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If you give the names you are researching, somebody might be able to help. There's a Nottingham Ancestry Forum on here.

Thank you very much for these pointers, I'll follow them up. The main one I'm interested in, Isaac Turney, a blacksmith of Lenton, married just before 1837. I use "Brothers Keeper" to hold all my data and I have started a separate database just for Turneys of Nottingham. It makes it so much easier.

Is anybody interested in the Turney family of Nottingham? The famous one is Sir John Turney of the leather works at Trent Bridge. But I'm interested in finding the earlier ones. There's a whole bunch of them, probably brothers and sisters, who were born in Lenton between c1808 and 1820 and they tend to have biblical names like Samuel, Abraham and Isaac. But I can find none of their baptisms, nor indeed their parents. I suspect they were non-conformist and the registers of whatever chapel they attended are now lost. There was also a family of Turneys in the Chilwell/Attenborough area. A

How about "The Bumblies" with Michael Bentine. I'm Bumbly number 1, I'm Bumbly number 2, I'm the one that's not very bright, I'm Bumbly number 3. And Michael Bentine's "It's a Square World". And from the very depths of my memory, Torchy the battery boy.

Koad? Yer nesh!

Blondie, It could well have been Paper Lace, but the drummer doesn't have the surname 'Black". perhaps my friend's brother was only a temporary drummer for them.

A bit of a late reply to this one. My favourite black non-motown artist? Without a doubt Mr. Charles Edward Berry. Chuck Berry.

I always preferred "The Temptations" to "The Four Tops". I still have "I'm losing You" and "I can't get next to you" on my mobile phone and play them frequently.

I used to know a Clifton girl called Adrienne Black, very beautiful she was. She had two brothers, Chris Black and Lyne Black. One of the brothers, and I can't remember which, was the drummer in a one-hit-wonder Nottingham group. I been wracking my brains (the little I have left) but can't remember the group. Can anybody please help out? This would be in the mid to late 60's.

I'd hate for Fairham to just disappear down the list, as if nobody cared. So here's a picture of the lads from 1965, only 50 years ago. http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/lungbing/Fairham-1965a_zpstfadj85f.jpg I'm the tall, good looking one, back row, far right. (deluded fool that I am!) Names I remember: Malc Whitt, Alan Curtis, Kevin Gallagher (Wag), Bob Abdy, Stuart Inger, Pete Griffiths, Bob Griffiths, Alan Carver, Dave Donoven, Dave Shaw, Chris Shardlow, Bob Dodd, Dave Bingley, Alan Brough, Tony Shuman, ? Kerry (family had grocers at Clifton), Pete Norman, and of course la

I swear by "Brothers Keeper" and it can import (and export) gedcom files. It's regularly updated with new features and has never let me down these past 15 years or more. And it's free. You can pay if you want, which gets you a manual and support, but I've never needed it.

Peaks?

The parish records of St. Stephen's church are worth looking through. I have ancestors from Radford/Hyson Green, mostly Binghams and Blowers, including Tom Blower the channel swimmer who lived in Hyson Green, although he's a bit off to the side on my tree.

i always thought that with Arkwright Street and London Road running almost side by side, it would have been ideal for Arkwright street to be one-way say from the station to Trent Bridge, and London Road being one-way from Trent Bridge to Canal Street.

Don't forget that the 1881 census was taken in early April 1881 so the ages given were for the year ending April. eg if I was born in 1850 my age would be given as 30 in the 1881 census if my birthday was after 3rd April that year, or 31 if my birthday was Jan 1st to April 2nd 1850. And some women miraculously managed to age only 9 years between each 10 years census!

But you have to watch out that the ploughman's not looking when you nick his lunch.

"The Bumblies" and "It's a Square World". Both by Michael Bentine. Then "The Telly Goons". Those three define my puerile sense of humour.

I remember the remains of the folly. We called it the ruined castle. Us kids would go past it to the railway line and the stream that ran at the side of the line (not the Leen) and fish for sticklebacks. This would be 1955-58 time. No problem with young kids being out on their own in them days, part of growing up.

Eric Morcombe's real name was Eric Barthomolew. and Ernie was Ernie Wiseman.

Born and bred in Old Radford I certainly can speak nottnm. I bet our house here in north-east Thailand is the only one for many miles around that mashes a cup of tea. And my Thai wife and kids understand "av yer mashed miduck?"

I emailed the Nottingham Records Office and had a reply almost by return of post. They have some records but not the lodges I wanted. I wonder who kept the records when a lodge closed? I have emailed the RAOB themselves, but have had no reply.

Seriously, has anybody given any thought about making a series of recordings of old Nottingham language. Because when the likes of us are gone, so will be gone the language we speak. Children today all speak 'estuary English' with it's glottal stops (eg bo'ul for bottle). There's easily enough source material on these pages. The weather report in Nottinghamese was just a joke to them, and the girl didn't pronounce half the words correctly. (edited for spelling)

I have lived in Thailand for 13 years now and I do not think I could ever go back to the UK. Food good, weather warm to hot, once a year visa, transport good, roads good (but dangerous). A more relaxed style of life. What do I miss? Going to the City Ground occasionally. Everything else is here, even HP sauce and Branston Pickle.

Thanks for everybody's help. I love the photo and I vaguely recollect dad having a sash like theirs, but it didn't survive. Also an ornate certificate? I'll have to contact the RAOB by their website as I live in Thailand. Mind you, we have the real buffaloes here, and the phrase "wait 'til the cows come home" has meaning as you still see the herder driving them home in the evening, usually across busy roads depending where the lush grass is growing. Thanks again.

Not the army regiment with the nickname 'The Buffs" rather members of the Royal Antediluvium Order of Buffaloes. My father, a Nottingham born and bred man, and you'd know it if you had heard him speak, died a couple of years ago aged 92. I inherited all his paperwork, photos etc which pleased me as for many years I have been trying to trace our family tree. Among his war medals I found two medals of membership of the RAOB. One, is inscribed on the rear "BRO. JIM G. WHITTAKER RAISED 25.8.60 BELVOIR LODGE 3809" At the top of the blue medal-ribbon, itself marked with "RAOB GLE" (Grand