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Bought another 120+ maps this morning mainly 50" to tjhe mile they are mainly out lying areas dates early 50s to early 70s I will have some doubles when I have sorted them.

Dr J.Collis Brownes

One good thing about walking as exersize is it's FREE.

What about Kimberey Shipstone? Now she would have been a lass worth knowing

Thing is I have never owned a car so it's been public transport or walk. My wife/partner of ten years has a car but I still like to walk if I can.

Just watched B.B.C. news interview with (Sir) Mick Jagger & Keith Richards on The Rolling Stones 50th anniversery. Mick & Keith looked good despite everything & made me feed good too. Do I feel old in my 64th year NO! P.S. I can still walk Loughborough - Nottingham (Slab Square)(did it two weeks ago)

No Flintstones............................ more Fireman Sam?

Got ours about 1960/61 it all shut down at 10.30pm & there were "interludes" between programmes.( Remember the potter & his wheel?)

By Pink Floyd

What about Maude Foster near Boston

My grandparents(fathers parents) had a grocers shop on Burton Road from the late 40s to about 1959 . I lived there with my mam & dad till 1953 when we moved to a brand new council house on Welbeck Avenue off Westdale Lane.

Mable Thorpe nice girl...... I new her sister Freda

I think there are lots of ex Nottingham people in that area, but I think most of thwm are O.A.Ps.

Some people would use the telephone box these days

Need to be a good swimmer though?

We had a local rock/pop band in Loughborough called Z.G.T. ....................................Zero Gravity Toilet.

Paid Geoff Blore's (203 Mansfield Road) yesterday picked up a copuple of nice bits. Geoff blore's Book shops (the other is in Sherwood, Mansfield Road)are always worth a visit There is always plenty of books of local interest but some can be a tad pricey.(1919 directory £85)

You would have to pay me a visit. The 1880 series maps are somewhat large & being mounted on linen are quite heavy .(I don't have many of the actual town centre) Given the date of these maps & being O.S. I think they were produced for the enlargement of Nottingham in 1877. I have about 150 of these. The 1950s series I have just over 200 .(4 maps to one square on the 1" O.S. map.) I have nearly all of Nottingham with one or two bits missing plus bits of Hucknall. And I have a dozen or so !/2500 of various dates (mostly 1914/5.) Then there are the street & OS(1" series) maps.

I collect old maps of Nottingham(mainly town/city) my collection is mainly of two periods 1880s & 1950s The 1880s lot are of a scale 1/500 or 10.50 feet to the mile (even have lamp posts & water pumps shown) The 1950s lot are 1/1250 or 50 inches to the mile. I collect books on Nottingham(shire) but mainly town/city. My earliest book(not a reprint) is dated 1803. most interesting a 1860 directory. I preasantly have over 200 books pamflets in my bookcase. Then I also collect enamal badges of the Nation Union of Mineworkers.

One good point Compo you're a bit nearer to Norway than the rest of us!

Adam Ant ? the only pop star to name him self after a urinal!

Then there was Thaw A Herd.

Bankers gamble but they can't loose because it's your money they gamble with.

Did he not have a friend called Burt Lungcancer?

The Ginger Tom was on Colwick Road Sneinton.It was built after the bridge of the Nottingham Suburban Railway was demolished in 1963(?) the enbankment on the south side was also removed & that was where the Ginger Tom was built. The Ginger Tom has now also gone(I don't know the date) Is therte a block of flats there now?