Jill Sparrow
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@red robmentioned being in Mr Parr's class. Here it is. Are you on here? 1968, your final Berridge year.
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Kev and I were discussing Cottesmore School, where his mother was a pupil and where my mother did shorthand at night school, yesterday at the meet up. Cottesmore was one of the many single storey, so called 'fresh air' schools built throughout Nottingham in the 1930s. Manning was another. They housed both primary and secondary pupils and I think most, if not all, have gone. I suppose schools of that design would be unable to cope with today's much larger school rolls. It's a rare school that's survived, certainly from among the buildings we knew as children, although Berridge is one of them. So many others are either redundant or long gone.
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@red rob John Roper's sister. Denise, is on that photo and his older sister. Christine, was at Berridge with my sister. The Roper family lived above the wool shop on the corner of Hazelwood Road for many years.
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On 8/31/2020 at 5:41 AM, letsavagoo said:
Another Berridge group taken in the junior playground, the backs of houses on Kenslow Avenue in the background. Mr Williams the teacher with a student teacher end right. A few years younger than my year but I recognise some. Jill will fill in the details below.
@red rob this photo is a real mix of age groups but many are from your year. Are you on here? You'll recognise Parr and Williams at the back. Taken in the summer of 1968 just before your year left for secondary school.
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It's not the prettiest of buildings but I'd be sorry to see it go. My parents had their wedding reception there in 1949.
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How about Harry Cook, Miss Smith (infants), Miss Barks, Miss Stockill, Mr Baugh (head of the juniors). I'm still in touch with Gerald Chandler. Sadly, both Parr and Williams are deceased. Good teachers all of them. @red rob
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Thanks for the names. There has been some debate about the name of that teacher. I thought she could have been Mrs Naylor. I have sent you a PM.
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I think most of us disliked secondary school. I certainly did. Five years of torment at The Manning. Who taught you in the final year of Berridge? Alan Parr or Trevor Williams? Do you remember Gerald Chandler?
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Riots forecast in Nottingham and other cities across the UK. Gregg's is shut due to I T issues.
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Welcome, @red rob
Are you a former Berridge pupil? Thanks for the names. These children were a year above me. Mr Kemp was a force to be reckoned with, although he never taught me. I'd be very interested to hear your Berridge memories.
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Many of us new pensioners missed out on the winter fuel allowance because we were born too late. It all seems very arbitrary. Swings and roundabouts. All the fun of the unfair.
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Looks like one of Ben's foreign conquests has tracked him down and left a message under the Bestwood Estate thread. Does it concern a budgie in a shed, I wonder?
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He'll be the one with hypothermia.
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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.
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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.
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55 minutes ago, trogg said:
feel safe in there as I lock it from the inside.
Not quite in utero. In shedero, perhaps?
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All this autonomous male with luxury shed malarkey will be putting ideas in young Trogg's head.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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We also know for which offence he was jailed.
Lost Buildings of our past
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Margie and Phil, why don't you ask the school whether you can visit? That's how the Berridge visits began, with my curiosity about what the place is like today. It has become quite a useful part of their history topic to ask us about our experiences of life there. We also get a tour down memory lane. I doubt they'd refuse your request.