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Word Association? Did it also have the word Vauxhall?
I do remember as a kid, mid 60's, being on the bus travelling from Canning Circus down Wollaton Street.
There was a car dealers at the top on the left near the top, and the big signs were for Austin Morris and MG. Who would that dealer be?
This garage was Morkhill & Carnhill. They were agents for BMC. Hooleys was om Derby road and sold Fords.
Cheers, Johnl/
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When I delivered for the butcher on the corner of Hartley Road/Alfreton Road (someone remind me of his name?)
in the mid 60's. Meat delivered to the Machin home (Churchfield Lane?) always resulted in a good Tip.
Usually Half a Crown
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.
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Here we go again John - delete Mr Potter and insert Mr Prosser. Weird sort of guy if I remember correctly.
Used to have those big dark draw curtains across his classroom windows.
French lessons were taken in the brick built class room adjacent to the kitchen.
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.
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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
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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 worked well and the A, B and C streaming was both fair and effective.
Cheers, Johnl.
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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.
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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.
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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 were Aspley pleasant meads, now by home and school transformed they serve our greater needs.
The motto on the badge was in Latin which read, 'gladly we serve'.
Cheers, Johnl.
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Hoover beats as it sweeps as it cleans.
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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.
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Whitebread , bighead trophy bitter. The pint that thinks its a quart.
A double diamond works wonders.
You're never alone with a strand.
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I had a pair of those yellow 'TUF' work boots and sometimes wore them with my suit. I suppose it's up for debate whether they looked cool or stupid. I thought they were the dogs.
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.
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Think you'll find it was 2 jet provosts over the colwick area, I was in playground of Claremont Seniors so post 1957, we heard a boom in distance, looked and saw what looked like a round cloud, did not see any planes/wreckage falling as good few miles away, seem to remember engine from one crashed through glass roof of factory in netherfield killing a woman? may have been Lawrences Furniture Factory? was also at the battle of britain display at syserston when that vulcan crashed, there was a fire on impact which was maybe half mile away from crowd.
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.
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As a stamp shop they certainly spoke a load of "TRIPE" .They valued my 'First day covers set' (Every one from Prince Charles investiture as the "Prince of Wales' in 69 to the modern day (90)) at about £200, even though they were worth on average £5 each (And I had about 100 of them !!)
There were also several "Flown covers" in there including Apollo missions and early space shuttle flights.
Regarding the stamp shop, what was the chinese restaurant called that was next door or next but one to it?
Cheers, Johnl.
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Notts Meteor collision, near Tuxford...but slightly earlier...
http://homepages.force9.net/tuxford/meteor...les/reduced.htm
Cheers
Robt P.
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.
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I'll try and find out about it from my Aviation Forum, bare with me. but would you really see the results of a collision over Newark from Bentinck Road, HMMMMM
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.
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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.
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Sorry - it was the "Honeycombs".
The Applejacks had a lady Bass player.
(What year is the Midget?)
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.
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i was there too..can remember the applejacks and the honeycombs ( with the girl drummer ) and having a coffee with them before the show at the wimpy bar on maid marian way..saw so many acts at the odeon..this was before i was old enough to go to the beachcomber, boat clubs etc !!! always loved my live music and still do!
By the way the Applejacks drummer was Honey Langtree. (Useless piece of trivia!)
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most memorable gig at the dungeon was the steam packet ( long john, rod stewart and julie driscoll) and at the coop Garnet Mims!...best ever gig in nottingham Hendrix at the beachcomber..happy days John
Never saw Jimi, he played the Sherwood rooms as well. He really was something else wasn't he? Still listen to his stuff regularly.
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Thanks for the memories of the Ballroom upstairs at Coop House.
Saw Russ Abbotts and the Black abbotts there Early 70's
Didn't The Beatles appear at the Odeon, around 1963?
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 all England!
Cheers Johnl.
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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 street. I went to see Sonny boy williamson at the dungeon, I know he used the undertakers as his backing group but I cannot remember the year.
It would be nice to share other peoples memories of these gigs.
Cheers, Johnl.
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I agree - great topic!
My uncle used to run such an establishment on Easthorpe St. in Ruddington - sold Shell petrol and BMC cars!
They are few and far between here too. Most of the places simply want to replace parts - as an example, my old truck need the front brakes worked on - basically it needed new pads and rotors. None of the specialist "brake and muffler" places would do the job - they simply wanted to replace the rotor/pads/calipers as a "bolt on" package for about $500. Pads and rotors cost me less than $200 at a local "Mom & Pop" service station!
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 because it was a Tiger and just wanted to look at it he pulled the covers off and my little boy sat in it. We had a good chat about it and cars in general. It was his car! I wonder if that was your uncle?
Cheers, Johnl.
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My first job after leaving school in 1958, was at the Teesdale Garage in Hucknall Road near to Haydn Road.
I think it was owned by Vic Slaney and the foreman was called Frank Cartwright, he lived across the road. I then went to a garage in Nuthall Road called, I think Swann self drive.
After I came out of the army I worked at Oscrofts in Castle Boulevard, one of the white coats there was a guy called Smedley, I think he was an ex Notts cricketer?
I can't even manually check my engine oil now, it has to be done by the computer!
Regards.
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 combustion chambers were too big for the smaller block and without maching the compression ratio would have been too low. Another useful source of tools and sometimes used tunong parts was the scientific exchange on Pevril street. What an aladins cave that was! We used to pay into a tool club at Marshall and Hancocks we got vochers 50p ? you could save them up and exchange them for tools.
Cheers, John.
Record & Music shops
in Nottingham City Centre
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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.