[On Any Given Sunday.]

Our house had bread and butter with tinned fruit and Carnation too. When we got married, my hubby and I insisted we eat the fruit and cream, sans bread and butter. We felt quite daring, LOL. I don't know who started that idea, most likely to fill up the kids who had hollow legs.

I went to sunday school as a nipper, took my sixpence I do believe and got a picture stamp to lick and stick in a book. When the page was full, if I remember rightly, it formed a whole picture. I wish I'd kept my book for posterity.

I was lucky as a kid in that my dad had to have a vehicle for his work, which meant we could get around quite a bit on weekends. When I'd given up on Sunday school, Sunday mornings were spent getting out from under mam's feet while she cooked the joint. Dad was a great believer in 'visiting' and so we went all over Nottm for him to visit relatives, his old school chums, old work mates etc, for a natter. Sometimes in the autumn we'd go nutting, either in Broxtowe Woods for cob nuts, or further afield for chestnuts. Some days we'd go in Bulwell woods and walk through till we could see Hucknall aerodrome, and look at the planes. I once picked a bunch of what I thought were pretty white flowers and in passing some kids afterwards and hearing them laugh at me, wondered what I'd got. They turned out to be stinking nannies, a kind of garlic plant I think. After lunch, mam would like a ride out, so we'd go to Matlock, Crich, or just ride round the countryside. For a full day out we'd go to Skeggy. Sometimes we'd do the airshows with eldest brother in tow [he worked at RR, plane mad!] and go to the Canadian shows at Langar, or the USAF shows at Mildenhall or another one that has gone right now, and I'm sure someone will fill in the gaps. Most of these trips out were in a Commer Cob van with no side windows or seats in the back. Elf and Safety would have a field day.

Re: Fruit, Carnation and bread and butter. It was standard at teatime when I was a child. I couldn't stand the combination of the two and was told if I didn't eat the bread and butter then I couldn't have the fruit and carnation. I eventually ate the bread first (and hated it) in order to have the rest. My family used to dip their bread in the juice and milk - disgusting to me and I still heave at the thought now - 60 odd years later!!

[Trinity Square Cafe 1960s]

Can anyone remember the name of the cafe in Trinity Square? The name was something like Le Causerie.

My husband can remember the Scottish waitress who served him, what he regularly ordered but cannot remember the name of the cafe!!

Was it The Toreodor? That's the name that springs to mind. They had a skiffle band playing there. I used to go in the late 50's and that's a long, long, long time ago!!!!

[Nottingham Cinemas and Theatres]

The Regal had some double seats upstairs - Sweetheart seats for courting couples. I was there!

[Rock and Roll at the Locarno]

Anyone out there old enough to remember the best place to go in the late 50s and early 60s,not the Palais or Colmans or the Astoria but the Locarno on St Anns Well Rd.

Lynmee

Yes - I am that old!!! I know this is a late reply but I have only just joined this site. I used to go to the Locarno in my lunch hour from work. Me and a friend used to go regularly in 1957.