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31st August 1968 Sandy and I were at St Mary's church Sutton in Ashfield exchanging our marriage vows.

What is the proper footwear for bears?

Another triumph for the City Planning Department allowing a building like that to be built onto Newdigate House, it really enhances that lovely building don't it !! Nice Vitesse!

Grand photo Ian, not only Commercial Square around which a lot of my childhood revolved, but on your photo it's raining!! I have a photo of the building in 1875 when it was occupied by a chemists, Huskinsons, who also offered dentistry facilities!

Bullimore and Parker were the outfitters of choice for our family, all our clothing (apart from underwear from BHS or Marks) supplied by them and I used them until we moved up to Yorkshire. One reason was the weekly payments facility that they offered at a shilling in the pound, this was a common way for a lot of folk to buy anything at the time, and I think may have been financed by City and Suburban Supply Co who were next door to Bullimore and P. My first "Made to Meaures" came from there, and they undertook this from the bespoke department on the first floor, you felt as though you ha

Carni, have to confess that I still do flick milk bottle tops from time to time! One thing that I can't do though is to smooth them out by running a halfpenny round and round on the inside of the top, made them skim even better!

So right KJ, one of our favourite towns where we regularly went for a few days break. Oh, come you home on Sunday When Ludlow streets are still And Ludlow bells are calling To farm and lane and mill Or come you home of Monday When Ludlow market hums And Ludlow chimes are playing "The conquering hero comes" An extract from "The Recruit", one of the poems from "A Shropshire Lad" by A E Housman, one of my best-loved anthologies. If you don't know it, do acquaint yourself, you won't be disappointed.

Blinking Heck, 94 guests on site right now, hope we've enough biscuits to go around!!

So glad that you've had a great time Carni, but in South Devon how could you not have! The South Hams was our favourite holiday haunt, so many wonderful memories. Have a safe journey home.

Happy Birthday Michael, have a really good day my friend.

We bought both our rings from Ratners, mine a signet ring in 1966 and Sandy`s wedding ring in 1968. I wear hers now on my little finger next to mine.

Thanks Oz, that was the one, Football News. Interesting to think that there was enough interest then to be able to support two specialist publications reporting the same results in the same city!

Nowt to do wi the Square, but as well as The Pink`Un, am I imagining it, but was there also a Green`Un on Saturday?

Ringtons delivered to Rudd until at least 2000, Mum had their tea for years and we did from 1968 until we moved to Yorkshire in 1971. One of the last things that Mum bought us were two blue and white mugs sold by Ringtons celebrating the Millenium.

Can't let another dreich day photo of my old home town pass by without giving it a "like" Ian. It's strange to think that I could have been walking on Long Row or catching the bus up to Mapperley when the photo seems to come from such a different era, bootees an`all! Nice Vanguard!

My old friend John Pearson was head teacher at Rosehill school for many years.

By `ell Col, if this is you having the last word on the subject I'm glad that you're not going to keep going!

Maybe the addition of a spoonful of brown sugar before the cream added had an effect? Edit - just seen the reply from Jonab after my post. Seems the sugar was the answer!

The Royal in Long Eaton was the first Berni we went to in about 1965, we also thought it was then the height of sophistication.

It was The Carlton when first opened in the late 1930`s

Saturday for me too Jill, I echo your comment.

Thought it wer just mysen as wer gerrin it !

Love it Jonab, such a beautiful place.

We were regulars down at Long Eaton in the mid Sixties and remember the musical interludes, and "Death of a Clown" does bring back memories of those nights, especially during a dry weather spell when we would emerge from the stadium covered in red dust! Nev Hughes, number 69, was our local hero and had his garage in Lady Bay. I believe that when we started going to LE he was World Champion gold roof with his car based on a Fiat Topolino rear end driven by a huge American power plant, could have been a 425 (?) Cubic inch Buick. We did try to sell him a 1947 three and a half litre Jag which

All the bleddy wasps are nesting in my eaves -- AGAIN!