zacsmum
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at least hes getting looked after , fed and kept clean. he was such a sorry sight
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dont know about the money , there were a lot of rumours about , some said he,d died . ive not heard anything of him since i moved from bulwell
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does anyone remember boris ? i was going through some papers and found this
This is the story of a lad called Boris , sometimes known as Chris
Iv,e known this chap for fifty years his name is Christopher Smith
His grandma brought this lad up , down there in Albert Street
He played with all the other kids, a very nice chap to meet
When this chap was seventeen his grandma passed away
This left Crisall on his ownand nowhere else to stay
Thats when he turned to sleeping rough
And life for him was very tough
Chris is now turned fifty four still living all alone
Hes sleeping rough up Bulwell woodshe hasn,t got no home
So when you see this chap around dont just give a sigh
Just thinkto yourself thank god it isn,t i
Dont look down as you pass him by in dear old Bulwell streets
Just give the lad some money so that he can sometimes eat
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happy birthday dicko , have a good one
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not to worry , just thought id answer his post . i am going back a bit
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im going back a bit further than you lot , my first record was bill haley,s rock around the clock , bought from hindleys on goldsmith street
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YES ITS THE SAME LIBRARY, BUT IM GOING BACK TO EARLY 50,S . IS IT STILL THERE ? THEYVE PULLED SO MANY BUILDINGS DOWN NOW YOU DONT KNOW WHATS THERE AND WHATS NOT?
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the biscuits you are thinking of were yo yo,s
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barley water was suppose to clear your kidneys , none of your robinsons for us my mam used to buy pearl barley [ a bit like dried rice is ] and boil it herself , strain it and we had to drink the liquid , not very pleasant i can tell you
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sounds just like the telly here all repeats,
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trent baths as it was called was situated near the suspention bridge , it was a fenced off area on the trent where the water was shallower than the river itself
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sorry this is abit of a delayed answer but ive only just found tis site, there was also ray wells laurence osborne alan fields david lancaster geof gould , they all lived round that area . didnt the greaves family live the other side of the entry to your dad?
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i remember your dad and uncle roy and was there a brother called graham?i recall sam woods ,graham watts and dennis merrin . we all used to hang about outside the southeren library on wilford crescent
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the small stream was faireholme brook[ if thats how you spell it] spent many happy hours there picnicking with a lot of relatives when i was small. one big happy faily , no cars then the adults used to carry all the picnis basketsand we,d walk from the meadows , over the toll bridge through the churchyard by the trent to clifton grove . kids wouldnt walk that far nowadays , dont think the parents would either.
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talking about the toll bridge , i had an accident in 1954 on brickyard bridge ruddington?ran into the back of a stationary car, on my bike , not looking where i was going , looking at my boyfriend instead , silly me . anyway the police came and decided it would be quicker in the police car , so with flashing lights and sirens we approached the bridge from the wilford side and there stood ivy and her mam standing in the middle of the road expecting the car to stop and pay the halfpennythey didnt of course . and when we looked round she was shaking her fist at us
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i remember mondays as being wash day my mum bent over the dollytub twisting the dolly peg to get the washing clean whites went in first then all the others. stew and rice pudding for dinner it was the easiest , just put them in the oven whilst she got on with the washing , i also remember newspaper on the table while the table cloth was being washed [ im sure we had more than one tho]
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I remember the 1947 floods very well , Iwas 9 yrs old at the time. the water just came up to our front doorstep but further down the crescent it came into the houses, midland crescent that was. my cousin , uncle and aunt had to come and live with us , they lived on castleton street and the water came up above thier fireplace, as kids you dont think of the dangers but it must have been terrible . i remember the tractors touring the streets passing bread and milk in baskets up to bedroom windows on ropes and fishing with string on a stick out of the window
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are we talking about nick palmer dj on radio nottingham here?
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i can remember standing where the photo was taken just as the water reached the top of the wall , we hurried down briar street and got to the pillarbox on kingsmeadow rd as it came swirling round hawthorn st, we made a run for it as we,d got to get to midland cres next to the rof , it was frightening how quick it came up
northern baths-then and now
in Images of Nottingham
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the pictures bring back memories , we live on saxondale drive [first turning on the right under the bridge ] for 35 years