LizzieM

Thanks folks (friends and fellow Nottstalgians). Had a lovely birthday and spent the evening at Sat Bains Restaurant under Clifton Bridge. Not quite the 'all you can eat for £5 curry place in town' and nothing to compare with the 'best fish n chip place' in the area but a restaurant to celebrate special occasions, and when one is 64 it has to be something special!!! Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64? I got the answer this evening, haha! I really appreciate all your good wishes, thank you so very much xx

Well I'm not embarrassed to tell you that we drink Instant Tea in our house! PG Tips Pure Tea Granules to be precise. I've no idea why I first bought a jar more than 10 years ago but ever since that first taste it is all we drink (when we're at home) We much prefer the taste and there's no messy tea bags to get rid of. I do have PG Tips tea bags in the house in case visitors turn their noses up at the thought of drinking instant tea.

And he only retired from broadcasting about 6 weeks ago, despite suffering from Liver Cancer and Parkinson's. I loved him when I was a teenager he was such a professional. RIP David Jacobs

Went past there today Pixie, it's called Daybrook Fish Bar, surprisingly! Never been in there but might try sometime as it's being recommended by you and Pooh. We normally go to Captain Cod on (I think) Perry Road and always been good.

Depends if you're ready for a World Cruise Stan

A World Cruise is cheaper than a Care Home and he'd be getting pocket money as well ......

I have no idea where we took the tops and fag wrappers!! I don't even recall what happened to the vouchers that my parents collected from the cigarette packets ........ the more you collected the better pressie you got, haha! And that's made me think about Green Shield Stamps ......... I threw away half a dozen full books the other week whilst clearing my Dad's house out.

Thanks for that info Beefsteak. I do remember now you've reminded me

Carni, # 1554. Talking about the foil tops on milk bottle and in cigarette packets ........ Wasn't there a time when all this silver foil was collected for some reason, maybe an early attempt at recycling?? Am I imagining that or can anyone else remember doing it?

The Pianoman. # 1 and several other posts. Have spoken to my aunt who was born at 15 Queens Grove in 1929 and she has no recollection of the Harvey family ...... not surprising really. She said that the first family living at No. 21 that she remembers were the Ridgleys who had 8 children (and she remembers all their names still). They moved there from Waterway Street.

Commo, you are absolutely right, sorry ..... I just rang my aunt and she confirmed that there was no escalator in Toby's. My long term memory is not that great so does that mean I DO NOT have Alzheimer's (yet)?

I remember Tobys on Friar Lane had one but don't know how early, although I only went in there with my Mum so it would have been early 60's or before.

A brilliant interviewer, RIP Sir David Frost

Brilliant ....... Thanks Alan, and Ann for passing these memories on. She really was quite a character. When my Grandad died in 1954 my Granny decided to move to Wollaton to live with her spinster sister Connie. Most of the time they got on well but they used to bicker and Connie did boss Granny around quite a bit !! I have a few photos of her, mostly with a fag in her mouth. Anyway she lived to the ripe old age of 87 when she finally succumbed to lung cancer in 1987.

Thanks! Hope he has nice memories of her as she was quite a character.

Will you ask Alan if he remembers by Great-Aunt, Connie Alvey please Ann?

I believe that same building on Stamford Street was The Dungeon in the 60's.

Well it's better to have an expensive piece of kit to look at than a cheapo model, Catfan

RadfordRed. # 64, I know the owner and apparently trade plummeted when a club in Trinity Square was closed by police. The chippie was only open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights anyway. They still have a shop in Bulwell.

We had a Chemistry teacher called Mr Wombwell and I'm sure a Mr Yarnell too at Carlton-le-Willows GS while I was there between 61 and 66. I must be missing something but I can't find out how old you two (Bilbraborn and annswaby) are but I think these would be the same teachers. Mr Wombwell was a little guy with blonde hair and we used to really wind him up in class. Think Mr Yarnell did some boys hockey coaching too.

Well good luck Catfan, hope you get more use out of it than we have with ours ....... had it about 4 years and maybe used it a dozen times, might have rowed from Clifton Bridge to Trent Bridge and back a couple of times in total. Our machine is just a piece of furniture to walk past and admire ..............

Why was it called Walton House? Is Walton a well known Nottingham family? Just wondered because of the Walton Hotel in the Park.

The course is being held in Netherfield, maybe we could get our Pixie to attend

All the clothes we've bought in America seem to say on the label that they should be washed in cold water. That's a bit of a problem in the UK, well with my washing machine anyhow, because although it's a cold water fill there isn't a programme for cold water wash, the lowest is 20C. We have a top loader in our place in the States which is really great, it's got a cold water wash and also you can drop stuff in part way through the cycle. What I don't understand is that you're told to wash in cold water, presumably to stop the clothes shrinking, but then it's suggested that they are tumble drie

Fch782c # 6, I might have gone sledging with your Mum and Dad then, lol. I lived on Winthorpe Road which was the first road to be built on the estate. The house was just sold this week having been the family home for 55 years ....... I was so sad to lock it up for the very last time. Ok, back to sledging!