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Remember the Barn well, I was still at school and a girl the was a close friend of the family used to sneak me in on Friday nights. It was Coca Cola night and at that time it was always half full of American Airmen who laced the coke with Burbon. She later married one from Kentucky and went home with him.

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.

Hey Littlebro, mind if I add the fire Brigade to your list. My father was a part time fireman at the start of the war and was immediatly seconded into AFS and sent to the south to be able to get to London when the bombs dropped. Will put our family story here shortly. I was born in April just after the start of it all.

Hi Bill, just posted on the site and noticed your photo. Christine is my cousin and she has a sister called Valerie and a brother Johnny, there mum was Sue, an Irish woman and uncles name was Arthur. Sorry don’t know the whereabouts of any of them now. I visited them regularly as a youngster in the late 40s early 50s.

It crashed on the left of the airfield as we looked towards East Stoke and Newark, hard to say but it must have been about half a mile away at least from the crowd.

Hi all, hope you don’t mind an interloper as I never lived in Basford but I do have connections to it. My grandmother, a widow probably living in Arnold remarried to John Culley, moving with my dad to Ealing Avenue where my uncle was born. Uncle later worked at Simons on Vernon Rd and lived with his wife on Southwark St, would it be? It was the terrace at the back Of the Vernon cinema. My mother moved to Basford when my grandfather retired from Nottingham Forest (Robert Firth, known as Bob) and was the landlord of Catchems Corner (real name Great Northern?) met and married my father and moved

Wow is it still really going, must rummage around in some boxes and find my rig. I was going strong and my handle was Misteryman (there was two of us at that time) I was on Rise Park and one of my near neighbours insisted in using an echo box all the while. A friend in Colwick introduced me to it and I reverted to a mobile double wound twig when I bought a boat, had to mount it on a metal plate though to ground it as the boat was fibreglass. It worked great though when I got my narrow boat and spoke to others all over the country on my travels, truck drivers being the most amusing. Boy did we

To all fans. There is a great book called Nottingham Forest F. C. the official illustrated history, a great read and is in most Nottingham libraries. Page 65 has a photo of the 1912-13 team which includes my grandfather, Robert Firth (Bob) Shows how long ago foreigners played as he was a Scot!!!!!

Could that have been on the old high level station?

Hey trollies yes but dont forget the roller skates!!!!

Hey the good old Odeon. I will have to just nip back to the late 50s for this one but Bill Hayley and the Comets was the first group I can remember that performed there.Could not get tickets but joined the vast crowd outside. For younger viewers that was at the start of the rock and roll era and we had just had the black and white film of the Blackboard Jungle which I saw at the Roxy in Daybrook. We were all jiving in the isles and the ushers had no chance of stopping us. See you later alligator.

Hi Rob and all the posters here. I moved to Daybrook/Arnold just after the war as a five year old and as it was obvious that in future warfare the plane was going to be prominent there was always a lot of activity in the air around our district as Rolls Royce had their testing facilities at Hucknall. I remember the first jets, Meteors I think, a twin engine fighter. As the jet engine developed we could definitely hear the noise from the test bed and if the wind was in the right direction I am not surprised that folks in Calverton could hear it. I was a regular visitor to the annual RAF Syerst

Yes I remember the Vernon, my gran took me there regularly in the late 40s. We always sat on the back row on those unique double seats, plush red imitation velvet if I remember correctly.

I believe the Post is now printed in Derby, I will say no more

Hey are we talking about "THE" Amber Vandella. Will say no more untill someone enlightens me. I'll give you a clue though I used to talk to her her when she visited the Zodiac book shop!!!!

55444,we were lucky as we had two stores, one in Daybrook, Mansfield Rd and a large multi shop one in Arnold, corner of Front St and St Albans Rd.

Hi Ashley, my grandmother (fathers side) lived on Ealing Av. off Vernon Rd. a few hundred yards from the Northern Baths. Grandfather (mothers side) was landlord of Catchems Corner, as it was know by most people all over Nottingham (The Great Northern) He took it over when he retired from Nottingham Forest after being a player and then the trainer. He had to open it at 6am in the morning so that the miners could have a pint (or three) before catching or returning on the train to/from the various pits.

Hi there, yes I remember that clock even today, saw it many, many as a young lad. We used to regularly go on a train to Basford station to visit my gran or go to town on a train as a treat, Victoria station. Later when I was eleven or so I and a couple of mates made friends with the signal man and were allowed to go in the box when no one was about. Have many happy memories of Daybrook station.

Hi to everyone, just joined the site. I remember Arnold wakes very well, moved to the then large village in 1945/6, yes I know that makes me a Methuselah but hey! I love being old. I think my favourite ride was the flying chairs that were suspended on very thin chains and went round at a good lick. It always surprised me at the amount of rides and stalls that were crammed on such a small plot. One bit of info though, the book of old photos of Arnold and Bestwood says the wakes ended in 1963, that sounds about right from my recollections. Today there is a fair on the playing fields on Coppice R