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I asked me Dad about this years ago. His explanation was that it is a corruption of "My Duke".
Suspect Trevor S might be closer though.
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Can't 'elp thinking the bloke who wrote the familypedia article obviously weren't a cricket fan..... Trent Bridge don't even get a bloody mention.
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Used to cycle to Woodborough quite regular in the mid-70's, to the model railway place...... was it "Millom Models", and IIRC was in the old school?
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in those days disabled people could get into the Meadow lane and City grounds free and sit behind one of the goals
Rog
Aye Rog, I remember seeing those Invacars at some grounds in the days when football was on the FREE telly, parked up by the touchline!
Wonder what Elf and Safety would make of that now?
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Thomas Long, builders, skip hire etc etc.
The very same. Owned by a bloke called Roger Radford, who lived in Burton Joyce; he used to drink at the Red Lion in Thurgarton, his wife and my mum were friends. Roger was also big pals with Dave Watts, of the eponymous plant firm on Wells Road.
I don't know if they're still going..... and (to take the thread back to the OP) that's the Long and the Short of it!
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I bought a Honda CM125 from there in 1986. Nearly bloody killed me twice that one !
Too much power? :tongue:
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Am i correct in recalling that there was a permanent "blacklist" in the Horse of songs which, if played, resulted in the witholding of the band's fee? ISTR "Johnny B. Goode" was at the top of said list!
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Anyone remember the company that went by the name of "Spook Erections"? Used to do market stalls, sure I saw one of their vans round Nottingham regularly.... and it looks like they're still in business!
http://www.spookerection.com/index.php
Check out the logo!
I've also remembered the long-established company on Vernon Road in Basford called "Flashing Services", which is owned by a Mr. Balls.... honest!
He was a regular customer when I worked for GT Cars, very nice bloke who used to throw my rather straight-laced manager into total confusion by announcing himself as "Balls, Flashing Services".
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Hmmm.. Right here goes, As I came from Gedling and owned bikes from the mid 70s onwards, There were a number of shops I remember... Dawsons in Netherfield, Rex Robbo on Carlton Hill ( for my Puch Grand Prix ), a few doors up from that for a time was 'Crosslands' who later moved down to the shops facing Carlton precinct, Lowater St motors of course, many hours spent searching the yard for that ilusive spare part. the owner Dennis Rogers used to have a three wheel Morgan car, going down into town was TMS and Clarkes the Honda dealer.
Roy Wharton had a shop on Radford Road ( I knew his son John ) and he specialised in Scooters, not really motorbikes. further up Radford Road was Joselyns ( Suzuki Dealer ) with went on to be Granby Motors.
There was a little seconhand bike shop on the small street near the main Post office on Huntingdon St... I remember them having a 'Malaguti Monte' 50cc moped in there... I could'nt afford it at the time.
The big Yamaha/Honda place at Daybrook Square was always a good place to browse, as was Colin Gregory's ( Suzuki )at Thackerays Lane, and later upstairs at the big garage at daybrook ( now Kwik Fit).
Ahhhh... those were the days....
I rembember Bunneys on Wilford Lane and E Kingston just around the corner
Our paths may have crossed then; you'll no doubt remember the biker nights at Gedling Miners Welfare? And later, of course, the Grey Goose.
Crosslands eventually took over Dawsons' shop, as well as having the shop on the precinct. I've no doubt many will remember my old mate "Bollocky" Bill Smith who worked there. Nice guy, if a little mixed up.
I knew Dennis Rodgers a bit as well. He kept that Morgan going till shortly before his death, I think his son still has it.
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They did look very smart back then! They still do i guess. tried to find some pics of chandos and forester but no luck, gahh... i can find most other streets in netherfield though! I do love netherfield, i love how much history is in this little area.
Me mam was born on Chandos Street Pixie, number 24 I think. Her maiden name was Sills, but she moved to live with her grandmother at Burton Joyce when she was quite young.
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One of these Mick?...A neighbour had one of these in the fifties.I can see him now..around 80,grey haired,covered with a tartan blanket.Must've put muscles on the old biceps.
Used to see a lot of these being propelled up and down the prom at Mablethorpe by residents of the convalescent home. One of the old boys was quite badly disfigured, I'd guess a war veteran, and I remember a a small child being quite scared of him.
