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Don't kid yersen youth!

Hopes were on Long Row as on Ian's photo, just up from Yates and before Pearsons. They were eventually taken over by a national chain as Ian mentions, can't recall the trading name before it apparently became Just Pants Plus, after I had been exiled to The North!

Phil, that was actually Hornes, who had a Royal Warrant to supply the staff livery uniforms.

Mother in Law used to pay into a Christmas Club at Landers in Sutton in Ashfield to buy a Christmas hamper of Chrissy Cake, mince pies, bread, mincemeat, all presented in a festive box, usually used after for storing odds and ends.

At the present both my Grandfather and his brother are shown with The Fallen on the Remembrance board in St Peters, Radford and will be united with all of the Nottingham heroes who fell defending our country and democracy in the Great War. I will have to make a pilgrimage to the new Memorial.

It has been reported that the virtue signalling mother was to raise the poor child as both gender fluid and vegan, but thank goodness that HRH thought that vegan was unacceptable for the Royals, though why she seems to have said nothing about the other idiocy is puzzling.

Look at me Son, when I'm talking to yer! bottle of beer! the incomparable Arthur Worsley.

Happy Birthday Carni, lurgy or no, get yersen some cream cake, bostin fittle!!

Wonder who will be around to check if that clock is a second slow or fast in ten million years, don't think it will affect me!

Happy Birthday Sue, be great if Carni could pop round to share the cake! Avagudun! xx

I seem to recall being told that it was known as Red Gutter. It was the Battle of Stoke Field in June 1487, the last major battle in The Wars of The Roses, some two years after the Battle of Bosworth Field, and was when the rebel Yorkist forces were routed by the far larger royalist army, with just about 100 fatalities suffered by the royalists but an estimated 4000 of the Yorkists killed within three hours.

Inspired by your question Carni, I decided that as there is just me in the house, my bill of £770 for the next year seems excessive and rang Yorkshire Water last week who reckoned I could be paying about £400 with a meter, with two years to change my mind if it doesn't actually work out to my advantage. I requested one fixing and they are arriving on 23rd May to check if one can be fitted. Call me cynical, but why would a privatised company suggest that I have a meter if they are losing money by installing one?

Having posed the question to the fount of all knowledge on the Nottingham jazz scene, my brother, he also cannot recall any jazz venue in that area so the consensus is that there was no such club or if there were then it must have been very exclusive! David, my brother and nephew wonder if they would know your brother , as it is a pretty tight community and most folk are known to each other.

Difficult to say Margie, but I'll make sure you get nowhere near my cheque book!

David, your brother maybe knows my nephew Matt Palmer who plays reeds with The Eagle Jazz Band. I'll try to remember to ask him tomorrow if he recalls the club on Heathcote St, if not my brother may have an idea as Matt didn't start playing that early.

Happy Birthday my friend, have a good day.

I refrain from making overt political comment on the Forum, but have to say that this rabble is beyond contempt!

All's well that ends ( St Anns ) well!

Perhaps one of our cartographic members could post a map of the area from Commercial Square to Mansfield road to help sort out the matter for Mary.

It's all a matter of relativity D/B, to a few of us here you are nobbut a lad, enjoy being a youngster because before you know it you'll be as "mature" as we are now! PS: Henry was one of my heroes!!

Happy birthday Margie, let Paul spoil you even more rotten today! Graham xxx

The Baptist church was ( and I think the building is still there ) on the corner of Alfred St North and Woodborough Rd and opposite the church, on the corner of Alfred St Central, was The Craven Arms. From this junction Alfred St North ran uphill to Mansfield Rd and downhill to St Ann's Well Rd at Commercial Square. The photo is taken from outside Bob's Spares, almost opposite Bullivant St which is still there and shows on the mapping supplied by Trevor. From this vantage point you are looking up Alfred St Central and if you were to turn 180 degrees you would be looking down towards Commercial

Many thanks Oz, poetic nostalgia.

This is Alfred St Central Mary, the Baptist church is on the corner of Woodborough Road and Alfred St North. It looks like the photo was taken from the corner of Northumberland St, outside Bob's Spares.

Don't think it is an opinion when it is a fact!