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Brefitts in the fifties on Nuthall Road was opposite High Street...later Basford Road,opposite the Newcastle Pub...If they moved later it was after I left the area. I don't remember much of the three wheel side but my brother bought a Lambretta there around 1960.They had some waste land at the back for learners to practice on.So when he brought it home he proceeded to hit the gatepost...
My workshop backed onto the premises at Daybrook in the seventies before B&Q but I didn't know who owned it.Just that they specialised in three wheelers.
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Watched a bloke years ago standing on top of a chimney swinging a sledge hammer at the bricks knocking them into the inside....made me feel ill thinking of what happened if he missed while swinging a fourteen pound hammer.
Also reminds me of the Mohawk Indians employed on the early skyscrapers because of their lack of fear at heights. And the astonishment of the European workers when they saw Mohawk women walking gaily along the beams with their husbands lunch.
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1 hour ago, Enigma. said:
at the bottom of the page you should see the above radio bar - to the right of the word theme is your arrow/pointer
Found it now...on the left of page NOT RIGHT!
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35 minutes ago, Enigma. said:
in response to Bedruth's question to change the skin its now called theme and the shortcut can be found at the bottom of this page or any page in question - left click on the arrow pointing down on the right hand side of the word theme and you given 4 options ----- > default , old school v4 , medevil magic and FB look
Damned if I can see a ruddy arrow pointing down
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My tower is too heavy to lug around...
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Most probable Loppy....The first we had learned of the suffering of the Jews...all our history was the crap about Kings and Queens...Stuarts etc all facts and dates that meant bugger all to us kids...but hey! it was just a case of passing text books out and no teaching or learning involved. Same with geography,an easy number for the so called teachers.
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I tell 'em I'd love to chat but I've got to wash the elephant!
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I remember a school trip to the old Playhouse to see The Diary of Anne Frank. And many years before aged around ten went backstage at the Empire to meet a friend of my Mothers...she was dressed in full ballerina outfit and was the rider on the horse that trotted round a circus ring. Stood next to a small cage that contained a fully grown male lion...frightened the crap out of me.
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Having read the FE stuff I daren't dig the back garden now in case I leave a hole!!
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They paid extras crap money....I was the third crow on the right!
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I used to sign in to enter the reference cellar....Old copies of The Times come to mind...
"General Chelmsford in full retreat!"
"Zulus slaughter 1000 British troops and native Levies in Zululand!!"
"And the colours were lost!..."
This was inside the paper...page one was still all adverts
Great stuff...
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An entire thread about Shippo's horses. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1058
Tch! Tch! Cliffy old chap...If one is going to use the expression 'Shippos' one should follow this with 'Osses' not horses....... It's not cricket old man!
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God knows what you lot are on about......
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"This message was sent with high importance".......Eh?
You'd think the scam merchants trying to get your bank details would at least get the grammar right
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As said...the Council should be bloody ashamed that they haven't maintained the garden and the tree...for Gods sake they have horticultural staff don't they?
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How much is a one way ticket to New Zealand?
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Even Casper has had to get used to the old lad being missing...he tends to curl up next to his 'buddies' for his non human company.
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Thanks Jill...I feel lost at the mo...gotta make a fuss of young Casper.
All this happened while I was in the middle of an attack suffering breathing difficulties...so a hell of a day and without a mate down the road I hate to think what would have happened as I live alone. He dug the grave today too in pouring rain....I owe him big time.
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End of an era.....Brothers died aged 16
Pooh (left) old and arthritic having fits...put to sleep Dec 7th last year.
Benji (right) ...arthritic,looking his age... had a violent fit this afternoon...put to sleep.
We've never been apart for a single day since they were pups,they came everywhere with me....A sad day, but that's life aint it?
This is the new kid on the block...Casper. Just us now....he's a year old cross collie and terrier....wears me ragged...little bugger!
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A huge part of Nottinghams history, it's disgusting that the Well site hasn't been excavated years ago.
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At one time with Bournes Netherfield.Birchwood Boats,Whyche & Coppock,Lloyd Channing and others...Nottinghamshire was awash with boat builders.
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Thought provoking when you think that where you sat in your office was the very first place in Nottingham where early settlers made their home.
(And no I don't mean the stationery cupboard
)The ideal place for early settlement with the natural defenses provided by the sandstone cliffs.
Reliant car/van sales dealers.
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That garage (top) was seperate from the other repair works and was called the Swan Garage from the mid fifties.Pearces Ice Cream rented part of the building at the rear and I well remember several 'Stop me and buy one' Ice Cream Tricycles in a nettle bed round the back.To my knowledge it was a repair and petrol garage and not a dealership.
A friend Suzanne Shelton lived next door and I well remember us talking about Tommy Steele one day and my asking her..."What's Rock n Roll?"