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Stan: Barton Hart was my music teacher from 53-57. In sixth form, he even listened to my Elvis, Jerry Lee and Gene Vincent records in the music room. When we were in Nottingham in 1985, we walked around the old school - the grand piano was still there. Also, the Honours Boards. I remember Carmen, La Traviata. What were the other operas we performed for Speech Night? I like to recall his cloak and fedora. He was a rare kind of teacher.
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Came across this picture of Wycliffe Mill, WSB was on the top floor, was always told windows thus including those in lots of 3 storey houses that used to be in the area bordered by Gregory Boulevard/Radford Rd/Noel St/Archer St of which examples can still be seen on Alfreton Rd a few doors up from the Alma pub were to give good light light for Lace Examination.
Ashley: I had almost forgotten what the place looked like. The window closest to the middle of the building i.e.the top floor, was where I worked. When NEV dissolved and WSB came into being, we had to clean the place. I wore whitewash for weeks! We partitioned the top floor into office and workspaces. The new owners of WSB Precision Components were: Doug Woods, Graham Straw and Gordon Brown. Perhaps WSB came from their surnames.
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!laughing! And the curl in it's tail!!
I have a small cookbook with pork and lamb recipes that my mother gave me some years ago. It is titled "Making the Most of Meat" - Co-op guide to Lamb & Pork cookery.
There is a recipe for pork pie. I do not know how old this little cookbook is, but there is mention of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board - before the Common Market?
I also have at least two other pork pie recipes. We have enjoyed pork pie and pickled onions on quite a few occasions. My mother used to make her own potted meat, pressed tongue, etc.
I just found a date for the cookbook - 1973. It's still has money-off coupons!
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excuse my non pc description of that shop keeper but red indians was the name used when I was a kid, just like Bodica, not some Booodicka. It would have been very rare I'd have thought for any American to be living in Old Basford pre 1939? come to that any foreigner?
Ashley: Why?
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Hi,
I lived on Valley Road near the High School playing fields and in the early/mid 50's there was a similar described chap used to walk past the house early in the morning, he used to scare me, swearing and jumping around, I think he had ginger hair. Apparently there was a hostel type place up the road at the City Hospital where he used to stay and then they kicked him out early doors.
MartynE: sounds like one and the same. Used to see him on Mansfield Road, a lot. He used to hang out in the bombed-out houses at the bottom of Sneinton Road - he'd make a little fire in there.
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oops! was going to say was that shelter under the factory the one on Dakeyne St? was told it ran under park there and they never made any recovery attempt, just filled it in, the two "new" council houses next door to library further up carlton rd replace a direct hit one, maybe a vicarage?
Ashley: Some of those shelters were the basement of Metallifacture. One of the employees at Metallifacture was a warden at the time and had just finished putting the people in the shelter and a bomb bounced off the road and into the shelter.
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I don't but me mam told me about him, and also of a genuine red indian who was a shopkeeper on lincoln st old basford! (swore it was true)
Don't know about any Native Americans in Old Basford, but don't see why not.
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Describe Itchy Coo?
mick2me: Itchy-coo was a homeless person, who wandered all over the city. He looked like a pile of rags that walked, jumped, twitched and generally scared the little kids. As far as we know, he was quite harmless.
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Does anyone remember "Itchy-coo"? This would be in the 40's and 50's.
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IMMSC There were connections to Rutherfords electrical shop in Carlton Square
Beefsteak: Norman was one of the sons, Alan was another. Apparently, when Norman & Mike (his business partner) were rebuilding TV picture tubes (hence the "Electronic Valve" part of the business name), they would sleep next to the equipment all night - to keep it running.
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The Royal Oak?
littlebro: we just could not come up with the name, thanks!
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Re: shops on Arkwright St.....Seem to remember buying my first tennis racquet and tennis balls from Redmayne & Todd.
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So, does anybody know the name of the pub, opposite the old NEV plant, in East Bridgeford? Nev's location was in an old malt house on Main Street. It wasn't The Reindeer, but we used to go to the Reindeer, also.
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Ashley: WSB (Precision Components) was formed at the same time that Nottingham Electronic Valve was voluntarily liquidated. So, it just a case of switching one name for another - everything else remained the same. The Wycliffe Mills site was so filthy the employees had to clean and paint it all. To the rear was a tee-shirt and underwear garment manufacturer. On the floor below was a building supply? business.
Re: the video tape recorder - the prototype was developed and built in East Bridgeford.
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Bryan attended both Peoples College and Nottingham Tech. College,served apprenticeship and was promptly conscripted into the RAF! And thereby hangs a tale.
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Alot of Polish in the Sherwood Rise area, talking of before their church built on there in 1950's, also alot of Italians in the Oakdale/ Upper Sneinton Dale area, was told Italians at POW camp Colwick Woods and after war as seen as no danger just left to settle? not sure if true?
Ashley: I remember the Italian POW camp at the top of Colwick Woods very well. The prisoners were allowed to work during the day and report back to the camp at night. We played all over the site after the war and the huts had gone.
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Re: the piping system in the shops - it's called a Lampsen Tube.
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leatherland, assume you saw my opening post? would have been about 1964? can't remember much about working there, highlight of the day was watching Tom & Jerry on tv mid afternoons! oh yes and a factory fire just up the road one dinnertime.
Ashley: It was more like 1965. Some of the employees would go swimming at Carrington Lido at dinnertime, in the "summer".
There is news article, dated June 29, 1985, in the Evening Post re: one of the owners of NEV - Norman Rutherford, entitled "Norman and the missed millions" by John Brunton.
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We can recommend the East Shore of Mobile Bay in Alabama. We live in Fairhope, which is listed as one of the fifty best places to retire in the U.S.A.
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Hi y'all! We are living in Alabama, USA and wonder what has happened to all the folk we knew in school. Anna went to the Dale Secondary School and then to Mundella, and Bryan went to Player Secondary School and Nottingham Tech. College. The time periods would be in the 1950's. Anyone out there?
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NEV(Nottingham Electronic Valve Company) operated out of East Bridgeford - my husband worked there as Chief Engineer and designed most of the tooling for the mechanics of the world's first home video tape recorder. NEV became the property of the Cinerama Corporation - the old NEV staff then started up in Basford manufacturing the Wesgrove recorder. My husband personally made the recording heads for the machine. If anybody needs a recording head set, let us know!
Sci-Fi Serials
in 60's Nottingham
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firbeck; we remember the first episode of Dr. Who. also. It was the first show on TV following the football results. There had been nothing, no news at all on the TV after JFK's assassination. And then there was this music and this totally different kind of show. Tom Baker was one of the best, we think.