johnl

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  1. Woolworths own label was 'Embassy'. I still have a couple of their EP's. One is called 'Swinging guitars' and the the other one is 'Roaring twenties'. Don't ask me why I bought that! They also sold very nice loose biscuits from tins with transparent lids. Cheers, Johnl.
  2. This garage was Morkhill & Carnhill. They were agents for BMC. Hooleys was om Derby road and sold Fords. Cheers, Johnl/
  3. The first shop on the corner of Alfreton / Hartley road was, I think, Flints newsagents. Next door was Lees the butchers. We moved out of Radford in 1958 so the shops could have changed. Cheers, Johnl.
  4. Good morning Frank, Mr Prosser was a small chap with a moustache, I don't know if he is still around but I bumped into him a few years ago in Ruddington where he lived. If I remember correctly he wasn't very good at keeping order in the classroom! Cheers, John.
  5. The brick-built classroom behind the tech. drawing room was occupied by a Mr Pointon who taught religious instruction. I had completely forgotten about Mr. hardcastle. There were also two history teachers that I recall, Mr Jackson (nickname bellyache) and a Mr Prosser . They didn't have disco's when I was there! Cheers, john
  6. Hi Frank the music teacher when I was there was Mr Banham. I well remember Dryden but Mr Mayfield took us for maths. I used to enjoy english with Mr Johnson and he encouraged us to read and that has stayed with me to this day. Mr marris was the PE teacher, Mr Childs metalwork, Mr Mitcham woodwork and Mr Benson art. There was also a very flamboyant english teacher called Mr gammons, he usually wore a bow tie. They had two prefabricated classrooms in the playground. Mr Mason (geography) had one and Mr Dunbar (technical drawing) had the other one. It was a well run school, the house system wo
  7. Hello, sorry but the name doesn't ring any bells. Perhaps they were a bit after my time. I started there in 1954. Thanks for getting in touch. Cheers, Johnl.
  8. Good morning all, I was at Bentinck road infants' school mid fifties. The head mistress was a mrs. Freemantle. The only other teacher I can remember was miss Ranshaw. A few people I can remember from that time are, Michael reville, Janet Huchaby, Sandra Hislop, John Dunne, Susan Brown. I am still in touch with John Dunne who is no longer in Nottingham, his father used to have the barbers shop on Hartley road opposite the Burnaby pub. It would be nice if someone could fill in the gaps. Cheers, Johnl.
  9. Good morning, there were no houses in the juniors at Crane. I was in Nuthall house when I went into the seniors. Our colour was green, so our tie had green stripes on it. I think the other house colours were: Aspley...yellow, Broxtowe...Red and Strelley..Blue. ( I may have got these wrong) Each house had a house captain and there was a cup awarded monthly for the house with the most house credits for good work. The houses competed against each other at sports as well. What a very good system. Can anyone remember the school song? I think the first verse went.... Loved of the fathers long ago
  10. Hoover beats as it sweeps as it cleans.
  11. What about the 'flags of the nations?' The gum was terrible! Each card showed the flag of a country with a couple of famous landmarks of the area. On the other side of the card were a few phrases in the language of the country. I never managed to get the full set. Cheers, Johnl.
  12. Whitebread , bighead trophy bitter. The pint that thinks its a quart. A double diamond works wonders. You're never alone with a strand.
  13. Do you remember those 'tie and hank' sets that woolworths used to sell? The consisted of a slim tie and a piece of cardboard with three or four small triangles, made fro the same material as the tie, attached to the top. You slid the cardboard into the top pocket of your jacket with the triangles showing so it looked like you had a carefully folded handkerchief in your top pocket. Speaking of Woolworths, do you recall their own record label 'Embassy'. Covers of popular songs. Cheers, Johnl.
  14. Ashley, your description of a round cloud is about right. I don't remember hearing a bang though. I was just begining to think that I had imagined the whole thing! This must have been the collision that I saw. Many thanks, Johnl.
