Cliff Ton
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Somewhere near the Playhouse?
Ropewalk area?
Close
Quite large houses, must have been in the Park.
Close
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southey street ?
No. you've gone further away. Go back towards the direction of Clarendon Street
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Any idea when they were demolished Cliff?.
They would've disappeared by the mid 1960s
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clarendon street?
No, but not too far away. A few minutes walk from it
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Cliff Ton:
By answering littlebro's poser, it now becomes your turn to set the next question...
Cheers
Robt P.
So here it is.......not sure if this will be very easy or very difficult.
These houses are no longer standing, but it's a location very close to the city centre
I've cropped the photo to the left, because otherwise you'd get it straight away
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Cliff Ton:
By answering littlebro's poser, it now becomes your turn to set the next question...
Cheers
Robt P.
Ah, nobody told me that ......
I'll be back with one before long
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A quick one for Cliff, have you got any brothers called Len or Carl (ton)? !rotfl!
No, but I once knew a happily married couple called Bert and Joyce
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Hi Limey, you are correct, it's not him.
The airport was built in 1964/5 and opened in April '65, the guy in the image was the first director, Googling should give you his name.
Finally, the clue I've been waiting for.
I've been looking at his mug since this thread started and I knew I'd seen him somewhere before. I worked for British Midland at the airport in 1974-75 and it was all vaguely familiar
The answer is !
! ERIC DYER -
Have I imagined it, or do I remember the Co-op used to have pop lorries doing the rounds as well?
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I think the main reason it's closing is because there just aren't enough kids there to keep it going.
Take a look at this link http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Clifton-bids-farewell-Fairham/article-1158154-detail/article.html
You'll see there were 174 kids and 19 teachers remaining. When I was there 66-73 there were around 1600 kids and 100 staff.
I had a shock a couple of years ago when I looked at the place from Google aerial maps; half the buildings had been demolished even then, so the site still existed but there were big empty spaces where various buildings used to be.
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Been there years back ...full of weird shaped plastic furniture and crap you'd never let cross your doorway...
Isn't it called IKEA?
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Hi Cliff and welcome, I hope you have a good time trawling through the interesting topics that are on here.
I had about 3 years at Clifton till I had my car nicked from outside my house....Luckily I escaped to a place that has no lawlessness, just peace and quiet and a good place for me to enjoy my retirement..
Owdtite.
To be fair to the place, it never seemed all that bad when I was there. I'd stopped living there by the early 1980s, but I always thought it was the 'least bad' of the various Estates. My parents lived there till the end of the 1990s, and if I'm up that way I occasionally drive through for a burst of nostalgia. Most people go out of their way to avoid it, but I go into it (ok only once every couple of years) and It looks much grimmer now than back then.
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We have that particular edition my hubby is a great collector i will have to look at it again, the good old days, cannot remember how much the Post cost back then but wasnt it about 3d?
I've just had a look at the edition I was referring to.
Monday July 21st 1969.
Cost 5d
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Just noticed this category.
I became a new person a few days ago and I've already posted a few messages, but I'd missed the introduction bit.
So a few days after the event, here I am
Born and bred locally (guess where by the name) and I've lived in various places around Nottingham over the years.
Old enough to remember Nottingham in the 60s before it was ruined by the planners.
And I'm not quite at the retirement stage yet, but I'll probably be doing that here as well.
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I think there was one called the Moulin Rouge in Trinity square with a café next door with the same name. Again I believe that was for X rated films.
Opposite the entrance to Victoria Station/Hotel.
Not that I know it from personal experience
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Remembering when it was a broadsheet and made yer arms ache.....
I've actually still got an example of one from back then. I kept a load of newspapers from the day of the moon landings (July 69, which makes me old) and one of them is an Evening Post from that day.
The interesting bit is looking at things like
the job adverts - £20 per week as an electrician;
houses for sale (£1,500 in Arnold):
cars - a 3 yr old Ford Anglia for £250,
what was on tv in those days; Rolf Harris
who played for Notts cricket in those days; Bolus, Stead
being fined £5 for being drunk;
Seems like a dream
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Weird how I can instantly remember it, but I've never thought about it for years.
117864
We were Varney Road, Clifton, and Southchurch Drive Clifton
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I believe the Post is now printed in Derby, I will say no more
I'm new to this site, but I've been lurking and watching for a while. And I've been living in Nottingham for years, so I know summat about it.
The Evening Post has been printed in Derby for a very long time (like, years) but they never wanted to admit it because obviously it wouldn't look very good as it's supposed to be a local paper.
All Posts used to come in vans down the A52 before they became local, which is a bit of a joke
Rock City in the 80's
in 80's Nottingham
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Can't remember exactly, but in 1980 or 81 I was there to see the legendary Kraftwerk gig.
After that tour, they hardly did anything for the next 20 years. And that classic lineup split soon after