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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.

Vale Rob 237

Has Flo divorced him yet??

Mick, Between your avatar and that reply, I really quacked up!

Amen

Thanks Michael, that site is now bookmarked and will make for some interesting reading. In line with Katyjay and Compo's remarks, I reckon the answer is to subscribe, beg, borrow or steal issues of Bygones as I could not find any access whatsoever to an on-line version. Any picture Compo?................... and by the way, your avatar is missing!

A true gentleman who was a honest, witty and wholesome entertainer. Suffering from Alzheimers, he died out here in Oz at his home on Hope Island, Queensland just a few weeks before his 90th birthday and almost a year after his wife had died. Rest in peace Mr Bygraves...you will not be forgotten.

Beef roasting in the oven.

Mr Compo, please may I have a picture of the pier? Can anybody access Bygones on the internet or do you have to subscribe??

Bacon frying...........Up there with the best. Sunday mornings and the sounds and smell of bacon and eggs frying is one of life's little pleasures! The next is eating it.

Was following this post with interest as I never even knew it existed - you live and learn! Thanks for the photos Cliff ton.

Bournemouth in the late 50s and early 60s was great IMHO. Been to Mabo, Sutton on Sea, Skegness and even Southport and enjoyed each for its own characteristics but, Bournemouth was a different style of seaside life. Beaches were great, especially Sandbanks which was not built up in those days - just a wooden hut that supplied tea, ice cream and the like. Sun, blue skies, hot weather, crysral clear water.................Ain't memories grand!!!!!!! The family even went to live there for a year before we came out here to OZ in 64. I got a job as a delivery van driver for Dewhursts the But

Compo....any pics???

Morning Cliff Ton, Holme Cut was the old canal for the barges, enabling them to miss the weir and shorten their distance at the same time. The Cut was definitely man made with Lock Gates either end (Holme Lock and Upper Holme Lock). Holme Lock at the eastern end of the Cut is still shown on some later day maps and on Google. Old Maps UK co-ordinates 462436 - 339256 and 461490-339262 show the Cut in more detail and even show the old towing paths for the horses to draw the barges back before engine power. Interesting to see on one 70s map that the Cut is not even shown, just empty fields.

Sorry Bubblewrap, I can see your gravel pit near the Colwick Sidings but never noticed it back then. It appears on the small side. Never took much notice of that side of the river but as far as I can recollect, that side opposite ROT was something to do with the Board of Works re sewerage or similar and was always getting flooded. Those early maps would indicate a lagoon or similar where you probably went fishing, right on the bend of the Trent before she heads south to the ROT basin. The current maps show something akin to the film Waterworld! You will see the early maps indicate sw

Good morning Bubblewrap, You are up early! At http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html put in the co-ordinates 462150 and 339090 and leave the search area blank. Click on GO and that will give you the Trent side of Adbolton Lane. Select the 1957-1962 Post WW2 Map of Nottinghamshire 1:2,500 and you will get the original gravel pits and working sites of the 50s. These were the pits that had filled with water and were good for fishing back in the mid to late 50s. I cannot recollect them in use during my time...bit difficult when full to the brim with water. As far as I can make out, it was t

Maybe one of the Nottstalgia bus buffs would go out to Nuthall and determine exactly what it is???? I would love to go myself but it is a little bit too far.

http://www.vintage-nottingham.co.uk/our-vintage-bus Would appear that this vehicle is not a replica as stated on a few sites but, the real thing. Owned by Hearsons at Nuthall and is said to be one of only two left in the country. Looks like a top restoration if that is the case and one would have thought a bit too valuable to be used in the manner it is i.e. left out in the open and hired out for various venues.

Too true about non-arcade fun to be had...especially the late 50s and in those same sand dunes you speak about. Did you use to stay at the Golden Sands Caravan park as well? Good to see you posting again - Have you tried to find that cave yet that I mentioned in Bargie Baiting? Should be very close to you and very easy to get down the path to the river level. Guess it would be a bu99er getting back up though!

Nice one Ashley! Brought back memories of rainy days at Mabo(was there ever a sunshine?)and down at the arcades. That tail gunner was played many times and was great fun. Also remember a vertical coin machine with a glass front and you used to flip a lever and send a coin around a spiral. Get the flick right and land in the right spot on the spiral and you used to get various amounts of pennies as prizes. The centre point paid the most. Great days!