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Does anybody else remember Dave OneTab? He used to drink in the Exchange 30 years ago.He was a 'butcher' and used to sell meat in there, better not to ask where it came from. Ah!! The Exchange, now there was a pub. I walked in the back bar one night, and a guy tried to sell my Mrs a red leather jacket, she tried it on, it didn't fit her. Another guy saw her try it on and bought it for his girlfriend. The seller left, and a minute later a guy came back from the gents, saw this girl wearing his leather jacket that he had left on his chair, and demanded it back.

I think I've worked it out.

Was Fifty Shilling Tailors shop ever at the corner of Friar Lane?

Bath Street Surplus Shop was a Pownall shop. Bought a kitchen wall cabinet from there once. It got overloaded and all the crockery spilled onto the floor when the top screws came out. I was trying to hold it up as the pots and pans were bouncing off my head.

Yes , of course it was Cupitt, stupid of me to get it wrong.

It was called 'The Parliament House' for over a century, it changed to the Princess in 1981, then to Nico's in 1988, and shortly after that to The Cask and Bottle. It ceased being a pub in 2000. Once again thanks to Douglas Whitworth's 'Nottingham Pubs' for the info.

If it's the same Mick Cupid, he had a bike in the early 60's and was in the Clifton Saints, not to be confused with another biker gang called the Meadows Saints. He had a brother called Brian, who was always ready for a fight, Brian was mates with Johnny Carrington, who, by the way, was known as Carro. After a some of years of hostility, the Clifton Saints and the Aces got together one bank holiday at the Ship at Skeggy, and guess what, we found out we were just the same as each other, and we had a good time together. I remember one of Mick cupid's mates was called Barney he was 6ft, had t

According to Douglas Whitworth's 'Nottingham Pubs', The Crescent Inn was at the corner of Bruce Grove and Ryland Crescent and was one of twenty two pubs demolished when the area was redeveloped in the 70's. From the photo it looks like it was a private house at one time, with a bay window on the Bruce Road side and just one small sash window on Ryland Crescent. I will put the photo up if you want, but I am computer illiterate and it would take me up to an hour, as did the one I put on of the Rose and Thistle on the closed pubs thread.

Snow so deep it came over the top of our wellingtons on the way to school. Schools that never shut because of the weather. Playing football and cricket on the road String Ticky, Tin Can Lukey. Playing on frozen canals when you could hear the ice creaking. Treeclimbing. Being taught at infant school by embittered spinsters who were left on the shelf after WW1.(I worked that out later) Carrying torches at night. Being able to see the stars at night because the street lights were so dim. Bonfire Night with absolutely no health and safety considerations. Smog.

I've had McAfee for several years and I like it.

I wondered why they were named as they were, the biggest I worked on was Brigadier. During the summer of '95 I was involved with changing the boilers at several schools, I can remember doing Whipple, Crane and was there a school named after someone called Sharp, there were more that I can't remember.The school boilers were usually Captains, although I can recall one was Majors and another was Cadets. I think it was at William Crane that we put the old asbestos outside the boiler house, where it got wet, the kide were at school and were rolling it into balls and throwing it at each other.

Re the Villiers 3T, I had a 1959 Panther Model 35 250cc which had the 2T, Panther also made a Model 45 325cc which had the Villiers 3T. I think some of the other small manufacturers which used Villiers had the 3T. The trouble was that once people had passed their test on a 250cc they didn't bother with a 325cc. I have just found a showroom leaflet for the Berkeley, a real one, not online,optional extras included spare wheel and tyre (tyre not available from manufaturers), fuel gauge and luggage grid. The BMC Mini was so much better and finished off many utility vehicle makers.