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They were more in to cycles & only Raleigh Mopeds, not many M/Bikes.
They did sell larger bikes but ISTR only second-hand, at least in the late 70's/early 80's when I was regularly round that area. Pal of mine in Oxford owns a Puch VZ50 which originated from Clarke's, still has the dealer sticker on it. In later years, they either closed or sub-let the showroom facing onto Carlton Road and traded from another place round the back; I can't remember if it was in fact part of the original building or a different premises.
late 70s or early 80s, there was Twistgrip motorcycles bottom end of Alfreton Road near the old players factory.
Did they not move to (or from) Hyson Green? Whilst we're on the subject of bike shops in that particular area, Nottingham Custom Cycles was somewhere round there weren't they? Not strictly speaking a motorbike shop but very well respected on the custom and chopper scene.
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Carmarthen mate; been here nine years. Lived in Narberth, Pembs for a few months in the early 1990's whilst working for Nightfreight; that gave me the taste for the area and I came down here for good after I sold me Dad's place in 2003.
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Needham's it was. Others that come to mind are Rex Robinson, t'other side of Carlton Hill, who sold Puch mopeds as well as bicycles; there was another motorbike shop on the city side, on the left before you got to TMS. Was it Clarkes'?
And this thread would not be complete without mention Dennis Rogers and his bike breakers yard at the top of Carlton Hill; Lowater Street Motors IIRC, where you could get anything for just about anything.
Fox's on Woodborough Road, or perhaps it was Mapperley Top, were Kawasaki dealers; Extons in Bulwell I think still exist but I stand to be corrected there, it's many years since I passed that way.
Mention of Gaggs' reminds me of an occasion when I was in there buying some silencers for my old Honda 250. The old man was alive then, and a rather posh customer came to the counter to collect some bits for a 1920's Levis which he'd rung up about. On being told the price, he quibbled about it; whereupon "Old Man" Gagg took the parts back behind the counter and effectively told him where to go! He was a great old boy and a fount of knowledge but you did not argue with him.
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I remeber Kingstons' having an old Rudge on display in the window, can't for the life of me remember which particular model but I'm sure it had a "Brooklands can" fishtail exhaust so I'd guess at 1930's.
The cafe mentioned earlier was, I'm sure, "Taff's Caff"; I spent many an hour in there and could tell a tale or two.....
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Old character in Thurgarton, Albert Holmes the greengrocer, always addressed men as "Serry"...... I've always assumed it to be a corrution of "Sirrah" which of course is an archaic way of saying "sir". It sometimes came out closer to "Surry" or even "Sorry". My dad used it occasionally with locals but not with "outsiders" as it was of course prone to cause confusion. It was not unusual either to be greeted with "Ow yer doin' Mester". All died out now of course.
Round Ashfield/Mansfield area and the Derbyshire borders, "yowth" was quite common, used to hear a lot of that up at Butterley.
As an aside; one of my regular deliveries, a pet shop in Pontardullais, is run by a Mansfield lad. Naturally when the two of us get nattering it doesn't take more than a second for us to slip into dialect. This once prompted his (very Welsh) wife to remark, jokingly, "I bloody hate it when you two get together, can't understand a word you're on about!" Cue reply from me, "Now you know how WE feel"!
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I clearly remember the "Tamworth Mail"; it passed Thurgarton at 20.40 and on summer evenings when I was young it was the cue for me to come inside and get ready for bed. I could see the line between Thurgarton and Bleasby from my bedroom window, though it was too far away to discern much more than the number of carriages (normally four with a GUV sometimes) and to be able to tell if it was a "bonnetted" loco (usually a 37 but the odd 45 did appear) or a "flat-front" i.e. 25 or 31.
Apart from the passenger traffic, there was coal to Staythorpe, fly-ash from same and probably the other Trent Valley power stations, and oil from Immingham. Up to the 1950's the goods yard at Thurgarton despatched sand and gravel from the Hoveringham quarry; here's a pic of my late father driving the loading shovel there.
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Nice pic Scriv, I see Snowdon in the background, where abouts can you access the railway as I will be over there in a few weeks?
Rog
'Ere y'are Rog;
Not my pic mate, just found it on t'web.
