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My old grans standard dress was a crossover pinny, she wore one daily, always remember her going into a home as she started to wander due to demetia, last time I saw her alive she was sitting on the edge of her bed in her room in the home with her hat on, a pinny and her handbag on her knee insisting she wanted to go home. Her house had been demolished about 4 years earlier and she had lived with us till it got too hard.

God, the Mill Cafe, we used to go there regularly for morning breaky, Sos and egg sandwich on home baked bread ! I Went again when I was in the uk last year, still operating and still same, think it may be the son running it now. Had some old photo's on the wall of older times. Anyone remember the Kingfisher on Mansfield road, just up from Woodborough road, opposite side. Was our Friday night last stop before home , that or Pancho's down near Savoy hotel on Mansfield road too. Best Donner kebab in Nottm, well it was.

Remember our maths teacher in the final C&Guilds course was an ex RAF pilot from the war and he used to explain a particular theory in maths, by explaining how he crashed his spitfire on the downwards slope of the only hill in Holland and he escaped unscathed due to the angle of the decent and the hill ! which in his words proved the particular theory! sumefin like that anyway ! On day release we had to have one period of english for some stupid reason, anyway we found out that to pass the course you only needed 30% attendance so when that lesson came up we used to go to the pictures at

Wardy I worked for Taggs too ! well 63- 66 anyway ! Maybe you knew my cousin they called him Hadge (Dennis), Johnny Miles, oh and Phil Tagg the bosses son ! Martin Kearns and Ray Tagg in the stores. Where in oz are you now ?

Cliff Ton Looking closely at the larger scale copy you sent me, its bloody amazing really as I used to work virtually in the same spot in later years when it was a Telecom building and also previously at the Post Office as an engineer. Cannot believe I was on the virtual spot where my great gran and all the siblings lived.

We have similar problems here in oz and the powers that be are on about the same thing. We also have big issues with the indigenous people who consume what we call "Chateau Cardboard" which can come in anything up to 5litres ! Will have little or no effect on the real causes. I drink very little but my wife likes a glass or two of white or red now and again so will have little effect on us.

Seen mention in a few posts about Peoples College. Wandered if many members here had attended there in the 60's ? I was in the electrical engineering courses from 64 to 67, then I did a year at Arnold & Carlton college, then day release back at Peoples for another 2 years. I attended at an annexe place on corner of Canal street/ London road for the first couple of years as it was night school - 3 nights per week. Then moved up to the main building for my final City & Guilds 3rd year, did a bridging course at Arnold & Carlton for a year, then back to Peoples for my advanced Te

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Wow thanks for that Cliff ton, think my great aunt maybe was having an alsimic moment she was in her 80's ! That must be the place as I remember gran saying something about the old bath house near there opposite the sneinton market. Their family name was harrison. How could I get a copy of that map ?

Not a garden centre but there used to be a nursery, down Westdale lane on the right hand side, I think its an elderly residents retirement village now. I used to go to school with the son from there but cannot remember his name. They had an old Morris truck and a stall in the market in the city, maybe the old central market. Family run business for years, but when the old man died, the son I knew was made an offer he couldn't refuse, also the council gave him some more land somewhere else but out of town a little. Tony Wickes had his own squash courts built on his garden centre as I had a f

I was at the Beachcomber too that night, also saw Hendricks at the Isle of Wight pop festival, mind me and my 3 mates were only on "desolation hill" but we had a great view ! The Beachcomber was up a courtyard just below Broadway on the South side of St Marys gate about 70 meters up from Weekday Cross. Just looked at Google earth and looks like a new building in front of the courtyard, maybe the Lizard Lounge now ? Was one of the old lace factories I think. Knew Keith Symonds and Pete Hubbard very well. Symonds was a poser, bit like an ex public schoolboy, but Pete was a lovely fella.

Sorry I gave the police/service station as a rough position reference, it would have been mid late 18oo's as the census record showed my gran and siblings as young children. Have no access to the records at the moment as my Ancestry membership lapsed as it was becoming just too expensive, and all my personal stuff is on my desktop PC in storage !

Does anyone have an old map showing Sun Hill St Annes, was told by a great aunt that it was somewhere opposite Hungerhill road behind the police station and the Sheppards race service station on the bottom of Ransom road. Most of my mums family were listed there in a copy of an early census I got on Ancestry.com Would love to know exactly where it was so I can fill in another gap.

