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  1. Rainbow Rooms

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Much more mundane memories of the Co-op Rainbow rooms. It was the venue used by various organisations to hold examinations and I attended annually from 1965 to 1968 taking examinations for my professional qualifications. Always found it hard to take that most folk went there to enjoy themselves!

    The main entrance to the ain hall was on Broad Sreet, but the building went through to Heathcote Street which entrance was used for getting in to the smaller rooms. I did once go for a private function in 1962 put on by a school colleague for her birthday party and she invited the whole of the fifth form to attend! Must have had parents with some wherewithal! It was, though, the first hearing of Beatles "Love Me Do" on the Dansette which provided the entertainment, so woud have been in the October, Thought the record absolutely fantastic!

  2. Ay Up from Commo

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    I,ve been lurking around the site for a year or two on and off, and now that I am a Gentleman of Leisure thought I could have more time to get further into it.

    I was born in St Annes, Comyn Street, (hence the name tag) and was there until 1954 when the Family moved out to the elysian fields of Ruddington. Whilst in Commo, my Uncle and family lived next door, Great Aunt and Uncle 3 doors away, and paternal Grandma just across on Gt Freeman street. My maternal Grandma lived miles away at the top of Curzon Street.

    I have now been exiled in West Yorkshire since 1972 and for the last 38 years in Summer Wine country, and I see that Compo is a regular contributor to this ste. I have always kept a love for Nottingham throughout the exile and still have my Brother and Sis in law in Ruddington with mrs Commo's Brother and family in the Sawley area.

    Nostalgia for Nottingham has always been important to me, though probably as with many other exiles, for the way it was still being seen through perhaps rosy specs, though it probably was better then!

    Hope to be around the site and get to know some of you, and it would be great to know if anyone out there may have hailed from the same area originally.