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I remember when I was a kid in the Meadows: I'd go on Arkwright St & stop any bus then leg it, great fun. One day there was a knock at the door, an irate bus driver stood there & told Mam what I'd done & she gave me a good hiding while he watched. He went away happy.......When we'd moved to Bestwood Village, my mate & I used to climb in the boot of the Makemsons bus & have a free ride to Bulwell & back. One day instead of coming back to Bestwood it went to the garage on Highbury Vale. We had to walk all the way back. That taught us a lesson.

Yeah it was useful to have someone to watch out for you, I had 2 cousins looking after me, Tony (RIP) & Vincent Bentley, they were very useful..

Ahh yes it's coming back to me now. Top row 3rd from right ? Jackson. Pic # 6: 1st row 3rd from left, I think that's me. I remember some of the others there: Roy Bakewell, Mick Woodward (RIP, went to his funeral in feb,) Terry lester, if I think of any others I'll post..

I remember George Falconbridge, big lad if I remember right, think he was on the football team at some point..

The Stuart name rings a bell, but I couldn't put a face to it.

Wish I'd known about this reunion. I didn't know about Nottstalgia back then as I'd only just gone online & was still learning. I remember Diane Dore (think she had a twin brother: Derek?) John Hammond & Billy Pearce. Billy was at (NCB) Moorgreen training center same time as me, we then split & lost touch as I went to Hucknall pit & he went to Cotgrave I think.

Yeah think you're right. I've never heard of Mr Petchel so he must have moved on before I started seniors. My sister went to TB girls but she's five years older than me & left seniors before I started.

I left TB in march 68 when I was 14 when we moved to Bestwood Village, I then had to start at Beardall St, Hucknall till July. I wanted to travel to TB but they wouldn't let me because Bestwood Village was in the county & TB was in the city. I loved it though because I was the new kid on the block & had the girls after me, till I got caught two timing, that's when the shouting & fuss started...I think you must have been a year higher than me..

I got the cane off Piggy for splitting my project with a screwdriver, I pressed on it too hard... One day I was in assembly & as I was the smallest in the class had to stand at the front, I was gawping at a Lad further back who had a gormless look on his face, Pot Leg Bill clocked me & said "a boy over there seems to find something fascinating at the back," I knew he meant me & smirked, he launched himself at me & smacked me round the tabhole. The whole school burst out laughing, I thought I'd die of embarrassment.

Thanks Mick..

True Mick, they say a good wacking does you good. Half way through my last year at TB we moved & I had to start a new school (Beardall Street in Hucknall.) On my very last day there I pressed the emergency stop button for the circular saw in woodwork & got the cane for it, I was such a naughty Boy.

Air conditioning? that's a thing I should check, it's so long since I've used it, it's probably seized up though idleness..

Yes I remember Betty Bakewell she was my teacher when I was in 2B, RIP to her. I also remember Miss Slack, she taught me in 4B. If I remember right Betty was Roland Greens daughter, he lived round the corner from me in one of the terraces on Glapton Road. Roy, I'm sure I remember you, you was in my class through juniors I think. When I went up to seniors I was in 1M4, 2M4 ect & think you was in another class, (1M2?.) I met Mr Spungin a few years after leaving school while doing a mining tech course at Arnold & Carlton college & he remembered me..

Ahh yes remember Mr Marciniak, he was a friend of my Dad & I thought he'd never cane me. Wrong. It flipping hurt as well. He lived in one of the terraces on Glapton Road for a while, I lived on Glapton Road itself & he used to stand at the front door yabbering to Dad for ages..