pjmccree

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  1. Currently offshore in the Niger Delta - West Africa..!!!

  2. Hi mate, the name of that bar was 'GERSHWINS' hence the piano key staircase...!!! at bl@@dy last.
  3. was it just called 'The David Nixon Show'? about 1973-ish. was Anita Harris his assistant? I'm sure he did the original British version of candid camera and had some connection with Basil Brush (not 100% on that one though?).
  4. is this of any use...? www.proweb.co.uk/~roymat/floods/floods.html
  5. was anyone ever forced to eat 'brawn'...? i used to love the narna and sugar sarnies, washed down with Apollo lemonade...!!!
  6. what was the 'orrible creosote based liquid your mam used to give when yer 'ad a kow'ed...!??! it used to feel like you'd swallowed a fire ball...!!! !sickly!
  7. apparently it's brummie speak..!??! found this: www.virtualbrum.co.uk/slang
  8. cracking link that one bamber...!!!
  9. mmmm... ice breaker, wasn't that the choclate that had glassy, minty bits in it...?
  10. actually i could be wrong about that, it might have been virgin records when it was on clumber street? (memory's fading a bit).
  11. Wow selectadisc..... one of the very last record shops with character and staff who were actually interested in their jobs 'n actually knew what they were talking about. Was it not selectadisc that was one of the only record shops to defy the government ban and sell 'Never Mind The B######s, Here's The Sex Pistols'? Well when i say sell, i mean advertise it in the window aswell...! My sister's boyfriend had to buy my copy as i was too young at the time lol.
  12. Dixon & Parker.... Now known as D&P and located on Maid Marian Way.. Bloody expensive - as ever! Cheers Robt P. That's the one, cheers rob...! !cheers!
  13. ooh... I can vaguely remember watmough's...? If I were a good little lad, me mam would take me there, which probably explains why i can vaguely remember it...!!! !hungry!
  14. We used to go in there after the Saturday morning pictures (Gaumont - on Wollaton St) (sp?) and buy stink bombs then we used to go into the Co-op and drop them from the top floor down the staircase - he he. Oh, happy days And there was a sit in / take out chippy on Wollaton St next to the cinema where me mam used to take us sometimes on a Saturday when we had to go to the school uniform shop on Friar Lane Was it a very strange elderly couple that ran sign of 4...? I remember buying stink bombs/ fake plastic dog turds and leaving 'em in the entrance to vicky centre. Was the school unif
  15. Brian Dickman's (my mate Jason's dad) garage was originally just off the high st at the back of the conservative club. I think he moved to east thorpe st in the late 80's? I can remember the pumping station though when i used to walk to school (when it was safe to) and i remember the guy in the cloth cap that used to man the pump. Me mum used to fill her austin morris up there on a regular basis. You're right about the pubs in rudd nowdays though pemberton, it's druggy central on a weekend. It used to be a top night out years ago...!
  16. Aye up Rog, I spent 25 happy years growing up in ruddington, the red heart was my local when bill & mad-beryl ran it. It was comical when she'd dive over the bar, baseball bat in hand when clifton invaded every sunday night. Me old fella still props up the bar in the jollies, tillos or the 'oss...!
  17. lol... if they'd have had a chimney katy, i'm sure they would have had me come in on a sunday morning for free when the shop was shut to clean it...!? It was all character building though, wasn't it...!
  18. My eldest sister has lived in Calgary, Alberta for the last 10 years. The first thing she does when visiting Notts is to go directly to vic market for mushy peas & mint sauce. That's before seeing the family... nice to see she's got her priorities right...!
  19. I don't quite have the age and experience of some of your lot, but I think I witnessed the back end of child labour...? My first job at age 10 (1975), was sat'deh lad at a high st green grocers come butchers shop (ex Kerry's) in ruddington. For a twleve hour shift, i used to recieve a whopping £1.50. My duties would include removing all gunky animal remains from the sausage maker, swabbing the decks, scrubbing the butcher's blocks till me little fingers bled and lifting bags of spuds around that weighed heavier than myself...! As a treat on christmas, i was allowed to pluck 50 turkeys wi' m
  20. todays weather: "gerrinbleddyko'ed innitserri...!!?"
  21. my grand ma: 'YO DOTTY L'IL BOGGA...!!!' (filthy child, how dare you flactulate in my presence...!!!)
  22. My mother quote: 'you know what thought did? s##t it's self and thought again..!!!' un quote. Did anyone's grand parents refer to horses as 'bobbos' when they were a kid? what the hell was that all about eh?
  23. Some more tuffies i can remember whilst i'm having a flash-back...!!! (and who said e-numbers are bad for your memory?) #Bazooka bubbly gum (in the long wrapper with a mini comic inside) #Sherbert pips #Milk teeth #Sugar shrimps (the size of tiger prawns) #Fish & chips (crisps) #Tutti frutties #Rainbow kali (in a see-thru straw) #Mojos #Toffos #Screwball (ice cream in a plaggy cone with a bubbly in the bottom) #Monkey nuts (teeth-shattering toffee) Question: were curly wurly's a linear metre back then, or did i have increadibly small hands as a kid?