back to the mower thought the grass still seemed a bit long. Checked and realised the mower was set on 3 and not 2 I normally use. So I reset the cut height and spent several minutes swearing and cursing wondering why it wouldn't go before remembering I'd unplugged it.

So this isn't exactly what my parents used to say but rather a term not used any more and not very nice. When I was young in the 60's you used to get life size models of children, boys and girls with a crutch or calliper on the leg with a slot for putting coins and sign 'please help spastics' It is a term not used any more but was pretty common back then. If one of your mates miss kicked a ball or mucked up in similar circumstances you'd unkindly call him a spaz. As I have mobility difficulties now myself I cringe when I think about it. Does anyone else recall this.

We go out to the supermarket or coffee shop most days and I will always read the paper they have out preferring the Times and or Mail. My wife used to buy the Mail every week day but now only occaisionally. Not snobbish reading the Times but I have no interest in much of the gossip in many of the papers and still struggle to see why much of it is considered news.

Hub gears for bicycles.

This September marks the 100th anniversary of Nottingham being bombed in 1916 by a zepelin. I have a personal connection with this incident as a bomb was dropped on Hickling Road Mapperley. It was probably just a bomb dropped for the sake of it rather than a deliberate targeting. It fell near the front of the house where my father who was 2 at the time and my grandmother were in the front bedroom. The house was badly damaged but they were uninjured as my grandmother had taken my father and hidden behind a large wardrobe possibly at hearing the bombs dropping on the City. They were rehoused in

My mothers family had the bakers shop in Arnold, Ellis bakers. It was in the building now occupied by Birds. I have the wedding photo of my grandparents taken at the back of the shop.

These examples are pretty easy to spot but I and some of my friends have recently had some very convincing PayPal emails saying account suspended. The address and logo all look correct. The English is almost correct just one odd word looks out of place. It's only when you check the properties on the sender you realise it's dodgy. You really do need to be careful.

I mentioned this to my wife who lived on Glentworth. Her name then was Flint. She remembers Carlos well. She says he was life and soul of the street.

I live in a rural location a fair way from the exchange so as things stand I do not get fast broadband and won't until the infra structure is Improved but as for customer service can't fault plusnet. On the other hand a phone line fault that BT had to deal with took 3 weeks.

Going back to barrow boys I was friends with a lad on Oldknow Street, Hyson Green and one of his mates was Paul Burdett who lived nearby, Pallin Street I think. His brother and dad were City Barrow Boys. Us younger ones were occasionally employed as packers putting tights in packs or 'guenuine' French perfume in boxes. The tights may have been seconds as 3 legged tights were sometimes present. And yes they got put in packets all the same.

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