LizzieM

I have a feeling you are the most proficient pianist on the Nottstalgia forum Malcolm!

Unfortunately State school playing fields have been used for housing in the past few years but cricket is still played in Independent schools. Our 10 year old granddaughter is in her school team and has played in a couple of inter-school matches this term.

Our Stuart has a very determined look about him now and he’s got the crowd behind him.

I played cricket when I was a kid, mainly because there were no other girls to play with on the new estate we lived on but apart from that I’ve always loved the game, spending many hours with my Dad at Trent Bridge. Dad also kept wicket for (I think) Gedling Miners Welfare. The only time I’ve ever been to Blackpool was as a tiny baby when my Dad was playing cricket there! In fact I have lots of cricketing tales to tell and names to drop but won’t do that on an open forum!

Listening to Talk Radio this afternoon I heard a recording of President Biden say that Putin appears to be losing the war on Iraq. Errr, this man is leader of the Free World ……..

The Coronation Buildings houses a varied selection of businesses, a Pine Shop, a picture-framing shop which we’ve used occasionally and also ‘The Abdication’ micro-pub.

@Mess we’ve just got back from Lilliput this afternoon! We rarely go into Bournemouth, (although we were at Castlepoint on Friday) as we’ve got plenty of beach over our end. If we go over to Bournemouth beach I’ll look out for the slush machine! Watching Elton at Glastonbury now, with another B & C!

I’m with you about Coke @Mess. It’s always been my preferred refreshing drink, with ice and a slice of lemon, and preferably a measure of Bacardi too, in fact I’ve just had a couple while head banging listening to Guns n Roses at Glastonbury!

So pleased you’ve got the issue sorted Nonna. Hope your daughter doesn’t have the same problems too. Does this mean we can arrange a meet-up when you’re over here?

Probably not surprising you’d no recollection of Oxengate as those properties were built in the mid 60s when you weren’t wandering around the estate so much. I remember my friend moving there when we were still at school, we both left in 1966. The row of terraced houses between The Ram and the Waggon & Horses were knocked down to build a pub car park I think but they seemed a bit uninhabitable anyway, nothing like the brand new house I was living in in Arnold …… but the family were happy there so that’s all that mattered.

How lovely to see Brew back on the forum!

My friend’s mum lived for several years in one of the Almshouses, in fact the end one at Redhill end, next to St Paul’s Church. My friend’s dad worked at Home Brewery for many years during which time they lived in a little terraced house on Mansfield Road at Redhill, in between The Ram and the Waggon and Horses. When that house was demolished they moved up to a council house in Oxengate in Bestwood Estate. When the dad passed away the mum was given one of the Home Ales Almshouses at a very reasonable rent. It was a lovely little house, ideal for a single person, with a super garden.

I’ve just re-read the Musters Hotel thread and it brought back memories of the early 1970s. I was in the company of Rex Harvey (again) a year or so ago, what a lovely man he is too. A personal memory of the Musters Club is not what actually occurred there but what happened on the way home. I was with 2 friends on the way home from a great night at The Musters to Arnold, in my friend’s husband’s car. In those days drink/driving wasn’t a big deal and she’d had her share. We were going up Mansfield Road, out of town, and she drove right over a raised ‘Pedestrian refuge’ and burst 2 tyres on

@DavidW that’s an amazing project you’ve worked on, it’s obviously taken many hours of research. I spent the first 8 years of my life in Netherfield but don’t remember too much about it and certainly don’t recognise any of the family names you’ve researched. Well done though. It’s posts such as this that I enjoy reading the most …… all about real ordinary Nottingham folk. Fortunately my two grandads came back home at the end of WW1.

Can I adopt a couple please? Preferably a male and a female ……. We haven’t seen a hedgehog in our garden (or anywhere else locally) for years. Do foxes attack them, because we do get the odd fox prowling around.

