zacsmum
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the building i am talking about was on highbury road , but i dont think it was a school house . more like a gate house . it was built of bulwell stone. on the other corner is an electricity sub station which is still there and ajacent to that is basford registry office
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are you confusing the old gate house at the corner of the highbury hospital entrance , across the road from the entrance to henry mellish school
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when i lived in chapel st leonards it was lincoln co-op , but in skegness it was the nottm co-op , hows that for logic
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welcome to nottstagia, i aso live in derbyshire near alfreton
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does anyone know where aukland street is or was in nottingham, i,m asking for my sister , she needs it for the family tree
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what happened to the jelly [ best part of the pie] or is that another eu rule , no jellt
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when i lived in bulwell it was always a bit black over dirty huckna
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if you are that bored , get off then
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if you buy a long block of icecream theres no need for a little machine , just slice it , it fits perfect
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parma violets were a powdery sweet that tasted of perfume , i think you can still buy them , they were sold in tube like love hearts
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i rember when i was about 6 years old having my mouth painted with the purple stuff because i had canker, [by the way it was called gention violet]
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i think the clothes shop was called judes, the lady that ran it before it closed lived on saxondale drive at bulwell when i lived there , i,m sure the outside was painted red
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dont like the new colour as much as the old blue one , it looks much too brash
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Deepest sympathy to all Anns family, my thoughts are with you at this sad time
Barbara
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there was a tripe shop on wollaton street , opposite the gibbons stamp shop . used to sell tripe and onions, think it was where the royal hotel is now
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reading your post brings back memories of my younger days . we visited every cinema in the meadows during a week . i remember the imperial on wilford road , the grove on kirkwhite street and the globe at trent bridge
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not last night but the night before
two big tom cats came to my door
i went down stairs to let them in
and they hit me on the head with the rolling pin
i went upstairs to get in bed and they thru the pickle pot over my head
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i remember in the early 60,s walking by the pub facing the gaumont, next door to gibbons stamp shop [ was it called the hand and heart ?] when what i thought was a window box or a chimney fell between me and my husband , but it was the landlady , she fell from an upstairs window flat on to the pavement . we stopped with her t untill the ambulance came then left . i thought she was dead but heard later that she survived the fall
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Queen Victoria,s statue , the last time i heard it was in the memorial gardens on the embankment
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thats the one . it used to be called william hollins , they made very good quality clothesfor the vyella range. i believe they still have a factory at Selston
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the building i,m talking about was on the left hand side of castle boulevard just round the corner fron the labour exchange. it was a big white stone building with a clock standing off the building
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although ive been left the meadows for some time now i feel sure the building on castle boulevard is still there
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anyone of you oldies remember the big one in february 1957 ? i worked on the top floor of the vyella building on castle boulevard ,boy did that building shake
OAP Bus Passes
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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i live in derbyshire and have a gold card i can use on nottm city transport but not on the trams , something to do with the trams being run in conjunction with another firm