piggy and babs

As I said in other post I would start a new topic on Carlton Girls School Station Rd Carlton I went there from 1962 to 1966 the head misstress was Miss Jones at this time.Some of the teacher I remember are Miss Edginton Music , Miss Johnson the elder who was my form teacher from 2nd to 4th year taught maths, Miss Johnson the younger taught needlework she was my form teacher 1st year its easy to remember my form teachers names. I was in the c stream not very academic never really liked school untill I whent to secondary school by then I had wasted much of my education. Miss Machin maths and

MET UP WITH BUNTIES SON STEPHEN JUST LAST WEEK WAS TAKLING ABOUT THE SHOP HE HAD A TWIN BROTHER PETE . WHO WAS A ROCKER AND I KNEW HIM BETTER THAN STEVE BUT THEY BOTH USED TO HELP IN THE SHOP. I USED TO GO IN THERE EVERY DAY ON MY WAY TO SCHOOL CARLTON GIRLS JUST OPPOSIT THE FIRE STATION ON STATION RD. ALWAYS BROUGHT A TUBE OF SMARTIES. I COULD PUT THESE IN MY BLOUSE POCKET AND SNEAK THEM OUT WHEN I WAS HUNGRY OR BORED. ONCE GOT 500 LINES FROM THE HEAD MISTRESS MISS JONES ,I MUST NOT RIDE ON MOTORBIKES IN MY SCHOOL UNIFORM. THIS WAS AFTER SHE HAD SEEN ME GETTING ONTO MY BROTHERS FRIENDS MO

yES THE OTHER ANSWER BY PIGGY.Someone told us not so long ago that they are both back living in notts but no longer together dont know if this is crrect. babs.

Run by ERNIIE KNOWLS AND HIS WIFE. Ernie was a master baker Made me my wedding cake with just 4 weeks notice good job it was a cristmas wedding as he was already making his christmas cakes and was able to use two of these and it really was a butiful cake. We used the bottom tier for our first sons 1st birthday 5 years later it was still mouth waterink cake even after being kept in clingfilm baco foil and kept in a tin for five years. Ernie always told me he would make me my wedding cake when I got married. But I was going out with his younger son trevor at the time but thats another story.

Hi Ash and all . The other guy in 3rd pic is JOHN SMITH lived in first house forsythia gardens back of white hart left his wife a 6 kids went to live in australia died a few years back still in touch with june his ex wife. Ash can we have some copies of these for our memorial corner. Piggy sez get your arses down here and look at some of the photoes we have already got not a lot of the old days so if any of you old rockers have got anything from the past we would love to have copies of them , but want to get as many photoes of those who are sadly no longer with us to set up a memerial board.

HiAsh just come back from white hart looking at the post. tried to send you a message last week it would not let me for some reason. was pat hutchinson the one who worked at the george hotel in hockley brian exton i remember slightly. Re Sambo piggy often talks about him i remember him sitting up on the eagle at highfields hafe way gate when there was a race on . pm us and let us know which oldace it is have a few ideas but not sure have told several old aces about this site when we have seen them perhaps if more of them see this we can get a few more into the thread and bring back more

come on all you old rockers and mods out there tell us all about the old cafe and pubs you went to in the sixties i no that some have been mentioned breifly already but many more still have not had a mention. i will jog your memories with a few i used and remember. WHITE HART LENTON GREYGOOSE GEDLING CAVENDISH CARLTON THE CARLTON HOTEL ELTORIODOR TRUDYS CARLTON HILL GAY CAFE SHEDS BEESTON JACKS BEESTON ROBINS QUEENS RD BEESTON WHITEPOST FARNSFIELD RIVERSIDE CAFE GUNTHORPE THE SHIP SKEGGY THE EAGLE MABLETHORPE HERE ARE JUST A FEW TO GET YOU THINKING.

Iam trying to do my family history and keep hitting brickwalls on my fathers side just wonder if any one out there may be able to help been down the archives and city libary several times and i am getting nowere. Carnt find them on any cencus. my fathers name was GEORGE HENRY CLEMENTS born 1 Colwick Rd Nottingham September 1908. His parents were Henry and Lizzy posibly Elizabeth Clements nee Rowlands but not sure on this dad did not tell us much about his family. His grantfather was Thomas Clements belived to be Irish his grand mother I belive was Susannah Clements. They had several boarding

Yep Mick Cathys Clown by the Everlies was one I remember well She wears red feathers At the hop and all the latest records of the day as well as war time songs that would be played in between for all the older people that were there with kids or grand kids . I think the last time I was down there was about 1964.

Hiya mick you will find i have got lots of memories from all round Nottingham have got a very good memory for people and places. But as a newbie I am still ploughing through the site and busy telling other people we know about this great site hence the message from Kat who was an old school friend from Carlton Girls School who I met again last year for the first time in over 40years and we now see each other most weeks. We should start a topic up on this school Kat and see who else pops up out of the old woodwork. Bye the way I know that Kat is trying hard to find out any info on the hist

Yes thats right first into the big oily pond and then on down by brasso playing fields down past muck hills and then in between muck hills and horse fields my friend Leslie Denoon kept her horses in there we had to cross a little brige near bottom of LNW TERRACE,to get to them.Then it went parralel with the railway line going under one of the tunnells out into the fields and into the trent near the viduct.Some of the railway signal men at the box before the viduct would let us go across to the Radcliffe side of the river were we would sometimes spend the day if we had got the money we would

For any one who is interested east kirby has a 40s day this saturday we are going out for a run with steves clasic bikes meet from ilkeston so there will be clasic and modern bikes as well as the planes and forties costumes. we were out with them to forties day at churnette vally railway forties day last saturday.

