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Ayup all, Paid a visit to good old Skeggy today and had a great time, Bag of chips with salt and vinegar, mug of coffee, walked along the front and took in the sea air, great, lots of people there all having a good time. finished the day off with a bag of do-nuts and another mug of coffee. No need to travel far, after all it were good enough for a week when we were kids and everyone spoke the same language. you could pick out the Nottingham accents though Rog

Ayup Stan, I remember cycling from Sneinton to Clifton each night from work along canal street and just before the old Broad Marsh area there was a building just before the railway bridge and wrote on the side you could make out the words "Beds for the night 6d" Would this be in the area you were talking about? Rog

Ayup Jane, I think you mean UB40, cracking band, really captured the sound of the caribs, I always feel happier when I hear them, perhaps it's Caribean happiness. Rog

Ayup Jane, I think you mean UB40, cracking band, really captured the sound of the caribs, I always feel happier when I hear them, perhaps it's Caribean happiness. Rog

Ayup Pem, Would that be Elvis Costello? he he he Alison, I remember the Beach Boy's covering that song, Sloop John B, but I don't know who the original was by Rog

Ayup Jane, Now your'e talking THE BEATLES anything by THE BEATLES, change the sound of pop music you know Rog

£3.1s.4d in 1968 as apprentice mechanic/fitter, gave most to me mam and had about £1.10s to last me for the week, fags, couple of pints and me clothes and bus fares, still I were happy Rog

Ayup all, The Grey Mare Clifton. 1/2 Shippo's bitter, followed by 1/2 Shippo's mild, was'nt sure what to drink in those days, must have been 1969 aged 17 Rog

Ayup Caz, I remember one year when I were a nipper getting a pound for my birthday and I spent it all on Potato Puffs, there seemed to be a lot of bags but I managed to eat em all Rog

Ayup Lynmee, I remember a cafe Clifton side of the bridge, A transport cafe and it's still there. It was used as a meeting place in the first episode of Aufweidesehn Pet (sp) on the ITV series Rog

Ayup Zacsmum, Fairham brook was the name you wanted, it starts somewhere near Keyworth runs through Bunny village, across Gotham moor, through bottom of Clifton and into the Trent up stream of Clifton bridge, some good fishing there too Rog

Ayup Alison, Thanks for the recipes to make my conkers tougher!!!! funny how we find a better way of doing things when we don't do them any more I'll try it though this autumn. What about them Jacko roller skates that you tied to your plimpsols? Rog

Ayup all, If you got a cut or a scratch me dad used to say "I've ad bigger cut's shaving". Toughened you up though Rog

Ayup all, I vaguely remember some sheep being driven over the ha'penny bridge back in the 50s. I think they were unloaded from the cattle trucks in the railway sidings and made to trot across the bridge to the fields where the rugby pitches are now, I too have paid to go over the bridge, but if you bought some sweets from the little shop there you could go across free. Rog

Remember playing CONKERS in the autumn, but first you had to collect them, never satisfied with the windfalls you had to throw sticks into the tree and knock em out, many a time I've been hit on the head with my returning stick, probably explains a lot though thinking about it. Rog

Ayup Alison, Was the Robin Hood cafe at the top of Friar lane set back a little from Maid Marion way? Rog

Ayup Alison, Respect to you, "I have a new hero" Rog

Ayup BIP, Some poor sod in Lincoln was find £80 I think it was for throwing a fag end out of her car window, she was spotted by wannabe cop who passed on her registration number to the authorities, A few days later she recieved the fine through the post. You can drop litter and there's nowt they can do, no ID unless they challenge you, but have a registration number and they've got you Rog

Ayup Alison, Can you remember the name of the show that was on at lunchtime about the same time as ward ten, it starred Noel Gorden and her side kick Jerry Allen ( I think) Rog

Ayup Limey, They knocked down the Nottingham workhouse to build the Victoria station = Good Idea, They knocked down the Victoria station to build the Victoria center = bad idea, Judging by my thesis when they knock down the victoria center we should be in for a treat, Rog

Sisson and Parkers, Redmayne and Todd, Toby's, Griffin and Spalding, Most of the great central and great northern railway bridges The Old Nottingham I Knew as a Kid!! Rog

Ayup Lynmee, Bl@@dy long way to go for a bag of chips but it's nice to know they are still available, I am looking for somwhere to visit for the day over the next couple of month's and I might give the Black country a visit. Looking at old machinery and stuff finished off with a nice bag of chips, sound perfect I think I'll bring my visit foreward a few weeks, thanks for the suggestion. Rog

Ayup Limey, I still live in the UK and I can tell you in Nottingham (when I go there) it's difficult to get some good old British snap now, however you can get any amount of halal, sugar dumplins, chicken and peas and rice etc but try looking for home made black pudding, faggots, and chips cooked in dripping. I suppose that what makes Nottingham the interesting and exciting place it is with such diversity,(tongue in cheek there) Rog

Ayup Mick, Read somewhere recently that there used to be a workhouse in the Hartley road area, could this be someway connected to kid's home/orphanage? Rog

Ayup Radford, You are quite right about Fosset & Thorne being in Boston, I've drove past their place this afternoon Sunday 25th Feb. Don't know why they left Nottingham though. Rog