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IIRC The Wimpy Bar at Trent Bridge used to be in the building now occupied by Topknot. This was about 1965 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9392569,-1.1381352,3a,35.9y,260.98h,92.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shJD4L7G8c_ZWBLXhwn52OQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Next door was a tobacconists that used to have a fascinating window display of some very exotic brands like Chesterfield, Passing Clouds and Camel.

The Americans pretty much invented marketing and everyone else has since followed suit. Their in your face style is just too intense for me. I worked for Mars for eight years and it was full on and quite draining. They never say never and won't take no for an answer. Sometimes it works and breakthroughs happen but a lot of the time you're working with ignorant and arrogant people who think they can change the laws of science. Now who does thar remind you of? It's a very frustrating environment to work in. The UK model is so much more reasonable but there are many who think the US does

Back in the mid 60s there was a Wimpy Bar close to the 43/45 Trolley Bus terminus at Trent Bridge. Contrary to popular opinion you can't make a decent hamburger with a high meat content using rubbish meat it will just fall apart. I worked for a company that supplied beef to the McDonalds burger factory in MK and their QC was pretty damn stringent. Wimpy and McDonalds use good quality meat and the burgers are delicious. There are lots of foodies who are always dissing McDonalds but you simply don't get to be as successful as them by selling rubbish.

Still capable of giving Forest's defence the runaround.

I knew two Mee family’s. One lived on Elstree Drive in the 1950s. The other one lived on Laurie Avenue Forest Fields in the 50s and 60s. I was friends with the son Brian. His elder sister Sylvia attended Forest Fields Grammar School.

Forest Fields Grammar School used Albert Hall for their Speech Nights too. I sat at the side of the organ on a few occasions.

I remember going to quite a posh restaurant in The Strathdon Hotel in the early 70s. I think you used a lift to access it.

In my post from Nov 2012 I recount how my dad used to take the family for Saturday lunch in the early 60s. I too remember the decline of the restaurant and the balcony becoming cluttered with stored packaging. It was quite sad having enjoyed it so much as a 10 year old. I also remember taking my kids up there in the 70s when IIRC the toy dept was relocated and having a sneaky look behind the swing doors into the disused kitchens. BTW when I first got married in 1973 our reception was in a side room. I have a vague recollection my future father in law may even have got a huge ribbon of Co-Op st

My mum made me wear one as a 5/6 year old for school in the winter. I remember the rubber buttons well. She also knitted me a navy blue balaclava. I looked a bit of a pillock but my ears were nice and warm.

Is this the answer? Trump thinks so and so do some qualified researchers. Boris & Co. : Worth a look surely? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0156-0

I heard The Daventry Express were on to it so watch this space.

I now live in Daventry and my son works close to a small village a few miles from here. I'm 70 this year so with the new government advice I'm trying to stay in most of the time although I do exercise our two dogs daily on the nearby country park where I don't come in to contact with many people. My son has been picking up a few groceries from stores that have got stuff on his way home. Today he called me at lunchtime and asked what we needed as he was in the village Co-op. He managed to get a few items but not paracetamol so he went next door to the local pharmacy where the guy was sell

I was born in 1950 so SN&SM was a few years before my time. I've always loved the film however and can remember many of the places featured particularly the Nottingham canal where my dad and I used to walk along the tow path from Woodyard Lane to Wollaton when I was about 7 or 8. I also spent many happy hours with my dad watching football and cricket being played on the Raleigh Sports Ground usually on a Sunday. As a youngster I used to stand in the Castle grounds enjoying the view across Midland Station out to the Football Grounds and beyond. There's a scene towards the end of the film t

Brilliant katyjay. I'd completely forgotten that.

What an amazing organ the brain is. This has just flashed into my head. Boomerang, boomerang this is our song, Merrily, merrily we go along. Boomerang, boomerang look over there, It's Tingha and Tucker the two little bears. I wasn't a big fan of the show although as stated previously I did warm to Willy Wombat. Strange how these things stick.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/13/jean-morton?ref=nf&fbclid=IwAR29XHgaE9GeNavOOvgj4Y1dA2iaOwfZQCvEsQ5Jsu6EtCHavXsJdNJN9yE

I used to like Willy Wombat best. He used to fall asleep a lot IIRC. My role model these days. There's a FB appreciation page here: https://www.facebook.com/251323384924669/posts/willy-wombat-was-great/717602521630084/ BTW there was a very naughty corruption of their names when I was at school in the early sixties which I won't repeat.

I used to enjoy Johnny Morris telling stories as The Hot Chestnut Man but thereafter I agree with you Brew he was somewhat naff. I've just checked out the BBC Genome site https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ which is a real treasure trove for lovers of old BBC TV and Radio programmes and it has continue to evolve. You can now view the contents of old copies of The Radio Times as scans of the originals. It goes right back to the first issue from 1923. The old adverts are just wonderful and the contents in general are an outstanding read.

Who remembers the ITV programme Popeye the Sailor Man? I remember watching it in the early 60s on Monday teatimes in grainy 405 lines and B&W of course. I used to enjoy the cartoons but the presenter used to bore the arse of me. He was an old guy with a white beard and pipe in a sailors outfit. Definitely a forerunner for Captain Birdseye. I think he used to have a Jack Russell dog with him too. In true sailor fashion he would refer to the viewers as shipmates or maties and drone on about stuff I wasn't the slightest bit interested in. His role seemed to be to pad out the 2

I've just found this: https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/ . Maybe things are looking up although I note McDonalds and Costa aren't listed as partners.

Litter, well, to use the modern vernacular it does my 'ead in. How can people be so selfish and uncaring about their surroundings? When I were a lad sure there was litter but It seems to be getting worse these days and it isn't just the youngsters. I grew up in the 50s and 60s and back then my mum and dad's generation were much more caring. I guess they were just happy to have made in through WWII. They taught me that littering was almost as bad as vandalism. The Keep Britain Tidy campaign along with a £50 fine if you were caught littering was quite effecti

If you're interested in old valve amps you should checkout http://www.chambonino.com/ John is Nottingham based and I came across his site when I was researching Linear amps. Linear were cheap and cheerful valve amps from the early 60s which lots of lads bought when they started out on electric guitar. They were definitely “no frills” but they've become sought after over the years and command decent money now if you can find one. John's website is full of information and pictures of those pioneering valve amps such as Selmer, Vox, Bird, Watkins etc. A great read if you were in a

Hi manorcom, I've just been reading this thread with great interest. In the mid 60s I played in a band with a lad called Charles aka Tony Dickens who lived on Gawthorne St. Tony joined Bendix in 1966 and had a Cavern Deluxe which sounded great. He worked with an electronics engineer called Joe Green who helped our band out a lot with his knowledge. Tony knows quite a bit about the Bel amps. He's posted on here as tony1 in the past but is also on FB as Charles Dickens. I've got an email address for him too which I can send as a PM if you'd like

Back in the late 1970s when I worked in Peterborough a fellow Nottinghamian made a reference to snobs and I was the only other person in the room that knew what he was talking about. Outside of Nottingham they're always referred to as five stones.

Hi again DJ360 I've been reading up on the various Beatles recordings/formats/mixes etc and the DeAgostini Beatles vinyls get very good reviews. I was tempted myself when I saw them but I have so much Beatle music already I decided to pass. They were certainly a cost effect way to buy The Beatles on vinyl without a drop in quality. It would seem I was wrong about the 1987 Rubber Soul CD. It appears it's a remix of the 1965 vinyl stereo version and rectifys the vocal/instrument separation. I also discovered that I have a CBS CD of Rubber Soul that contains the mono mix and stereo mix