katyjay
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Glad you're enjoying it Rob, so am I. Brings back many memories from childhood.
Thought of one yesterday. If someone was being comical, you'd say 'you should be on the stage - scrubbing it'
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When my mother was worn out, she was jiggered.
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Crikey, I'd forgotten about Brentford Nylons. All those slippery sheets made of smooth nylon, and the brushed nylon that snagged any rough skin you'd got. Also, you got static shocks from them, and a blue spark in the dark. BUT they did wash and dry really quickly.
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caligal, sorry I just saw your question of Mar 6. You're most likely in the UK now, so don't know if you'll see this reply.
We were in Lake Havasu for a golfing weekend. The men golf and the 'girls' shop, movies etc. The town has grown so big now, you most likely wouldn't recognise it. Still bloody hot in the summer [122 deg] but lovely the other 9 months of the year.
As for Robin Hood on the telly, we're 3 or 4 episodes into it and still enjoying it. Not many 'Nottingham' accents among the actors though, plenty of Yorkshire, some Southerners.
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I didn't know it had closed, Limey. We took our [American] grandson there a couple of years ago, we all enjoyed it. The Viking Experience in York is along the same lines, but I can't see that closing. Perhaps the Nottm one was too much out of the way, not much in the way of shopping along Maid Marion Way if I remember rightly. Hopefully they've opened it up somewhere else.
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What a story, BiP! His story alone would make a good film. My dad started to write down all his memoirs, unbeknownst to us. It wasn't until he died suddenly, and my brother was going through his stuff, that he found all the hand written pages. My brother typed it all up, put in photos my dad had gone, and made each of us 3 kids a copy. It never was finished though, he died before it was done. My dad never forgave the Japanese, and would not buy a single thing made in Japan [which was hard to do, seeing how they had cornered the electronic market]
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There were lots on the Bells Lane estate that were in the Sherwood Foresters, weren't there Rob? My dad kept in touch with a lot of them, plus men he'd gone through school with at Southwark St, Basford were fighting along side him. Dad was a Chindit, under Ord Wingate. My husband's uncle is 89 this summer, he was on the Burma Railroad, and was missing for 4 1/2 yrs before anyone heard he was alive. He has never in his life spoken of his time there, it was so horrendous. I wish he'd get it down on paper though, folks need to know his story before he's gone.
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My dad served in India and Burma during WW2, and was proud of his Burma Star medal along with the others he had. He belonged to the Burma Star Association, which met monthly at the Drill Hall at the top of Derby Rd. I used to go on outings with the group, where they usually marched in a parade at their destination. I remember going to the Senotaph one time. Anyone elses dad in Burma or India?
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I didn't realise it was called just 'Blackpool' in the UK, as we know it as Viva Blackpool over here. David Morrissey plays the lead role as Ripley Holden, don't know if this is the man from the Black Abbotts? David Tennant plays the detective, he's now Dr Who in the latest series.
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Is that the one called something like Viva Blackpool, where the fella has a casino? If it is, it was brilliant, and the music was wonderful. We had that here last year on BBC-America.
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O Sole Mio, always reminds me of Walls Cornetto and the man in the gondola in Venice. [geeeve eeet to meeee]
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Nobby Green was another nickname folks got when I was a kid, if there surname was Green. I guess it came from Brussel Sprouts, my mam called them nobby greens.
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Then there's the one by Billy Ocean. The line goes 'When the going gets tough' but it sounds like 'Go and get stuffed'
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I have never worked out the first line to the song 'The Girl is Mine, by Michael Jackson. I hear the words 'Every night I wash my underpants'. I have no idea what the words should be!
Any other songs you don't understand the words of?
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If something was supposed to happen, and it hadn't, I'd ask when it would, and mam would say 'when Nelson gets his eye back'
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We had buggerlugs in our family too, Rog. Also, seeing the poster called coughdrop, my mam described folks as a coughdrop if they were funny [as in ha ha]
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Judy in Disguise [with Glasses] John Fred and his Playboy Band. That takes me back to early '68, to a dance at the Palais. I'd never been in the place before that.
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Are we counting standing in the doorway of a pub, trying to get your mam's attention to get another bottle of lemonade [with a straw of course] and a bag of Smith's crisps, with a blue bag of salt? If not, I think the first place I drank was the bowling alley clubhouse. I'd have a barley wine, 'orrible stuff, but it gave you a buzz with one drink!
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Another song that takes me back, is It Might as well Rain until September, by Carole King. It was played over and over on the 2-way and 3-way Family Favourites during the 60's. Makes me think of Sunday lunchtime long ago.
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Started work 1st Jan '62, and for the first 3 months was in the training school at Raleigh. I took home 2 pounds 18 shillings and 10 pence. I got a small raise after my training [punch card operator] Until I started paying board, I gave my mum all my pay [after I'd checked it, we had to do that 'cos you couldn't complain on Monday that you were short changed the Friday before] All my working life I was paid in cash, each Friday. I think when I finished work 10 yrs after starting, I was up to about 15 quid a week.
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That was the rumour. Although I can't believe he'd spend all that money without actually seeing it, or a picture of it, beforehand. They numbered every piece as they dismantled it, and they built it like a jigsaw once over here. It was built in the middle of the desert, then the diverted the Colorado River underneath afterwards.
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Nah, Caz, it's just an echo.
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We were away this last weekend, so we Tivo'd Robin Hood. I'm looking forward to seeing it, haven't seen a version of Robin in years [there are so many out there] Incidently, we were in Lake Havasu for the w/e and went over the old London Bridge more times in 2 days than I did when it was in London!
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They stood out like chapel 'at pegs.
Bygones magazine
in General Chat about Nottingham
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The next Bygones will be featuring old schools that are no longer around. I think it's going to be an interesting edition, my school for one, [William Crane] no longer exists. There are many more, long gone.