HILDA
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After mincing the meat we had to put some crusts through it to clean it out.
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We heard the siren from Staffords Printing on Forester Street Netherfield. We always new when it was dinner time, and knocking off time.
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Hi, Arnot Park is on the 15th and 16th of June as we will be at their craft fair. Floralands Garden Centre is nice for all ages, there is a farm park, craft cabins, and a cafe. Not sure if you have to pay to go in the farm park, but they do have a web site,
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Babs moving away from flower festivals and back to grasstrack racing HaHa there is a race meeting at Oxton on Sunday 27th May.
details on http://www.nottinghamautograssclub.co.uk/
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Used to be 5862 then they added 20 as a prefix so then had to remember 205862 when we went to the coop at the junction of Coningswath and Cavendish Roads where J G Rolls was (is?)
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When we first got married in 1971 we lived in the ground floor flat at 38 Meadow Road which is on the opposite corner to what is now Marshalls electricians.
The rent was 28/- (£1.40) per week.
Upstairs lived Sam an ex wrestler who made Big Daddy look like a lightweight, or maybe thats the passage of time affecting the memory.
Several trips to the old railway yard in our minivan scavenging for the coal that had fallen off the wagons in previous years meant that our coal bill for the year we were there was minimal.
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Frank Rowley and Stan Alison, were in my class at Ashwell Street, still see them around. My mum was a dinner lady in the Infant school, so she was off work when it was school holidays. Higginbothams faggots , yummy yummy we always offered to fetch them, and have a crafty helping out the jug on the way home. I can remember the Co-Op bakery shop, and shoe shop, and the doctors, where the Co-Op sumpermarket is now on Victoria Road. Just round the corner at the top of Chandos street was a sweet shop, we used to meet dad on pay day, and he would buy us a few sweets of our own choice. Opposite was the Baptist church which is still there. I went to Girls Life Brigade there, and made my way up to being a Lance Corparal, we had some great times there and learnt a lot. On the corner of Chandos Street was Copes the butcher with the sawdust on the floor, and next door was Dawsons paper shop. I did a paper round for them to earn a bit of cash, and saved up and bought my Dansette record player, which I was very proud of. I delivered papers down Forester Street, and all the streets leading off and ended up doing the bottom half of Curzon Street leading up to the dike. Sundays we went to the Methodist Church on Victoria Road, always had a nice new dress for the Anniversary. (Devastated when they sold it), and used to spend half of our Sunday School collection on sweets at Walkers, or Bamfords, don't think mum ever new.
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My eyes are getting bad missed an L out (HIL)ary and (DA)ve = HILDA
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Hi Babs yes it us (HI)ary & (DA)ve = HILDA
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Budds was the nearest peashooter stockist!
There used to be a skittle alley at the back of the Windsor and the local pigeon club used to meet there on a Friday night, George Browns dad Tom used to collect the baskets of pigeons and take them to Victoria railway station in his van to join the what seemed like thousands of other pigeons on their way to start their long flights home.
I went with him once to take the Carlton clubs birds to Harrogate to be liberated, bet the pigeons got home first.
Used to see one chap who lived up Coningswath Road walking down to the Windsor with his wooden box with the recorder in to check whether his birds had got back first.
I think the pigeon club later moved to next to the Blacks Head and the pigeons went via road in a purpose built artic trailer which had liberation doors all down the side.
We sometimes had our bottle of pop and packet of crisps in the back yard of the Blacks Head but usually it was The Bruno which was my dads local.
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I went to St Pauls '55 to '60 Mr Richards Headmaster Miss Eaton, Miss Johnson and Mrs Burley were three of the teachers I recall, Mrs Burley lived on Cavendish Road between Buxton and Cromford Avenues. Mrs Burleys husband Ivan was transport manager at Trent Concrete I believe.
Rex Robinsons was called Genders when me mam bought me my first bike.
There was Knightons double fronted shop next to the Windsor who sold wallpapers and pots and pans.
Hannams was on the corner of Gladstone Street and Carlton Hill and could have been the inspiration for the 2 ronnies fork handles sketch, you could even buy replacement suitcase handles there.
