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Just read the old posts about the cafe on wilford road. Dad always told me that George Parker owned it, the same guy that ran the newsagents at the bottom shops in Clifton. Lynmee might remember.

I remember tuesday nights although I had forgotten it was called teen night, remember mam getting my first suit from the co-op so I could go, I cringe when I think of that suit and walking round with my shirt collar turned up, still it was the fashion in 61 & 62. Also remember the mime contests and the live band.

Hi Trev Jacquiline Townsend is my elder brothers wife and still lives in Nottinghamshire, If you send me your name I would be glad to pass it on. Sorry but I think Pauline died.

I went there mid fifties from Douglas school Radford, like you say always glad to go home

Many thanks for that info Ann, It seems there maybe records as to the removal of graves and reinterment and has given me more scope for research.

I seem to remember some headstones leaning up against the church wall but dont know if any of them were removed, the family I'm interested in are the Fitzwalters they lived on Hounds Gate and were instrumental in my ancestors coming to Nottingham in the 1820s. I will have to visit and ask a few questions, think you are right though probably under M&S.

Does anyone know when St peters church yard was closed and built on or if the graves there were moved to another site. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thought someone would have come up with "Captain"

Clifton Spiders was run by a guy named Web hence the nickname Spiders dont remember his christian name does anyone else

Pretty sure Reg had a regular spot at a pub called The Sandhills at Underwood, I think in the late eighties or nineties

Met my other half on that revolving dance floor in the Nottingham Palais. Didn't you say your dad helped install it Ashley!

Dont know where your looking mick Henry Clements & Elizabeth Rowland marriage 1907 free index

By 1851 he is married and living in alverthorpe with thomas in yorkshire, nothing in the 1841 census and to get an address he has to be living there during the census mg

No problem Yes Red Lion Street is the modern name for Narrow Marsh, That was a tough area I remember my parents telling me the Loggerheads was one of the toughest pubs in Nottingham. Ask Ashley he probably went there! http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1926/itinerary1926p1.htm

Its all on ancestry.com 1907 marriage Henry Clements & Elizabeth Rowland, George Henry Clements birth 1908, 1901 census Henry Clements living at 97 Red Lion St Lodgeing House. MG

Another one hear who went to chaucer street, two big nurses who held you down while the dentist in the green apron and the surgial boots gassed you. Then tin mugs and sinks!. Its no wonder kids of the fifties grew up scared of the dentist.

If you got lucky down the Dungeon it was a sharp left at the top of Stamford street and into the church yard, woe betide though if the boyz was about, some of em were pretty good shots we a grass sod

Great to see the site up and running again mg

A few years ago my wife and I and four other couples hired a scottish castle for a short break it was called castle Forte and was in a place called Glen Isla. The five bedrooms and bathroom were all set around a turret with a winding stair the great hall was on the first floor with the kitchen, chappel and entrance on the ground floor. evenings were spent in the great hall wineing and dining and such. after retirering the bathroom in the turret was in constant use because all had been drinking for most of the evening so I decided to go down to the ground floor and use the wc down there, before

Hi Mick yes i know she said, havn,t been on line for a while except to do job search, I love the nostalgia side of the website and come on from time to time, the current affairs i,m not to interested in, its to depressing! mg

Hi chaff i was still at douglas in the mid fifties when we left radford for clifton, my older brother was at radford boulavard though, dont know if you remember him "Doug Read"

soul, motown, pop, all paled into insignificance mg

sorry paulus missed this one, dont spend a lot of time on the web during the light nights. the judge was one of the brickies, short stocky bloke with a beard, he also made the woodpecker song famous throughout the site, you remember "woodpecker woodpecker yeah yeah yes i would" mg

i agree but try the repair option i have had sucess and all your files will be intact

saw my elder brother recently and asked him about the fifties teddy boy era. i mentioned in another thread about the fighting between the american and the canadian servicemen at the pubs sawyers arms $ the towers, bro says the nottingham teds would go down and join in the fracus. they would all meet at a cafe called the moo-cow near the midland station, anyone remember it.