Yes that was him,I remember now he was a butcher, sorry to hear he died. I presume your Berkeley 325cc was the Villiers 3t which was a bored out 2T. Regarding canvas roofed 3 wheelers, a guy that we used to see when we hung about on Central Avenue, W.Bridgford had an old Reliant van, it had girder forks and canvas roof. The owner was in his 20's, very well spoken,well dressed and always had a silver hip flask of whiskey. He was drunk when he crossed Radcliffe Road at the old swing bridge junction at Rutland Road, he was hit and overturned by a Bonneville with Avon Steamliner ridden by Steve

I agree about the turning circle. My Bond had the 197cc engine, if later they fitted a 250cc engine that could have been the Villiers 2T. The 2T was far more powerful than the 10E, but not as reliable if my experiences on Villiers engined bikes are anything to go by. Ashley, did Bond use the 2T?

In early summer 1964 I was working for Young Austin and Young and was sent to the Council House to join a gang changing the central heating boilers. There were 6? Beeston Boiler Colonels to be replaced. Myself and another teenager were tasked with the job of taking the old boiler parts up to street level after they had been broken up into pieces. We struggled with them out of the boiler-house up a long narrow staircase up to the next level, there we put them on the lift in question to get them to street level. I can't remember seeing anything of note down there, but I think the lift only w

I had a Bond Minicar in 1965, I think I paid £12 for it. It had a Villiers 10E engine (or was it a 9E Ashley), had to lift the bonnet to kickstart it, the brakes were useless. I was hit by a Lambretta on Queens Road Beeston, the scooter wasn't too badly damaged, but I had to write off the Bond. Aluminium body was light but easily bent, the front wheel was jammed against it at an angle, I crossed the road and went into some iron railings. The accident was my fault,I didn't allow for the poor brakes, but the scooter rider was a learner carrying a passenger, so we called it quits. Later, in

In St Annes late 60's 'it's dark over Bill's mothers', short 'o' in over and mothers.

I saw Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band at Knebworth 1975, the stewards were helping many acid casualties to the Release tent while he was on. I'm afraid I did not understand his music at the time although I had many friends who did. R.I.P

Hi Firbeck, We didn't get to the wedding reception either. There was a slight thaw on Saturday, then it started to freeze again when it got dark, ie 2.00 o'clock, I wasn't prepared to risk single track roads under those conditions. It's snowing now,but I might try to get the car out later as we are running out of beer. It isn't as cold here as it is down south, in fact Shetland is quite often the warmest part of the UK during December and especially January.

I seem to remember getting a digital watch from the filling station opposite the Wollaton Park shops near the Crown,this would be mid 80's. I taped it to the steering damper on my A10.I can't remember how many gallons I had to buy.

Just who is it who decides what the 'current thinking' is?

The Coral Island by R.M.Ballantyne, It is wonderfully non-politically correct. If you can find it, why not buy it for your grandkids?

Best of luck with your marquee reception Firback. The couple getting hitched up here on Saturday have travelled all the way from Langley Mill, where they now live, I think a few Notts folk are also coming up here for the wedding. The bride and groom are Shetland born and bred, but are enjoying living in Notts. It's still blowing a gale up here, more snow forecast, ground temp -8, but -20 with wind chill, so the salt isn't working. We've got plenty of food in, if the the power lines hold out we'll be as snug as bugs in a rug. Just heard that the ferry from Aberdeen is cancelled tonight, the

It's been snowing on and off since early hours in Shetland, it's now blowing a bizzard, visiblity down to 25 yds at times. I had to take the wife to the dentist this morning, we made it there and back, but will not be taking the car out again on snow covered ice. We are supposed to go to a wedding reception on Saturday at a hall that's at the bottom of a hill, it's looking doubtful. I suppose that when the weather gets to Notts, the winds will be less violent and the temperature a few degrees warmer, but it may well be snow on ice. I really recommend that you do not drive under such condit

I remember that night we went to the Byards Leap cafe and filling station, which was shut for the night. It must have been about 2am when I was telling the legend of Byards Leap and some of the weird things that had happened there since, eg the bus full of air cadets that crashed there during the war. We heard a crunching sound coming towards us out of the dark, it turned out to be the old woman who owned the place, she was dressed in a full length white nightdress, and was in a wheelchair, crunching the gravel. Oh! how some of those rufty tufty rockers nearly s--t their wrangler jeans. Sh