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Well, after sputtering around for quite some time, I may have to go back to the early `60s to find someone who actually likes me !!!!. I had a look last week on Google street view and saw the old site again. It appears to be still a fish shop. I really am hoping to get back there and find out what happened to my model aircraft as well as catching up with some of you. Post or email contact would be good. Now that Fosters is now British, I guess you can all produce your own `Technicolour Yodel` as Bazza might say. Regards to all Andrew

Hey Mick, I actually loaded 3 pictures. The other was a black and white of me playing in 1965. Any idea what happened to it?

O.K. here we go. With all those wonderfull words of advice, I managed to open a Photobucket account and uploaded three photos. Now to see if I can paste them......By jove and jumping windows, I think it worked !! I am a little older than I was back then but still playing a lot of the same songs. If Carol could get these to Dave Turner I am sure he would get a kick out of seeing me grow my hair !! I am still trying to find out what business is now in the old `Jules et Jim` site. Regards to all Andrew (from the Antipodes)

I am sorry, you have lost me. What is a `Photobucket Account`? The `Attach` line is telling me that I have used 119.89K of my allowed 50K. My math is not that good but something looks rather sus with those numbers. Would it be easier to email an attachment to someone, I know how to do that.

Hi all, after a 2 year break in which I started and sadly finished another relationship, I am back searching for my long lost model aircraft. Has anyone been able to have a look under the `Jules et Jim` for me yet? I am going to try and upload a couple of photos of then and now. I am also now on facebook. No, all my attempts at uploading using both types of uploader have failed with several different photos so I really don`t know how to do this. Admin, can you help please. Regards Andrew Cole.

Carol, sad to hear of his ill health. Any chance of a postal address so that I can send him a card from here in Australia. Send it to my email address if you like. Regards Andrew

Carol, I think Dave Turner was the guitarist who introduced me to Bob Dylan music and the `Claw Hammer` style of playing. He used to work as a part time waiter at the cafe as well. If I recall, he used to play in a rock band and would come in after a gig and play some Folky stuff to wind down. Were you there in those days? Regards Andrew.

In `62 and `63 I moved into the `Hi-Fi` arena with an old mono arm, a valve amplifier I had purchased by mail-order from Practical Wireless and a speaker cabinet that I had constructed at school. This served as the `Sound System` for the youth club that used to run in the hall up at the school next to Colwick woods on a friday night. This was mono of course but it served its purpose well and I thought I did O.K. for a 14 year old. I also repaired an old radio and we used to listen to various programmes in another room whilst dancing was going on up the passageway. The boys just stood around an

I distinctly recall spotting one in a shop window somewhere up near the theatre in 1963, there was also a music shop on the corner with a rickenbacker in the window. This recorder used reel to reel wide tape (1 inch?) and was possibly a first with a rotating head system. Very chunky beast it was. Mick, if you want old valves I have about 4000 of them. Look me up as elocwerdna1 on Ebay. Andrew.

Hello Tuesday Beefsteak ! (Lobsang?) I now live near Wagga Wagga in N.S.W. Australia. I left the plane there a very long time ago but stranger things have happened when someone puts something on top of a cupboard in a basement than to actually have it still there coated in dust. Regards Andrew

Thanks Mick, any chance you might want to take a walk down Goosegate and have a look? I don`t even know if you still live there, most of us have spread out all over the place. I have tried to find hisorical archives of that area in the early `60s but to no avail. I will probably have to write to the council for business applications etc to try and track down Rene who owned the cafe back then. Andrew.

Hi all. Just getting back on track for the moment, I posted elsewhere that I had left my twin engined silver A-26 control line aircraft in the basement under the Jules et Jim when I was last there. I was wondering if anyone would like to have a look to see if there is still some sort of a shop there and if they have access to the basement and see if my aircraft has been stuffed away in a corner and if so, to rescue it for me. I have just managed to obtain a copy of the plans from a U.K. aeromodeller and so I intend to rebuild it but the original would have a few tales to tell. My email addr

I have been busy the last few months but one thing has come up due to my involvement with model aircraft here. Does anyone know what happened to Rene who owned the `Jules et Jim`? The reason I ask is that I am interested to find out who has access to the basement now and if my model aircraft was ever found. This would be a massive buzz if I could actually trace it and maybe follow the history of the coffee shop / shopfront in the last 40 odd years. I am still heavily into Folk Singing and I am providing all the sound equipment for our local festival at the end of September. I am sure I wil

