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Hi everyone who was interested in seeing the photo of Gedling school 1962/3 this is form 4g1,sorry its taken so long but we are doing this for the first time.Hope it works, I am 4th from the left first row and Bazza who kindly sent me this photo is 1st left back row.Hope you see someone you know Piggy and Babs.

Hi,The lady at the library printed the image on to paper for us but it is very poor and she recommends we get it onto a memory stick and see if we can make it clearer.I don't know much about computers and their workings so we will go back to the library on a visit to Nottingham and do that and see if i can find some one to have a go for us.If anyone living in Notts likes to tinker with these kind of things and calls in the library frequently the image is easy to find on the 25th Sept 1945 Evening Post, it is the taking over of Sabang from the Japanese my father is AB Lang on the photo, meanwhi

Hi and thank you to everyone for the tips on where to start looking for info about the item in the Evening Post showing a photo of my father away on HMS LONDON during the war, it was a long shot but we came to Nottingham this morning and asked at an Evening Post stall on market square we were told to go to central library as they don't hold the records anymore,we spent around two hours sifting through and discovered the picture was printed September 25th 1945 so i am thrilled to have solved the mystery and have a nice photo of my father on board his ship,thanks every one.

Hello Sneintongal,Nice to read about your memories of the Pleasure park,for a lot of years it was just a memory i had stored away and now other people are remembering the place it brings it all back.we spent a lot of our days there i think it was the closest we got to the seaside in the 1950s.It was a long walk down trent lane for little legs but worth it when we got there.It didnt take much to please us in those days,i cant remember every thing but i recall the swing boats and the chairs that swung out.Great Stuff.We went to the place last time we came to Notts and the lady in the shop says s

Thank you all for the info,i will contact the Nottm Post and Central Library and see what turns up,it may take a while because of arranging visits but i will let you know the outcome.I feel quite optimistic now i have got somewhere to start looking.Thanks again.

Thank you for information about the Evening Post,I will try to get in touch to see if i have to make an appointment before i come to Nottingham.I expect there will be an information page on the internet.thankyou again.

Hello all,I have some letters from my grandma to my dad away at sea on the HMS London during the war,in one of the letters she jokes about picking the Evening Post up and who should be on the front page but my dad,we have worked out from clues it will be from Autumn 1944 to spring 1945,is it to much of a long shot to hope i may find out what it was about and any ideas how to start looking into it. many thanks for any help.

Hi,Thanks every one for all the help finding Savages yard and also the news that i may have distant family living in Netherfield and also Jessops Lane Gedling,I have two sisters who still live on the Phoenix Estate,I will pass that on to them,they may even know each other without realising the connection,I know my ancestors Frederick and Sarah Comery lived at 49 Arthur St Netherfield in 1901 and Marhill Road Carlton in 1911 so there may be a connection with the two. friends you have mentioned.I think there were a lot off Comery's around Carlton and Snienton in the 1800s.

Thankyou for your help,it looks like my ancestor was a builder,my family and i always joked the avenue was named after us and it has turned out to be true,not as famous as we thought tho,i will have to look through my research for Savages Yard because i am new to making a family tree and i can't find where i got the info from.thanks again for your help.

Hiya,Can anyone help me please with my family research and tell me where Savages Yard Carlton is or was, as i have researched my ancestors, and they lived there at sometime in the late 1800s,and also if my family name Comery has any connection with the Comery road i have seen at the top of Carlton Hill, it seems a coincidence as my ancestors all Comery's were from Carlton.Hope someone can help.

When i came back to Nottingham a few weeks ago i went to the trent marina to see if it was where the pleasure park used to be in the 1950s,we used to walk down the street that the Manvers pub was on the corner of, but now the loop road is there you cannot get that way. The kind lady in the office confirmed that it was the place, she added that sand was transported from Skegness to form a mock beach.She has photos but had not got them with her but she was very kind and i will go and visit again next time i return to Notts.