The paper shop next to St Pauls belonged to Budds at the time I was at St Pauls.
The playing field for the school was behind the Church and the football pitch must have sloped about 5 degrees from one side to the other.
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There was a couple named Bennett who lived on Harrogate Street when we first got married in 1971 and lived in a flat at the corner of Meadow Road and Harrogate Street.
I think that he had been or was a window cleaner and his wife worked with my wifes mother at outside catering events for the Corner House Cafe. Nice couple always pleasant.
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New to this forum and started thinking back to when I started Grasstrack car racing in 1972 at Langar next to the John Deere site.
Sue Wright was chairwoman, Mick Wright who raced a mini was from AV Cars on Meadow Lane.
Mick Parnham and Mick Kirk, M K sadly no longer with us, who raced Anglias lived on Vale Road at Colwick. Tom Carter was the regular race starter.
Graham Rowlands from Mapperley who worked for Mertrux raced Jags.
Mick and Sandra Healey from Mapperley with a mini.
John Strong from Carlton with a Moggy 1000 I think.
My brother Alan Goode with his VW, I had an Anglia estate.
There was a Dave ? from Lamcote motors in Radcliffe who I think had an Anglia van.
Terry Cox, still racing, and winning.
Steve Kitchingham from the mushroom farm on Spring Lane
There was Roy, Roger and Margaret Green along with Mick and Carol Glynn from Westdale Service Station.
Dick Wightman and Alan Doxey in a wolseley, Dick still involved with the club, which was renamed Nottingham Autograss Club.
Alan Roberts, John and Alan Till, Paul Watson and Chris Hodgett.
John Whithead who worked at T C Morley's garage at Lowdam.
Can anyone add to the list?
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Hi, yes I lived next door to George Brown and 3 doors up from Marina and Rita Hand.
My name is Dave Goode and I survived Kaths canteen food at Darnells.
You lived just about three houses away from my uncle George Hill I think.
Never passed my test on a bike back then, had a tiger cub and a 650 AJS with a double adult sidecar.
Just about to retire so have done my CBT and theory test and bought a little Yamaha to play on and hopefully pass my test so I can get something like an old Triumph 350 twin to potter about on.
I have been driving buses for the past 8 years and they are a lot less scarier than the Yamaha!
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There was a chap called "Dickie" Bird who lived near the top of Cavendish Road who drove for them, Think they had green TK Bedfords.
My brother did a spell of driving for the engineering side delivering weldmesh and fabricated bits in the late 90's
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Hi lived opposite Buxton Avenue between Carnarvon Grove and Nursery Drive
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I remember Fez from GAY cafe days, which wasn't a cafe it was a youth club and the GAY was a complete misnomer as it was run by a charity under the banner of the Guild of Abstainant Youth (G.A.Y.) which was run by Harold Finch who's day job was if I remember correctly was road safety officer with the County Council.
Can remember Steve breaking down with his Norton on the M6 and he blagged a lift to St Helens with a tyre breakdown truck.
And the masterplan to recover the bike was for us to go up to St Helens in my minivan.
It was a bit of a struggle but by taking the front passenger seat out and the front wheel of the bike we got it in, the passenger seat was put to use for Fez to sit on cramped up in the back of the van, it was my van so I got the drivers seat!.
After this he owned an Ariel Square 4. I cannot remember what bike he had when he had the argument with the Hoveringham Gravels lorry on the bridge in Netherfield.
Barbara I also lived on Cavendish, I think Ray had a Grieves bike then, and I worked in the drawing office at Darnells.
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In the early sixties when I was a schoolkid our next door neighbour drove for Harry Wilkinson of Bulwell.
They had a quarry at Bulwell but also had a fleet of Thames Trader 6 wheelers on bulk coal deliveries, when we had a flourishing coal industry, I remember the transport manager's son coming out of the services and joining the firm with a brand new 8 wheeler Foden, what a beautiful sound. It used to fly past the Traders on the motorway.
Just acquired one of these
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Hi Mick2me sorry no known aquaintance named Peter Goode