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My mother was one. I can recall going to the factory as a small child. After that my mother trained to be a chef and did rather well.

Yes. As I understand it, Smith Dennis was one of the offshoots. It had a sizeable factory on Bobbersmill Road but a machining factory on Berridge Road about 200 meters away. Smith Dennis was certainly in operation until 1970. After that I think it was amalgamated into Hattersley and close to where the Pork Farms factory was on Wilford Lane. I went to Mundella so got dropped off on the embankment each morning.

Catfan, Dr Harold Frederick Shipman was always called Fred Shipman.

I lived for almost all of the 1960s and all of the 1970s in Bobbersmill Road. The predominant smell was soap, from Gerrards, but I do recall the pungent smell of tobacco, which started to become apparent at the chippy at the end of Bobbersmill Road. I have always hated smoking and cigarette smoke more than anything, but the raw tobacco had a very distinct smell. Aspley Lane cricket ground was Players ground for many years. Many happy hours spent there. Michael Holding once bowled to me there!

Erm. Oh my. Well actually yes. I did, but not as quietly in the terms of jackets.

Thats them Cliff Ton. I have fond memories of Trent Bridge at the time. I seem to recall Garry Sobers married a Players Girl.

For most days I wear outdoorsy style stuff, Mountain Equipment trousers, and Salomon shoes, with the quick lace system as I am a lazy. I do have some pairs of shoes which I bull to military standards. Main pair are Loakes and another military style oxblood shoes. Had them many years. Oddly enough I tend to wear them on my visits to London (gets you into some cocktail bars of renown). I do tend to dress like Henry Blofeld though. Even my mrs found the Fuscia jacket a little much.

Planting trees for the fallen soldiers was quite a common practice. IIRC correctly some trees at Clifton were for those fallen in the Battle of Waterloo. Obviously this became physically impossible in the post WW1 era due to sheer numbers, and was one of the motivators behind the Commonwealth War Graves scheme, which assured that every fallen soldier got a memorial, even if "Known unto God"

I do remember Players Girls but in a totally different context. Dressed to the nines in a white and blue uniform selling cigarettes at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, predictably during the John Player Sunday matches.

I do battlefield and cemetery tours to eke out a little money. I do specialist tours to trace specific individuals and get them to a specific cemetery and if necessary at a specific time as the case may be. One cafe owner near me desperately wanted to go to her Great Grandfather's grave not far from Ypres in Belgium. She had told me before the journey that she had a customer in her cafe who could "see things" and described a soldier in WW1 uniform in the cafe. I never scoff at these things as I an old enough to know that strange things can happen. I dont scoff at the cafe either.

I am sure it is easy to send a PM. I have checked my inbox and nothing so far

Margie, yes MERLOT is mainly for wet AMD, which is the most destructive. We did a trial at our hospital and it works for dry AMD too. Ah gout. I have it too. Well controlled with Allopurinol, but being vegetarian, lots of the stuff I eat is loaded with purines.

Indeed great memories. I was good friends with Peter Anson's son. Late at night in the showroom at the bottom of Bobbers Mill Road we would work to get the best sound out of the equipment available. Such innocent delightful times.

History is what it is. it is a description of what happened at a certain point in time. I am more than a little disturbed at what is historically acceptable as a monument now. Can we ask the French to extricate Napoleon from his tomb because of Brexit? I have been to several Nazi concentration camps. Horrifying to a deep degree. You cannot look at life the same way afterwards. Are they a memorial? Certainly. Should we forget? No. Get rid of the camps? I think not. We need to remember. After that it is in the mind of each person. I can surmise that some pe

It does pain me to hear about the NHS and its failings. Gem, I do understand. I have worked in the NHS for a few decades and largely what we do is superb care. I could tell you about the horrors of private care (A Hungarian doctor managing to put a probe into a heart of a patient who went in for back surgery for example!) I was until retirement quite senior and dealt with major problems in the hospital I worked at, known as SUI, Serious Untoward Incidents, and Never Events meaning something so serious they should never have happened. Gem, entitlement sometimes does not mean that,

Just an aside, the DNA unless destroyed, would most probably have come up at some point, unless the perpetrator had died.

Compo In a way I think you have found your paradise. Bogger anyone else, just do what you think is right.

Of all people, Myra Hindley

One year ago this all happened. Strange how some things affect your memory. I can recall it was a warm day after my dad died. When I got into my car at Kings Mill it was hot inside. It was that hot inside the car a couple of days ago and I couldnt work out what was bothering me. Eventually it clicked.

Thanks mods, for putting my post where it should be

Just that simple one comment - 10 O'clock horses takes me back 50 years. My mother used to say it to me, Dont let the 10 O'Clock horses catch you.

Just very sad to see that he had died. An entertaining poster. I have always admired this site for stating Member offline. RIP Firbeck.

Blood chemistry in the elderly can be complex. Low sodium levels is not always a lack of salt in the diet, but the kidneys doing strange things. It is almost always correctable. Again a bag of chips is not going to do any harm.

Catfan, Just putting salt on food is not always detrimental, but it can do horrific things to your blood pressure. Just putting salt on food doesn't always result in a balance of sodium chloride in the blood. A bag of chips certainly wont harm you though!

Loppylugs, the pressure should return to normal. They test it by putting that eye cup on your eyeball. Its not pleasant, but it works. Its good that you got an immediate pressure loss. The quicker the treatment the longer it is going to last.