Cliff Ton

Bean and Gone.

We were on Woodbridge Avenue, but that name doesn't ring a bell with me.

I've had a lot of these in the last couple of days. Am I alone with the problem?

Next door but one ! A few years ago I was recognised by Alan Adkin, his older (?) brother who is a postman. He delivered to the place where I worked and I didn't know him until he told me who he was, then we both knew who we were. Yes, I've just sent you a Friend Request.

Melissa, you actually know everybody here and everybody knows you. Don't forget I lived in a house at Clifton which backed on to the house where your dad lived. I'm not sure I remember Mandy Daykin though; but if she was near Shawn's house I must've been aware of her.

I was picked up as having high blood pressure a few years ago and I've been taking the tablets ever since. According to the nurse concerned, I was high even by the standards of high - well into the 170s. Apparently I'm now normal. At the time I didn't feel unwell or odd in any way, and it was a bit of a fluke that my pressure was checked on that occasion. If I hadn't been, I might not be writing this now.

I've now discovered where the Nag's Head was. Almost next door to the Old Angel.

The London connection has been discussed in several threads including http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10118&hl=%2Bsaturday+%2Bnight

No, it hasn't ! You're right and I'm wrong The Old Angel hasn't closed at all; the one mentioned in David W's post was the Nag's Head on Stoney Street, which is not the one I linked a photo of.

Back to the original question, which was never really sorted........a few days ago I was on Exchange Walk and on the left-hand side I noticed this entrance. Is this the place Smiffy49 is remembering? Poking around behind that door, it looks like this.

This is sort-of relevant to this thread.

That newspaper report mentions the Old Milton's Head, and also two other now-gone pubs - the Old Angel on Stoney Street and the Old Anchor on Walnut Tree Lane. Coincidence that all three start with 'Old .........' http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM002213&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM004308&prevUrl=

If somebody Googles Hucknall, Basford or Bulwell, will they get the forum for Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford in their results?

Just at the edge of here http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM019204&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM019210&prevUrl= http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM019187&prevUrl=

I'm not sure it's a good idea to go to Thailand at the moment. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27490670

It's not the one you might first think of. A lot of people here will remember the Milton"s Head on Milton Street which disappeared under the Vic Centre. But it seems there was also another pub called Milton. Half way up Derby Road towards Canning Circus, this old place has had a layer (or two) of paint stripped off. I assumed it had been a 19th century town house, and there can't be many of those from that era - and in that location - which have survived almost unaltered. Nosing around on Picture the Past, it seems it wasn't a house, but an ex-pub - The Old Milton's Head, shown here i

Was this thread prompted by the bearded ladyman at Eurovision?

http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12379&hl=beard

See this thread, post #15 http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=105&hl=%2Blone+%2Branger#entry108232

The Post has virtually no physical connection with Nottingham these days. The people who write that stuff have probably never been near the place and know nothing about Nottingham.

I suppose it's also due to the ever-decreasing number of people who can contribute or reminisce. They are either no longer around, or their memory isn't what it used to be ! The audience for the "good old days" is permanently shrinking. I don't very often see Bygones, but I presume that - if they haven't already - they will have to start looking back at the 70s and 80s because people born in those years will soon be the new "oldies".

The main thing to remember is that on both your journeys - in and out - you will be travelling against the main flow of traffic, so your journey will be relatively easy. You will be able to wave at the people sitting in queues going the other way.

Amazing but true, I have O level Russian, although I'm not sure how much of it I can remember after almost 40 years.

On the Old Maps website there's the more serious version of that game. At every location you look at, you get an example of a Russian map from the 1970s. These are genuine and were created at the height of the Cold War, and show what the Communist Bloc were looking at when the idea of nuke Nottingham was a real possibility. This map may look familiar, until you see the language used for the street names.

Considering it was a fairly important event in the history of this country, it's almost ignored here. It's not only Robin Hood that gets underplayed; the only reference to Charles raising his standard around here is this pathetic stone in the middle of the road at Standard Hill. I'll bet almost no-one knew this was even there.