Cliff Ton
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....and depending on exactly where you are it was accompanied by a massive murmuration of starlings.
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I'd missed the news about it possibly closing down, but it's here on the unreadable Evening Post website.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/sad-day-nottingham-after-rumoured-9068219
It seems the owners have gone into liquidation, affecting other venues as well as PRYZM/Palais.
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I also have memories of The Owl Service.
I first encountered it in my 3rd or 4th year at Fairham Comp; we read it as a class book and nobody understood what was happening. It was around the same time as the TV series - which I watched, and that didn't make things any clearer.
I'd like to know what Alan Garner was on when he wrote it. He had a very strange idea of what was suitable for teenagers - and I was one at the time.
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I've been on Amlodipine 10mg for around 15 years, and I'm still here.
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5 hours ago, DAVIDW said:
This picture cropped up again on a Facebook page
Which one ?
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This is Byron Yard (running down the side of Lord Byron pub) and Kirk’s Yard.
The road across the top is Narrow Marsh, aka Red Lion Street, and now known as Cliff Road. For a present day reference, at top-centre is Loggerhead Inn. That building is still there today, but no longer a pub.
And this is the scene today, with Loggerhead on the right.
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18 minutes ago, DAVIDW said:
Is there a map showing these yards Cliff Ton ?
Yes there is. I'll be back later.
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There was also a female presenter on How......one name I remember is Bunty James.
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14 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said:
......didnt have a Telly untill i was about 12........
We didn't have a television until I was around 10 or 11. Prior to that, everything I saw was in the homes of friends or relatives, so I was limited in what I saw.
My earliest memories are at my grandma's house and three specific programmes;
Billy Bunter, with Gerald Campion
Lunchbox, with Noele Gordon (later in Crossroads)
and Horse Racing on a weekday afternoon, which I found incredibly boring then and still think it's boring now.
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40 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
As for The Flower Pot Men, etc, I found it very silly and childish.
Me too. Even when I was very young I thought that Bill & Ben were stupid and childish - especially with their flobolob language.
Strangely I thought that Andy Pandy was ok, because it was more realistic.
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I've edited the previous post from DJ360 because it had caused problems with the format and layout of the page and site.
It seems likely the problem occurred because the original post was too big for the Reply box to cope with. I don't think the question has ever arisen before, but there is presumably a limit to the number of Quotes and Characters which the system can accommodate.
If anyone feels the need to say so much again, it's best to split everything into a number of consecutive posts rather than cramming it all into one mega-post.
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Even Paul Simon himself doesn't remember exactly where it was, but Widnes is a good bet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeward_Bound_(Simon_%26_Garfunkel_song)
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For all the cat people here.
Nothing to do with Nottingham, but this is very clever. (You need to be on Facebook to see it).
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4 hours ago, mary1947 said:
Shirley Abbeycare (not sure of spelling) did she sing 3 little fishers?
3 little fishers who swam and swam to the end of the dam?
This is the Shirley Abicair song.
But the song about "...swam and they swam right over the dam...." is another song, which was recorded by many different people.
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@Brew Nice to hear he's ok, although he seems to be doing well despite the NHS bureaucracy, rather than because of it.
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9 hours ago, LizzieM said:
Just looked on Google and 113 Sneinton Boulevard is next door to an old Marsdens shop, wonder if our Ben did a stint there?
That Marsdens..... https://maps.app.goo.gl/cfLnPVHt3q65ZsQT9 ....has been mentioned here before in the other thread.
Ben gets everywhere.
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I'd forgotten I ever found that postcard - even though it's only 2 years ago. Nice to see a proper Nottstalgia subject reappear. And further proof of the old theory that everyone on Nottstalgia is ultimately connected to everyone else.
32 minutes ago, LizzieM said:I’ve never before seen the postcard you posted CT but it’s quite interesting for me as my Great Grandparents lived on Sneinton Dale and at some stage on Loughborough Avenue, off the Dale. Their surname was Croft.
...and also had a Clifton connection ?
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I've been reminded of this on another forum where it was mentioned. 'Listen with Mother' in the early 60s; this is the music which played out the programme.
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12 hours ago, Oztalgian said:
There was always a rush in our house to turn the radio off as soon as we heard this
I could never understand what he was saying/shouting. I thought it was just a random noise. It was only many years later that I discovered it was 'Wakey Wakey'.
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I was made redundant twice during my working life. Neither occasion was unexpected, but both times it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, and before long I was in a better position than I was before it happened.
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Incredibly, it was because the screen-wash froze.
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I don't think Fox & Grapes was ever officially known as 'Pretty Windows'; that was just a nickname, although it was probably better known than its official name.
It also had a makeover a couple of years ago and now looks quite civilised. https://maps.app.goo.gl/2Z2FqoWv1HvsyxxZ8
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I did O Level Latin and I've found it more useful in later life than I might've expected.
It has often helped me to a very basic understanding of the written version of many European languages, because a lot of them have Latin origins and there are similarities in many words.
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16 hours ago, MargieH said:
Just to play devil’s advocate…… Aren't all languages evolving? For example, we don’t still speak or write in the same manner that Shakespeare or (even worse) Chaucer used.
Exactly. Although I did A-Level English I never understood Shakespeare - in any sense of the word. Either reading or listening to his material, I find it difficult to understand; both in his sentence construction and use of words.
It's easier to read his plays because you can keep staring at a particular passage to try and make sense of it; but when they're performed on stage or on film it could almost be a foreign language.
Old television programmes
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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All eight episodes (8 x 30 mins) of Owl Service are on Youtube, and I’ve semi-binge watched them over the last few days, first time for 50+ years.
It’s even stranger than I remembered; eg. the creepy gardener. The original story is weird and complicated, and the TV version doesn’t make things any easier. I defy anyone to explain or understand what’s going on.
And I don’t see it as children’s TV; several of the lead characters are teenagers, but it’s worlds away from any other children’s programme ever broadcast.
They certainly don’t make them like they used to.