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I remember as children in Radford we used to go round collecting empty fag packets (the old slide to open ones) then we would stand the inners up against a wall and skim the flattened outers at them trying to knock them over.

I have a neighbour well into their eighties who religously goes through her rubbish just to make sure that there is nothing in the wheelie bin that the council say should be recycled, while other peoples bins are bursting at the seams after two weeks her's is only a third full and I know that others use her bin to top up their own capacity and then wonder why she gets angry when they do. She honestly believes that she will get into trouble with the council if they find anything in it that shouldn't be there.

I think the main one is food packageing which I refuse to recycle, anything left out that smells of food just gets strewn all over the back garden by animals. As for other consumer goods, if you dont subscribe to sling it and buy a new one then you are usualy labled a "Scratarse" not a hoarder.

While thinking about my trainspotting days I remembered going to Derby works open day, this would be very late fifties or bang on 60. One of the things I did was simply buy a cup of tea, thing was it came in a plastic cup which I had never seen before. When I had finished my drink I took the cup back and was amazed when told to put it in the bin. I know it sounds daft but I took half a dozen home to me mam, she laughted as well, but I can honestly say that was the first time I experienced the begining of the throw away society. How about you guys! even the early vending machines were bottles n

Thanks guys! I only remember the one at derby but the image looks familiar

Sometimes we would spot at Derby station just for the train ride and somwhere different, I remember that on the platform there was what I can only describe as a "victorian dynotape machine" For 1d you would move the dial round and the press the pedal and what you printed out would be on aluminium strip. Never knew if it had any practical use or if it was just for kids to play with. Anyone remember it and any ideas.

First two are not worth mentioning wasn't there for more than a few weeks in either. Then the same year I left School I went to work for a company on Lower Parliament St "Arthur E Wootton Ltd" ladies dress makers, wonderful old family run business, his sons Mr Brian and Mr Roger, his wife Dorothy and of course Arthur himself "Mr wootton Sir". the trade name was "Dortona" made up from the names of his wife, surname and A for Arthur. Think they were Masons as I used to catch snatches of conversation with regard to blokes walking round with one trouser leg rolled up, no idea back then what they w

Glad someone agrees Stu, I think its because "the park" has been restored rather than replaced by modern buildings more like the old Nottingham I like to remember.

There are few places in the City I am now comfortable with so many changes over the years and not many for the better. However sitting outside the wine bar at the Nottingham Playhouse and after a couple of large glasses I sometimers feel like the old Nottingham lad I used to be. I was a P**s Artist back then as well.

Many thanks Cliff it saves me a wasted trip to the central library

Has anyone ever consulted the electoral registers say between 1912 to 1940, just would like to know what info they carry, is it just people who could vote or were whole households included as on a census.

My family came to Nottingham from Steyning in Sussex in the early 1800s, I do have a letter written from father in Steyning to son in Nottingham dated 1833 and in it he mentions cases of "the cholera" in Nottingham. Think it was safer to drink gin than water back then.

This is the sought of document you can find in the archives or library, at first I thought he must have saved someones life or been a war hero but this kind of honour could be awarded simply for finishing indentures or service to business. note the "Town" status of Nottingham

Seeing the image jogged my memory, I saw one similar but from older times downstairs at Nottingham Castle only a year ago.

Many thanks for posting the map Cliff ton even though its just a square I can see the house where I was born on Bloomsgrove St. often wondered where the grill window from the scullery looked out onto, always thought it was Garden St but now I see it was Garden Terrace. I was less than seven years old when we left there but still remember the families and what the places on the map were. I see the letters PR just north west of Clayton sq could this mean "public recreation" as I'm sure that was the "brassy rec".

Newquay in Cornwall when the kids were young, goldenrail it rained all week and the landlady was a bitch, made the effort to go abroad after that and have done ever since.

Hi Thomas hats off to anyone who was born in Clayton Sq and survived. I would only be two when you went back to visit in 1950 but I remember there were still people living there in the mid fifties when my family left Radford.

I worked at a shop top left in the picture around 1963/4, I think its "Samuels" now but back then it was "Paragon Jewelers" second job after leaving school didn't stay there long retail wasn't for me.

I used ancestry.co.uk their records are very good as well as the free ones already mentioned. The trick is to find the missing records when they have been transcribed incorrectly. just the head of household and the whoile family follows suit. if one of the family has an unusual christian name then leave the surname blank but make other info exact like place and date and other family christian names, that way you get a much smaller list to go through. Don't make the surname plural like "Clements" instead of "Clement" most of the time the search engine will find nothing, that is a mistake we all

I knew one from the fifties one legged and used to sell from long row outside lyon's cafe, his family name was Tuckwood and they lived on Bloomsgrove Street in Radford.

"Namers" made me smile! I'd forgotten some of the terms we used, how about "streaks" "jubes" & "pates". Never thought to google the numbers, would have come to me eventualy, Thanks for the tip Ash. Had a look at the pictures of the old victoria station but it's to long ago I think to jog any recognition

Had not seen this thread before, fabulous pictures! rarely does bring back memories. Like Rog I used to go to Ruddington station bridge from Clifton, the only one I remember now running down there was the "The South Yorkshireman". Grantham of course from Nottingham Victoria and Newark from Nottingham Midland to Newark Castle then a walk across town to the LNER station, we used to spot from under the road bridge just south of the station. Wish I had my old combine to look up some of the names from the pictures.

Just had to check with Lynmee remembering the family name of Roe, using free bmd records a George E Parker married Norah l Roe in sept 1941 Basford. I wonder! it would explain a lot.

Hi lynmee I will have to bow to your greater Knoledge I did not know that the cafe used to be on the trent side of the road the only building that I remember on that side was a house that stood right on the edge of the Fairham brook. We didn't move to clifton untill the mid fifties so my own memories of the area are all after then untill around 1972.

Well they didn,t get it from my dad! he died in 1972. Pretty sure he knew george and the cafe post war years before we moved to Clifton, when he was a lorry driver. I also remember Albert Bates ran the beeroff and Bings the all important chip shop Scene of the famous scrap between Mac and Frank Racher. Wooleys bakers was next door to George Parkers newsagents and I remember some of the local kids used to raid their van at night for meat pies and cakes, Little buggers! dont know who it was.