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Alka Seltzer.................'Plop Plop - Fizz Fizz.....Oh what a relief it is"

Like Ayupmeducks, I was not really interested in soccer back in 59; just hanging out with the gang in the village. On the day, probably about 5 in the evening, I had just finished mucking out and feeding the dogs and was walking back up to the house at Trevart Kennels (now the RSPCA in ROT) when I heard this singing in the distance and getting closer. Then saw a double decker, Skills or Trent, coming down the road from Nottingham and scarves hanging out of every window; full of Forest supporters. As it turned off and started to go past the front of our house towards RoT, people were waving

All hail the Bedfod Dormobile...........(#101). Born in the 50s, a workhorse that became a virtual bed on a Ford chassis and was the forerunner of all your various campervans today.

And just for old times sake, what about a gun fight between John Wayne and Clint Eastwood???

Had plenty of bread and beef dripping in my younger years, particularly sandwiches when going fishing. But the best was hot toast and dripping with salt or pepper....my mouth is watering with the memories.

..........and Humble Pie for afters.

....and whats to eat....'s**t with sugar on'.

A hit song by Cher in the early 70s comes to mind with this and many other topics about the once great town of Nottingham and surroundings:- 'If I could turn back time". Sadly it is not possible and one just hopes that sanity will prevail and what is left will be preserved for future generations - but I doubt it!

Yet another good one gone.......RIP Herbert Lom

Off Topic (Odeon) but anybody my age remember going to the old Tudor in West Bridgeford for the Saturday morning matinees? Picture from 1959 courtesy of PTP

Remember the folks going to the Wheatsheaf Inn in Burton Joyce every now and then back in the early days. Looking at Google, it still seems the same but now heavily built up for miles around it. Remember driving back through countryside when I was a young'un.

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I knew one that had 'sparrow legs'.

£1 is equivalent to $AUS1.53432 on the present market down here and what can we get for that????........................The morning paper (Mon to Fri) that tells you how the cost of living is going up. SWMBO tells me that she bought 6 spring onions on special this morning for $1.50.

Great Photos...Thanks RGR

Nice post, Ashley. Looking at ROT on Google now and remembering the wide open spaces around the village back in my days reminds you of a cancer spreading across the country side. There are now three houses on the block we lived at in Cliff Drive and the farm next door is now deemed an Estate. Same thing is happening out here. Where once there used to be farmlands between the main metro suburbs and the outer reaches, there are now housing estates or industrial areas as far as the eye can see. Some estates are so compact that the houses have no garages or car ports at the side of the houses an

That sounds like a good place to stay - good prices, good food, clean and friendly AND a bar. Like the family run Hotels of yesteryear who took pride in the care that they provided and you would go back every year!

Cliff Ton, I fully agree with you as to the confusion. I have noticed during my search of various records that the Locks were called by various names; large lock, small lock, Colwick Lock at HP, Colwick Lock at Colwick, Upper Holme Lock and more. Have even tried to match your picture with the old photos on PTP but as both Locks had what appeared to be holding basins prior to entry, the houses were the only clue. With that in mind, the Colwick Lock house seems to be a white structure at one stage and the appearance re the chimney stacks etc seems different to the smaller Lock. If I was a b

Déjà vu

http://upchucky.org/...ukes/player.htm It's sort of a "Jukebox Time Machine" of music. Each of the years below connects to the best 20 hits of that year via a Jukebox. Click on a year, wait a few seconds and a Jukebox will appear showing you 20 hits from that year to select from. You can play all 20 hits, or click on just those that you like. Enjoy the memories of your era. Just set it on a date and let it stay there and it will just keep on playing different songs of that era.

Enter Holme Lock in the search tab at PTP and you will find some interesting pictures of both locks, including the construction of the Cut back in the early 20s to the official opening of the locks in late 22. Later pictures show the floods of 47 and what the official opening in 55 of the sluice gates by someone who appears to be a young Prince Phillip.. The picture by katyjay is definitely the western lock, stil there and referred to in the 82 pics as the 'big lock'. You can still match katyjay's picture with that of the PTP picture of the big lock. More difficult is to match the photog

katyjay, What an interesting word you have raised. Twazzle is one for the memory banks!

Hey Stu, girls never played conkers back in my day! Looking at the above photograph, they still can't!!!

Stu, your post re Sherwood Forest brought back memories from just a couple of years ago. I remember going to Sherwood Forest with my parents and an uncle and aunt one day for a picnic. Was prior to 1953 as no little brother!! Cars parked near the Major Oak and blankets spread on the grass nearby. Still recollect going inside the MO through the big crack, standing up in what seemed to be a large interior (to a little tacker). Trying to join in with my parents and aunt and uncle who were playing catch with one of those rubber rings similar to what you buy your dog for a toy these days. Most

First day at school memories? Abandoned by my mother....strange people....tears....playing in a sand pit in the class room.......................Guess kindergartens these days relieve much of that trauma of the first day at school.