MartynE
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Just a thought and may be way off base, but the "cafe" you referred to. Is there a possibility it could be the Moulin-Rouge? It was located on the East side of the square during the 60s.
I'm getting totally confused now and used to use the Square regularly in the 50's and early 60s.
Wasn't the Moulin Rouge a cinema around the corner?
Wasn't there a pub the Golden Keys that used to have cheddar, onion and crusty cobs on the counter?
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Those photos certainly take me back.
I think I used to catch the number 17 back to Valley Road from there in the mid 50's, and I have the figure of 2d in my mind as the fare!
The Toreador also rings a bell.
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Yes your right Mick. I work for a company down on that road. It is Old Basford.
We had this discussion in another Old Basford thread, I went dances in a building at the top of Lincoln Street, was it a scouts meeting place?
I seem to recall a Bleachers Arms somewhere in OB, could it have been in the Vernon Road area?
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And another thing.
We used to go spud picking in the summer holidays. Up Bawtry way I think. Also some lads went to Pipewood ?? for a holiday if I remember rightly. Where and what it was I don't know.
I seem to remember going to Cannock Chase with the school for some reason, was that Pipewood?
I also went spud picking, can only remember how much it made my back ache.
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Just paid my annual visit to Friends Re-united.
In the Ellis School I have found a Ken Meakin. Just messaged him to check he is the one we were talking about.
Also some football teams photos from 1948/9 with Alf Kinder in.
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More memory stirrers thanks.
Mention of a 'perve' reminds me of a notorious bin man at the time around the Nuthall Road area.
Anyone recall 'Johnny' who would offer pupils a bob or two to do whatever?
And no, I didn't!
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I've just remembered, the lad who stammered was Mick 'Charlie' Bowers who lived next door or very near to Ken Meakin, I think he joined the Navy.
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I lived at 258 Valley Road, between Ventnor Rise and the High School playing fields.
I had a friend who I think lived in Petworth or just off, Pete 'Knopper' Dickens.
Another good pal was Keith Dawes who I joined the Army Apprentices with. He lived up Nottingham Road somewhere.
Did you go to Scotland Place school?
Good old days??
Regards, Martyn.
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Oh yes, I remember Black Dan.
Also Kenny Meakin, if he was the brother to June who lived near me along Valley Road, and Mick Godfrey rings a bell. Did he have a stutter? and live in the Heathfield area?
Is the name in the bottom left, Fred Barkes? that rings a bell.
Now seem to recall names, Pete Sissons, Aubrey Bryan, Mike Barnett, but is it my now mind playing tricks?
I was born in 1943, so would we have come across each other?
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Albert Appleton was always known as 'Black Dan' even when my older brothers were there. I understood that he had a Black Belt in Judo. I remember him always being covered in chalk dust and he was a good shot with the blackboard rubber.
Oh yes, I remember Black Dan.
Also Kenny Meakin, if he was the brother to June who lived near me along Valley Road, and Mick Godfrey rings a bell. Did he have a stutter? and live in the Heathfield area?
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I can only remember Alf Kinder, the others don't ring a bell.
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Correct re Laurel & Hardy, not sure which pub, and if still standing, but few years ago had loads of photos in it of the 2 of them there,
Was told it was to the left, on a bend towards Grantham. Red Lion? Black Bull?
We lived in Sedgebrook, but left in 77. Haven't been back since so maybe has gone?
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Saw Wee Willie Harris there, must have been around 1956? if "there" was in fact opposite the old evening post building? and had a glass covering all down the street where you queued?
Had a chat with Wee Willie in Woolworths at the record bar, certainly mid 50's.
Am I dreaming? I'm sure Laurel & Hardy came and they stayed at a relation's who kept a pub in Bottesford?
Also saw, Des O'Connor, Terry Dene, the Most Brothers, Ruby Murray and a host of others.
Weren't the gods at the Gaumont(sp?) even higher?
