mgread1200
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Anyone remember a guy named Ray Tasse(nickname tass) from back then although we were never mates I remember he was definately a face in the clubs, I also remember him from Fairham comp and Spiders youth club in Clifton. Just remembered back then my nickname was "Nev" simply because of Neville Reid the Tailors.
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I have always said that my first school was Douglas on Ilkeston road in old Radford but it was not, I remember that all five year olds went to an infant school that was accessed from Ronald street then up by the side of the old Pearsons ice cream factory and YMCA before going on to Douglas, can't remember it's name for the life of me. My only memory of it now is being in the playground and looking through the window seeing the teacher doing something behind the blackboard (no not that) when we went back in after playtime she had hidden coloured pegs with numbers on in various places in the classroom, you guessed it ! I knew where some of them were. My first recollection of putting two and two together
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I remember Dave Prentice quite well even though it was so long ago, he was an excellent cricketer and in the same class as myself under Mr Sayers. I have often wondered if he went on to play in later life.
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I think it all depended on what time of the year your birthday was, you could finish up a whole year behind when moving on to Fairham.
The only other person I have been in touch with from those years at Greencroft was a girl named Gail Rhodes. I knew quite a few from there even though I was at Brooksby Lane.
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Sorry I should have said I was in touch a few years ago having checked my old messages it was 2007. Christ where does the time go!
If you were in the same class as Georgina is there any chance you knew my old mates Geoff Seymour or Alan Hewitt
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I was in touch with Georgina just a couple of years ago on another website, just to say hello! we remembered each other from the Nottingham mod scene she was a regular down the Dungeon cub.
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From the discription it sounds like the "Belvedere" but as we know that was on Pilcher Gate. I dont remember any club on Exchange Walk.
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Online opinion and imformation vary! some say the companies are wrong and others have tried to take them on and died. Do you want the stress of it all, just read the posts and be careful before you say Yes!!. Be sure of exactly what you are getting and how much it is costing you, and keep a diary or use a pc reminder so that you know when the contract is running out. I like a quite life but just like everyone else I hate to be fleeced.
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Sorry Caftan I don't know what they are, I thought that the consumer protection would cover a cooling off period but according to BT it does not and all they have to do is record the phone conversation to make the contract legaly binding. It would have cost me a £130 to cancel. I did get a deal out of them on the new you view box but the point I am making is that you have to be so much on the ball nowadays even with people you have been a customer of for years, if they can do you for a few quid they will!!
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Be aware that once your contract runs out you will not be informed and will be transfered to a 1 month rolling contract that can almost double the cost you were paying under contract, and that was BT!. Also that if you enter into a contract over the phone you are legaly bound once the phone call ends with no change your mind period.
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That will be the answer, I only knew Broad Marsh as the bus station area never a road. Thanks!
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Thanks for that, I cannot think for the life of me where there was a grave yard in broad marsh in the sixties and thought they had the dates wrong.
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There was a burial ground in Broad Marsh (consecrated 1830, closed 1856), part of the former parish properties there. Deeds, plans and correspondence are with the Parish Papers. It was sold in 1965 under the provisions of the Broad Marsh Burial Ground Act 1960 and the remains removed to a marked site in Wilford Hill Cemetery.
Does anyone know anymore about this
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The last time I visited it was closed and the gates chained up, I think there was a notice saying that it was open on certain days unless it was just temp. St Nicks was also disapointing with windows covered in metal plate and everywhere strewn with litter. Not a very good advertisment for visitors to the old city. It would appear that nothing is sacred!.
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Looking around the supermarkets nowadays poultry is common, back in the fifties it was a treat you only had at Christmas.
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Think you might be talking about "wintergreen" also remember "Virol malt extract"
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The government will still get their kickback in the form of the extra VAT multiplied by a few million bottlesThe proposed cost of 45p a unit of alcohol is not a tax. The extra money will go to the brewers & shops etc.
I have a sneaking feeling the brewers are favouring this as many pubs have closed & the breweries are keen to recoup lost profits.
The Govt have said this is to curb binge drinkers & yobbos etc. Take a look at countries where they have cheap booze & you don't see this probem there.
Honestly, this is RIP OFF BRITAIN at it's best.
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I know he was a bit of a Tartar but what I learned from Fred was about authority and the pecking order, when to hold your tongue and when not to served me well in later life. He would often punish the wrong boy because he wanted the real wrong doer come forward sooner than let someone else take the punishnment, that was another lesson learned about taking on responsibility and being responsible for your own actions. 3rd year History and English lit were also interesting if you could avoid the "cat-o-ninetails" (joke).
Anyway for what it's worth at least one of his old pupils remembers him with fondness and understanding.
R.I.P. Fred
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I was there between 59 and 63 and still think we had a better education than they get now. Would you believe I liked Fred Riddell
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Its the reason's they give like "binge drinking" and "people's health", biggest load of cobblers I have ever heard. They are after more revenue from alcohol because of the amount of people that now drink at home. No more 25% off if you buy six bottels, no more three for £12 and some politician sat there today and said it would only be enforced on the cheap stuff. Its about money as always and they ain't fooling anyone.
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This makes sense There is a line in D H Lawrence "Sons & lovers" when one workmate says to another "Shall ter finish, sorry"I came across the "serry" address in the Ilkeston area - but they pronounced it "sorry"! I have relatives in both Eastwood and Heanor and they never used the term, but it seemed common among my friends in Ilkeston.
The best explanation I found was It was a term meaning chum, mate, widely used in WW1 by soldiers of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Its archaic meaning is to crowd together especialy in military ranks.
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I remember in the fifties my older brothers using the word serry as some kind of greeting and sometimes the responce would be "Serry Thee" sorry no idea what or where the origin lies, we were central Nottingham.
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Looking up Garden St to Denman St on the picture I remember the shops but only one springs to mind "The Home & Colonial" the local co-op where mam did her shoping(Because of the Divi) was on Alfreton Rd, I remember the walk up Boden St to get there and of course I have never forgotten her divi number
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Our house on Bloomsgrove st used to back on to the terraced houses on Garden st, I remember you could see part of them through the scullery window. Its all a far cry from the cobbled st with its gas lamposts that I roamed as a childPoohbear's Streetview image in #41 has a few memories for me. It's Garden Street, Radford, and moving a bit further along, as in this view.......
...the inset area where the cars are parked used to contain a row of terraced houses. I had two elderly aunts lived in one, and I just about remember visiting the place, and being aware of how their house seemed to be surrounded by factories. Even by Victorian standards, the industrial parts were close to the domestic parts
the dungeon club
in 60's Nottingham
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Wish I could help Dave 48 but the names you mention do not ring any bells, I remember odd incidents and names from time to time but nothing with any real clarity even some of the girls I dated are reduced to first names without faces. Sometimes if someone else also remembers the same person or event it becomes easier to recall. Best to post anything you remember just in case!