Its nice to hear from someone who remembers the Pleasure park at the bottom of trent lane,we spent lots of time there in the 1950s,I have no photos at all, if you have any it would be nice to see them,you were right about the slippery paddling pool floor.there was not much there but we played in the water all day only stopping for our bread and jam sandwiches.We had a long walk down Trent lane and sometimes we walked one way from Gedling if the money didn't stretch to a bus both ways.There was a scrap merchant down Trent Lane called Lang i think he was some distant relation to me?One day someo

Some times when we asked what was for tea our mam would say three jumps at the cuboard door! any one else heard that one, it usually meant we had to wait a while. quote name='BAZZER' date='Feb 6 2009, 04:44 PM' post='63504'] being called a "little get",,,, what is a get,,,, what does one get with a get ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We must have been quite well off,,,, cos when we asked what was for dinner, the reply would be "bread and pullet" ! (Never did find out what happened to the pullet !)

Hiya Beefsteak, have you got any school photos of chandos st pupils around 1930-35, its a long shot but i wondered if i could find any photo's with my father on them,i know he was a pupil there at around that time.

Hello Beefsteak,sorry i have not been on Nottstalga for a while,We used to go to a youth club at Cavendish school and Standhill road school around 1962\3 and most of the time at the youth club that was opposite the Ritz picture house,or the one down Netherfield,but i can't remember the street it was on.None of us had any dosh so we just hung around the streets or cafes,one particuler cafe just up the road from the Regal cinema,that was a good meeting place,we used to make a cocacola last two hours.My best friends parents kept a pub on high st Arnold in about 1962 it was The Labour club so we g

Hiya Beefsteak,I am on the front row, fourth from the left.

Hi everyone,ooooh yes i am there, front row 4th from the left,come on bazz be fair which one are you .i think we all look quite well behaved ooooooh dear our poor old teachers had there jobs cut out,i spent many times waiting outside ( Mauds) office, nothing to serious just bieng a teenager, i was an uncontrollable giggler,it got me into loads of trouble.i blame the others for making me laugh (honestly).

[Hi Bazza,just got your email,yes i am there on the first row, i hope someone out there remembers us,it seems so long ago,come on then which one are you?give us a clue ,my memory is not that fab anymore.

hi all ,the gay cafe at carlton was not in the way you would use the expression today, it was more of a youth club,i would imagine it refered to happy.anyway it was great for dancing and meeting people,a proper teenage hang out.

Does anyone have any memories to share from early 1960s,of the Gay Cafe on Burton road opposite the Ritz cinema i am not sure if it was classed as Carlton or Gedling,it was the in place to be ,at a time when the twist was the dance craze.We used to have a group of mainly fellas come from Notts who were fantastic dancers, one was nicknamed Johnny Twist

i think the tattooist shop was on the corner of Vicarage st and alfred st opposite the mechanics arms,i lived at no 54 vicarage st as a tot and moved to Gedling when dad got a job down the pit.as a teenager i worked at Raywarps on Alfred st making hair bands,shower caps and hairnets.my brother in law had an eagle tattood on his arm at that tattoo shop in 1965.

. the pleasure park down trent lane was not a big fair and i can't describe it other than to say there were swing boats,a ride with little chairs on that used to swing out ,a rail in the trent so children could paddle also an old concrete paddling pool,so rough it used to scratch you'r feet,it was always full of people on sunny days.we used to walk there with my mam and any more of the local kids who tagged along.i have no photo's because i don't think we were rich enough to own a camera in them days,i don't think many people were.I expect today it would not come up to the health and safety r

You have taken me back to the 1950s,we used to play on the cricket field between Gedling and Netherfield and when we heard a train coming ,we would run up the steps onto the top of the bridge and let all the steam and smoke come up and see who could bare it the longest,no doubt we all went home abit grubby at the end of the day great fun.In the sixties i used to work at the soap factory down colwick,and at the end of the day we would catch the bus to Gedling ,the bus would be overpowered with the perfume of the soap,not very popular with the other passengers,was it called Robert Winsors, i hav

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