Jill Sparrow

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  1. He'll be the one with hypothermia.
  2. I knew a number of children who lived on Gauntley Street. They were pupils at Berridge. The houses they lived in are long gone. I don't think there is any residential property on Gauntley Street these days.
  3. I remember the Linley fire around 1962. Flames engulfed the chimney and I watched in fascination from a bedroom window at the rear of our house. I don't think it was an isolated incident, either. The area @Marrowmanrefers to has been heavily redeveloped and more is planned in the near future. It all looks very different now but we have our memories.
  4. Not quite in utero. In shedero, perhaps?
  5. All this autonomous male with luxury shed malarkey will be putting ideas in young Trogg's head.
  6. I took my mother to Lambley in the 1980s. She didn't recognise the place she had been so fond of in her childhood. I photographed all the family gravestones in the 1970s when they were still in situ. They have since been removed, sadly.
  7. The Woodlark was kept by a more distant relative in the early years of the twentieth century. My mother recalled trips over to Lambley on summer evenings when she was a child when all the men would wander over to The Woodlark for a drink. It was their favourite hostelry. I remember going to The Robin Hood to give a local history talk some years ago. I was presented with a framed photo of the pub, taken around 1905. In the doorway is my great great uncle who took over the hostelry from his father around that time. Pure coincidence. No one knew he was a member of my family.
  8. The Lambley appears to be the former Nag's Head on Main Street, Lambley. This was kept by my mother's relatives, as was every other pub in Lambley village, during the early years of the twentieth century. My great grandfather, John Thompson, kept The Robin Hood and Little John after he retired from farming. He had previously farmed Crimea Farm on Spring Lane. His brother, William, kept The Nag's Head. It is many years since I went into The Nag's Head for lunch and it was still pretty much as William would have known it.
  9. Sutton is a dump these days, which is a shame. Clement Taylor's is more of a country wear shop: good selection of pure wool jumpers, tweeds, shirts, moleskin trousers, hats, caps, etc. a sort of Aladdin's cave. Very obliging staff as you'd expect with such an old established company.
  10. Clement Taylor's Menswear on Brook Street, Sutton in Ashfield is an excellent shop for quality kit. A real timewarp. Most of the chaps I know love it.
  11. Anonymous Dating? Wondered what that was about when I logged in this morning. "Want thrills and flirting?" it asks. Well, who needs that when we've got our very own @benjamin1945 not to mention @trogg (because Mrs Trogg would throttle him). They've had enough thrills and flirting to last the rest of us several lifetimes
  12. We also know for which offence he was jailed.
  13. On the other side of Nuthall Road stood Table Row. I was at school with a boy whose family lived there. They were nice old cottages but, alas, they are no more.
  14. I noticed that no one withdrew the photo of Andrew with his (? Was it his?) arm around the teenage Guiffre girl. Looked like a very dodgy image to me and many have expressed doubt over its origins. No, there was no pulling of that image due to press standards relating to 'tampering'. Wonder why? Perhaps it was because salacious news attracts attention and sells papers, thus enabling the trial by media so many are so fond of? Journalism becomes yellower by the day.
  15. I had a look at the Whitemoor building and agree that part of it may be the original Whitemoor House. In my childhood, it looked very 1930s in appearance but is less so now. Shipstones obviously gave the facade a revamp to make it look a bit Art Deco. I have never seen a photo of the original house but there may be some in the Shipstones archives...whoever holds those.