mgread1200

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  1. i agree but try the repair option i have had sucess and all your files will be intact
  2. 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.
  3. saw my elder brother recently, it seems garth was famous because he went into all in wrestling
  4. the belvedere was where the mods would go when they got a pass out from the all nighters, as has been said no booze after 10-30 but tea and hot peas were available. always a few faces up there
  5. yes digger it is a small world, you might remember the bulls old dog then "jock" always sat outside the house, all the neighbours would take him bones after sunday dinner. about 2 years after moving to clifton i was fishing with a net and jamjar where the fairham brook runs into the trent near clifton bridge who should i see there but the ellis twins, the bulls had brought them down fishing and camping, they couln,t believe i lived there as they were still on bloomsgrove then. that was the last time i saw them. jimmy flowers claim to fame was his studded boots all the other kids would be jealo
  6. yes we were all moved out to the houseing estates sooner or later, we moved from bloomsgrove st to clifton around 55 the ellis twins from a few doors down moved to broxtowe, wasn,t poundalls yard just above the brassy.
  7. hi digger people wouldn,t believe what it was like back then, did you go to douglas school, i remember jimmy flowers lived up that way somewhere also terry gough, dave sharp
  8. i remember clayton square close to what we called the brassy rec. in radford. terrible living conditions even back then in the early fifties think i mentioned it on another thread "did you live in radford" block of tenaments built around a courtyard one tap in the middle to serve all.
  9. dad spent many a happy hour in there at the buff lodge, late forties early fifties
  10. with mini skirts in fashion they could,nt rarely do much else
  11. thats my good lady wife next year will be our 40th
  12. this is 1969 the jacket came from jeffs on hockley
  13. yes thats right on hockley got my first pair of levi,s there
  14. yes just realized my error rons was the barbers jeffs the mens boutique, my memory is getting worse. always remember the birdcage for rags
  15. would definately have watched it in black & white on a rediffusion set with the old wall switch to change channels
  16. wasn,t jeffs the barbers we used to go to opposite the big co-op, god knows when that closed
  17. wonder if ashleys thinking of later years when it became the eight till late, they had a bar 1970/ 71
  18. my memories no better! cant even be sure of the year, remember the bus and being searched also the crowd at the bottom of stamford st which was cordoned off. some people went up the belvedaire and waited it out, i went home! the walk back to clifton across the hapeny bridge and through wilford is what i remember most. think it was saturday no allnighters on a sunday as i remember
  19. thats strange i was going to ask if you worked there. seriously did,nt they take one of the hoists out. as for dinner tme drinking remember ginger wood coming back from yates and falling down a lift shaft, broke his leg & his whiskey bottle
  20. yes worked for costain the people who built the albany, i left only two weeks before the scaffoling came down and almost demolished mothercare
  21. used to live in the goodfellow (dive bar) when i worked on the albany hotel
  22. thanks lynmee will have to have a look at those
  23. remember the towers going into broardmarsh and of course the sawyers arms across the road. in bygone years they were the hang outs of the american & canadian servicemen, regular fights according to my parents