mercurydancer

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  1. Why is it that every time I log on to this site I have to make a pot of mushy peas with mint sauce?
  2. I do remember a Pownall's shop on Birkin Avenue in Hyson Green in the 60s.
  3. I often do that with the dried peas. I bought a box full when I was last in Nottingham from a Polish shop on the Green. Food of the gods.
  4. I recall getting dripping from a shop in Radford Road opposite the Old General. They also did bread and dripping free for the customers in the Clock on a Sunday!
  5. My driving instructor was called Lynch and lived in Forest Fields. I spent my lessons driving around Hyson Green and up to Beechdale. It was a blue mini. I recall it very well, and bought a mini afterwards. I had that mini for about 50,000 miles and sold it to get a Cortina. I wish I hadnt. The Cortina was awful.
  6. Usually started at the Bell, then Tavern in the Town, Flying Horse was a regular haunt, then either went up Hockley or over to the castle side.
  7. I know its not exactly Nottinghamians in odd places, but last Monday I travelled from Moscow to Nottingham in one day. I suspect I was the only person in Nottingham to set foot in Red Square and Market Square in the same day! Like any true Nottinghamian I managed to get a pint in in both places!
  8. I recall mushy peas at the Central Market. For the connoisseur, Batchelors marrowfat dried peas, with two steeping tablets, make the finest mushy peas there are. My wife, who is Russian, had never tasted, or even heard, of mushy peas with mint sauce. She tried them at the Christmas market and loved them. She took a box of Batchelors back to Russia with her when she visited her mother a week ago. Previous exports to Russia include the potato fritter. Just a slice of potato in batter, finest Nottingham style. Also the yorkshire pudding. She thought I was mad the first time I cooked them in
  9. I remember Melbourne park. It used to have a cricket pitch and I played there many years ago.
  10. Definitely not Rob Smith. Ted Perfect is a name I have not heard in years. I loved the Art Deco staircase in Co Op House. I recall that there was a Co-Op warehouse just over the road on Wollaton Street, and although it was not used, there was a cave connecting Wollaton Street with Parliament Street.
  11. I worked for the Co Op in Lower Parliament Street (on records and gardening) and also Ascot Road delivery. I can remember the ball room from going there with my mother when very young to have tea. Later I worked there with the banks opposite the lifts, and the ball room having the gardening department which was moved from the basement in about 1977. Ascot Road was a happy place. The old Bedford vans worked when they wanted to. I dreaded moving bedroom fitments as they were the heaviest to carry upstairs. A simple drop off of a washing machine was always a good number. If anyone has any phot
  12. I lived in BobbersmIll Road and my bed room overlooked Gerards. I can recall some large fire there ?1973 ? 1974?
  13. Nottingham was my stamping ground from the alte 70s to the late 80s. I certainly recall the Flying Horse, and one bar was predominantly gay, but I cant recall anything near homophobic trouble. Warrows of course, with the cider which had twigs in it! White Horse on Oxclose Lane had probably the closest thing to an American Drive -in and was full of posh totty. Boarded up now. The Wheatsheaf on the bottom of BobbersMill Bridge. Always a sociable place, but looks like its going to close. The Old General at the top end of Bobbers Mill Road. Again sadly boarded up. I never particularly like
  14. I recall the BBC Radio Nottingham in a morning on the way to school and work giving the gig guide. Dawn Trader must have been one of the hardest working. I remember the Impo. The back room seemed to be another world. Hearty Goodfellow was pretty grotty but the upstairs bands were usually pretty good. The punx in the basement not so good.