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Oh and obviously another alternative would be the train up to Nottm, if you can be bothered humping bags from Heathrow Express, to taxi or underground train, to St Pancras and onwards. Much easier on t'bus. If you have a morning flight back to the States then there isn't a train departing Nottm early enough to get you to LHR in time.

The Cockle Man was on the telly last Monday night on Inside Out, BBC1, all about pubs closing down and new ones opening up.

Oh yeah, I'd almost forgotten what the title of this thread was, haha!

We fly from LHR several times a year and while we've lived in Nottingham for the last almost 10 years there's never been a flight from EMA to LHR. It's either drive or National Express bus, probably costing around £40 return (I haven't used it for 3 or 4 years so not sure of cost) You can fly from Heathrow to Manchester and Newcastle but that would be of no benefit.

Can you imagine going into Asda to buy ammunition, lol

I'm not aware of an EMA to LHR connection ...... If there was we'd use it instead of driving 120 miles and parking down there.

Ah, weren't they lovely? I remember seeing those lovely animals around the streets of Basford when I worked there in the 60's and 70's. I got the same thrill seeing the Notts Police horses around the city ...... what a pity they're no more too.

Paul, this is a difficult one for me to answer. Watford Gap has, I thought, always supposedly been the dividing line between North and South ...... I spent my first 25 years living in Notts, not far out of the city. Then the next 30 years in village and market town locations in Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Been back in Nottingham CITY for almost 10 years. I've been equally happy wherever I've lived but to be honest in the places 'down south' I would meet more friendly people I knew while out shopping etc. than I do out and about around Nottingham - but then

You can tell when a man has parked in a supermarket car park because they reverse into a space, then they can't get the shopping into the boot easily.

David, you've been missed for a while ...... Have you been sand-bagging down there?

Entertaining place to take your girlfriend then Rob ........

This session on Nottstalgia can't be doing your hernia repair a lot of good Michael

Welcome Sue, hope you will enjoy Nottstalgia

Well I won't 'like' your post so you can stay excited for a bit longer Trev!

And white lads talking like Jamaicans ......

Your mention of TB jabs brought back memories of when I had mine ....... I was swimming at Arnold Baths virtually every day at that time and the scabs came off in the water every day!! Bit gross when I think about it now, lol. What with a scabby arm and having to wear some of those white rubbery shoes because I had about 7 verrucas, plus a lovely blue swimming cap with fuchsia pink flowers on it, I don't think it was a great look!! It seems I'm only a year older than you so you would have got in the Dungeon OK. I was going out with a lad at one point who like me was 16 and we took his 13 ye

Phoenix That was my 4d you pinched! The newsagent shop was half way along the row, by the bus stop and with a fag machine on the pavement outside. Even though I lived in Arnold for 17 years I didn't know the place very well, having only gone to school there between 8 and 11. The swimming baths was really the only place I was familiar with, oh and a little bakers just along Front Street where I would buy a warm cob after swimming. Because the bus service into town was so good that was where I spent a lot of time, homework permitting. Yes the Dungeon was behind Woolworths, on Stanford Stre

Yes Andy, we read it in the Daily Mail this morning. Hard to comprehend exactly what they're talking about though, all a bit over my head. However as my husband and his brother were diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer almost 2 years ago and have both undergone radiotherapy treatment, anything new in the screening techniques has to be very good news especially as we have 2 sons already well into their 30's and due to this family history they're prime candidates as they get older.

Cheeky monkey Michael. Behave yersen else I'll set the boys on yer!

Mmmm Chrissie, what are you trying to say?! A few years later 2 or 3 of them were key players in a Lincoln Prison team I understand

Well I've been deliberating all morning whether to give a reason for the footy team to be called Thursday Villains as I don't like mentioning folk by name, unless they're no longer on this Earth. But anyway ...... quite a few members of that team were 'barraboys' !!

Paul, just come back to say that I think they were called Thursday Villains Particularly as they played matches against Notts Police !!

Some chaps I knew played for Thursday Villa, was that the same league?

Trevor, I do indeed remember the fish n chip shop on Rolleston Drive. I would call in and get a portion of chips regularly when I'd been down town to the Dungeon, Beachcomber or Boat Clubs in the mid 60's. I'd catch the 69 bus from outside Lyons Caff on Long Row at about 10.30pm and get off on Rollo at 10.50 just before the chip shop closed. Get my bag of chips, laden with lots of salt and vinegar and walk up home eating them. Lovely!! In fact until my Dad passed away last year I drove up there every Friday tea-time and got Cod, Chips and Mushy Peas for him. That row of shops consisted of

Blimey, I've only had time to watch the first 15 minutes of that film but was it REALLY that bad? I didn't think we had much money but that was terrible. My Mum and Dad used to make cardboard boxes on the dining room table every evening, to make ends meet, but we didn't live in squalid conditions like that. Dad worked standing up in a factory all day but they had a mortgage and took us on holiday for a week every year. When us kids were old enough to be latch-key kids Mum got a job in an office in town. Not much spare money in the house but we had a happy childhood. This film to me looks