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Thanks very much Cliff Ton , that helps understand the layout. If fact your arrow I think touches what was Marsh Farm in Kirk's Yard (L shape building) as it backed on to a house and provisions shop owned by a Mr. Dale in Narrowmarsh (according to a sale advert from 1893).

This picture cropped up again on a Facebook page of the 15th/16th Century half timbered property called Marsh Farm , in Kirk's Yard off Byrons Yard that was to the rear of Narrowmarsh. I read that Kirk's Yard was hidden behind a heavy wooden door. Is there a map showing these yards Cliff Ton ? Reading old newspaper articles, its last use was as storage place for an Italian man call Theo Garribaldi who stored his street barrel organs there. Apparently they were rented out to various street vendors who roamed the city streets.

Mr Millers seemed to have opened Dec 1972 at 45 Bridlesmith Gate and the theme seemed to be (not unsurprisingly) big band music including Glen Miller , though no doubt that changed in time ? Can't see any other mention or adverts after 1978. It appears to have been run by Tony Etridge who also had other venues in town .

Chris Dawson who owns The Range stores bought out the Wilkos brand name and has started to open shops under that name , one opening in Plymouth , another in Exeter and one in Luton with more to follow. More here https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2023/12/wilko-open-40-stores/

Made a slight faux pas whilst cooking our turkey crown yesterday . Thought we would be lazy and get one of those foil disposable turkey tins to cook it in ,to save some cleaning. The cooking instruction said 2 hours 40 mins at 190°, so after that time pulled out the part brown bird and prodded it with one of those digital meat thermometers . One of the readings pushed in the side was ok but another part was under the correct temp , so my wife said push it in deeper to see what the reading is there, which I duly did but temperature was still not right so put it back in the oven

I think the first single I bought was an instrumental . African Waltz by the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra . Strange choice for a 12 year old!

There was this one too , so annoying when you don't get the courtesy of a thankyou even if it wasn't the answer they were looking for ! https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/24369-stevenson/

We are watching series 1 of Traces on catch up on UKTVPlay and my wife said the lead actress sounds proper Nottingham. Sure enough Molly Windsor is Notts born and attended school at Bilborough. https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1415918-molly-windsor

I've still got an electric guitar and (what was in its day) a swish keyboard but never mastered either. They both lay unused. As a teenager in the 60s I had a bass guitar for my 14th birthday and used to play along to records which was probably my undoing. My elder brother was in a popular local soul band that split up and some of the members wanted to reform. My brother had heard me playing along to records and it was suggested I could play the bass in the new band but I didn't have any speakers or amps, so I set about building one from sheets of chipboard , in which we

Another to add to that is Bella Ramsey who starred in The Last of Us series and more recently the womens prison series Time.

Can't see any reference to it being called Lymn and Rose but director, George Rose was son in law to Harold Lymn (son of founder Arthur Lymn). The current chairman , Nigel Lymn Rose, featured in the BBC programme. A time line here from 1999: A SUCCESS STORY ... 1907 Arthur William Lymn starts his undertakers in Goose Gate , next to Jesse Boot's first chemist shop . 1915 The firm expands and moves to new premises in Bath Street . New premises are acquired in Robin Hood Street and Handel Street for coffin manufacturing and horse stables .

Just started on BBC1 , Stacey Dooley confronting her own worries of death is at Lymns undertakers.

I have to comment on anything GEM related as I worked there from its opening as a Saturday lad whilst at college and ended up staying on full time before leaving in 1977. Also of course , my late dad was in charge of the building of the original store and that was how I got my job after he had a word with the store manager. The store was rebuilt in 1993 and not sure if any of the original building was retained. Previous thread here https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/9182-gem-at-west-bridgford/

And to make it on topic what with the release of the "new" Beatles single today , Macca once did a cover version

Showing my age but according to something I just read , Crossroads had its first showing on this day in 1964. Nearly 60 years ago. Can't say if I watched the first episode or not but I bet there's a few here who still remember some of the names : Meg Richardson, Miss Diane, Bennie etc !

Don't know how they can keep going like that . just a bit further to the West of us , in Cornwall ,4 pubs are closing that are supposed to have had a £2 million combined turnover saying that the overheads are too great to carry on . https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2023-10-18/we-are-devastated-owner-forced-to-close-four-pubs-despite-2m-turnover

Guilty as charged ! Though I'm not a particular jazz fan

This is one of the videos I put together for Bob Hudson after he had written some music called the Robin Hood Suite back in 2000. He is a pal of my elder brother who plays trombone on this.

It's funny I always thought Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys wrote that. Seems he was an uncredited co-writer of it but he usually performed it at live concerts.

Can't say he was born there but earlier in 1939 Simon's parents were living 9 Clandon Drive off Waldeck Rd, Carrington. His father Herbert A House born 1913 was listed as a "musician", mother Dorothy House (nee Mosley). Theres an article in the Nottm Guardian from 1969 reporting that Simon House (still of Clandon Drive) had joined a band called High Tide. It also said that prior to university he had attended High Pavement Grammar School.

Not a band I know much about but my pal ,whose wife works in a care home in Cornwall, just informed me that Simon House, violinist and composer of the Hawkwind band was now a resident in the home . Apparently Simon was born in Nottingham in 1948 . My pal asked me if I knew of him but I've never heard the Nottingham connection with the band . Anyone know of him?

Heard part of this theme played on Boom Radio this morning , something hadn't heard for years. It was bugging me what it was from but luckily the dj said it was from the film Exodus . Great tune !

It's a fairly common name but this could be the Stevenson family in 1921 living 17 Pegg Terrace Essex Street , Nottm. Widow, Alice G Stevenson b 1847. Son , Ralph Stevenson born 1904 Son , Stanley Stevenson b 1906 Son, George Stevenson b 1909 Daughter , Georgina May Wheeldon born 1915. All the above born Stoke on Trent. Assume Alice had a second marriage to a Mr Wheeldon between 1909 and 1915. Looks like her maiden name was Alice Plant. Census says Stanley and George's "father dead" and despite their young age occupati

There's a marriage in Nottm in 1947 for a Stanley Stevenson to a Barbara Hall. Births with mothers maiden name Hall : Alan S.D.Stevenson 1948 Linda Stevenson 1950 Eileen Stevenson 1952

I don't know how many shops they had at the time but Wilkinsons Hardware had the housewares/d.i.y. concession at the GEM Supercentre at West Bridgford when it opened in 1964 . That may have been their first time in Notts ? I was across the other side of GEM, working on the car accessories for a firm called Lex Motors. After ASDA took over the store in 1967 and ran the food hall, they later took over the car accessories lease and later the lease owned by Wilkinsons Hardware , both being amalgamated into the Asda Non Food Section.