LizzieM
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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 year old brother there with us one night. He did look older than 13 though.
I'm going to send you a PM as I think you will probably know a good friend of mine who would have been in your year at ACHS. I don't really like to mention folks names on threads, in case they google themselves and find they've been talked about!
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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 Street. You certainly missed out on the best club in the East Midlands by not being allowed to go, but I think you're younger than me so during the club's best years you were probably too young to get in anyway.
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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.
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Cheeky monkey Michael. Behave yersen else I'll set the boys on yer!
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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
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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' !!
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Paul, just come back to say that I think they were called Thursday Villains
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Some chaps I knew played for Thursday Villa, was that the same league?
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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 a Bookies, Hardware Shop, Greengrocers, Newsagents, Grocers, Haberdashery, Hairdressers, Off-licence and Launderette. Outside the launderette was a phone box which I regularly used as we didn't have a phone at home. The old A and B boxes, where you could talk for hours for tuppence and upset everybody who was standing waiting outside!! I had a Saturday job at the Hardware store while at school and Digby College, earning £1 for the whole day! Nowadays most of the shops are takeaways, thanks to Asda and Sainsburys. I'm surprised Phoenix was allowed out of school at lunchtime, we certainly weren't at Carlton-le-Willows.
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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 more like the early 50's.
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Top right of screen, a little envelope that will be red if you have a message!
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Good luck with your upcoming treatment Benjamin1945, sure you're going to be Ok.
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I've been getting the same message as Kev for the past hour.
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Doesn't bear thinking about Katyjay!
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In those days, 60 years ago and before IVF, triplets were few and far between. My sons were at school with IDENTICAL boy triplets. Made life difficult for the teachers I'm sure but they were all good sportsmen so they confused the opposition which was beneficial to the school when they were all picked for the same team!
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With all these sandbags being used in the flood-hit areas of the country, where are they getting all the sand from? I saw on the news today that one chap had 2000 sand bags around his house ....... Multiply that by the number of houses affected and it's millions of tonnes of sand.
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You certainly managed to fit a lot into your day trip Michael, sounded great though. Kind of reminded me of Marty Feldman's sketch when he went on a coach trip and was forever being left behind, he was chasing the coach shouting 'Wait for me, wait for me'. Don't suppose anyone else can remember that but it tickled me at the time ....... many years ago.
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Didn't ExWatnallblokeGerry do well last night on the TV? The challenge that couple have taken on is immense. Hope Channel 4 go back when they've finished it.
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As Michael and Loppylugs have said already, there does seem to be quite a few of us Nottstalgians going through very difficult times following major health issues and distressing life-changing events just recently. We never know what is round the corner nor what will be thrown our way. My thoughts and best wishes go to all who are struggling at the moment and I hope that better times will soon be here for you.
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Oh my goodness Mike, how terrible for you. The good thing was that you were not far from two great hospitals and received quick treatment. Get well soon and keep taking the tablets!
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Commo, # 13
I hope the outcome is good on your family's upcoming hospital visits.
Bilbraborn, # 12
Thinking about the medication you have to take before a colonoscopy and the effects it has on your system is worse than actually taking it, I found. I've had two in recent years and for me the worst part of the preparation was the awful bland food that I had to have alongside the liquid stuff ....... grilled white fish and mashed potato with no butter or seasoning was all I could face, but it was so unappetising and tasteless. Good luck, it's only a couple of days of unpleasantness!!
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Well thank goodness you're OK Babs.
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Did you actually live in Dawlish til last week Stephen? If so how close to the devastation were you?
Annoying Habits ( of people )
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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And white lads talking like Jamaicans ......