Paddy Wheatfields

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  1. There is actually a local estate agent who describes the roads off Porchester (morley road, norman road) and places like campbell grove (off robin hood street) as MAPPERLEY PARK !!! can't be snobbery, must be sheer ignorance. http://www.websmileys.com/s.gif' />
  2. Did anyone else play "bus ticket tracking"? you used to trawl the roads that had buses running on them, and pick up the tickets people had dropped as they got off. Then you added up the number across the top, and er er er........ what happened next? must be getting old.
  3. So where do people fit in who lived between St Anns and Sneinton? I lived at the top of Donkey Hill, at the junction with Thorneywood Mount and the Rise. Always called it Thorneywood, as if you didn't say that, and said St Bartholomews Road, anything to be delivered and TAXIS or doctors etc, always went to the bottom and had to get up the hill.
  4. But why did we call it "Dobby" when the rest of the world called it "tag"? I think it goes along with "suckers" actually being "iced lollies"! no -one dares to call em suckers any more......
  5. I think it was "ginnel" but then i never said it. i only know "twitchel" or "entry" as in "who's left all that mess in the entry?" !inthebin!
  6. blimey, for 50 years i've thought that was CHINESE water ????????
  7. yes, i got some off ebay, but when i throw them in the air only a couple land on my hand, not 5. !hand!
  8. Oh, found something: ""Oliver Hind, a partner in the old-established family firm of solicitors at 16 Fletcher Gate, Nottingham was for thirty years Captain of the 2nd Nottingham Company of the Boys Brigade. He also formed a Boys Club in DaKeyne Street, Sneinton""
  9. Over Christmas we got to talking about the Nottingham Boys Clubs. How were they founded, who by, are there any left? What brought it up was boxing, and how it keeps lads off the streets etc. Anyone know if there is anything on the web, or a book, about Boys Clubs? [/size]
  10. Don't need such as me to pick potaoes these days, they got busloads of em coming in to the area. Not easy to just up-sticks and move when you've got 30-odd years of stuff in your house. Not easy to find a house where you want one either. Also a major thing to do, move from the country back into the city, which is what we are thinking of. oh well, happy new year all.
  11. Moved away, just to over the border in Lincs. Nowhere near as good as Nottingham, but they pay me.............
  12. If you are going up Victoria Street, waterstones shop on your right, as if you are making for hockley. It used to be at the top, on the right, just before the crest of the hill so to speak. Nothing to do with the kardomah at all, surely that was on king street?
  13. Been on a few weeks now. Moved away from Nottm years ago for work, but back every 2 weeks at least for football and family. Would like to move back eventually, but you lose your bottle about moving as you get older. Oh well, 3 out of 4 grandchildren have been born within the sound of Little John. That is quite satisfying.
  14. I know, I just remembered, it was THE BO, short for Bohemian, and the year was 1962/3 ouch. !bravo!
  15. Can anyone remember the name of that coffee bar on the top right hand side of Victoria Street, looking out from the City Centre? On the top floor, it had a dangerous winding staircase which would have killed us all if fire had broken out, and was run by a (to me) middle aged sensuous woman with long dark hair! Funny, I can't remember the toilets, they must have been terrifying. That's something I usually remember.............. !jumping!
  16. Well, having read that we have all been talking alotta camp for years!
  17. Anybody still use "trolling along" or "polled up" or have they both disappeared from use?
  18. Mundella kids came from all over. Medders, Aspley, Thorneywood, Lenton Abbey. I think sometimes it was an alternative to the all-girls or all-boys schools such as High Pav or Manning. There was some snobbery. My parents could never get to parents evening because of work. The girl in my class whose mother always went dolled up won the term prize one year, even though she came second and I came first. But on the whole it was ok.