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i must admit caz it was strange seeing the old report after in previous posts we were discussing the teaches and head at that time .. he said in mine i need to slow down... happy days shame we cant bring them back

hi again kaz, just got back from my mums along with an old school report from july 1974 lol it seems i was in a G Dickinsons class she gave me a good report lol but Mr Lomas was not quite as positive seems about right for him. It is so strange to look at school reports now and see what you were doing then and how in a way they were right in this life .. but i dont think i would have changed anything. yep i remeber the beechdale baths and going there i think i only went a couple of times as we moved to sheffield early 1975. mark

caz, do you remeber in the bus station while waiting for the trent buses there was a single decker bus there that was a cafe type where you had drinks of tea etc i think it was what most of the drivers used but i knwo we used to go into it. the launderette next to the post office it seemed to me back then that the washing always took hours to do and i always used to take comics in to read while the washing was going. did ypu ever used to go down to wollaton park and the adventure palyground they had there with the zip wire thing. i remeber that i used to walk down there with my sister in tow

i dont think the doors were ever used as firewood it was not a bad community on there some good people even though i was only about 7or 8. i found some inmages of the old flats on the other page of this forum but here is the link to the pictures http://s411.photobucket.com/albums/pp200/m...?albumview=grid

and i bet you are a lot happier than she will be.. i got bullied as well and talking to my mother she said she went to the headteacher and he did nothing saying that it does not go on in this school. in think he hated having to have kids from the flats, i remember one kid who was in school and had his jaw wired up must have been in as fight or accident cant remember what but that always sticks out in my mind as the contraption he had on him looked so big.

i agree with your words caz it is a forum for memories and not politics.. i hope you found the pictures brought back some memories are they the same ones as you found? or do you have some different ones. do you remeber when they were building the youth/comminty on the road that led into the flats.. i imprinted my hand prints there and last time i went round the flats on a visit to nottingham in 1983 they were still there. i used to love going into the woods climbing the trees, once i got stuck up one and could not get down trying to remeber who got me down lol. do you remeber opposite the scho

it was not that bad really living in the flats but then i was only 7-9. yes you are right about the same sort of flats in sheffield and they were pulled down in 1986 they were built by shepard construction in the late 60s early 70s. it was a shame as the flats inside were massive much bigger than you would get nowadys. when it boils down to it they were social housing. i have got happy memories of the area and i still like nottingham now even though i am born and bred in sheffield

http://s411.photobucket.com/albums/pp200/m...?albumview=grid i am sorry if not doing this right but hope they bring back some memoties to soem people, would love it if people had more. thanks to east midlands picture archive

hi kaz, yes i remember the playground and the railway bridge before it was built as well, i have found some pictures of the net as well, i was talking to my mother about it all the other day and it got my memory buzzing, it was 306 beeley walk i lived at and you got to it over the bridge where the gondalla was. they were good times and never forgave my mum for leaving the place and coming back to sheffield. got a pic of me and my sister at that time as well. i used to help the milkman as well on a few days at weekends deliver the milk lol i must admit i was a bit bad and used to mess about in

hi there came accross this site while on a recent visit to nottingham. i lived on balloon wood flats from 1972-1974 386 beeley walk and went to firbeck primary school for the time i was there. i remember the community place being built at the edge of the flats and have seen that it is still there. there was a tunnel under the road from the school to the flats and a portacabin shop that used to me called maid marion i think. i had a couple of friends that lived opposite the school and i got a rabbit from one of them. God there are so many memories coming back here. mark