G`day Foxy, yes I am indeed the same. I have been trying to contact you via the Mundella site but to no avail. I would like to converse with you about all things past because I appear to have a hole in my memory that the powers that be say I should try to get working again for theraputic reasons. Being as you appear to be an absolute treasure chest of memories, it would be great if you could contact me at elocwerdna@hotmail.com. Anyone else who may remember me is welcome as well. As I sort through my stuff, I keep tripping across small packets of very fragile 120 black and white negs which

To get back on topic, I recall quite a few Saturdays when, after working at Beecrofts, all the busses were stopped and I had to walk home to Bakersfield in fog so thick that I had to follow the curb. The street lights only gave an eerie glow to the surrounding blanket. Crossing the roads was an experience because even the street signs were too high to be seen. Navigation was by trying to recognise something close up such as a house number on a gate or even the look of the gate itself. Funnily enough, I rarely got lost and only on a couple of occasions found myself trying to zig zag to find the

Yes Bamber, They certainly did have a stall in Central Market. I recall working there on many an occasion with a tall thin chap with glasses and large ears, I just can`t quite remember his name but I am sure I have a photo somewhere, but where? The Central Market stall was mainly model trains. Got it!! Ron was his name. Memory is a funny thing, the connections to various parts of it are very obscure sometimes. I will try and look up Beecrofts on the web. Regards to all Andrew cole.

Here is Les Blore with one of his superb museum quality models.

Hey Mick, you might remember this. Beecrofts was the largest toy store in Nottingham with three floors of stuff. Then there was the top floor in the roof that was a storeroom as well as where we used to take customers who had purchased a model aircraft engine and show them how to run it (pointing out an open window). Young David Beecroft would have been in his twenties, his father was quite senior and would stand around with hands behind back watching the proceedings. The shop used to hire out an electric passenger train for parties, it was about a 12 inch gauge and one of the older young

Mick, it was just up a street off Goose gate (can`t remember the name) almost opposite Heathcote street. I have posted a thread about the Jules Et Jim in another section. Regards Andrew Cole.

Alison, I must have just missed you at school. I left straight from school in December 1963 to join the Royal Navy as an Artificer Apprentice. I transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in October 1965 and have basically been here ever since. I went back in 1994 and what suprised me was the density of motor vehicles. For a place with lots of public transport, there are just too many cars. I guess I didn`t catch the crouds because I was there in December. Funnily enough, with snow on the ground, it was warmer than over here on a cold dry winters day and I loved it. The fresh gfood over there is

The Girls body was found floating near the scene today. Must have been trapped underwater and has just come up. Apparently she was eating desert directly where the cat chopped the rear end of the boat off. It is not unusual to have that many people on a fairly broad beamed boat just cruising around. I am more concerned about the reports of no nav lights.

I will try do attach a photo or two. Andrew Cole.

I have indicated elsewhere why I am called coughdrop. My name is Andrew Cole so this becomes Andy Cole which sounds like Anti-col which is a cough lolly, thus coughdrop. At Mundella school, we also used to reverse names. The most memorable was Trebor Nitram Doowrah and, of course, mine was elocwerdna. Regards Andrew

Caz, Wagga is very hot and dry. I have at least half of my trees dead, not through lack of water but the leaves are getting burnt with the radiant heat. Your area sounds good and is only a couple of hours from me about 5 Km down the Tumbarumba road from the Sturt highway. I transferred the Royal Australian Navy in October 1965 and have been resident here ever since. Alison, This sunburnt land of ours is still the only true land of opportunity left in the world. Where else could you buy a bush block for less than $500 per acre and still find some water, even if it does snow on you in winter.

I have followed Carole Kings life fairly closely being as I started playing her music in the early sixties. She is about five years older than me but the highs and lows in our lives appear to have been somewhat of a parrallel only she wrote songs about it and I only sang hers and cried a lot, happy and sad. These songs don`t really take me back to a place in time but to an emotional memory. I still get misty when singing `Changes` or `You`ve got a friend`, by myself or in front of a thousand people. I also find that people share that emotion and I find it really satisfying to have helped some