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  1. Seem so funny now....so eres sum mor onum gerrit daan ya gerron curbeh gerrof meh
  2. My dad had his paraffin oil lamp nicked from beside the car one night, so he had to replace it, only that one went as well a few days later, he said he was going to put another out unlit and fill it with petrol, telling us kids 'that'll teach the boggers', mum wouldn't let him though and so he got one of the clip-on electric ones instead.
  3. Apprentice at Rediffusion on Castle Blvd, £9 a week. Was a good place to work, in the TV workshop then as TV repairman. Being an apprentice I had to spend a little time in each department or section, though out on the vans mending tellies was the best, everyone welcomed the telly man! I was quite the rebel though and didn't get on at all well with the supervisors or managers, but nevertheless had a good time with me mates there. (should say this wasn't in the fifties though, was 1970)
  4. The one on Southchurch Drive, Clifton had a quite magnificent mirrored staircase, something you wouldn't expect to see in a 'food shop' on a council estate. It was a wonder to see as kid. I think the one on Parliament Street had some quite interesting features too, you could look all the way the down the middle of the staircase there, from the top floor it was a scary sight, the only place I can remember that you could do that. I think that one also had the first escalator I went on.
  5. It is, and I'd give more than a few pennies to get it back!
  6. Haven't seen anyone mention one I remember on the Loughborough Road near where the Nottingham Knight is now. It was probably just where the big roundabout at the junction with Clifton Blvd is now, back then it was probably where Landmere Lane crossed. I remember it as a kid and think was demolished when Clifton Blvd was built.
  7. Portland Baths still there, what a surprise, the road out front has changed a bit though! You're right about the smell of bleach, what with all us mucky kids using them, the chlorine levels they must have had then would see them closed down now. I remember the hair drying machine too, me and my brother used to go down to the Portland Baths in the school holidays, and always had a penny for the hair dryer.
  8. Hope you don't mind me riving an old thread. Although it wasn't bought by me, the first record I 'owned' was when my grandpa and grandma asked what I wanted for my birthday, and I apparently insisted they got me 'Tom Dooley' by Lonnie Donegan. It was for my 5th birthday, and we only had a radiogram with a 78rpm deck on it, of course the record was a single 45. I can clearly remember having to persuade them and my mum and dad that really I wanted it, they didn't think it was suitable for a 5 year old, but gave in and I got it. Despite it being a 45 I played it till I wore it out by holding on
  9. 79962 Clifton, Southchurch Drive and one on Varney Road. I was fascinated by the Divi till, the extra bit stuck on the top with the levers that selected the numbers. I remember at least once my mum having to tell them they'd put the wrong number on, either by mistake or deliberately using a mates number. I used to remember my grandmas number, though all that I can recall about that one now was that it began with '3'
  10. Must have cross posted, baths down the Meadows (or Meduz as we said then!), were Portland Baths.
  11. Thank you for the welcome. Victoria Baths, yes that's them in Sneinton by the old market, though sometimes we went to the baths down the Meadows, what were they known as?. And I think you are right, swimming lessons began at juniors, I went from Milford and can now picture the buses lined up outside there too. I'm glad someone else remembers (though wonder if I should worry that I didn't need reminding!), and how brilliant to see that photo, the junction has completely changed now, as we can see back then the bus went close to the building in both directions. By the way, it's good to have f
  12. We used to have school swimming lessons at the Sneinton Baths and the double decker bus from Clifton took us down London Road. When we got to junction at the bottom the bus turned right (was it onto Lower Parliament Street?), and on the right hand side there was a factory that had topless/nude pictures pinned up over all the walls inside on the first floor. As school boys from Fairham Comp we all used to clamber to that side of the bus upstairs and make an unruly noise and giggle as we got a few seconds to glimpse the half naked ladies as the bus went by. Occasionally the bus would have to wa