LizzieM

Crackerjack springs to mind there! (And Eamonn Andrews!)

I did knit a dress (with cable pattern!) as a young teenager and then made some cardies for my two babies 30 odd years ago. Never attempted any knitting since then though, not sure I remember how to do it. My granny was brilliant and used to knit Arran sweaters for a company in Scotland. They paid her peanuts for each garment but she didn't care. All the men in the family got an Arran sweater at some stage too!!

Thanks for telling me that Cliff Ton, just gone through them and the place looked very dreary and tired when those photos were taken. Not really how I remember it 10 yrs before, no wonder they closed it down!

Thanks for that link but photos from INSIDE the pub would bring back more memories, lol.

Oh yes, just remembered the IRA bomb scares in the early 70's ....... The police would evacuate the place and all we would do was go and stand on the opposite side of the street with our drinks until the all clear.

My mates and I went in the Flying Horse regularly in the early 70's, great place. Met my future husband there and we've been married for 37 years now! Wish it was still there, it seems that everything from my past has been either closed down or demolished, including Infant School, Junior School and workplace.

Is this the same Burtons that was in the Council House Arcade as well? I remember going in there in the 50's with my Mum and all she seemed to buy was extra strong Canadian Cheddar!

Think they've been replaced by 'Baby on Board' and 'Show Dogs in Transit' !! Are we supposed to drive more carefully when following one of these cars?!!

Ashley, I don't remember the name but will ask a friend who was there at that time. I worked there from 1967 til 1975

What does that mean ? :-)

Wonder why my 'pound' sign doesn't come up on this iPad! But you know what I was saying

I started there in that position on £6 8s 6d and got a 10 bob pay rise within weeks, that was in 1967. After giving my mum board I spent the rest on going out clubbing and clothes, as all teenagers did then (and now!) Mind you, I did manage two holidays in Majorca that summer of '69. Looking back I did quite a lot on £12 a week, lol.

Oh wow! Those newspaper cuttings are so interesting to me. But first of all, I watched the moon landing at The Elm Tree, Hoveringham with a crowd of friends. Never realised until recently that it was middle of the night ...... We must have had a lock-in!! Anyway, the Clerk/Typist vacancy at Thorn Bendix was MY job! I'd had that job for 2 years and was given a promotion, not sure why they wanted somebody a lot older than me in the position though! On to the cricket score cards ....... I went out with 2 of the cricketers a couple of years later. I can't believe that clicking on this link coul

I lived at the bottom of Dunstan Street on Norman Villas from 1949 til 58 then we moved to Arnold. That row of houses was demolished to make way for the Link Road many years ago. Don't have too many memories of my time there other than Ashwell Street Infants, going out of the back garden and over a dyke onto Burton Rd playing fields, waving to the 'steam train' drivers from there! Walking along the dyke with Mum and Dad to the Royal Oak (as was) and sitting outside with a bottle of pop and packet of Smiths crisps with salt in a blue wrapper. Remember going regularly on the train in the guards

I moved to a brand new house on Winthorpe Road in 1958, as an 8 year old. It was the first road to be built off Rolleston Drive, up the hill. The new estate was called Hill Farm Estate. Within 2 or 3 years all the other roads full of houses were built around our road and then Arnold High School was built over the top of the hill. The Rolleston Drive shops weren't built when we first moved up there. We had Co-op deliveries for just about everything ..... milk, bread, meat and a big library-type of van brought groceries! When the shops were finally opened they catered for everything, I even rem