My father was born at no 1 colwick rd still there in 1908 and later moved to no 37 sneinton hermitage were he lived untill his marrage at st stephens church in 1937. He always told us that his grandfather built these houses along with His partners and owned these properties until his death until first world war.most of these propoties at this end of the road were large 3 storey houses.

Were did you play What did you play who did you play with. Or werent you allowed to play out with us hooligans.

Its now the home of Nottingham play fourum or as it used to me know playworks. Been in this place many times for play training and meetings they also have a scrap store and resources centre. Iwas a playworker for city council for 12 years and for seventeen years before that did voluntary playwork. babs

Hi AYUP MY HUSBAND DAVE PIGGOTT [PIGGY] worked at clifton pit from 1963 to 65 check no 342 till he had to leave after being brought up pit and taken home with phewmonia sez he really missed it when he had to finish. My father George Henry Clements AKA little wemmy check no 432 worked at gedling from 1920 to 1973 he always said hard work but great mates and would never do owt else. so pits were always part of my life remmember in schooll holidays going with him to collect his wages on friday goin in the canteen for dinnermy dad worked perminent nights running main belt for the last 25 years

What about when pigs fly up hockley. Iwish i was a bird id fly away. Iam under 5ft but they call me the rock viler cause i got a mouth like a parishoven. when i am out in a group they always use me to get every one to get together and listen,when they want a group photo or to tell thewhole group something. my dad was a miner all his working life so we always had big fires when it was cold even in the bdrooms when it was really bad so never got frost inside our windows our neighbours never had a lot of coal but said they always knew when we had a fire in our bedroom as theirs was alwa

Thanks to Ashley we found this great site and became members have not read all the threads as yet but the ones i have have been great bringing back lots of memories. As Ash went to many of the places we did his threads always bring back memories of the great times we old rockers used to have both in Nottingham and on trips and rallies across the country. By the way Ash have you looked at Leichester Pheonix MCC club site just type in goose fair rally or robin hood rally and see what comes up to jog your memory also a very interesting site for any old motor cycle rally fans some good threads.

May have been John Allen still alive age 86 this year was also the co.op. santa for some years. also was barman and door man at the upstairs disco white hart lenton.

What about the barell organ man and his monkey .Yes they really did exist

The name of the stream is the Ouse dyke runs all the way from Mapperley through Carlton and Netherfield into the trent near Netherfield Lagoons a lot of it was piped underground dont no were it starts though. Spent many a happy hour or two fishing for tiddlers and grayfish in this dyke first when i lived in Netherfield and the on rusher fields when we moved to cavendish rd. could go on and on about the cricket fields and trent fields as we called them then spent much of my time in these places as i was growing up also on the Neatherfield muck hills behind were morrisons now is on old pram w

another one to jog your memories BIG JOHN SHAW worked RockCity among others also a biker now owns trent cars.

Re Tony Starky he is still in Nottingham we down the white hart lenton on thursday night for bikers night still ridding bikes is looking into doing sidecar racing again dont know how far this has gone re Big Baz big Mick Marriott and the fight in Blackpool the guy from blidworth was Robert Elsabrook or kmown as Elsiebrook by most dose this jog your memeory ashley it was 1968 the year before piggy went in the airforce we were on that trip from forty one club some big guys on that bus the police got on the bus after this fight but soon got of again. For those of you who bid not know BIG BAZ PR

the bear was owned by jackie poundall and kept on his land in bakersfield . in the 50s we kids from netherfield used to get an old pram from one of the neibours fill it with old rags and ofcourse the woolens would be kept seperate as these were worth more.we would then walk up the old colwick rd to manverse st to trickets and wiegh them in pram as well. tricketts was were the manverse community centre now is then off down trent lane to pleasure park stopping at monkey park on the way this was were virgin medea offices now is.once we got to pleasure park we would spend the money we had got f

THIS MAY HAVE BEEN ALBERT MARSHALL ANS HIS HORSE HERCULEESE HE LIVED IN WESTMINSTER TERRACE LODGE WITH MY GRAMA WAS A COUSIN OF ALBERT POUNDALL THE SCRAP MERCHANT . KEPT HIS HORSE ON THE ALLOTTMENTS NEAR PORCHESTER RD CARLTON RD. ALSO BRED BEUTYFUL ANGORA RABBITS INMANY DIFFERENT COULORS I WOULD HELP TO GROOM THESE FUR HAD TO BE KEPT IN SEPERATE SACKS TILL IT WAS FULL THEN HE WOULD SELL IT HE HAD A CLUB FOOT SO WALKED WITH A PRONOUNCED LIMP. BESIDES THE FISH HE ALSO WOULD GIVE AWAY CUPS AND SAUCERS SOMETHING THAT COULD BE ARD TO FIND IN THE FIFTIES ESSPECIALLY FOR POR FAMILIES WITH LOTS OF K