bilpol47

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  1. just deviating slighty but on the same theme can you remember the rag and bone man and his goldfish for your rags ?
  2. just bought beatles magical mystery tour on vynil sounds far better than the cd version
  3. santa was always green until coke - cola turned him red
  4. bill haywood born in prefabs on wigman rd,moved around the county,live in cropwell son and daughter in cotgrave,brother at Radcliffe other brother wilford hill
  5. i saw the beatles at the odeon on long row with peter jay and the jay walkers about 1964
  6. my first car was a ford anglia model 105e reg 304 tau and was blur bought it ffrom carter gate motor company in 1968 with my tax rebate from getting married was £290
  7. i used to use the bus stop at clifton braddy when i was courting a girl named sue but we spent more time behind it although there was another girl named maureen and they used to que for her services
  8. and condensed milt nestles of course my mum used to have it in her tea and i,d nick a spoonfull
  9. yes kaff but yow wen tu posh skool in radcliff
  10. bbc are on about taking chunks of local raio away and national progs being on no no no no no
  11. any one remember copper curtis who lived on farnborough rd in clifton in the 50/60 and his police dog
  12. the towers i got propertioned outside there one night by a lady of ill repute as i went to catch the bus home to clifton 45 yrs ago
  13. i thought the only berni inns in nottm where sawyers near broad marsh,cricket players near the ice stadium and the chateaux on wilford lane,my son was head chef when whitbread closed it down and bought me a big berni inn sign he found in the cellars
  14. when i worked at hangers on london road we used to service mr scotts cadillac - he lived on cow lane bramcote in those days
  15. i used to go there,there was a minor bird to that swore at you,used to sit there in later life when the wife was in peel st
  16. I WENT THERE FIRST DAY IT OPENED IN THE LATE 50,S UNTILL 1962
  17. my cousin lived on seaton terrace ? roy purdy
  18. sons and lovers play the clubs still,spike still sings and phill has just left to get paper lace back togetherplaying at blotts in november for charity
  19. my wife workedfor pork farms on long row a long time ago when samworths owned the businesss
  20. what about forbes on castle blvd singer/humber dealers,followed by cottee and edwards for jags then oscrofts for vauxhalls,cartter gate motors for fords,cripps routes group all the samme now just different badge on the front
  21. yes i saw the beatles at the odeon 5 shilling was the cost,peter jay and the jay walkers were on with them
  22. when they builtt the bridge they altered thee route of the brook to finish further back
  23. hi - went to greencroft junior,moved to clifton when only orford avenue shops were ther,church was a wooden hut where the flats are now.lived at the first house on southchurch no 30,mrs clark was the head mistress at the school.pete russell,pat daily,maureen burton,melody allroyd,rodger tomblinson,bob,conger,
  24. mr thom - head mr parham deputy head only woman miss greatorix librarian mr perry hunt house mr wallace penny house mr thorpe kenyon mr riddell flemminhdoc chapman french,manders metalwork god so log ago now wennt when they closed it down it was a wreck