Rhymester

Thanks both. Yes great photos! The Players Factory girls were the main customers in mum's wool shop.

Thanks Jill. One possibility would be someone taking a picture 'by accident'. I've got pictures of a parade taken out of an upstairs window looking across towards the Clarence. Maybe someone did the same from the opposite side of the road.

This is the section of Alfreton Road between Wimbourne Road and Beckenham Road. I've seen lots of photos of the road further up showing Bentinck School, The Windmill Pub, Flying Horse, Jersey Kapwood etc. but nothing of this side and section. I'm particularly interested in these shops as I used to live at number 375 and although my dad was a keen photographer he never photographed mum's shop: Sylvia's Wool Shop. Next door was Hill's Newsagents. I've posted this on the Radfordtonians Facebook group and had lots of memories but has anyone any pictures of this area from my time there in the 60s?

Image caching is one of the main reasons that images can be seen on one computer but not on another. When you visit a web site for the first time it takes longer to load than on subsequent visits due to the images having to be retrieved from the server and displayed. Take the heading for this site... it will most likely be stored on your computer for easy retrieval and, even if it is deleted on the server, will still display. Clearing your image cache changes this of course.

For devices that don't have Bluetooth built in you can get a transmitter for around twenty quid. Go on Amazon / Argos etc. and search for Bluetooth Transmitter. They plug into your headphone socket. Andy

Great photo! Also shows the pavement opposite onto which my mates and I once superglued a coin and had a great laugh watching people try to pocket it... if only we'd had mobile phones with cameras back then.

Belated thanks Cliff Ton.... did download one of your pics before Photobucket turned into ransomware. Anyway, thinking back, I wonder what hygiene rating out of 5 the Old Dutch would have received in the seventies? I can rememeber, when I had my Saturday job there, that washing up was a three person job: My mate stood at one side of the sink scraping off the leftovers from the plates; he passed them to the little old lady in the middle who gave them a dunk and cursory wipe with the dish cloth before passing them to me for wiping. This system didn't always result in a sa

Thanks jopip that's definitely the trip I was thinking of.

I lived on Alfreton Road above our shop and the entry at the rear came out on Wimbourne Road. I was there from about 1959 to 1969 when I left Bentinck Primary and moved out of the area. The families I remember on that road were the Halls, the Daleys, and the Pearces. Andy

They did a great line in books on magic, astral projection, clairvoyance etc. Bought a set of Tarot Cards there as well as books by authors like Kafka, Camus and Hesse. That was in the days I had lots more hair and wore an Afghan Coat drenched in musk oil lol.

Anyone remember the holidays the Nottingham Evening Post used to run in the seventies? I'm particularly interested in one that would have been between between 1974 and 1976 and I think it was to Moscow? Would love to find out exactly when it was. Andy

Thanks for that Rob - I'll see if I can pick up a Linguaphone Course cheap somewhere....

Thanks Rob.L. - yes saw that when I was searching but underneath it says: Past Event or Incomplete Event Sorry we have no known future venues or dates listed for this event. If you know of a date in the future when this is happening, please add it now

Is the evening Market on Wedneday's still taking place? If so, anyone have a contact or idea of stall prices? Cheers

In these times of austerity a job lot of lighters from Poundland would have done just as well... Also no need to use a van to travel between cities - send up a couple of dozen of those chinese lanterns and at least one would set fire to something vaguely near the intended destination.

There are sections of the route labelled as 'in convoy' - not much point standing waiting along those as the flame / torch will be in a closed van.

There was a thread somewhere in which someone reported that Rob's Records had closed down.... Glad to say it's not true and in fact it's had a refit and facelift. Bet there were a few dead punters found under that huge pile of unsorted records there used to be at one end...

My mother in law is confusing my little one with her use of the word, 'again' pronounced 'ug-en' by which she doesn't mean repeated but next to. Where's the didger? It's again the telly! Funny thing is that it's only as I type the word that I realise it must be a contraction of against.

My mother in law, whose late husband worked for Sturmey Archer, is a member of what she calls the Raleigh Club. The company set it up for retired employees amd they meet every Tuesday afternoon (currently at a community centre type place somewhere in the Balloon Woods area. Think they always have a game of bingo. They also have day trips every now and then and a Christmas party. Of course the membership is dwindling amd there won't be any new members.

Just realised that when my little one was toddling (he's five now) I would say to him, "That's ba-bars!" whenever he got near to something he shouldn't touch. It came automatically and it was what my parents used to say to me.

Yes I've got the Huawei E585 from 3. It's wireless and I've had two iPads running off it simultaneously. I've even managed to use on the bus and the train very successfully. The only two places I've had problems have been on a caravan site on Devon and at parts of Centreparcs in Sherwood Forest. The fact the credit runs out even if it's unused at the end of the period you've paid for is the only downside. It's worth thinking about this before buying one that's preloaded with credit. I've seen them being sold for about £75 with 3Gb of data but you can buy one for under £50 with no data o

My liitle lad is 4 now and has made regular visits to see the swinging monkey. The last time I passed by the window was empty. I will have to tell him the monkey has been returned to the wild...

By the sounds of it he managed to smuggle in some Loyd Grosman Korma Sauce...

The sound of an old telephone dial and the ratchet on a box Brownie camera. Plus, of course, the close down tone on the TV at night - if you where ever up that late as a child...

Very interesting... and it looks as though the JB Lewis you mention went on to become Meridien... http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B3461