Cliff Ton

Logging in around 8.30 this morning, I saw what may be a new record. Of those 51 Guests, at least 45 of them were Bots and not real people.

I've posted this before somewhere, but...... I first became aware of Harry Wheatcroft in the 1960s because a lady near where we lived at Clifton acted as child-minder for some of his children. He would bring and collect them from her house (in his Jaguar) whilst flashing his extravagant whiskers.

I'd forgotten that but you're correct. I did indeed have the handlebars turned upside down. I never liked the normal racing bars, they were too awkward and uncomfortable for me so I carried out a few experiments and ended up with what you see.

A bit blurry, but this is one of my bike rides. Me on a bike at Clifton in the late 1960s.

When everything is going well, some sad news for Notts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65135896

I remember from my earliest days that you could use helium to get the squeaky voice effect. Sometimes balloons were inflated using helium, so you'd slightly release the knot in the balloon to let the helium out slowly, whilst breathing in what was being released. Instant amusement for a few seconds.

I first became aware of him with the Lily Savage character, which was clever and funny; a sort of update of the Les Dawson women. He seems to have been a genuinely nice bloke - and obviously did a lot for animal welfare charities.

Another piece of late 60s pop which I always liked; here with a slightly odd promotional film shot on a European railway.

I never paid much attention to Joan Baez back in the day, but I 'discovered' her a few years ago and found I really liked most of her recorded output. An amazing voice.

As katyjay said..........

A few days ago I went to a gathering of half a dozen ex-Fairham pupils, who I knew to various degrees. It's the first time I’ve been to any old school gathering since I finally left in 1973 and it was interesting to see and speak to people after a gap of 50 years - some more recognisable than others.

Were you trying to use the internal system within Nottstalgia for posting the photo (the one which says 'Max total size 50kb' ) ? That is a useless feature and nobody uses it. All photos here are posted using one of the free, online image-hosting sites such as Postimage or Imgur. If you want to post any more I recommend you use one of them.

That's something I've come across that I never previously realised; some people don't recognise themselves in very old photos if they'd never seen that photo before.

I think the problem may be the fact that you're using a phone. I've just looked on my (Android) phone and I reckon I'm seeing what you see - with slight variation. Try this......when you go to Nottstalgia on your phone, tap on the three black dots at top right.......then scroll down to 'Desktop Site'.

That's why. Google and the NS software developers think they know what's best for you and what you want to see. You need to set a bookmark specifically, and then go from that.

It depends - amongst other things - on what device you are using to view NS; and on what you've bookmarked. When I click on my NS bookmark on the Mac, this is what I first see. It gives me everything in chronological order, whether I've previously read it or not. Are you going to NS from a bookmark, or from something else ?

The offenders don’t always throw their rubbish out of the car whilst on the move. You often see a pile of rubbish (eg takeaway trays and drinks cans) all piled together at the side of the road, especially in side roads or lay-bys. That’s because the occupants have bought a takeaway, parked their car to eat the food, and when they’ve finished eating they just open the car door slightly and drop all their leftovers into the gutter, and drive off. I've seen it done many times, even in pub car parks.

Nottstalgia is good because it's more low-key and personal. Unfortunately that is also its weakness because it will never have the reach and scope of FB, so the chances of finding an old friend are much less on NS than on FB. As an example......only a few days ago on the Clifton School Photos Group someone has posted a class photo showing my first teacher at infants school. I've been waiting for years for such a photo to turn up, and it's the first time I've seen her since the early 1960s, although she's probably changed a bit since then. That's what FB is good at, and

I know what you mean about photos of meals, but you need to dig a bit deeper. There are a lot of Facebook Groups dedicated to specific subjects, in which you’ll only find posts on that topic; and they’re moderated, which hopefully cuts out the moron element. I’m in a number of Groups on various subjects, and you can learn a lot there, without having to scroll through idiot posts. In your quest to find ‘old mates’ there are several Clifton-based FB Groups where you would definitely find familiar names. One is dedicated to old Clifton School Photos, and the other is spec

I was around Clifton a couple of weeks ago and noticed how many large mature trees there are now; far more than when I was living there in the 1960s. It's become a surprisingly green place. Everything that was planted in the 50s and 60s has grown and become established.

It's now 3 years ago (late March) since the first lockdown started, and we all wondered if we'd ever go anywhere again. It all seems like a bit of a dream now.

Are you on Facebook ?

And Brian Epstein - in his plan for world domination - initially got the Beatles out of leather and into suits. At least for a few years. It worked.

Combining this subject of solo male singers with another thread........when you see these singers on television in the 1950s/60s they all wear suits and ties, looking like they've been for a job interview. Not a hint of shorts, t-shirts or denim.

As well as clothing, I'm not impressed by a lot of current hairstyles on men - with footballers demonstrating the point perfectly. I spent my early days having a forced short-back-and-sides because there was no choice; it seems I was 50 years ahead of my time. Men now go out of their way to have the style-less asymmetric slash with strange floppy bits, bizarre colours, extremely cropped or very long....all on the same head.