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Hey Compo, did you think your question would develop into this?

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Reckon your shots confirm the location Cliff ton. You and Beefsteak earn the rewards.

Great photos Compo.

Congratulations Beefsteak. Thought it might be in that area. Taking into account the possible camera location and zoom, it would appear that Selby Road is the one (or another street very close by). Cliff ton, may I ask if you can get a photo from down on the road surface with the zoom on full when you go down there. The zoom would remove the side hedges and kerbs BUT watch for cars if you do not want to join Boon.

Good evening Cliff ton. Agree fully with how compulsive this thread is and wonder if Burtkt realised what he would start with his post. Have followed this post since the beginning and thought Beefsteak had cracked it. Spent a lot of time since trying to find the possible location from all the relevant photos on Flickr. Panoramia and other associated sites. The photos that I have posted would indicate that the County Hall line of site is fairly close. Down here in OZ I only have Google Maps and since it is 48 years that I was last in Nottingham, I can only rely on the satellite pictures of

Almost there!! This photo (courtesy of Wikipedia) has almost the correct angle of the dangle re the Newton building. So all that is left is to find a site between Wilford Hill and Trent Bridge where the Boon shot was taken; either on this side of the river or closer to the city. Others may have to work that out as I can only search by Google and that is not easy.

View from Wilford Hill (courtesy of Flickr/Graham Woodward) would indicate the angle of the shot in this instance is to far from the west as the western side of the Newton Building is showing and not the eastern as in the Boon shot.

Have spent some time down here in Oz trying to find the photo location. Use the Google Map and check out the 340 degree photo available at the Wilford Cemetery and I believe that it shows an incorrect angle for the Boon shot. The line from Wilford is to far west if you check the view of the Newton Building. Found the above photo taken south from the roof of the Newton building (courtesy of Flickr/Ananabanana). The Boon shot is, I think, somewhere out there to the right side of the picture. On one of the Boon Google sites (http://www.martinunderwood.f9.co.uk/Boon/location.htm) there is

Unless I missed it on one of the previous 28 pages, what about 'Using Shank's pony' when we thought we would catch a bus or other ride but walked instead??

Go for it Compo. Looking forward to your photos from the other countries as I am sure many others are.

Remember the sci-fi serial, Journey into Space, with Jet Morgan in the mid 50s. Used to be allowed to stay up late to listen to that programme. Still remember when the spaceship was sinking into the ground on a strange planet and the programme finished until the next week!

Ashley, remember the old sea fort off the coast up that way back in the 50s. Used to stay in the big caravan park north of Mablethorpe and walk direct across the dunes to the beach. Could see the fort out to sea from that point? Incidentally, trust your wife has got over that illness that you told us about?

Thanks Compo, it was just that your post (#9) conjured thoughts of a naked man leapfrogging a bull and failing to clear the sharp horns! On the horns of a dilemma perhaps?

anybody out there who went to the RoT Infant School 1952-58 eg, Andrews, Towers, Jepson, Nowell, Fawkes, Astill, Banner, Richardson, Mooney, Monkhouse, Welbourne?

Below: Coming of age in Hamer country. This young man is about to perform the Bull Jumping ceremony; if successful he will graduate to adulthood, go on a walkabout for several months, foraging for his food and then return to take a wife (or three). Compo, what happens if he fails to jump the bull? Singing soprano and enforced celibacy for the rest of his life?

timbirkin, across the road from 2/4 Holme Road in West Bridgeford in the 50s was a large concrete bunker. Mostly buried and earth banked around the sides almost to the roof level. Used to play on the roof but could not get inside as it was blocked off. Google aerial view shows some landscaping around the site but unable to say whether it had been demolished/removed from the pictures. Google street view gives the impression something may still be under there. Wish I was there so I could dig around!!!

Tripe! My father used to get a truck load of the guts from the Abattoirs (Bitterlings?) to feed the pigs in the early days. Still remember the intact guts wobbling on the back of the truck, the smell and the mess being pushed off into a boiler to be cooked. The pigs went mad for it whether cooked or not. Later years at the Kennels, used to get the tripe and I had the job every now and then cook it in a large vat over a fire. The stink can still be remembered, especially when you took the lid off and got a face full of steam. When cooked, used to chop up the tripe into much smaller

Thanks Cliff Ton. I used to pass it when crossing Slab Square to get to Mount Street for a bus to Wollaton. I remember a coffee shop on the same side as the Odeon that we used to go into both daytime and when we were on the town at night. Coffee shop extended a fair way back and had numerous tables, the back area was raised up a bit and was pretty dark and smoky. The stonemasons shop would have been up the hill from the Odeon, once again only a small front but it must have extended back a distance. Unfortunately it is 50 odd years ago and I cannot pinpoint the exact location except

Anybody out there who went to Arnold County High School (as it was known at the start) from the day the school opened in 59?

Glad some others have noticed Facebook as a User. On this post at the moment, it is showing 7 users and listing just myself and Facebook. Thought for a moment that I was being tracked. You can open up a thread anywhere in this Forum and within a short time, Facebook is shown as a named user with the actual number of users being far more than the named ones; as today. Went to an old post 'Sign of Four Magic Emporium, Derby Rd Nottingham' and just myself to start off with then by the last page, I had company! 8 users and only names listed were myself and Facebook. RGR's latests post s

How could I forget the noise....used to hit you like a brick wall when you walked through the doors onto the pool deck. And the smell of chlorine. Remember sitting in the water up the shallow end where the warm water was pumped in?

Thanks everyone. Looks like Cliff Ton was on the money, Here's another one from the 50s. Same side of the street as the Odeon, there was a coffee shop and further up was a stonemasons shop and often you would see someone chiselling away at a grave stone or similar in the front window. Does anybody remember that one????

Manchester = bedding, linen etc. Thanks Cliff Ton, the Henry Barker shop is about the right size but the front windows at street level were definitely curved inwards (concave). I was talking to my Aunt about it and she could remember the shop but not the name.