I’m from a family of drinkers! My Great-Grandparents kept the Station Hotel in Hucknall in the late 1800s. They used to open very early in the morning so that miners from Hucknall pit, coming off the night-shift, could get a drink. My Gt Grandfather died relatively young and my Gt Grandmother had to leave the pub because women were not allowed to be tenants or licensees. She moved across town to Long Eaton and ran an off-licence. I have a shoe-box of old family postcards going back to the early 1900s and there’s a postcard addressed to my Gt Grandmother and the address is just ‘the Beer

Thanks for looking @Marrowman I would think that the booklet you’ve got was printed in the mid to late 1980s. The reason being that children were not allowed in the Horse and Groom when my Uncle ran it and they didn’t have a restaurant, only serving filled cobs (which were excellent though). While Charlie was in residence he converted a barn at the back into a ‘party room’ but I don’t remember it being used. He also made the outside loos into part of the pub by building a conservatory to make a covered walkway. Edit: They didn’t do Bed and Breakfast either.

Yes it was a well-run pub, Charlie didn’t stand for any nonsense. When they retired they moved to Papplewick and he used to drink in the Griffins Head and as far as I know he never set foot in the Horse and Groom again!

@Marrowman is the Horse and Groom at Linby mentioned please? My Uncle Charlie kept that pub for many years until retirement in around 1980. In fact the pub was in my family for about 100 years. Charlie previously had the Duke of Wellington in Shirland for a few years and when his uncle, my great-uncle, George Jennison was struggling to deal with cellar work in Linby, Charlie used to drive over and do it for him, then eventually he took the pub over.

When I was in my early teens I broke a front tooth by hitting the bottom of Arnold Baths. My dentist at the time was a Mr Boyd on Mansfield Road near the junction of Woodborough Road. He crowned the tooth with gold and I loathed it. He said I couldn’t have a porcelain crown until I’d left school and finished playing hockey. I really really hated that tooth as it was so noticeable. Fortunately Mr Boyd moved on elsewhere and a lovely young ‘just out of University’ John Carberry became my dentist. I begged him to replace the gold crown and he happily obliged. That tooth has been crowned se

Yes Oz, I’m watching it, a great start for England. At the same time we’ve got the kitchen TV on and I’m watching the Trooping of the Colour at the same time. Oh what a busy morning!

When they’ve spent hundreds of pounds at the Tattoo Parlour they’re going to make sure everyone sees the artwork. A good friend of ours had tattoos on his forearms when he was a lad. By the time he reached his 30s he hated them and spent several thousands at a laser clinic getting them removed …… the coloured ink was removed but he was left with lumping skin, still very evident and he’s 80 this year.

Yes @MargieHthose people may well be the nicest people imaginable but that doesn’t mean we need to see them dressed inappropriately to their body size/shape. I like to see men in shorts (in warm weather) so long as they have good legs, I’m a ‘leg’ person. I think too many females leave the house without looking in the mirror, bare flabby mid-riffs, big bottoms, short skirts with awful fat legs. Myself, I am happy to wear shorts because my legs are still good, but the shorts are just above the knee, not up the crotch. But I’ve got scraggy arms and won’t leave the house in sleeveless gear.

The timing of the attacks puzzles me. 4.10 am two fatal stabbings on Ilkeston Road 5.30 am fatal stabbing on Magdala Road, then takes white van to mow down pedestrians a few minutes later on Milton Street. Would he have walked/run across town between 4.10 and 5.30am, it’s not exactly a hop skip and jump. Maybe he travelled on one of those bl**dy scooters? Ban them ……

We don’t know yet, and possibly never will, the reason why this individual went on a killing spree but nobody NORMAL would even contemplate going around killing innocent people. It’s been said he’s an immigrant with mental health issues, a neighbour of ours has a student house in the area where the two students were knifed to death, one of his tenants said the arrested man was black with dreadlocks (not that that makes him a wicked murderer of course ….. Bob Marley springs to mind) Not much has been said about the poor man who was no doubt off to do a day’s work this morning, had his va