LizzieM

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  1. I’ve gone through hundreds of postcards in my shoe box (the majority being 110+ years old) and can’t find the one I thought was there.  The addresses of my Grandad’s family before he married my Grandmother (who was widowed in WW1) were 12 Loughborough Avenue and then 113 Sneinton Boulevard.  It’s been interesting and often very amusing to read the postcards. My Grandad worked all over the country, coming back home often at weekends with his washing.  He sent postcards home from wherever he was based, asking his mother to send ‘parcel’ (clean washing) or 10/- to him at such addresses as ‘c/o Boots Cash Chemist, High Street, Cheltenham.’  One postcard was sent from Cherbourg, telling his Mum he’d got the weekend off work so taken a trip to France.  Bet he didn’t didn’t need a passport in those days, it would have been on a steam ship too.  

    EDIT.   Just looked on Google and 113 Sneinton Boulevard is next door to an old Marsdens shop, wonder if our Ben did a stint there?  

  2. 1 hour ago, Oztalgian said:

    Strange, of course I used to listen to Listen with Mother but I have no recollection of this piece of music. Perhaps mum turned the radio off before this was played.

    I remember the music and I’m sure ‘Listen with Mother’ was on the radio just before 2pm and followed by the shipping forecast which always fascinated me, with those strange names, even at a pre-school age!    Only recently a friend posted on Facebook the shipping areas around the UK and I’ve saved that map on my iPad!  

  3. I’ve never before seen the postcard you posted CT but it’s quite interesting for me as my Great Grandparents lived on Sneinton Dale and at some stage on Loughborough Avenue, off the Dale.  Their surname was Croft.  I have a shoebox full of postcards my Grandad sent home to his mother in the early 1900s when he was working all over the country as an electrician on the Boots shopfitting team.  I’m pretty sure I have another postcard in that box that was sent from someone called ‘Moult’.  Now that would be a coincidence wouldnt it?!

  4. Bad luck Melissa, but like others have commented, there are plenty of opportunities out there, especially with your degree, you’re well qualified …….. you could go into lots of different areas of commerce and/or industry.  Don’t be down about it, take a rest and think about what you really want to do.  

  5. Until we moved to Nottingham I would never shop anywhere other than Waitrose.  There was one right next to our boys school so I dropped them off and I’d finished my shopping by 9am.  There was a ‘rough’ Tesco in the town that I only went into if it was really necessary.  Coming up here I didn’t know how I’d cope without Waitrose but I certainly wasn’t prepared to drive to the nearest one in Newark.  I soon got used to Sainsburys in Arnold but now I use Tesco at Top Valley as well, depending on which way the car decides to go.  The shorter trip the better as far as food shopping is concerned so Asda at WB or the Sainsburys and Morrisons at Netherfield are too far away to bother.  We have the benefit of our local Lidl and Co-op for milk and bread but they don’t sell items I buy on a ‘proper’ shop, they’re only good for a ‘dolly shop’! 

  6. We’re not cat lovers, wouldn’t do them any harm but we do curse them as they sit on a fence watching the little birds on the bird feeders.  We’ve always had dogs until little Jack died 3 years ago.  However …. Every time we go away for a few days I know for certain I’ll discover a field mouse dead in one of the traps I have permanently set (with tempting peanut butter) in the cellar. Sure enough we arrived home last night and there, dead, was a little rodent.  If we had a cat we’d still get mice in the house because the feline wouldn’t be here on its own. 

  7. We both wear denim jeans most of the time, except when going out for dinner.  My husband was gathering stuff to go to charity recently and I counted 15 pairs of ‘designer’ jeans still in his wardrobe, AFTER he’d had a clear-out!  They’re comfortable and easy to wear, go with everything, easy to wash and tumble dry.  When I get old I’ll no doubt be wearing tracksuit bottoms all day, every day as I sit all day watching the telly.  