Great memories
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Does anyone remember the names of the four "houses". The wife asked me what they were and I couldn't remember all four. I was a member of Watts and I seem to remember Tennyson. Can anyone help please?
I was there 1955 to 1960.
Geoff G.
Hi Geoff,
I was there 56 to 58, but can't even remember my own name these days! So no help, sorry.
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I don't know whether it's been mentioned before, but I worked at Swan Self Drive for a short while in the early 60's.
It was on Nuthall Road, left side heading out.
After leaving the army I worked for a while at Oscrofts Castle Boulevard, Mike Smedley ex Notts cricketer was a receptionist.
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I know it's a couple of years old, but I hadn't seen this thread before. I presume this refers to John Thomas Snr, because he had a son also called John, who I know. John Jnr didn't work in the garage, but is still in the area and for many years has been a drummer in various local rock bands.
In my early days of car ownership, my independent garage was a guy called Jim Davies who operated out of a hole-in-the-wall on Hermon Street, top of Derby road near Canning Circus. I often used to turn up there in an evening on my way home from work to ask if he could "just have a look at......" He must've dreaded me coming, just when he thought he'd finished for the day.
But he was the last of an old school who could dismantle bits of an engine, repair them, and put it all back together again. He never had any diagnostic equipment; never had anything electronic which was plugged in to something else. He retired by the mid 1990s, and I've bumped into him a few times over the years. Having me turn up in those evenings doesn't seem to have affected him too badly - he looks pretty well for his age
It was my first job after leaving school in 1958.
I was 15 and John must have been in his mid twenties then.
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I really can't remember what I did apart from being a big, surly and stroppy youth!
I do however recall burning my books and satchel in the playground when it was very foggy, that may have been after I had been given my marching orders.
I am just thankful my life was guided onto the right tracks in my early 20's, but that's another story.
Regards.
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Thanks for that Rob.
I attended High Pavement from 1954 until 1957. My first year was at Stanley Road before the move to Bestwood.
I was 'asked' to leave and my final year's schooling was at the Ellis.
I recall at one school concert in ??? Hall in the town being reprimanded after stuffing paper in the organ tubes, oh the memories!!
Regards.
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Was there ever a chemist near the old railway bridge on Valley Road?
I remember Lawrence's post office and wool shop next door, Marsdens I think, but wonder if there was also a chemist there? probably not.
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Am pretty certain Pear's Chemists was at bottom of Eland Street, virtually opposite gas works gates, if not there was one v near the futurist, and I think another on North Gate?
I think we had a Pear's Chemist on Valley Road somewhere. Could have been at the junction of Valley and Hucknall Road.
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hello everybody, it brings back memories when talking about Big Bev,from Bulwell, i was one of his Members,
(putting it mildly) we got challenged to a gang fight from Sandiacre,s local mob, and we took up the offer,
we borrowed a Bartons Bus and headed over there, when we arrived there was no one to great us, i guess they
had got the message ,that we were on our way, what a sad day outing, thats youth for you!!
Hi Dennis,
We may have 'met up' then in the late 50's?
I was part of Kenny Brant's Basford crew and we had a few encounters with Big Bev and co.
He was a big lad though wasn't he?
Regards.
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Went to the Ellis from 1956 to 58 after being 'shown the door' from the High Pavement.
Good days? buggered if I can remember!
Regards.
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Hi Paddy,
That really is a name from the past, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was!
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Hi Keith,
Are you in the motor trade by any chance?
Martyn
Ellis School, Bar Lane
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Hi Keith,
I've a feeling I've asked you this before on Friends Reunited? apologies if repeating myself. Senility!
I was at the Ellis until 58 and joined the Army Apprentices in August 59.
I joined because my best mate had already done so. He was Keith Daws (Dawes) and lived off Nottingham Road.
We both went to Scotland Place (Heathfield Primary) pre Ellis. Although I went to the High Pavement 54 to 57!
Do you remember him and have any idea of his whereabouts?
Regards.