LizzieM

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  1. Well done. I take it this is similar to Crufts, you and your dogs deserve to do well ....... It's a long and expensive journey just to take part. Good luck!
  2. Well are you anything to do with Jessops Lane in Gedling then ;-) ?
  3. Where's your sense of adventure Stephen?
  4. Sorry to hear that Dennis, our thoughts are with you and family.
  5. Instances like that are few and far between fch782c. Why would a postman go to somebody's door and put a card in the letterbox and not actually deliver a parcel? However, I'm not thrilled with the post at the moment. I posted a letter first class at the main post office on Queen Street at midday on Saturday, I think the last collection is about 6pm, even on a Saturday. It was an urgent letter but unfortunately it didn't arrive at it's destination in Bedfordshire until Tuesday morning. So much for 1st class post.
  6. I can well understand your sadness regarding the Grey Goose Carni, especially as you spent so many happy times there and so did your younger brother by the sounds of it. I never went in there but passed by the place every day for 5 years on my way to school. Unfortunately this is a sign of the times, pubs being replaced by care homes, on a good plot of land in the heart of a community.
  7. Darkazana, post # 15. I absolutely agree with you that this Large Letter issue is a complete rip-off and the Post Office have had this rule in operation for a number of years now. Our local office is the main one in town near the Ice Stadium, which is a real pain when it comes to going there to collect underpaid letters, nowhere to park, too far to walk from the bus route. Then when you get to the front of the queue you find that it's something you don't necessarily want ....... I'm not saying I don't want Christmas and Birthday cards but you know what I mean! I always look on the back of
  8. Congratulations Michael, it's a wonderful feeling that we experienced just 7 months ago.
  9. Yes, remember ice inside my bedroom window, the only warm room in the house was the sitting room with the open fire. Dad would build the fire up and then put 'slack' on top to keep it going for longer. It was still burning in the morning but the rest of the house was so damn cold.
  10. When will the Nottingham City electorate get it in their thick skulls that a shake-up is necessary? I live in the City and everyone I know has a moan about that crew in charge of our council taxes but every time there's a vote they get back in.
  11. I reckon my Mum and Dad bought our first telly from a shop on Arkwright Street in 1955. Was there a TV shop down there called Alex Owen?
  12. Got 4 premium bond prizes, only £25 each but better than nowt. Then took my car for its MOT and it failed, damn it!
  13. AlisonCC, post # 8. Your ration diet sounds absolutely GROSS to me!! Thank goodness I was born in 1949, lol.
  14. Re # 298, Carni ....... I've never been to a Billy Fury 'tribute' concert, been meaning to but never been in the right place at the right time. I believe that one or two members of The Tornadoes come from Nottingham. The bass guitarist of the Halfway to Paradise - Billy Fury Story is Graham Wyvill, ex High Pavement Grammar School, he's also a very talented furniture maker, (he's got a website!) I've known him since he was a lad, playing in Mosaic Sunset and practicing with the band in our works canteen in New Basford in the evenings.
  15. Yes I do, and I went to school with Philip Jew, the son I think.
  16. I got his autograph in 1962, will it be worth anything now he's passed away?!! Anyway, RIP
  17. David, # 128, well done that boy ........ Headmaster's Prize!
  18. AlisonCC, # 37. I've still got the bible I was given when I started Grammar School in 1961 but in the County schools we had blue ones and from your photo I think they were quite a lot bigger. Inside is printed something like 'presented to the children of Nottinghamshire'
  19. Well Carni, are you going to tell Paulus or should I that it was only gels wot did country dancing
  20. I was born in The Firs, lived in Netherfield, then Arnold. Got married in 1975 to a Southerner. Moved to Banbury, then Leighton Buzzard, Beds. then Wingrave, Bucks. then Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Nine years ago moved back to Nottingham, but not forever. My brother still lives in Arnold. One of our sons lives in Berkhamsted and the other in Woburn. Must say though, living back in Nottingham has been great, the city has everything I could ever wish for and the county is beautiful with so much to see and do, I've explored the area much more this time around as before I left in 1975 I didn't h
  21. I don't remember that sort of thing. Maybe it was the Irish influence of a Roman Catholic school? Just a thought .......
  22. Welcome Scotham. My Dad served his apprenticeship at the Royal Ordnance Factory, leaving to join the RAF a week before his 21st birthday, December 1942. On de-mob in 1946 he returned to the ROF and spent the rest of his working life there, apart from a miserable couple of years at Raleigh and Myfords in Beeston. My Dad only passed away this year but I found very little information about the factory as I cleared his house out. I do however remember a few names of his work colleagues, I wonder if your Dad was one of them?