Merthyr Imp
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There's always one who stands in the way.
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Not in Notts, but when we were on holiday in Great Yarmouth at the beginning of September in 1964 we went to see this summer show starring The Shadows at the ABC there:
Arthur Worsley was possibly the best-known ventriloquist on TV in the days before Ray Alan, his gimmick being that he let the dummy do all the talking.
And who remembers the Morton Fraser Harmonica Gang who were well known on TV around 1960?
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If Methyr Imps is reading this, the image in the first post has disappeared.
Yes - don't know why, as it's still on Photobucket.
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Another school trip to the old Playhouse was in October 1962. Not sure if there was a particular reason why they took us to see 'Twelfth Night' then as it was another three years before we did it for O Level.
I don't have any recollection of it at all, but there are several notable names in the cast:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt, to become maybe best-known for playing the murder victim in Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
Jean Marsh of later 'Upstairs Downstairs' fame
Terence Rigby, later in 'Softly, Softly'
Bryan Pringle, to become well-known on TV in anything from comedy ('The Dustbinmen') to drama ('The Pallisers')
And a vintage advert on the back page:
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I was afraid questions may have been asked later.
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As the kids say these days - 'Too much information!'
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All details are on this other thread from a few days ago:
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Having gone through some of my old football programmes in another thread I thought I'd now bore people with some memories and reproductions of my old theatre programmes, which perhaps may have a wider appeal. Mostly from Notts, but with a few others.
I can remember going twice to pantomimes at the Theatre Royal in the early 1960s but didn't get programmes. One starred Ronnie Hilton and may have been 'Dick Whittington'. Otherwise, all I can remember is that Peter Butterworth was in one of the two and the Welsh comedian Wyn Calvin, fairly well-known on radio at that time, was in the other.
I regret not buying a programme from a one-off charity performance I went to at the Theatre Royal one Sunday night in what was probably the late 1960s. Appearing in it were Brian Rix (who performed something of a stand-up comedy routine), Dickie Henderson, Arthur Askey, June Bronhill, a pianist whose name escapes me, and I think Mike Yarwood.
Probably in early 1961 we were taken on a school trip from Blue Bell Hill to the old Playhouse to see an adaptation of 'Oliver Twist'. This wasn't the musical, as I think that had only just opened in London at that time. Ive no idea who was in it, but I remember the actor who played Fagin later visited the school to give a talk to the class.
My earliest programme is from the old Playhouse and another school trip, this time from High Pavement, when we were taken to see the old-fashioned melodrama 'Maria Marten or The Murder in the Red Barn' in March 1962.
A couple of notable names from the cast are Anne Stallybrass who used to be in a lot of things on TV in the 1960s and 70s, and Eric Thompson - a few years before his 'Magic Roundabout' days. In the programme he was featured as 'A New Member of the Company', with notes including: 'He is married to actress Phyllida Law and they have two children, both daughters.' Quite.
Here's a page from the programme:
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Here's another photo from the early 1970s showing Barton's garage in the background, also Capocci's 'Journey's End' snack bar.
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Relevant to some of the recent postings on this thread, here's a photo of a Barton AEC Reliance leaving their garage on Huntingdon Street. I think the X81 was the former Hall Bros Tyneside - Midlands service.
Huntingdon Street used to get pretty crowded with coaches on summer Saturdays but as far as I remember it was fairly unusual to see the garage being used as an overflow (although I think the holiday coach tours left from there) and was probably the reason why I photographed it. Or I suppose it may have gone into the garage for some technical reason.
Photo probably dates from the very early 1970s.
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Re #194 - You always started out for Devon or Cornwall on a Black and White, but mostly they only went as far as Cheltenham, which in those days was the coach equivalent of Crewe (or the wretched Birmingham New Street) - a hub where everyone from anywhere changed to go anywhere else!
Here's a photo of a Black & White Leyland Leopard leaving Cheltenham Coach Station in the late 1960s. I don't seem to have photographed any in Nottingham.
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There was quite a bit about Robin Hood Coaches and their garage on the Buses in Nottingham thread in 2013:
http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8348&page=18
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Another picture uploaded, in case we don't have it?
That's one of my photos and it appears at #81 on this thread.
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Don't forget the bottle of Tizer.
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Re 'Sole Survivor' - this tells you all about the incident it was based on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)
I remember reading about it some years before the film was made, and being fascinated by the story of how they thought they were flying over the sea when in fact they were over the desert.
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If Nottstalgia is still going in 10 - 20 years time there will be people posting that the forum is nothing like as good as it was back in good old 2016.
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I think the building in the picture headed 'This place looks top heavy' is the one that used to be the Midland Bank.
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Surely it wasn't in both films? The Colditz Story seems more likely.
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I'm sure I remember (could be wrong) post being delivered on Christmas Day in 1959 or 1960.
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I think people did communicate more by mail in those days. My wife collects old postcards, and the messages on them are not all of the 'wish you were here' holiday kind of thing, but often brief notes basically saying things like 'see you tomorrow'.
Obviously today we have email and mobile phones, but up to the 1950s, and even into the 1960s, by no means all households had a phone, and certainly in pre-war days the mail was the quickest way of getting in touch with someone so there was more demand for it.
This is my theory anyway - I've no idea of the actual figures of letters posted!
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Brings back memories but how did they get them into the square? ( without trolley lines)
Probably towed there, although they can move short distances at low speed on battery power.
By the way, only one of those is a trolleybus.
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He was quoting, loppylugs - evidently a man of learning:
http://everything2.com/title/From+Hell%252C+Hull%252C+and+Halifax+may+the+Good+Lord+deliver+us%2521
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When Theresa is PM, she'll sort things out for us all!
May do.
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#11 The Mekon were in the Eagle comic.
Yes - the leader of the Treens and Dan Dare's greatest foe.
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How old???
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Remembering what Old Man Steptoe used to say about being the same age as Cary Grant I always follow his lead and say I'm a year younger than Richard Gere. Which to save you looking it up means I'm 66.