Paulus

One of my more boring jobs (excuse the pun) was punching the holes in crumpets......................

My mum had a 'home job', all us kids had to do our bit!! one job was putting hairnets onto cardboard circles.................mind numbing, we did thousands, they were everywhere in the house for weeks

I recall the name Lampkin from Saturday PM sports 'scrambling' in B & W, the most seen at the time was Arthur Lampkin & I believe Alan also. RIP Martin

#245...............Red, I got beer stains down my vest wiout payin a tenner!!

Hi Brian, welcome to the madhouse!!

Great word Compo lad..................inooorssttu..............

Allegedly it benefits all 'North of the Border'............................as do most things decided 'South of the Border'...........

What a bl99dy useless claim to fame!!.....................# 60

I don't do 'kind'..............

Possibly Tone Deaf......................???????????

Soon be all them poor brass monkies lying by the roadside..............in agony!!

We ( about 6 of us) built a snow barricade across Minver crescent & got boxed ears for our trouble!!

I used to drive a bus when I was a 10 year old !! .................Well, not actually a real bus, but a coal bunker with an old chair on top + a steering wheel & column from a 1937 Ford 7 or 8...................

Hiya Joe & welcome, lots of my mam's family lived in Radford, Robinsons.........................

Have we lost the thread on this one?? It's titled Queen Elizabeth, not (ex) Princess Diana, likeable as she was.....................

Here's some names; Pete Blood, Manfred (Mick Lehman), Dusty French, Kenny Astell, Cupitt, Pete Wellick, Gene Kersey, Kimbo Eddy, Flagsy (Flowers), Paddy Welch, Mo Webster,

Radford baths was our school swimming day venue, always having some excuse not to go!! Hence I was 42 before I learnt to swim...............

Great topic Compo lad!!...................Wrates were the photographers at Mablethorpe, but I also recall another firm in direct competition with Wrates (stripey blazers), or am I mistaken??? Photo's would be displayed in a round booth at the top of the Pullover??

Hi Karlton, # 15, I knew Dave from my teenage years, what a character..................ferrets an' all!! persuaded me to spend my last two bob on some liver for his bloody ferrets!! Ask him about the late night chicken raid on Melbourne park allotments............................

Dave48: # 8, I knew (& worked with) John, Dave & Ivan Pritchett, sadly John passed away earlier this year.

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RIP Jimmy Ruffin, another great Soul Legend gone...............................

Excellent video & song is very good, sung beautifully...................

I remember visiting Sneinton Market, wi' me mam, we had to walk from the bus terminus on Hanley street (& back), mam bought me a pair of glasses once (2nd hand) I could only see proper out one eye!! but they were cheap........................

Annesleyred 1865 = #38- Ian Storey-Moore, an English football record transfer at £250,000, some of the useless bu99ers get that per week now!!