Tim in the North East

Take a look at this video . It is a tribute to Pipe Major Robert Short and the Hawick Boys Brigade Pipe Band. Robert Short was a friend of Charles Murray who was one of the Boy's Brigade leaders in Nottingham and ran the Oliver Hind Boy's Brigade Company which met in the old Asylum buildings at the top of Dakeyne Street in Sneinton. The Hawick Boys Brigade Pipe Band visited Nottingham in 1962 and performed in various locations - I remember seeing them in Old Market Square. The section of the video that shows their trip to Nottingham runs from 5:10 to 10:10 - and unless you are a f

That is one amazing photo. Great to see some familiar landmarks amongst all the change since I left Nottingham in 1973!

If fuel was 3 shillings and 6 pence a gallon then that would be 17.5p a gallon. There are about 4.5 litres a gallon so that works out at 17.5/4.5 = 3.9p/litre i passed my test in October 1971 and fuel then was about 33p per gallon - or 7.3p per litre. Fuel crosses the £1 per gallon in around 1979 - but that is still only 22.2p per litre

When relatives came to stay my Dad an Uncles would pack us up in the cars and we would go to Wollaton Park for a picnic. In the late 1950s / early 1960s the entrance was up the lime tree grove and passed the golf club. You could park in the deer park and picnic there. From there you could walk over to the stables to see the Police horses

If you go to YouTube and search Nottingham Slab Square 1950s there is a 1951 film about Old Market Square - and about half way through is a Wolseley Streamline taxi in back and white

I seem to remember in busy times during the school holidays you were limited to 45 minutes in the lido. Despite the cold it never seemed long enough.

My first flight was in 1961 on a Derby Airways Dakota flight to Guernsey for our family holiday. Trent bus from Huntingdon Street to the airport - check in the luggage in a wooden hut then wait in the concrete ‘terminal’ before embarking. Bumpy grass runway. When we came back it was dark and the grass landing strip was illuminated by burning oil rags in inverted dustbin lids! My my dad used to take my brother and I there - you could wander into the hangars and the engineers would take you up to the flight deck of the Dakotas and DC4s. I remember them telling us very sternly not to

Just a guess - but given that the open market was held there until the 1920s (when the Council House was built and the market moved to Lower Parliament Street) I wonder if it was called ‘Market Square’ until then and the ‘Old’ was added after the market moved?

I used to train spot at Carrington Station from about 1960 to 1965. The gate by the shop (old station house) was invariably open so you could just walk in. We generally stayed on the higher ground behind the signal box and out of view of the signalman - so never got into trouble! My regret is I never took a camera - all the B1s, V2s, Jubilees, Royal Scots, Black 5s, O4s, 8Fs, Austerities and 9Fs....

After having been driven at 70mph in a Bond Bug down University Boulevard my preference has been for four wheeled vehicles.....

There is a John Decara listed in this 2015 directoryhttps://www.locatefamily.com/Street-Lists/UK/NG5/index26.html

My first barbers was Pelham's on King Street. It was in the basement of one of the buildings on the west side of the street (possibly the Prudential Building) - anyway you went down a flight of stairs and there were about 8 or 10 chairs on two sides of a big room - or if you paid more you could have your hair cut in a separate room with just one chair. Later on I couldn't be bothered catching the bus into town for a haircut so went to the Park Saloon - the last of a parade of shops on Mansfield Road in Carrington immediately after the junction with Hucknall Road. last t

My memories of boyhood trips up to the Castle terraces in the late 1950s / early 1960s we’re not just the view (through a lot more smoke than now) but also the sounds of not only many steam engines on the railways but also the hooting of barges on the canal which still had commercial traffic.

In the latter years of the old house it had been sub-divided into flats / bed-sits and rented out. I seem to remember it was looking tatty and under-maintained towards the end - so maybe the landlord just cut their losses. Victorian architecture was not valued in the 1960s and fewer people wanted big houses.

It is 50 years since the vandalism that saw Watson Fothergill's house on Mapperley Road being demolished to make way for some very bland flats. At the time I lived in the house behind it on Chestnut Grove and was able to photograph the demolition work taking place:

The patrol cars in the late 1950s were black Wolseley saloons with a big bell on the front bumper. If my memory serves me they were replaced by Standard Vanguards and then Triumph 2000s - and possibly the Triumphs were the first in white with two tone horn and blue flashing light.

We went on an A level Chemistry trip to Stavely steel works. When they tapped the blast furnaces there was a huge cloud of sulphur dioxide that made us all choke. The guide told us that the men who worked there lost so much fluid they would typically have 4 pints st the pub opposite before going home. Our chemistry master wouldn't let us try it - even though some of us were already 18......

From (unreliable) memory, in the late 1960s /early 1970s, John Collier's shop was at the corner of Lister Gate and Low Pavement

I had an oldish version of Photoshop (CS3) that worked well on my old Apple Mac running OS 10.6.8 but which kept crashing on my new Mac running OS 10.12. Rather than rent the latest version of Photoshop from Adobe I have bought for about £50 Affinity Photo. It is very well reviewed, it does virtually everything that Photoshop does and comes with a very thorough set of video tutorials. There is also a Windows version of it too. Tim

Again not at the start of the programmes but here is a fairly comprehensive list: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/tv/the-top-50-tv-catchphrases-232767

Born in Firs Maternity Hospital in 1954. Lived in Thorneywood and Mapperley Park. Left Nottingham in 1973 for Manchester, Leeds, Wirral, Manchester again before settling in Newcastle upon Tyne 25+ years ago

In the land of the North... Noggin the Nog 1959

The shop on Mansfield Road was called Midland Stamp Centre which opened in around 1966 or 1967 - it had a major burglary a few years later which cleared out all of its stock. There was a longer established stamp shop on Forest Road near the Mansfield Road traffic lights called 'A. Cross'. Mr Cross lived in a flat above the shop and when you opened the door a bell rang and you had to wait in a small lobby area until he came downstairs

My job in the sorting office was wheeling a big wicker basket round all the pigeon holes and taking the sorted mail for individual counties. When I had filled a basket for the chosen county I took it over the bridge to the next building where the lucky people who took mail to Midland Station took over. i was quite good at geography and many of the temporary sorters didn't know in which county many towns were located. A quickly became the roving guru to answer questions like 'where is Okehampton' ? (Devon)'or is Burton on Trent in Derbyshire (no, Staffordshire).

The bank I used to work at in 1973 had the contract with EMGAS and EMELEC to pay in all the 5p and 10p coins they had collected from the meters. The bank employed a guy whose full time job was putting them a counting machine and bagging them uo