Yes remember the yoyo craze, think everyone had one, strange but my twin grandaughters aged 9 have the 21st century version complete with flashing led lights as it goes up and down ! Also had the gyro thingy yes it ran up and own some wires or could stand on top of a small tower. Had a diabalo too ! big plastic thing between two sticks with string in between. Ana also my favourite a whip and top ! Quite a few of my old relly's are in Cavendish cemetary in the old part up on the right near the wall.

Used to pirate the redifusion box above the rear window, at my grans old house in St Annes, bit of wire and a speaker she had free radio but only one channel unless I climbed up and changed the wiring Lol! Went for an interview at their Castle Boulevard office in 63, but failed the aptitude test ! Then became an apprentice electrician, and finally a Telecom Tech at BT. Rented our first colour tv from Wigfalls, good job it was rental as it went up in smoke first night ! but they replaced it with a different model next day.

Briyeo Love the old Triumph, a nice restoration project. My elder brother was a rocker, he had many bikes that I sort of grew up around. He had a BSA Road rocket, which we used to ride together, me on the back, easily do a ton up Porchester road after an early mornings fishing somewhere! I started my motorbike/scooter fetish when I was 14, got a Sun 197cc (3 speed villiers engine) form a mate, swapped it for my electric guitar and amp. I used to torment the neighbours screaming around Breckhill fields, till I cracked the crankcase and that was it, I stripped it down but never got it repair

My wife got some free tickets to see Ken Dodd there, she had to drag me along as I wasn't that keen on bloody "diddymen" style comedy. But he was a totally different type of comedian to the tv crap. Never laughed so much in my life ! and talk about blue jokes ! I came out aching I had laughed so much.

Kingstons moved to canal st around 59/61 as I mentioned in the other thread on bikes shops, I helped my dad prepare the place on canal street for the move. I would be around 12 -14 then as any younger i wouldn't have been much help and any older I had gathered new interests (girls)! Cannot remember where they moved from though. And yes all the saleman wore a brown smock coat thing. also mentioned in another thread my mums neighbour was a salesman with them all his working life after he came out the airforce, his name was Ken Pickering, tubby chap with horn rimmed glasses. Also remember old

My old mums next door neighbour was a salesman at Kingstons,his name was Ken, my dad was a builder and did a heap of work for them when they moved into the "new" premises on canal street. Always remember as I used to go and help him then and we had to cut doorways in 2' (two feet) thick walls, all done with a hammer and chisel ! no power tools then ! In later years got a couple of my bikes from them as Ken used to do me specials. He also gave me my first real sheepskin flying jacket, not a copy, the real mccoy as he was ex RAF flight crew from the war. I cherished that jacket but the leath

My wife and I are both avid readers, we both have ereaders and always have a few dozen books on there ready to go. Love gritty detective types, Rebus - Ian Rankin, have read all Stuart McBride and eagerly await his new offerings, Michael Rowbotham too. Mark Billingham. , just to name a few. I've also recently d/loaded Alexander Solhenitsyn (spelling) His "Gulag Archipelago" "Cancer Ward" "The First Circle" Dont laugh but while staying with my daughter in Darwin, she recently got me into "The Game of Thrones" series by George RR Martin so I downloaded the 5 books and I'm hooked ! I know it

Love the tin bath, always remember mum saying they all used to bathe in a tin bath in front o' fire after gran had "backed it up" Being the youngest she was always last ! when I was little I always remember mum saying how wonderful it was to have a bath with taps and we didn't know we was born !

I used to visit Hopkinsons almost daily in the 70's, my employer had an account so any hardware or special screws, threaded rod etc. we picked up on the way to the job. My mums next door neighbour worked at Halls on Derby road, she was there for years. Her name was Audrey. Mum got my uniforms from D&P in the 60's

RGR Thats the one ! only mine was in lime green YUK !

My first vehicle was a Ford Thames van circa 1950's, not the big one, the 5cwt one, I bought it in 66 for 35 pounds, sidevalve engine wacky window wipers (vacuum driven), 3 speed box. 2nd gear was too low 3rd too high ! Woodborough road hill was a real crawl. Puce green in colour but it was all mine and a big step up from a Lambretta ! Used to leave an oil heater thing hanging in the engine compartment when winter came to stop it freezing up. I passed my test in a Vauxall Viva as I daren't take it in the Ford. Had 6 lessons so I could use the driving school car.

Denshaw Yes the same chap, he lived on somersby road, always remember he had an amazing shed, think his dad was an engineer or something, as it had some lovely machinery in there, lathes etc.