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Brew, (post # 101) could your Mr. Bradshaw be Mr. Bradstock? If so he was my tutor in Fa when there was only Fa, Fb, Fc, Fd. Everybody remembers Dr. Chapman. If only for his slipper! Mick Burns was far nicer than he looked, but I agree that was his nickname. Sid Bolton I loathed. I'd be banned if I said what I felt about him. Only he and that swine Fred Riddell do I remember with hatred. I didn't like PE. Mr. Wallace we called Pigeon Wallace because he was always adjusting his collar bobbing his head like a pigeon. He took us for handwriting. The only metalwork teacher I r

Dear Freckles, have a look at a program called "Dashlane" which manages all your passwords.

It's a bit far for overspill from Nottingham. Newark means a new fortification.

My dad, born 1919, died 2012, always pronounced it that way.

If you are wondering who took the photo if there was only myself and my wife on the tour, it was a female member of staff who was in the ballroom.

I played there as a lad. I moved from Radford to Langstrath Road (top of Green Lane) in Nov. '58 so it would be after that. My mum was a cook at the college when it opened.

Just before I left Nottingham and came to live in Thailand in October 2001, I showed my wife around Nottingham including Wollaton Hall. There was back then a guided tour available, which we took. There was only the guide and my wife and I on the tour so he took us everywhere including not only the tunnels under the front of the hall, but up into the large ballroom on the second floor and then out onto the roof. Wonderful views from up there.

Radfordlad, Thanks very much for that. It shows I'm not completely ga-ga just yet! I remember the original Searchers very well. I liked them until I discovered the original US groups they copied from, eg The Coasters and Jackie De Shannon. I'm another radfordlad, born down by The Plough Inn on St. Peters St.

Doctor Chapman did have a wonderful voice. i was in the chorus of the Pirates of Penzance as just another pirate, but if I remember correctly Bill Chapman was Frederick, the pirate King. For some silly reason i also remember the name of the lad who played Mabel, the Major-General's daughter. his name was John Balchin. I think Roger Thorne played the Major-General.

Fleming House 1959-1965. Mr. Hind housemaster, a wonderful man, and Mr. Bradstock, then Mr. Penchion as tutor. I met Lady Fleming when she came to the school. Sir Alexander Fleming was dead by then.

And I worked at Plessey and lived on Roy Avenue opposite the "Jolly Anglers" car park, Welcome.

Hello Beth, I've sent you a message. (Top of the page, on the right, the envelope shaped icon)

Living in Thailand cremation is the norm. Most temples here have a crematoria attached. They charge foreigners extra because we are bigger than the locals and take more gas to reduce to ashes!

How do you pronounce "LGBT" ?

My grandfather lived at number 5, Bell St. for many years. His mother lived with him and she died there in 1964 aged 94. She was a Blower by birth, from Radford. Grandad moved to Whittier Road at Colwick when they knocked the Meadows down.

I have used Brothers Keeper for nigh on twenty years without problem. It's well supported and new features are added when necessary. And it's FREE! (Although it costs you if you want a manual and email support, but I've never needed either.)

I know the name Bob Parkes, wasn't he a bit of an athlete? A runner?

Was it "moant" or 'munt" which I remember as a contraction of 'must not', but I haven't heard it in 50 years..

The question I always ask would-be republicans is "Who would you have preferred, President Thatcher, or President Blair?" That thought alone make me a Royalist.

If the Normans couldn't pronounce 'Sn' how come they left Sneinton alone?

LizzieM, do be careful if you choose to live outside the UK that you choose a country where your pensions are increased yearly. I live in Thailand and my pension will never increase. but i still pay UK income tax.

Sic transit gloria mundi. It's the pension from those days that keeps me in my old age.

1969. We were in Pollard's Palace.

I used to live at Clifton and my first job was at Walker, Walton and Hanson estate agents on Byard Lane. So my bus from home would come into Broad Marsh (the old, open Broad Marsh bus station) and I'd trudge up Drury Hill to work every morning and back down at night. Yes, 50 years on the smell I can remember. The leather shop on the left going down the hill, near the little turning space mentioned above was some of it, the old book shop as well. Nottingham missed an opportunity to rival The Shambles in York. Bloody vandals.

The first computer I worked on was an ICL 1903A at Plessey at Beeston. It had 32k of main memory (that's 32k not 32M or 32Gig) and when the executive program had been loaded in from paper tape it only had 28k of memory for programs to run. Disc drives were huge and took two hands to carry them safely and stored 8 meg each. The last time I saw one was in the Science Museum in London!