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It was actually at their works in Hoveringham, hence their logo http://www.flickr.co...ske/4584631111/
And a lot of people of a certain age - such as me - had one of these http://www.vectis.co.../382/3151_l.jpg
And if, like my old man, you worked for the company you had one of these....
Dad actually did a lot of work at Holme Pierrepont, building the conveyors.
Incidentally, those amongst us who are railway enthusiasts will be pleased to know that one of the locos from Holme Pierrepont quarry has been preserved, on the Welsh Highland.
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Did Jackie Pownall ever have a scrap yard off Mapperley Plains somewhere near the top of Spring Lane?
That belonged to a chap called Roger Hibbert.... well known in railway preservation circles.
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Back in the early 1980's I used to do a fair bit of relief driving for Fords through the Mayday agency; the warehouse was on Heathcoat Street in those days, as Littlebro says they went up to Bilborough later. IIRC the business was owned by the Pink family, Barry Pink (known as Mr. Barry) being one of the directors.
The shops covered a large area of the East Midlands; apart from the ones mentioned there were stores in Shirebrook, Derby, Newark and Mansfield; my mum was a devoted fan of the Netherfield store, taking great delight in finding bargain dresses for 50 pence or a quid!
Nice firm to work for. Funny how they disappeared, yet their original ethos of selling cheap but reasonable quality goods is all over our high streets these days in the form of Poundland, Primark and the like. I suspect they got a bit too big; they opened that large store on Lower Parliament Street didn't they, next door to the Dog & Partridge?
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Yawn. Funny how everything that went wrong with this country happened since 1979. Some people have very selective memories; you're all happy to forget that Labour closed more pits than the Tories ever did. The coal industry wasn't murdered, it committed suicide.
Ask yourselves how many coal mines Mr. Blair re-opened after 1997.
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The trains were also good if a train had a buffet car on and on it's way alcohol could be served whatever the time.
Great Central at Loughborough used to capitalise on this in its earlier days. They had a buffet car which stocked draught beer, both keg and real ale, and we had a regular hard-core of people who used to buy a yearly membership in order to sit and drink on a Saturday afternoon. Mostly older men, respectable types; there were a couple who could occasionally be a nuisance but whilst steady drinking was tolerated drunkenness wasn't and anyone who started to go for it was gently reeled in by the others. Once licensing hours were relaxed, they didn't come back, but the revenue was handy while it lasted.
Further to the 11.00 closing; I lived in Eastwood for a couple of years, 1984-86, and the licensing laws in Notts and Derbyshire differed; Nottinghamshire was 10.30 and Derbyshire 11.00 on Fridays and Saturdays. We used to scoot out of the Sun or the King Billy in Eastwood at about twenty to eleven to get a couple in at the Station in Langley Mill before the bell went down there... I often wonder if it was worth the bother!
Pretty Windows licence was because of Sneinton market of course; there was a pub in Newark, can't remember which one, which enjoyed the same benefits. I think most market towns had one. There was also a decent cafe in Sneinton market, run, ISTR, by a chap who was reputed to have rather "different" sexual orientation to the majority of the traders!
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Definitely "Memory Lane" for me Stu. I was educated at the (now demolished) Southwell Minster Grammar School on Church Street, then some years later (1987-91) came back to Southwell, working for Rainbows Nightfreight whose premises are behind the old workhouse on the Burgage. At that time I lived in a flat above the Co-op shop on King Street; that too has now gone, replaced by the new library. One of my regular visitors of an evening was a local bobby, good friend of mine and a passionate motorcyclist; he used to pop up to my flat and drink his cuppa whilst sitting looking out of the bay window which gave him an excellent view of the street below. Much better than being down on the street, he used to say, as the local miscreants couldn't see him!
Strange co-incidence that the two places at which I spent most time (apart from the Admiral Rodney!) are probably the only two buildings in Southwell to have been demolished in the last decade or so; mind you neither had any architectural merit.
xmas pork pie breakfast
in Nottingham Lingo
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Merthyr Imp;
As mentioned above, Morrisons sell Dickens & Morris pies, and sometimes have a Melton pie available on the deli counter not to be confused with their "Vale of Mowbray" range of own-brand budget pies which are OK but nowt special.
Well, they do in Carmarthen anyway. And you'll find decent pork pies and faggots in the indoor market.