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I didn't really get the Young Ones at the time, but I became converted later. He was a great comedy actor, not just a comedian. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27770266

Old ladies with sharp stubble that's something I'd forgotten about.

I had a similar problem with compatible cartridges on my HP printer. I think there is a reason why they are cheaper. They would work for a while but then I'd get an error message saying "the black cartridge is faulty or incompatible with this printer" That happened several times over a couple of years, and I'd have to buy a new black cartridge even though the old one was still more than half full. So I stopped buying the cheap versions.

Weird. I seem to have started this thread 3 and half years ago, but I don't particularly remember writing it. It's brought back a few memories for me as well.

The big growth industry everywhere these days is nail bars. Every time a small shop unit becomes vacant it immediately re-opens as a nail bar. Ten years ago you'd never seen one; now they are breeding faster than Poundland or Tesco Express; how did we all cope with our nails in the old days? The former Capocci's building on Parliament Street - mentioned many times in Nottstalgia - has become one of the latest victims of nail mania.

Based on what Ann said, this shows the number of houses in the area of Swains Avenue / White's Avenue around the late 1940s.

Ann, I think you may have made matters worse Present day Swains Avenue doesn't go beyond 55 (odd) or 74 (evens). Looks like it might be one of those cases where there was a renumbering at some stage. Today, White's Avenue splits 49 and 51.

I've posted this before, quite a long time ago, but it will fit in this thread as well.

This probably isn't that one, but it's an alternative view of things. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM008064&prevUrl=

I presume you've 'travelled' up Swain's Avenue on Streetview. The houses there cover a wide range of styles and ages. I reckon your Mayfair House would've been one of the old 'farm' houses such as this. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.961006,-1.115148,3a,75y,246.68h,97.79t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sz_NAmQD6UKWyCjWijpDIEg!2e0?hl=en That obviously isn't it, but if you zoom in on Streetview to the stone across the middle window you'll see this place has a name. Unfortunately it isn't Mayfair House.

This 'un. http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM000402&prevUrl=

Date bricks are actually on Church Street round the corner https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.94881,-1.174806,3a,37.5y,351.05h,136.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sWLHbvU0z1fU_E0jU_V2IcA!2e0?hl=en Head Office was the old building with the new, sympathetic extension beyond. It's now all student flats.

I'm pretty sure this used to be a Co-op on Lenton Boulevard. Ground floor is now a burger bar and upper floors are student apartments. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46689104.html

Congratulations Mr E. That is almost certainly the longest single post I've ever seen on Nottstalgia.

If I recall the correct person, Phoenix got very angry about a particular topic and almost demanded to be deleted from the forum. It was entirely her own choice.

Do you have the house number on Swains Avenue? or is it just Mayfair House?

The word could be used today when referring to the way it was used in the past, but not to describe anything contemporary. And the subject was discussed in this thread http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8931&page=4&hl=gibson#entry222924

For a great selection of Nottingham trolleybus photos try this site which I've probably linked to before, http://www.trolleybus.net/ On the left, scroll down to Transfer Lounge and click on Other Systems, then click on Trolleybus towns - Nottingham

I'm not particularly a dog person, but I don't mind them as long as they don't mind me. I've always worked on the principle that dogs reflect their owners. If a dog is well-behaved, sensible and under control, then its owner is probably similar. If a dog is aggressive, out of control and unpleasant, then its owner is probably of a similar type. And I can't stand those owners who are out walking their dog and let it run up to passers-by with.... "oh, it's all right, he only wants to play". They seem to think the animal has every right to come bounding up to me and sniffing around. So to come

Another one of those awkward types who registered, and then has never posted anything.

And you can buy a helluva lot of his material on Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_8?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=bill+reed+collection&sprefix=bill+ree%2Cstripbooks%2C156

This is a marrer.

And most of those are now constantly recycled on the Gold / Old / Yesterday channels; so it's like living in the 50s and 60s but with a better telly.

This is the version I remember http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM021248&prevUrl=

I remember the concrete & glass version of the Hearty which disappeared in the 1980s, but I'd never realised there was an earlier version. It's the mock-Tudor place on the right of the photo up Mount Street.