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I was born at The Firs Maternity Hospital when it was Collin's Maternity Home in 1930, now back there again in one of The Abbeyfield complex retirement bungalows Dennis

I used to go to Hanford & Richards mid forties early fifties. Frank Hanford used to run it but Dorothy Richards I never saw. Also used to got to Roy & Mary Knight's on Cranbrook St. My wife and I with friends used to go to Enid Colman's. dances at the Clinton Rooms on Thurland St.,.Saturday evenings were O.K but Wednesday nights were known as grab a Granny night. We used to go to most of the Nottingham ballrooms,The Palais, The Queens , The Elizabethan Rooms, The Sherwood Rooms Etc. I worked at The Sherwood Rooms part time for a while, firstly as a Bingo checker then as a ballroom assi

I remember as a young un some of the N.C.T. bus tickets had an advertisement printed on the back advertising Turners Bread, by folding the ticket we used to alter Turners Bread into Turns Bad. Strange what I can remember from 70 odd years ago but forget what I did yesterday. Dennis

I was much to old to be a minor in the fifties as I was in my twenties but my sister who was nine years my junior used to go to the Metropole A.B.C. minors and used to drive us mad singing a song they used to sing there something like "We are boys and girls well known as the minors of thje A.B,C.". I did use to go to the cinemas a lot though, The Metropole, The Roxy, The Adelphi. The Futurist, The Kings, The Bonnington, and the Curzon. In my teens I sometimes used to go twice on a Saturday evening, when we had finished playing football Saturday afternoon we used to go to the Roxy then catch a

Always enjoyed Billy Bunter. I think frank Richards was the author. Very politically incorrect for today's readers, I'm sure but good innocent fun for an eleven year old. Do you remember the T.V. series of Billy Bunter?. Gerald Campion played the part of Bunter. I think Billy Bunter was featured in a comic too. Gerald Campion is dead now by the way. Dennis

I started off with Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories then the books Famous Five etc. Then I discovered Richmal Crompton's William, books there were dozens of them and I think I read them all. Later enjoyed such books as "Settlers in Canada", "Treasure Island" and I also liked Agatha Christie, I remember the first Poirot book I read " The Mysterious Affair At Styles". I was an avid reader until a couple of year ago when I sometimes used to get through a couple of book a week. For some reason I lost my interest in books and now don't read books at all. Dennis

I used the Trinity Square bus terminus twice a day going to and from work from Aug,44 until July 48 and I am certain the #2 City hospital bus ran from there most if not all of that time.

When a young lad I went into a sideshow to see "The Bullet Riddled Body of Jesse James", This was a skeletal figure of a man. a loincloth round his middle laying on a raised display table, around him were cards with arrows supposedly pointing to what it was stated to be bullet holes. It wasn't until sometime much later I read of Jesse James and his death to find that he had been shot only once. There used to be lots of con tricks on Goose Fair at one time. One thing that they got rid of which was a good thing were freak shows, that used to exibit animals such as calves with two heads, lambs

When I used to use Trinity Square buses in the forties going to and from work the buses using the square as terminus were the No. 18 to Edwards Lane estate, the No.17 to Carey Rd. Bulwell via Heathfield estate the No.6 to Bestwood estate and the No.2 to the City Hospital. Dennis

Re. the reference to Alf the hairdresser in poohbear's post at the top of the page. Would that be Alf Hutchins the hairdresser who had a shop just under the railway bridge on Mansfield Rd. Daybrook? I used to go there for years. He was very good to servicemen during the war and often used to hand out cigarettes to them, he had photos of his customers who were in the forces all over the walls of his salon. Dennis

Used to see a woman without a nose sometimes on Arkwright St. My wifes aunty lived on Glapton Rd. and we used to visit her quite a lot and I used to frequent Arkwright St. a lot when I worked on Station St. When we married in 53 we went to live with the wives aunt and we were there for a year before we bought our first house at Hallam Rd. Porchester. The wife worked at the Co-Op on Arkwright St. while we were down the Meadows. Dennis

My aunt who lived at Bishops Stortford used to visit quite often and always used to take me into town and Pearsons was always on the list of shops visited along with Toby's and Griffins, Pearsons and Tobys were quaint shops. As a nipper I always liked to see the large Toby Jug that was over the entrance of Tobys. I suppose the nearest we have to those is Debenhams. Dennis

You could be right, after 60 years my memory is not good, I seem to remember another engine having to come and give us a push. Dennis

I always used to look for the horse above the shop next to Payne's when walking along Parliament St. with my mum when a kid, there was a tobacco shop nearby I seem to remember.. Dennis

Thank you Cliff some interesting photos. Dennis