StephenFord

6d a week in the mid 50s, but my grandma, who lived with us, invariably bought me a 6d bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk on Tuesdays when she drew her pension. Later increased to 1/- and then five bob.

Dogs that eat Winalot wagalot.

"Mother says Veno's is the best cough cure she knows."

"Who flavoured cornflour?" "Brown and Polson flavoured cornflour." "But it says here, 'STRAWBERRY flavoured cornflour'."

No, I think it was "This the age of the train." [To which cynical commuters remarked to each other "Mine's about 40 years old. What about yours?"]

"A man might be a dog's best friend - but I don't share MY Kennomeat - even with friends."

Get a tiger in your tank

Also "Is that Joe?" - "No, it's the Esso Blue dealer."

Go to work on an egg

.....in a bucket!

Ooooo - never noticed that.

Isn't that a filthy Lancashire habit, inappropriate on a genteel Nottingham based website? (Sorry, but I can say this against myself as my grandad was born in Burnley - leaving my own Nottinghamshire credentials a bit suspect!)

Welcome Chasper - another Devon emigre I see!

Oh dear. I'm afraid you're going to get a storm of people saying "You should never ever take pictures like that - not even if the signalman knows, and the line has been closed for 50 years and...and...and ten thousand other precautions have been taken. It'll encourage the youngsters to trespass, health and safety will have nightmares for weeks...."

Only two years later !!! I'm pretty sure DMUs took over from steam on the Nottingham - Lincoln local trains in March 1958 (also Nottingham - Derby, Nottingham - Leicester - Birmingham, Nottingham - Chesterfield via Erewash Valley, but not Nottingham - Mansfield - Worksop). However steam remained for a while on certain Lincoln line trains. Elsewhere on this forum the famous Tamworth Mail has been mentioned - about 8pm from LIncoln, 9pm Nottingham to Derby (only calling at Trent) then on to Burton and Tamworth, to connect with the "West Coast Postal". It returned during the night, calling at No

Ah but it took 8 years before the thought of toast and dripping made you feel queasy !

Just looking at some old bits and pieces, and found a notebook that belonged to my mum. In the back was a receipt for 5 hundredweight of coal delivered in October 1950 by E Spencer, coal merchant, 490 Aspley Lane. Price was 18/9d - i.e. 3/9d (just under 19p) a cwt. Before you say "them were the days" I also found my dad's P60 for the tax year 1966/67. As a railway clerk his salary for the year was £739 - that's right, £14.21 a week - but we made jolly sure we had our money's worth out of the free tickets!

Or, for afters, "A run round the table."

In a year's time Saga will do the same. Watch 'em.

Remember learning/chanting times tables up to twelve times twelve, off by heart? And very useful it remains to this day. Also learnt by heart the number of pence in level shillings, and the value in shillings and pence of multiples of 10d up to ten bob : "12 pence = 1/-, 20 pence = 1/8d; 24 pence = 2/-; 30 pence = 2/6d; 36 pence = 3/-; 40 pence = 3/4d etc.

Grief - what would they think if they read about threepenny bits and tanners - especially when it was explained to them what they were worth in today's money - and that even then you could actually buy things with them...

Not an NCT bus - but here's the lights

Wonder if they charged for advertising CFM Lamb Tongues on the side!

Now, there's a phrase I've not heard in a while - "tazzin round". Funny - I was looking at facebook today and found a picture of some local kids making what was called a go-kart. But it looked mighty like a trolley to me - a bit fancier than them from our days - shiny wing nuts, new wheels, length of new rope - I ask you - NEW rope? and a posh plastic seat. Bit of a Rolls Royce sort of effort - but essentially the same design. Good on 'em. Hope they have as much fun with it as we did with ours.