LizzieM

A good win for Froch then!

The night before we depart. But I lay awake wondering what I've forgotten to put in the case!

The cricket had an exciting finish earlier ...... I watched that!

Benjamin, my husband's paid to watch it, they told him it was due on at 9.50. He was charged £20 ........ it was only £16 yesterday! Expect I'll watch but I don't care who wins I shall be glad when it's all over as I'm sick of hearing the build-up and the rubbish billing it as the biggest fight since the war (although on Talk Sport today they downgraded that to 'the biggest fight for a long time'

Major Oak, Arnold. I haven't been in there for 45 years but it looks a right dump from the outside!

I was young, had a decent proper job and didn't need to be working there but he'd begged me to go and work behind the bar (where I used to go and have a drink with my parents). After that little incident even Mum and Dad stopped going in, haha!

Been there Ayupmeducks! I remember one night when I was working behind the bar a football team came in and each ordered a pint. By the time I'd pulled the eleventh pint the first guy wanted a refill ...... and so did everyone else pushing up to the bar. All the time I was the only person working, while the landlord stood gassing to his cronies at the end of the bar. When he yelled at me for breaking a glass against the pump I told him to stuff his job!

What dates will you be in our fair City Stan? Could be another excuse for a meet-up ....... not that we did much of an excuse! A reasonable nosh and pint in the Roebuck on a Wednesday night ..........

Glad they enjoyed it Michael. So why didn't you come down the Roebuck last night?

I was on a corner in Basford with my two kids as they set off in an open- topped Landrover ((I think it was) on their journey into town for the big reception at the Council House after they thrashed all-comers in the Olympics. It was so exciting! I did get to shake their hands as they turned the corner, it was a great spot to be standing. Got photos somewhere but don't know how to post anyway.........

I like Milly, Molly, Mandy and Frank !

That's great. I can't understand why they didn't ask for a Nottstalgia team to perform though

Welcome to Nottstalgia Graham, I'm sure you'll enjoy the site and your memories and contributions will be appreciated by the members.

Better hire a PRIVATE room in the Roebuck then

Well I had brown hair and for years spent hours in the hairdressers having highlights put it and then one day many years ago my husband asked when I got home if I'd actually been to the salon. That was it as far as I was concerned ..... the next time I went I had the whole lot blonded and ever since only had me roots done. Simple! Think there could be a lot of hidden grey in there now though, with all the worry he gives me!

I recently heard that Tug Wilson was a pall bearer at King George VI's funeral in 1952, apparently because he was so tall. Maybe he was still in the Guards at the time.

Can I get it on Sky?

I don't profess to know a lot about boxing but this fight is being billed as the biggest fight in the UK since the War. Which war are they on about?

How very sad Katyjay, it will take a good few years for the vegetation to grow again. Do I remember you saying before that your son is a fireman?

Nice memories for you Nathan. I just got the family album out to see if those telegraph poles are on our pics, and yes they are! If I knew how to post photos on here I would do .......

If only we knew then what we know now ......... we had an old car 30+ years ago with the number plate JJ1918, might have got a few bob for it now. My husband had so many old, and I mean OLD, cars in the 60s that just went eventually to the scrap yards. If only he'd hung on to them. He even had an Austin 7 that was a bit wrecked so he decided to dump it by driving it into a bomb crater 'darn sarf' (where he lived).

Welcome from me too Chris. I used to go to the Dancing Slipper and Boat Clubs but probably a few years before you.

C'mon Moz, make this available to those of us not on Twitter.

Well done Rog. Incidentally did you see The One Show the other night when one of the reporters went to Norton Disney? Apparently Walt Disney went there in 1949 looking for his ancestors in the churchyard.

The Issoms lived in a house on Norman Villas when I was there. At No. 7 were an old couple, Mr and Mrs Pritchett. Mrs Pritchett babysat me occasionally. Then further towards the right hand end lived the Issoms. My parents bought a dining table off them and discovered it was riddled with woodworm!