Jill Sparrow

I also think there are more than two. Two would be a little abstemious!

The Co-Op stocked the Manning blouse and was the only outlet other than D&P to do so. The blouse had sort of maroon and white stripes, not red and white...which would have been much easier to find but was not permitted, grey skirts, for daily wear and for hockey/netball plus the white aertex shirt were stocked by the Co-Op. Everything else was D&P. Green wraparound overall for science subjects, petersham tie, grey flannel knickers!! red pursebelt, beret,blazer,badges for blazer and beret, hockey boots, tennis shoes. We had to make our own cookery aprons. Mine was yellow, my house colo

True, Beekay. That branch of Pork Farms used to sell miniature cottage loaf buns. One could buy them with various fillings at lunchtime in the70s. Cheese salad was my favourite. On the corner opposite The Halifax was National & Provincial Building Society, providers of my first mortgage. Later taken over by Abbey National.

By all means, Beekay, but I'm a vegetarian with perfect eyesight!

To the left of D&P was Pork Farms and to the right was Rowley's Opticians, later a branch of Dolland & Aitchison.

Memories, SG! My blazer lasted right the way through Manning too. Sleeves were rather short at the end. We, too, had a Grecian style tunic, for dance,complete with a silk corded belt! Petersham ribbon tie. D&P was the only outlet for those and they were very expensive. To this day, I can't tie a conventional tie. Summer dresses were made from fabric bought from the school. As I've said before, the day I left I took great pleasure in dumping the whole lot, ceremoniously, in the bin. On 4 September this year, it will be 50 years since I commenced my sentence at Manning. An an

Dixon & Parker, Friar Lane. My Manning uniform came from there, including the grey flannel knickers about which the Dalai Chulla used to get so excited! You didn't have to wear em Chulla!

All female team? Trust our Ben!

The right one can take some tracking down, Loppy, but you'll sniff it out. You have lots of dogged determination!

I've not been in Bridlesmith Gate for years. I once worked just across the road on Low Pavement. Lovely shops on Bridlesmith Gate in those days. Sad to hear of its decline. Interesting buildings, aside from what was sold in them.

Oh, yes indeed, Oztalgian! Wonderful memories. Thanks.

Little John in the Market Square, striking the hour when weather conditions were right. Shipstones horses gaining speed up Bobbers Mill Road, on their way back to the brewery with an empty dray. Salvation Army band marching along Alfreton Road on Sunday mornings. Workers Playtime and Housewife's Choice on the radio.

Windy night forecast!

Mum was 2 and dad was 4 when the building opened!

Could be, CT. It would explain use of the word NEW in the name.

And I'll bet you chatted her up too!

You've either got it or you haven't...and our Ben's got it!

I wonder whether there was an earlier version somewhere else, CT?

The name states The New Victoria Hall. Perhaps the old one looked a little more aesthetically pleasing and less brutalist. Any photos of its predecessor, CT?

My mum had arranged to meet a female colleague from the office at The Victoria Ballroom. The colleague didn't turn up. My dad was there that night, asked my mum to dance...and the rest is history. He forever after teased her that she hadn't really been stood up but was on the prowl for a chap! They got engaged six months later. Married in 1949. Reached their 57th wedding anniversary. Good old Victoria Ballroom!

Correct, Margie. It was the Victoria Ballroom. My parents first met there one evening in February 1947.

Sipping a Tibetan Tipple, resplendent in his saffron robes! Enjoy it, Chulla. He's probably got a chain of Chullaspoons Emporia by now...with the odd scanty!

Aussie red, Argentinean red, Chilean red...nothing European at present! I'm a red wine girl!

Schroedinger holds no mystery in this household. If there's a box, there's always a cat in it. That's a probability of 1. When I receive a wine delivery, there are usually 2 boxes...one inside the other...containing 12 bottles. Therefore, there will be two boxes each with a cat inside. That is also a probability of 1. If I decide to push the boat out and order 24 bottles, there will be 4 boxes and herein lies the problem. I only have 3 cats! As a result, one box must be empty. Another probability of 1. However, if we assume that the cats who have passed on now exist in another dim

Re Su Pollard, jonab. She is far more talented as a serious actress and as a singer than she has ever been permitted to demonstrate on tv. Type casting has done her no favours. I've seen her performances at The Arts Theatre before she obtained her Equity card. You won't see that on tv. Such a shame.