[Mid air collision.]

Just to add to the list of sightings of the mid air collision of two planes over Colwick. It occured in the late 1950s, I was a pupil at Ellis Secondary school, on Bar Lane. We were all in the playground, suddenly, someone beside me pointed towards a distant cloud of grey smoke hanging in the sky. He yelled, "I just saw two planes crash into each other.!" I immediately turned and saw the smoke cloud, but no falling debris. The word spread quickly, and soon everyone in the payground was gazing at the smoke cloud. It was still there when the whistle blew and we went back into class. When I got home from school, the crash had become national news. Several airmen had been killed, and a lady canteen worker had also been killed when part of the wreckage landed on a factory.

[Things our parents used to say]

If someone came in the house for a short while we'd say 'are you tekking ya coat off? And they'd say 'nah, I'm not stopping' and we'd laugh. I was like a common saying in those days. But it has made me think about the word 'stopping'. We're going on us 'olidays and we're stopping in Skeggy, or stopping in an 'otel, or stopping in a boarding house. It was never 'staying'.

Hi Katjay

"I'm not stopping - I won't take my coat off." Was the catchphrase of a very popular Yorkshire radio comedian of the 1950s by the name of Ken Platt. I remember that he even had a tv series in the 1960s. Anyway, it was one of those catchphrases that caught on with the public, and you would often hear some one quote it, often in a jokey sort of way.

[Things our parents used to say]

You'd better goo ta sleep afore ten o clock osses come rahnd.

What the bloody hell was all that about?

Roger

Hi Roger, his is a very old saying and dates back to before World War One. In those days (Late Victorian and Edwardian period) Houseold sewerage was poured into large metal bins.- Not everyone had flush toilets - The containers were collected at night by men driving horse driven carts. They would arrive outside your your house quite late in the evening, remove the used containers and leave disinfected replacements. The clattering of the horses, and the large containers being replaced, were used by parents to frighten children into settling down to sleep.

"Get t' sleep before them ten o'clock 'osses get ya"

[Things our parents used to say]

Hi catjay

<"My mam also used the word Rammel, for anything junky. We'd also put the sneck down at night on the front door lock. My husband who came from the Carlton rd area, his mum never heard of sneck before. My parents came from Basford, maybe it was a word used there">

I am from Basford, and the word we used was to put the Snitch on, I have also heard the word used in Sneinton by older people. The word Rammel was used a lot eg "What a load of old Rammel!"

[Army surplus shop]

Hi Trafalgar,

"Is my memory serving me corectly? Was Bath Street Surplus Stores run by the Pownall Family of Snienton. I think they also had a scrapyard on Manvers Street?"

The Pownall Army Surplus shop was on Southwell Street, at the junction with Manvers Street - The Shop on Bath street sold Surplus furniture also pots and pns etc - Not army surplus.

Cheers

DCGA

[Newbie]

Hello Everyone, just a quick hello, I was born at a very early age in Nottingham and still reside here. Lookng forward to chatting with everyone on the site.

Keith