Commo

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  5. Disappearing Petrol Stations

    in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum

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    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 had really arrived when you accessed the first floor!

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  7. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    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.

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  14. Map of Bulwell

    in OLD MAPS OF NOTTINGHAM

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    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.

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  15. The Old Market Square

    in Nottingham City Centre

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    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!

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  24. That Song reminds me of......

    in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.

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    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 we had, but he declined, it being a little too tame for his needs!

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