Commo

Thank you all for your kind words, they do mean a lot. I have always helped Sandy out with some of the housework and she has been a great foreman in the garden, but over these last few months my culinary skills have improved and I know how to operate the washing machine. She is able to have a more comfortable day today so things are less hectic and so I am catching up with you here whilst I can.

Things have been a pretty awful lately. Mrs Commo has been living with breast cancer for the last 7 years and in September on the first day of our holiday in Northumberland she suffered a pathological fracture of the femur shaft and was over 2 weeks in hospital in Newcastle. She started a course of chemo and after the second session was struck down with cellulitis and a further 2 weeks in hospital. She is still suffering immense pain and still cannot walk but hopefully is very slowly improving. I am hoping and praying for a better year in 2017 but unfortunately am not too sure that this w

Welcome to the Forum Beasty, going even further back you are one of those remembered by Mrs Commo from Annie Holgate Junior. Apparently you sat behind her in class and delighted in pulling her pigtails! She was Sandra Sheldon back then.

If we bought something that turned out to be useless, or came across something that was just not fit for purpose, it would be described as " a bit knick knack puff", no idea where that came from but has been in family use for years!

That's all I'm getting too, reckon that Bubbles technology is too advanced for my Kindle to recognise. I'll try on the laptop tomorrer!

It was always there Cliff, nice piccy! Also next door was Trippetts which I had forgotten. That was a regular haunt of my Gran and IIRC sold haberdashery and ladies "things".

Don't have to remember Loppy, still got `em both!

Happy Birthday Chulla, the Glorious Twelfth eh ? Have a good day.

It would have to be Sartorial Elegance in the 20th Century, specialising in silk ties and cravats.

Benjamin, re#9, a little bit of modelling was it for Vivienne?

Welcome to the Forum Tirkiz, you'll find lots of interesting stuff on here so get browsing and posting with your memories and recollections.

Bazwhitt, welcome to the Forum. My Mum worked at Joices and although a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, I seem to recall that that the name was the surname of the owner, but I could be wrong. It's frightening to realise that the Central Market, which we think of as having been there forever, was actually only in existence for about as long as the market in the Vic Centre has been open.

Welcome to the Forum Mr Boulevard, seems you've the right outlook to fit in nicely! Where are you exiled to?

Katia, welcome to the Forum, glad you've found us and do keep posting and sharing your memories. I left in 1972 but like you still think of Nottingham as my Hometown with fond memories, even though my Nottingham is still as it was during the 50s and 60s!

Welcome to the Forum freckles, you'll find lots of interesting stuff on here and no doubt our archivist cartographers will be here soon to help out with you Rose Yard query. Did you have any family in Comyn Street, Bernard and Mary Gibney in the early 50`s?

Chulla, we all wish you well and do keep up your positive outlook. I believe that horse pills are administered with an implement similar to a large pea shooter so that could be something to check out!

I believe that Fairham Brook is the boundary between Clifton and Ruddington where Green Lane out of Clifton becomes Clifton Lane into Rudd.

H/Girl, re #18, these were the names of 4 local Saxon landowners who held land titles in the area prior to the Norman conquest and the subsequent Yoke, but why this particular method was used was never disclosed. I was in Godric house and was pretty useless at everything!

Welcome to the Forum Socram, you'll find lots of good stuff on here and perhaps come across others who were at ACHS. I was at BHGS and started with the first intake of you refugees who were homeless for a while!

Well done Leicester, but I am becoming just a little bit sick of the media hype telling us it is the greatest feat in British sporting history! Is it? Really? Wasn't there some other unfashionable club back in the late 70`s that did something a heck of a lot more than this?

Welcome to the Forum Frog, you'll find lots of good stuff on here so get browsing and posting with your memories and recollections. There are a few of us St Annsians on here, whereabouts did you live there?

I didn't know that NCT experimented with one man buses back in 1951. Trouble was that with buses being rear entry the driver had to leave his cab to collect the fares then run back to his cab to continue.It probably made for fit drivers but played hell with the timetables!

I started going to watch Forest in 1958 and always had total confidence in Bob at the heart of the defence, likewise with Stuart Imlach in attack. If I recall Bob's one and only booking was towards the end of his career and I remember the horror with which that was greeted. We always seemed to have a good squad of Anglos in those days.

Catfan, that's over a million quid you've just thrown away.

Fly, you don't have to buy it on credit, cash would do just as well! Must say, I reckon it's barmey, how much brass must you have to reckon that it's worth that much? You can buy a set of four for less than £20.