LizzieM

Members
  • Content Count

    17,089
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    99

Posts posted by LizzieM

  1. Thanks for the clarification David, so Anne WAS born in the Firs, as it became. Sorry for doubting that fact Anne.

    My Mum had a lot of problems in pregnancy and was under the care of Dr Cochrane on several occasions and she told me what a lovely man he was but he was very strict and told her not to smoke, advise which she ignored so she would use a pumice stone on her fingers before an appointment with him!!

    • Upvote 1
  2. Anne, the Collins Trust Maternity Hospital was on Waverley Street, which Is near the Arboretum. I should think that was the place you were born, not The Firs building in Sherwood. Maybe the Firs became a maternity hospital when the one on Waverley Street closed down. Seems that Abel Collins was a local benefactor though, paying for a Maternity Hospital and Almshouses. Bless him!

  3. Anne,

    I've just been searching for my Dad's birth certificate as I knew he was born in the Collins Hospital in 1921. It states place of birth as Collins Trust Maternity Hospital, Waverley Street. I was born in The Firs, in Sherwood in 1949 and when I read your post I knew it was never the same place.

  4. Some cars are made that way now ...... including my husband's, which is almost 3 years old. When you take your foot off the accelerator and put foot on brake pedal at traffic lights the engine cuts out and starts up again when you take your foot off the brake.

  5. I've always been most definitely right-handed except when holding a golf club or cricket bat. Having said that, when I had golf lessons many years ago, the Pro got me playing right-handed in no time so I'm an ambidextrous golfer, as well as being a useless one!

  6. I appreciate that everyone has their own taste in music. As a 60's teenager I was not that bothered about the Merseysound and I don't think I had any LPs other than The Beatles. I really loved Motown and Soul and still do (although now I tend to listen to the orchestral backing as much if not more than the singing.). Like a lot of you I saw Rod at various locations in different bands around Nottingham but never saw him with the Faces ........ only saw Small Faces with Stevie Marriott, God rest his soul. My tastes haven't changed that much in 50 years but I have appreciated a much wider spectrum of music over the years, ranging from Pavarotti (who we saw in the 90's at Wembley Arena) to The Stones (at Twickenham a few years ago). I went off Rod in the 70s and 80s but in the past 10 years have made an effort to see him in concert. He's a fantastic showman and I don't care what others say and think. Every time a new tour is announced I feel that it may be the last so try to get to see the boy. The same applied to Tina Turner, love her too. We went to her Farewell Concert at the old Wembley Stadium in 2000, thinking that would be the last time she performed in England. Then saw her in Miami in 2008, thinking that she wouldn't be performing in UK ever again, only to find that she was doing her stuff in 6" heels a few months later in Sheffield, so got tickets for that too. These artists are getting old, just like we are and when they finally give up that will be it. For me this is hanging onto what I remember and love.

    • Upvote 6
  7. Ashwell Street Infants, Netherfield ........ September 1954 til March 1958 when we moved to Arnold. Very few memories of early school days apart from when the Queen drove past, the nit nurse visits, having to stand up individually in class to recite the times tables, Janet and John books and running home at 3.30 to catch Watch with Mother on the telly. Oh just remembered, I was Angel Gabriel in the school Nativity, Christmas 1957 at St George's Church.