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  8. Been away for a few days, down to Poole for 3 nights to check on the place following the storms, thankfully all was fine. Then yesterday we travelled to Hartwell House near Aylesbury for our annual Investment Club Dinner get-together.  This year marks the 25th anniversary of a once a month lunchtime meeting, that my husband has only rarely attended since we moved to Nottingham 19 years ago.  It’s a long way to drive for a lunch and chat and the drive home on the M1 on a Friday afternoon is something he can’t be bothered with these days. We always enjoy getting together with our old friends from down there and last night didn’t disappoint, we were all dressed up, men in dinner jackets and us gals in posh frocks. Age is taking its toll on the men now though, bearing in mind they were all in their 50s when the Club began.  One walked in using a walking stick, another on crutches following a 2nd knee replacement, one is going in hospital this week for a serious back operation and a couple have got the onset of dementia!!  Four members have passed away over the years, and been replaced by slightly younger models.  
    This morning we visited a couple we were really close to when we lived down that way.  Surprisingly we haven’t seen them for nearly 20 years and we spent  a lovely couple of hours with them, promising not to leave it so long again, seeing as we’ll all be approaching 100 by then, in fact our kids will be collecting their state pensions in 20 years!! 
    I’ve driven 500 miles in the past few days, which is a lot for me now but I’m not tired, I feel like partying some more, where’s Ben?

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  9. I never went to Mr Millers but did frequent the Hippo in the early 70s, in fact I went in the Hippo the night I met my future husband, after starting the evening in The Flying Horse.  
    A good friend of mine (and HippoGirl) is Nottstalgian Moz and he has a website detailing a very comprehensive list of venues we used to know in the good old days.  
    If interested look up http://www.scenebeforeinnottingham.wordpress.com  The clubs are in the ‘Clubs and Venues’ section. 

  10. We always watched Starsky and Hutch, real 1970s fun and cool.  Loved the National Express advert a few years ago with him singing ‘Silver Lady’ and driving a coach.  RIP David Soul, 80 isn’t old these days!  

  11. Thinking about my lovely Mum today on what would have been her 100th birthday.  She passed away in 1988 aged only 64 from Pancreatic Cancer.  One day she was fine and the next day she was jaundiced and on her way out.    Such a beautiful woman, inside and out.  I miss her still, my best friend. 

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  12. Thanks PP, this is what Nottstalgia is all about.  
    I was born a couple of years after the rotten winter of 1947, in fact my parents didn’t marry until September 1947 but have told me how they went ‘courting’ in their wellies.  
    However I do remember the winter of 1962-3 and as a 12 year old having fun sledging down the steep road I lived on in Arnold and the only neighbour who had a car and no kids was throwing ash across the road to spoil our fun.  The Trent school (service) bus that started its journey in Hucknall before picking up us kids in Arnold got us to Gedling, despite what must have been a difficult u-turn when the driver couldn’t get the bus up onto Mapperley Plains. We eventually were taken back into Arnold then into Nottingham and through Colwick to Gedling.  There was none of the present day namby pamby closing of schools because of a sprinkling of snow.  We were a tough lot back then!  

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  13. 8 hours ago, philmayfield said:

    The people who complain about them secretly wish they had one! :biggrin:

    Agree Phil!  We had various 4x4 vehicles years ago and found them indispensable when we lived in a village 12 miles cross-country on narrow lanes to the boys school.  

  14. Not there now Ian.  The Dungeon was open from 1964 to 1968.  I used to go regularly from 1965 to 1967.  The building has housed a few clubs since then but for many years it’s been Nelsons Solicitors. I never went in the building after I grew out of the Dungeon but what a brilliant club it was, we were so lucky to grow up in those days. I tried to get a tour of their basement a few years ago, (egged on by fellow ex Dungeon goers) because I knew a partner in Nelsons.  It didn’t happen unfortunately, wonder if the walls are still painted black and white, one things for sure though …… the walls won’t still be dripping with condensation.  

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  15. Just realised it’s my Nottstalgia birthday today.  On a boring evening between Christmas and New Year in 2012  I googled ‘Dungeon Club Nottingham’, came across Nottstalgia and I’m still here and continue to be educated on many aspects of Nottingham and met some lovely folk along the way.  Sadly we’ve lost quite a few over the years too, I miss them all.

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  16. Oh my goodness, I’m sitting here quietly watching telly on my own (cos someone else in the house has got no staying power)  and I thought we were being invaded, must have been hailstones hitting the windows, certainly not just rain.  It’s been going on for ages.  All we need now is the strong winds to bring a tree down.  
    It took our boys four or five hours to get home this afternoon, instead of max 2 hours.  They spent the first hour of their journey in Nottinghamshire!