Trickymicky

Before the location mentioned above, i think Kingstons were on the edge of the old broad marsh bus station,somewhere to the left when facing the Weekday Cross viaducts.

Below the Vauxhall cars sign,obscured by a shadow is the entrance to another Motorcycle shop. It must have been the smallest shop in Nottingham, just a long narrow corridor,it was mainly repairs,and a good source of secondhand parts when you were skint. It was run by a chap called Sid,who had previously worked for Blacknell Motors,just up the road by the station.

A friend of mine let the pikeys' take an old upright freezer. When he looked out later it was still on the footpath-they had cut the 'pot' off the back of it,the only part they weigh in,and left the rest of it,i ended up taking it to Calverton tip for him.

Well,my girls actually caught two pikeys' dumping a freezer in a ditch on the edge of our village.They got the reg no too. So we phoned the Police,only to be told it was nothing to do with them,and that the council deal with these matters. It was 3 days before the bloke at the council who deals with it got back to us,querying the reg no,which belonged to another vehicle (surprise).

Royal Ordnance Factory apprenticeship,followed by William Watts at Lenton. Then Lonsdale and Bartholomew,the Printers at Netherfield (bet some on here worked there),and finally 22 years with Severn Trent Water.

I was there '67-72.

Yes,he died some years ago.

A correction,i have seen Roger Gagg's son Steve today.He confirmed that it was Rogers dad,Arthur who worked for the Co op as a Painter for most of his working life-and they are related to Gagg's who had the shop.

There were so many motorbike dealers in Nottingham-Kingstons,on the corner of Wilford Road was one of the bigger ones,with Fred Bunney next door. We always used Freds for the MOT test.

That will be Roger Gagg, Painter and Decorater. Now retired,but himself a keen motorcyclist. His wife Chris still rides a BMW with sidecar as everyday transport.

War memorials being stolen for their scrap value. Companies posting out greetings cards for you..

Realisation..

I used the Cromwell Holt cafe on the A1,north of Newark for years.Little more than a large wooden shed on stilts.Still there.

Be sure that whoever installs Double Glazing is able to provide FENSA certification. It has been required since 2002,and should you sell your house in the future,not having it can cause problems.

Around the late 70's-early 80's, a neighbour of ours had a son,aged around 35 at the time,who would take the bus to Broad Marsh every day,except weekends,dressed in a pin striped suit and always with a leather briefcase. He would walk around Nottingham all day,then catch the bus home again, One of his eyes was at a tangent,rather like Marty Feldman. Perhaps an indication that all was not as it should be.

I found the following regarding Gem- West Bridgford has a place in British retail history as the location of the UK's first major out-of-town shopping development. In 1964, an American company called GEM opened a store on Loughborough Road. However, despite ambitious expansion plans, GEM's British operations were not a success, with only one other store (at Cross Gates, Leeds) being opened. National concessionaires withdrew from the stores and, in 1966, the fledgling Asda company (then known as 'Associated Dairies') of Leeds, acquired a controlling interest in the GEM operations. The Loughbor

I worked at Gem in 1972,but i'm sure opened well before then,1964 according to this which i think has already been posted elsewhere on here- http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43674 It backed on to waste ground we used to play on with motorbikes,called gem tip.

I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory-they supported my motorcycling activities quite heavily at the time,though thankfully never found out. Apparently during WW2, employees wore a lapel badge depicting a ficticious company and location,the idea presumably being that the enemy would be disorientated should the two meet.. It was a proper enamel badge,i think i have one somewhere.

Hello all,just read this with interest. I used to go in the subways' on King and Queen street as part of my work with Severn Trent Water. I think we used to access it via a grid somewhere near the building which used to be the Post Office in the 1960's,near where the two streets connect. I think there was a short permanent vertical ladder. We used to take a gas detector with us as a safety precaution. On one occasion we isolated a service pipe down there,believing it to be redundant. Shortly after,there was a sound of sirens and fire engines. We climbed to the surface to find two fire applia