poohbear

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  1. I left Xmas '59 had to stay on after my mates left in summer 'cause my birthday was November.....I hated that. Just remembered 'Black Dan' was Appleton...history teacher..so called anyway. Saxby's all houses now. Hadrill was a good head,he instilled discipline...just had to stand and stare at you and you behaved yourself.Unlike Green who was strap happy and didn't get half the respect. One of Hadrills rules was that bikes could be ridden up Bar Lane but not down.You had to wheel them down...I think because a lad once died flying down Bar Lane into traffic on Nuthall Rd. Another rule...gir
  2. No replies about Ellis before it merged with Guilford?...I'm surprised,anyone there in the fifties? Headmasters Hadrill and Green.Some of the teachers...Barks,Kinder(Rubberneck) Kendal,Bowler,Woodward,Hall, and 'Black Dan'... can't remember his proper name....Anybody else out there remember?? Paul.
  3. The Duke of Edinburgh... :tongue:
  4. Anyone got stories about the rag and bone men? One used to come round Cinderhill way about once a month with his horse and cart.Mum bought me a pair of slippers which for some reason I hated, so I gave 'em to the rag and bone man who gave me a goldfish in a cellophane bag.I thought it was a great trade...Mother was not amused when she saw the fish and chased after the bloke......To my disgust she got the slippers back. Paul.
  5. I keep birds in Arnold,while feeding them the other day they all froze and some were looking up.I looked up and a buzzard was wheeling slowly in the sky more or less over the Travellers Rest. You wouldn't have seen that ten years ago.No shortage of rabbits round there for them. Paul.
  6. I think the milk and orange juice were in third pints weren't they? That orange was available from your milkman(full of iron they said) and was the only time I ever used a farthing (Which was demonetarized in 1956...in other words you couldn't spend them) Now a farthing was a quarter of an old penny,and there were 240 pennies to the pound...So,for a modern pound you could buy 960 bottles of orange juice...Not bad for a quid eh? I know on frosty winter days when the free milk was left outside the classrooms it sometimes froze some bottles...we used to fight over those...Instant icy slush dri
  7. Can you remember your first weeks at school? At five years old in the early Fifties, my Mum took me to Whitemoor Infants.I remember clutching my little string bag with a flannel and soap in it,which was hung on my own hook in the cloakroom.The boys and girls toilets were half the size of adult ones,as were the desks and chairs.All the kids had to go to bed for a nap after lunch for an hour...not me..no way could they get me to sleep.So the teacher used to sit me on her knee and read to me from Peter Rabbit instead. School was about three quarters of a mile away and Mum took me for a couple o
  8. Who the hell thought that one up? ...weird.
  9. The forestry commission had cut up a fallen beech tree some weeks back. The smell took me back to the early fifties.I spent many months in the country where I had to earn my pocket money chopping logs in the woodshed for the fires. Paul.
  10. Always too tight and cut off the circulation in your calf God it was great when you took 'em off and could rub your legs.It was no good pulling them round your ankle 'cause you were always told to pull 'em up.I remember our headmaster allowed drainpipe trousers,but banned winklepickers and fluorescent socks. Paul.
  11. I was the same,parents in those days didn't realize that we wanted to be treated as little adults and couldn't see anything wrong in short trousers. It's not as if in those days I had any money to buy my own, I was stuck with what Mum gave me...and some of the jumpers she knitted me would have fitted a 20 year old. "You'll grow into them." Yeah right. Paul.
  12. Drove up Bar Lane today...Blimey! the old schools gone,replaced with a big modern lump...When did that happen? And the old Commodores a Sainsbury's...You daren't blink nowadays,everythings disappearing. Paul.
  13. I'm a one man band...not on the Net.I sell on markets,shows etc.But if anyone wants a reasonable amount locally for a kids party or say Halloween when it comes round. PM me, I do over 500 lines.Kids,Adult, & Sugar free. Paul.
  14. Anyone buying sweets off the net is nuts... For example on that site.. Candy necklaces £1.87 for 10......Mine 10 for £1 Sherbet saucers £1.87 for 50.......Mine 55 for £1 Large Parma Violets £2.17 for 5....Mine 4 for £1 And so on... Paul.
  15. All still available...I sell 'em... and sherbet flying saucers Paul.
  16. Me and my mate aged about ten found a black kitten and took it into Ingers shop because we had heard she had lost one...She wasn't sure it was hers even though me and my mate tried to convince her it was...smelling a possible reward or some free sweets...She said "I'll fetch my dog he will know ,they play together." She brought the dog in...and the cat immediately did a circuit of the room without touching the floor once....that was that...no reward.....Oh well. I couldn't get the map clearer unfortunately...Bar Lane is there but indistinct.If you look closely you will see 'bleach works' jus
  17. Very... I'm blessed with a very good memory and can still remember every detail of the road and the people that lived on it.I had a very carefree childhood up there with a few of the neighbours kids. In the 80s I happened to be nearby and parked up to have a walk and see how the old place looked.In my day everybody knew everybody else and passed the time of day. A guy pulled into my old house driveway and as I passed I said "Evening,I was born in this house in the forties...have you lived here long?" His answer..."What the f**** it got to do with you..just F*** off."....Nice bloke...made my
  18. Used to play on there as a kid...fields with cows then and a pond in the middle. The whole Wimpey site was sold including the site for the fire station for £120,000...rich farmer in those days.It belonged to a farm on Bagall Lane over the back. Another memory...25 yards up from the Barleycorn on Nuthall Rd going towards the city.There was a little sweet shop...I always remember the name F.Inger. Paul.
  19. Reading early posts on the 'Pub Closing Down' thread there were one or two posts on the Cinderhill area including Llanberis Grove off Nuthall Rd. I was amused that some folks living locally looked on LLanberis Grove as a posh secretive area...Not really I was born there. It consisted of 28- 3 bedroom semi's built in the thirties,and bought for £350. This is the rear of my home about a year after it was built,not posh by any means.Many houses built on Aspley and Broxtowe estates had much bigger gardens. The land however was originally the gardens of a large manor house which was owned in t
  20. The companies running the pubs deserve everything they get... If they'd spent some money on upkeep instead of letting 'em turn into muck holes, more would still be open. They got smacked with the smoking ban because they were too tight to spend a few quid on decent air conditioning to clear the atmosphere.Most of 'em with a knackered expelair in one wall and that was it.They knew it was on the cards years ago and did nothing. Never mind ...lot's of lovely car park land to sell to build the three storey Noddy houses.And that's bitten 'em in the behind with the housing crisis. Paul.
  21. Dead right... If you screamed and had a paddy you got a slap...it wasn't blamed on E numbers. Paul.
  22. Yeah...bit of a surly type,didn't care for him that much.Turnover of managers was quite high then. Paul.
  23. The Grosvenor was the name of a carriage in horsey days I believe. 'Hart'was a type of deer. Paul.