Braddy

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  1. hi pixie .its about past history off nottingham going back about 100 odd years .get a copy you will like it.
  2. I played snobs at school and marbles and cards games, all boy games ,oh and whip n' top. no girl games back then it was all boys school in 62/63/64
  3. hi. compo, no you did not dream about them, it was real i worked in the paper trade, they had sellers all over city centre all shouting short names for the post . I worked in the lace market in the mid 60s /70s /80s got my post from a chap who would stand on the corner of broad street shouting eee-post, he had one eye and stood in the shop door way. Can't remember is name.
  4. merry christmas to all, and to mick and is team on doing a great job thanks.
  5. Was the chip shop on clifton lane ruddington, at the bottom of the railway bridge on the left side corner shop coming from clifton.?
  6. hi jessie. it was called a tree, was it leaves that was put on it. ha ha
  7. hi, a bit late this is ,I went to fairham school in 62,63,left 64. I was in sir. frank wittlle house, had good times, got the cane,the strap and slipper still a good boy now, did me no harm bring it back.
  8. Was The Air Hostess Pub in the housing estate in tollerton?
  9. i worked on the paper trains in them years, we would go to london by train to st'pancras and at midnight start work packing the papers. on the way back to nottingham midland station we worked in carriages full of papers for the shops to sell. it was hard work .low level station was also used. now used as fittness place on the other side off the bridge [london road].
  10. also coming down is the man of trent at clifton
  11. any one remember the paper trains from london to nottingham 6 days a week in the 60,s 70,s 80,s
  12. the park tavern on nuthall road is now closed ,it is now pulled down[3 dec 11]