Cliff Ton

One of the best musical intros http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUm15jxuMvM&feature=fvwrel

Here's another which hasn't been mentioned so far (apart from in Bamber's massive list on Post #35) The Imperial on Wilford Road; maybe a few memories for any ex-Meadows residents.

And today the biggest set of numbers since I've been around here

I've found another photo of the Plaza

My grandad spent his entire working life at Players, (in the days when job-for-life really meant that), and the staff were often given free samples of various products. Working with tobacco every day, it's no surprise he was a non-smoker, so he used to give all his freebies to my dad - who did smoke. I remember the occasion when he presented my dad with a few trial sample packets of a new brand called No 6, which at that time still weren't on the market in the shops. So my dad was one of the first people anywhere to smoke a No 6.

This one? http://www.pictureth...014471&prevUrl= According to Chris Richards in one of his Radford books - the old Windsor cinema.... a showroom for Players No6 and No10 gifts.

Where? When? I haven't seen any mentions of UFOs in any news reports.

If I've got it right, quite a bit of that building still exists......http://maps.google.c...,281.16,,0,9.38

Sticking missiles on flats is just an outward show of propaganda. The real work will be going on behind the scenes and the press and public will know nothing about it. If something serious was discovered, the authorities would just get on with it and do something to sort the problem; it would become public knowledge when it was over and deemed "solved"

Here's an up-to-date photo of the Toll Bridge

After yesterday's little shower, I went out today to see how high the river was; not as extreme as I'd expected, but here's a few examples of it. And it might be a burst of nostalgia for anyone who hasn't seen the Trent Bridge/Embankment area for a few years

What's wrong with that? A public toilet which finally lives up to its name - a toilet in full view of the public

Don't think I'd ever seen this photo before, until I found it now..... http://www.pictureth...000313&prevUrl=

In the late part of the 1960s I often went with my dad to see the Stock Car/Bomber Car racing at Long Eaton Stadium. There's one song I remember always seemed to be played over the tannoy system between races, and whenever I hear it I'm back at LE Stadium

The Globe ? http://www.pictureth...003841&prevUrl=

I hadn't come across that before, but looking at Post #35 back in this thread by Bamber several years ago, it seems to have been called the Empress

And here's proof http://www.pictureth...019076&prevUrl= If you go back to the map; at the top there's a road called Peachey Street (which still exists) and goes off Mansfield Road and it has "Regent Hall" on it. That Hall was apparently a cinema until the 1940s

And if you go back far enough they didn't just make bikes http://www.flickr.co...57624797560079/

And going back to the area around the Mechanics and Moulin Rouge - this map is from the 1950s.......... You can see the Mechanics clearly marked, but I've not seen any previous mentions of the "New Victoria Cinema" shown on Shakespeare Street; and it continues round in a small way to Milton Street, and that was the entrance to the Moulin Rouge (see Stu's post #65 back up this thread)

Take a look back at post #37 in this thread for info on that building

But it didn't have a very long life http://www.pictureth...000059&prevUrl=

As Denshaw said...... http://www.pictureth...014128&prevUrl=

And to follow on from Littlebro's photos, here's what she actually did http://www.pictureth...010767&prevUrl= http://www.pictureth...010768&prevUrl=

I remember the Lyons place as well from when I was a kid. Stu, I agree, it was a fairly narrow place which went a long way back, and was on several levels. You went in at ground level and then went up a couple of flights of steps which were like terraces in a garden. The serving area where you got your food and drink was right up at the top at the back. Then you had to come back to the front half of the building to sit down and eat.

Borrowing this from the Cinemas thread, I don't remember the "Quality Cars" dealer on the corner of Mansfield Road/Shakespeare Street - complete with a Ford Consul Classic in the showroom. (And a bit further along Shakespeare Street was Dawsons the motorbike dealers?)