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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

I remember going on a day trip from Bulwell Common to Colwyn Bay in 51 with my girl friend later to become my wife. We had a nice day out but on returning had a hell of a long wait at Bromsgrove near to Birmingham and we were in trouble with Lyn's mum for being about an hour late getting back, it was after her having to be in time. Seem to remember the station was on the far side of the common. What station would it have been, lefthand side of Hucknall Road going towards Moor bridge. Dennis

Yep Stu, the Barrel Jumping and Badminton on Ice were quite entertaining. I think many of the performers of the Ice shows were Canadian. I used to go ice skating at the old Nottingham ice stadium in the fifties, but I'd learnt to skate at the Richmond Sportsdrome where the atmosphere was terrific, they had a five piece band playing music to skate to and a nice cafe and bar, when I started going to Nottingham ice stadium it was no way as good as Richmond Sportsdrome, an organist supplied the music and the stadium seemed very different to that at Richmond. I did use to enjoy the wrestling at

I remember seeing Laurel & Hardy at the Empire who were about the most famous stars I saw there. Also remember Lucan and McShane ( Old Mother Riley and her Daughter Kitty), The Ice shows were quite good too Barrel Jumping and badminton on ice etc. also the circuses that seemed to pay an annual visit. Other names recalled are, Kalanag a magician, Cavan O'Conner, Joseph Locke, Phylis Dixey and Jane of the Daily Mirror who were strip shows, Wilson Keppel and Betty, Ronnie Ronalde, Vic Oliver, The Billy Cotton Band show, Troise and his Mandoliers, Eric Delaney, Two Ton Tessie O'Shea and man

On B.T. or post office telephones as it was then we were still fitting and maintaining W.B. 400 early warning systems in telephone exchanges in the 60's. Dennis

A Tesco burger goes into a bar, "pint please" it asks the barman, "what was that I didn't hear you?" said the barman, " sorry about that" says the Tesco burger, "I'm a little bit horse" Dennis

The first of my only two jobs was as an apprentice in the printing dept. at Boots I started 1944 with a wage of £1.4s and sixpence, my mum had the £1. and I had the 4s and sixpence. When I reached 18 I had my calling up papers for National Service. I could have obtained deferment until I was 21 but I was looking forward to going in. There were 5 apprentices of the same age, two of us went in the other three obtained deferment. I was lucky enough to get into the R.A.F. as I wasn't really interested in the army. After two years service I went back to Boots to finish my apprenticeship. Dennis

Throwing it down here (RisePark) at the moment, I was going out this morning while it was fine but decided to go this afternoon instead but when it started snowing changed my mind. If this keeps up we will have a good covering in the morning Dennis

We used to have a rag and bone man come round our estate. In exchange for a few rags you got a goldfish, my mum gave me some rags and i split them into two lots and I got a fish with one half and my mate went and got me another with the other half.We had one of them for years, one morning we came down stairs to find that Fred the fish had somehow jumped out of his bowl, he was stuck to the lino but after pouring water over him then putting him back in the bowl he recovered and started swimming and never seemed any the worse for his experience. We get the roving van going round picking up scra

Yes! Stu it was the old Arkwright building, one wing of it was bombed during WWll. You mentioned some of the old processes of bookbinding which gradually disappeared which was one of the reasons I left the print industry after 22 years. Lots of changes took place after the war, Flexiback binding which did away with a lot of books being sewn, I used to enjoy gilding and marbling book edges, but a gilding machine was introduced using gold foil instead of gold leaf which was applied by hand and burnished with an agate burnisher. Marbled edges and endpapers were done in a tray of jelly which we m

Strange how a little snow manages to bring everything to a halt nowadays. Years ago it was common to get heavy falls of snow without much disruption being caused. When we get a few inches of snow now schools close which in my day was unheard of, we seemed to be able to get to school O.K. and I never experienced a school being closed because of snow. I loved snow as a child but now in my eighties can't abide the stuff. Anyone remember the winters of 47 and 63 now that was snow . Dennis