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Watmoughs sweet factory was on Paddock street between Woolworths on Lister gate and Maid Marion way i was a driver for them in in 1966 , they also had a shop on Parliament st and one at the side of the Theatre Royal i remember that one because an arsehole of a traffic warden gave me a ticket when i was unloading there one day, it was my first driving job an everything went well till i blew the engine up on a Thames Trader van when returning back from Northamptonshire the cylinder head gasket had gone and i filled up an whole lot of empty lollipop jars with water to get home with and old man Watmough sacked me for it, they moved to Abbey Bridge when the Broadmarsh centre was planned and the factory was demolished ps i also broke down in leeds on one trip and had my girlfriend with me at the time so we had to spend the night together and thats when my son was made lol, while we was in leeds we visited the picture house there to see THE FAMILY WAY with Haley Mills and Hywell Bennet and the Rolling Stones were singing lets spend the night together on the juke box in a pub there, great days the 1960s
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Chris you bring the memories flooding back in the late 1950s my old man took me into Freemans and brought me 2 premium bonds when they first came out i have them to this day and won boggar all on them and i remember Marsdens shop at top of Broxtowe lane specially the bacon slicer and the wire with a wooden handle that they cut the cheese with Purdys paper shop with all the dinky and matchbox model cars on display in the window what would they be worth now Charlies barber shop where you could get a basin cut for 1 /6 Len Orchards beeroff where i went for my grans ale straight out the pump into her white jug Prestons hardware shop where we could buy a gallon of parafin and bundles of sticks and Whitings drapery where i had my first pair of jeans from then further along Broxtowe lane to Hadlums chip shop near the Cocked Hat ,every saturday i would make the journey from Bidford rd to the chippy and run back as fast as i could before they went cold x
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mick do you want me to try and put it on u tube and you take it from thereContact me by PM and we will see what we can do.
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Soz Paul its the one of you dressed up in drag in the midland cafe on canal st lovely memories lol can u remember Aggie who did our dripping on toastif that's the one with you and me and those two top heavy nurses in the woods....maybe not.
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thats spot on one pic was original and the other is myself cloned on to another pic of my girlfriend ( who is now my wife and mine fuhrer) ,done with ulead photo express a software programme on my pc and dunna listen to pooh bear he was just jealous of my damm good looks back in the 60s it was him who was the ugly ducking lol .i do have a couple of more vids from the 50s and 60s with nottingham people and locations but i cant upload them on to this site can you help
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Hi mick the last time i looked on utube it had been taken off and you are right its back on now maybe im imagining things or my whiskey needs watering down m8 .
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Yea this video has been blanked by utube due to copywrite the world has gone mad they dont want us to have any anything not even our memories every day they are chipping a bit more from us they dont want us to smoke drink or drive our cars they just want to work us to death they even want to take our bank holidays off us now the feel good factor has gone every body looks miserable there is nothing to look forward to anymore why do we put up with this. George Orwell was spot on big brother is here thank God im on my way out and not just starting
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THIS VIDEO CAN STILL BE SEEN ON YOU TUBE JUST TYPE IN (THE 1960S IN BROXTOWE)Some of our Biker members may recognise folks here?
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On 3/8/2005 at 0:09 PM, ilkolad said:
same here Caz, I can only vaguely remember it, and I only lived a mere 500 or so yards away.
but check out the road plaques, they say .. London road / Kirk wight street east.
and that being the case, Arkwright school was a mere 10 yards opposite!
the question is: if it wasn't the Sir John that stood on that corner, can you remember what did?
THE PUB WAS THE SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND NEXT DOOR TO IT WAS IVY MITCHELLS SWEET SHOP OPPOSITE THE SCHOOL, SHE WAS MY AUNT AND WAS OPEN ALL HOURS AND MADE HER MONEY WHEN NOTTS COUNTY WAS PLAYING AT HOME. ALL THE FANS WOULD COME IN FOR THEIR FAGS AND A QUARTER OF BULLSEYES OR A PKT OF BARNIPS. POO BEAR KNOWS ALL ABOUT THE LATTER - HAPPY DAYS WISH THEY WOULD COME BACK
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wish somebody would lend me a rocket goldstar for the day then again i probably would not be able to put it on the stand these days let alone ride it. but i will try and have a ride up to skeggy for the crack
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Hi Piggy yes you are welcome to use my pics i will send them all i need is your email address all the best col
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Hi Mick i just thought you would like a bit more info on the bikers video it was made by myself with a few old pics from my teenage years in the sixties. Most of the people in it lived in and around broxtowe and we used to meet at a youth club housed in the main hall of player secondary school and we used to hang out on broxtowe lane outside hadlums chippy and the cocked hat pub most of them will now be in their middle sixties and retired but it is nice to look back. all the best colin (tazraz7)
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Not a lot...My Dad's office was opposite in Barnetts sweets...he used to watch the kids playing out of his window,he'd send 'em a bag of sweets over every now and again in the thirties and forties.He told me about them years ago...but who ran it I've no idea.
Paul.
HI PAUL ARE YOU THE SAME PAUL WHO WORKED FOR CRAWFORDS BISCUITS IN THE EARLY 1960S AND USED TO RISK YOUR LIFE RIDING WITH RALPH WHEN HIS EYES STARTED ROLLING . I SOMETIMES WENT OUT WITH YOU I CAN REMEMBER US TAKING YOUR GUN AND WE WOULD GO SHOOTING WHEN WE HAD DONE OUR DELIVERIES GOOD DAYS ALL THE BEST COLIN POLAK
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I have been sent a scan of a 1920s street map of Nottingham. If anyone wants one I'll be happy to e-mail a copy to you.
NB: the map has been divided up into nine files and each is in the region of 800kb. I don't want to muck-up your in box.
HI BAMBER I CERTAINLY COULD DO WITH A COPY MY MISSUS IS DOING FAMILY HISTORY AND IT WOULD HELP HER A LOT AND KEEP HER OFF MY BACK FOR A BIT REGARDS TAZRAZ 7
Watmough sweet shops
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In 1961 when I was 15 I was a drivers m8 at Crawfords Biscuits in the railway yard just over the canal bridge on Wilford rd, when they joined United Biscuits in 1963 all us m8s were made redundant but Poo Bear also worked there he not thank me for telling you, so any way a few years later I took a job with Watmoughs on Paddock st I drove an old Thame Trader delivering lollipops and confectionery all over the country while I was there they had shops near the Theatre Royal one on Parliament st and one at Clifton the manager was a perfectionist and a wally I forget his name but he really got on my nerves they eventually sacked me for blowing the engine up while delivering in Northhamptonshire,, a few years later I was driving for Cadburys from their Ilkeston base and had to deliver to Watmoughs when they had moved to Lenton the look on that managers face when he seen me was a picture when i said i aint taking no shit of you matey, in my early driving career I also drove for Rowntrees Mars and Nestles and that could explain while I am now a fat old bxxxxrd with no teeth lol PS the shop near the Theatre was a real problem as I had to carry the goods upstairs to the store room and a shite of a traffic warden did me because I was long time delivering I gave the ticket to old man Watmough I dunno if he paid it, happy days wish I could go back