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Many thanks for great photo

As lads in the late 40s we used to go across the waste land opposite the tea factory on Truimph Road and reach the railway line where the River Leen turned under the tracks. Here, from the pontoon in the middle of the stream we were at eye level with the rails. Just the right place to put pennies on the rails. Thank goodness our mums never found out.

No relation, as far as I know.

I think you have the wrong chippy. The one I am on about was on the canalside about where now is Kenyon Road. The canal is long gone. We used to skate on it when it froze over.

I think that the serial was probably Flash Gordon, and another one was Cat Woman.

Yes I did mean Radford Boulevard.

Does anyone remember the smell of f and c outside Krafts shop down by the canal near the Wollaton Park lodge> We used to feed the swans chips until they sank.

The cinema was below the radford road traffic lights on the left going towards town. The Savoy was, and still is apparently, on the right halfway up the Derby road hill.

Who remembers this wonderful flea pit? We used to get the 39 trolley bus there from Middleton Boulevard on a Saturday morning for the kids matinee. They showed several cowboy films, usually Tex Ritter or Johnny Mack Brown, and then a serial. If the noise from the kids in the theatre got too loud the manager would put up the house lights, switch off the projector and stand on the stage and announce that the film was still going on but that unless the noise etc were stopped then we would miss it. That usually worked for a while. They also gave out free tickets for next weeks show to the best be

The camp in Wollaton Park was by the Wollaton Road entrance. It was for I think Italian POWs. As lads we used to go there to stare at them.

The box office for the probably was at the top because I remember the doors being opened and then running up all of the stairs up to the gods. I saw Sid Field in panto there and The Great Lyle a brilliant magic act. Could have been at the Royal though.