Jill Sparrow

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  1. My parents held their wedding reception there in June 1949, so it has family history connotations for me. Only two people are still with us who attended that wedding. Both were very young babies and neither can remember it!
  2. Suspicious looking tear in the packaging there, Rog. I'll bet you've scoffed them all.
  3. My father caught Dengue fever during WW2 and, like Ian's father, had occasional recurrences throughout his life.
  4. I remember a very strange tv serial from 1969/70 called The Owl Service. Based on the book of the same name by Alan Garner. I remember watching it when first broadcast and didn't understand it at all. I've recently watched it again on YouTube and haven't revised my opinion. The acting is wooden, to say the least. The book is aimed at teenagers but I don't think they'd be allowed to screen it now. 25 year olds playing adolescents and the female lead often very skimpily clad. I was 11 when I first saw it. One of the most peculiar children's programmes ever made, I should think.
  5. My sister smokes. Filthy and unhealthy addiction but she doesn't want to stop and, therefore, won't. She, too, is frequently requested to log her BP on a chart for a week. More recently, she's been diagnosed with pernicious anaemia and has injections of B12 several times per year. I'm sure the smoking addiction doesn't help. I have never smoked and don't understand the attraction. It's filthy, unhealthy and very, very expensive.
  6. My father was a great Billy Bunter fanatic and I still have some of the old annuals that were his. As a child, he learned to read long before he went to school by utilising the picture stories in Magnet and Gem papers for boys. Walter Hayes in Beeston had a shop which allowed youngsters to swap two papers they had read for a new one. I don't think he ever watched the TV version, though. I don't imagine Billy Bunter is very politically correct today. Ram Jam Singh included.
  7. I shall have a word with your better half, young Trogg!
  8. Older sister has been on Amlodipine 10mg since her pre op for cataract surgery last year when they discovered her BP was elevated. Mine is usually too low.
  9. And what modern day eyesore stands on the site of that building now, I wonder?
  10. I think Bunty James joined later on. There were only the three males when I used to watch it. It was Jack Hargreaves' brainchild. He felt that educational programmes could be presented in an entertainment format. Beats the hell out of Teletubbies!
  11. Jack Hargreaves was one of the three presenters of How! which I liked to watch as a child. Fred Dineage and another chap whose name I forget although I can see his face. **. One of them reportedly blew himself up in his shed after an experiment at home went wrong. ** Jon Miller
  12. Oh, I replied immediately, Rog. Told them I'd rather stick pins in my eyes!
  13. I'd turn to out watch people racing each other with a horse on their backs. Doesn't seem to be a very popular idea. Wonder why?
  14. Whenever I visited Garden Street as a child, uncle George always had the racing on in the afternoons. I have no interest in horse racing but if ever I catch a glimpse of any on the news. I always think of him.
  15. Weeeeeeeed! Just didn't appeal, Ben. I think I was about 45 when I was born. Always preferred to be with adults rather than children which is probably the reason why I didn't like school. It was full of children! Most annoying.
  16. Someone on the dreaded Facebook Nottinghamshire Lost School Friends site has invited me to a Manning reunion in April. I'm hiding under the bed and I shan't come out until May at the very earliest.
  17. I'm a bit too young to remember Muffin but my older sister loved it. Generally, I preferred the children's radio programmes to tv fare but I did like Picture Book as there were always demonstrations of how to make things and the dachshund puppet appealed to me. As for The Flower Pot Men, etc, I found it very silly and childish. Radio remains my preferred medium and I dispensed with the tv years ago.
  18. It's good that you've kept tabs on some of your peers, @Mess I only know the names of those my sister can remember as this is her year group, not mine. Sadly, her memory isn't very good and she's really not interested. Mrs Olive Platt, Jonathan's mother, taught one of the top infant classes (what, today, would be Year 2). She didn't teach me but I was just as scared of her as everyone else and she was quite an intimidating lady. I knew she had an older son named Nigel but I didn't know about Jonathan until someone on the Nottinghamshire Lost School Friends site mentione
  19. Reminds me of the time when I was teaching at a school in Lincolnshire. Every Friday lunchtime, several of us went to the local golf club for lunch as one of my colleagues was married to a golf club member. They had a smart dress, no jeans policy. One inset day, we'd been turfing out rubbish and other items that were no longer needed. I'd gone to school dressed in jeans as I wasn't getting glammed up to throw out rubbish. It was decided to have lunch at the golf club and I knew they wouldn't let me in dressed the way I was. Since they knew I went there regularly, they wrapped a t
  20. If you take a picture of one, is it called hagiography?
  21. @Mess thanks, Mess. I couldn't have identified any of those boys, with the exception of Jonathan Platt whose mother was an infant teacher at Berridge and he looks just like her. Did he attend FFGS? There are often differences of opinion over faces on old photos. Alan Allcock is roundly acknowledged as having been very bright. Nick Clark we have discussed before and I remember his father running the post office. It was easy for me to recognise Su as I knew her when she was that age because she was one of my sister's best friends...and for decades afterwards.
  22. Su Pollard appears in both photos above. My sister only appears in one. @Mess may be able to add more names. He didn't attend Berridge but he was a pupil at FFGS with several of those in these photos.
  23. This is a final year photo from 1960/1 and the teacher is Mr Wild Back row L to R: Alan Steele, Christopher Camidge, Alan Allcock, Paul Taylor, unknown, David Jepson, David Chapman, Nicholas Clark, Paul Baylis, unknown Third row L to R: Keith Brown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Lesley Webster, unknown, Christine Roper*, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown Second row L to R: unknown, unknown, unknown, Susan Pollard, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown Front row L to R: unknown, Jonathan Platt, unknown, unknow