Cliff Ton

Nice one....and in only four days.

I assume that means you don't normally use DDG ? I'm not sure why that should give you an old version of the Home Page. But if that enables you to log in, I suggest you stick with it - and bookmark it. I think the problem ultimately is that the software which runs Nottstalgia just doesn't like some devices and browsers.

It must be interesting and nostalgic to go back to your old school(s). I have limited opportunity; my Infants and Secondary Schools have both been demolished since my time. Only my Junior School is still there.

Jill has asked me to post these photos showing a number of former Berridge pupils on a recent visit to the school.

Are you able to test it out on any other device ? eg Someone else's computer or phone ?

When you try to log on or off, is this what you see ? Click on the three dots on the right, then scroll down and click on 'Desktop Site'. That should give you the option to log in or out.

What device are you using to view the site ? Desktop/Laptop/Phone/etc.

Something I've noticed in the last few years is that virtually no-one uses cash on buses. Everyone has some kind of card (whether it's for oldies or pre-paid) or a phone app.

The 250 limit was/is not on the Political thread, it's on the Social Functions thread. Ownership hasn't changed.

Unfortunately he seems to be a member of that ever-increasing group of people who have forgotten about, or lost interest in, or disappeared from this corner of the internet.

That’s a great piece of film for anything connected with Nottingham. I'm not sure if I saw the play when it was first transmitted Can anyone identify the pub at 0.55. It’s Trumans, and there’s a street nameplate but it’s hidden by the onscreen logo. (Although it's a Barton's coach, it may not be Nottingham). It includes two actors who, a few years later, would appear in Last of the Summer Wine - Joe Gladwin and Michael Bates. And at 4.20 a bit of local interest for me with shots of Queen’s Drive, showing Clifton colliery and Wilford power station .

Sometimes it's embarrassing being British

Yesterday evening I watched the 1 hour highlights on BBC2 without knowing anything of what had happened, and it turned out to be one of the best programmes I've seen for a long time. And I dislike S. Smith more every time I see him.

As there isn't much happening here so far today, this is what the Embankment looked like this morning.

Any photos Ben ?

You've obviously all got my share because for the first time for a long while, I've had nothing this month.

If you look at the Coronavirus thread starting here - https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/18772-coronavirus/?page=27&tab=comments#comment-637632 and continue through the posts over the next few months, you'll see all the references to his Russian wife.

I've been informed by Jill S that Nottstalgia member Mercurydancer passed away recently. From 2011 to 2022 he made over 1000 posts, and the last time he logged in was towards the end of last year, Along with several other people here, he was a former pupil of Berridge School and also a former member of Notts Constabulary. His posts were interesting and informative.......and people like that will always be missed.

I don't know the area at all, but this map is from the 1940s and shows a school near - but not on - Flowery Leys Lane. It seems to be on Birchwood Road. That same school (and no other in the area) is still marked on a map from the early 1960s.

This shows what the place looked like in the 90s, before Starbucks moved in. https://picturenottingham.co.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/ntgm021079/posterid/ntgm021079.html

Was this specifically a reference to a bar rather than a pub ? The Bentinck on Station Street was always known as a hotel; maybe it had a bar of the same name within it.

The next meet-up needs to be in a place which has a piano, and you can play music to accompany us while we eat.

I've always remembered the name Sabine Baring-Gould from early school days, in connection with hymns and folk songs. And never having known any other person named Sabine, I always assumed it was a woman. I discovered only a few years ago that it's a man. His main claim to fame may be writing 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.

Quite a few options on what the book may have been. https://shorturl.at/co156

Something to do with Cecil Sharp ?