  15. Regarding the stamp shop, what was the chinese restaurant called that was next door or next but one to it? Cheers, Johnl.
  16. Rob, thanks for checking, as i said I was only 5 or 6 at the time. It could have been a single aircraft exploding. I can remember it very clearly. It was a bright day and it must have been around 8.30 to 9.30 am because my mother was with me taking me into the playground. Was there a base at Syerston because I seem to have that in my mind as well. I only thought that a meteor was involved ( I must have heard that somewhere) so I suppose it could have been any sort of jet. Thanks again for taking the trouble. Cheers, Johnl.
  17. It was very high as I remember it and appeared to be a long way off. As I was very young at the time I must have overheard my parents taliking about it.......perhaps I missunderstood what I heard, but I was not alaone in seeing it. Cheers, Johnl.
  18. Good morning all When I was about five or six I was in the playground at Bentinck road infants' school, myself and several others saw what looked like a huge explosion in the sky and a large fireball. I was told later that two Gloster meteors had collided around Newark somewhere. I have tried to find out on the net but there doesn't seem to be any mention of the incident anywhere. This would have been 1955 or 56 I think. If anyone knows what happened I would be very pleased to hear about it. Cheers, Johnl.
  19. Hi Limey, yes you're right! Just shows you how the old memory plays tricks! The midget is 1977. It has the Triumph engine which I don't like as much as the A series. I guess that you're A MG enthusiast from the pics. I had a '66 BGT some years ago, I think that was one of the first ones, wire wheels and huge steering wheel. A very nice car to drive. It went when the kids came along. Rplaced it with a Cortina GT. OK but not what I call a sports car. Cheers, john.
  20. By the way the Applejacks drummer was Honey Langtree. (Useless piece of trivia!)
  21. Never saw Jimi, he played the Sherwood rooms as well. He really was something else wasn't he? Still listen to his stuff regularly.
  22. Yes they did appear there, not sure if it was 1963 but I remember it was bitterly cold! We couldn't get tickets so like idiots we hung around outside. There were hundreds of people at the back of the Odeon. I can remember striking matches to feep my hands warm! Whilst I'm on....went to see The Graham Bond organisation at the boat club. They were incredible and had Ginger Baker on drums at the time. Poor old Graham commited suicide some years later. He threw himself under a tube train. Towards the end I think he suffered from delusions, at one point he declared himself to be the grand wizard of
  23. Good afternoon all. Anyone remember the package tours that used to come to the Odeon cinema? In the early to mid sixties I saw many popular groups there including, Roy Orbison, The searches, Brian poole and the tremeloes, Swinging blue jeans etc. The one that I really sticks in my mind was Ray Charles, he was superb. When you went to see the 'beat groups' you could never hear very much because of the continual screaming! I also went to see Tom Paxton at the Albert hall. Another memorable gig was John Lee Hooker at the co-op elizabethan rooms on the top floor of the big store on parliament st
  24. The Easthorpe street garage became Halls Skoda dealership until quiet recently. I'm not sure is they lost the dealership or just closed down, its not far from me so ill have a look next time i'm round that way. Also around 25 years ago I was taking my son to the opticians opposite the garage, looking through thw window I saw what I thought was a Sunbeam Alpine under a dust sheet. When I got closer I noticed the twin exhausts. It was a V8 Tiger. We went in and an old guy with a flat cap appeared. The first thing he said was, 'it's not for sale'. When I told him that I was interested in it beca
  25. I've just remembered Walter Bates. He had a small engineering business in a long shed behind a normal house on Westdale lane. I had one or two blocks rebored there. I always took him the bare block with crank. pistons etc removed. He would do the machining and supply oversize pistons and undersize shell bearings. I would then assemble it in my garage at home. I don't know if he is still 'going' now. The last job he did for me was to modify the cylinder head from an MG 1100 so I could fit it to a 998 cooper. It involved the removal of a lot of metal from the head 0.25 Thou? This was because the