farenuf

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  1. My family moved to St Anns when I was a few months old and I lived there until I was 23. Yes some of the houses would have been considered "slums" but we had community back then and we kids could play on the streets anywhere from Blue Bell Hill to Hungerhill Road. We were lucky in that we had a bathroom, indoor loo and a garage. I recall seeing a documentary about the old St Anns school a few years ago and the teachers were talking about how the kids were underprivileged etc. All they did was knock down the old houses and put modern slums in their place IMHO. When I say I was bought up in
  2. She appeared at the Theatre Royal in the mid sixties. Who is she and who was she once married to?
  3. Good try but not what I was thinking of. p.s. it's not Robertson being the only non-English player either.
  4. Bowyer, Clough, Webb, Robertson, Birtles, Hodge They all played for Forest but what else have they in common and who is the odd one out?
  5. ay ent got me gogs on burra no itint Ena!!
  6. Looks like a very young Johnny Briggs of "corrie" fame.
  7. farenuf

    My Dad

    The only Leslie Smith that I can find played for Wolves and Villa 1947-58 and won one England cap.
  8. Birthplace of Albert Ball perhaps?
  9. Then it may be Wagon Train but I don't recall a catch phrase. How many of these do you remember? The Virginian Sugarfoot Alias Smith & Jones Gunsmoke The Lone Ranger Hopalong Cassidy The Rifleman High Chapparal Bonanza Big Valley Wells Fargo I know there were more but these are the ones that I recall seeing.
  10. January 1959 Conway Twitty (no comments please!!) singing It's Only Make Believe.
  11. IIRC correctly that's Nuthall Temple. I remember going with my Dad to see the M1 being built and bits of the pillars were still visible lying around.
  12. Looks like Rawhide to me. I remember the catch phrase "Herd 'em up and move 'em out".