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There was a Wheeldon family lived near me just off St. Peters St. in Old Radford upto 1958 when both our families moved to Clifton. David, Alan and Barbara were the children, father I can picture but can't remember his name, mother was Doreen.
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Two shops I recall very near the canal, one was a furrier and near to that for a time was a Royal Navy recruitment office.
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It's from the Latin, sinister, meaning left. Latin dexter means 'right', hence dextrous. Sinister and dexter are still used in heraldry.
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On 4/3/2022 at 5:58 AM, IAN FINN said:
Toasting on the coal fire until the bread falls off the fork and into the fire dam it.
Adds to the flavour.
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If you really want to know racism try being a non-asian living in an asian country. the Chinese call us 'white ghosts', the Japanese, if being polite, call us 'foreign person' and if not being polite call us 'iteki' or 'barbarian'.
In Thailand I cannot own land or work in a large number of professions which are reserved for Thais. The price for a foreigner to go in a national park is 300 baht (about GBP 6.80p) for a Thai it's 30 baht. As a foreigner I could not adopt my wife's daughters when we married and as a foreigner I have to report to the immigration department every 90 days to tell them where I live, despite living in the same house for 20 years. Once a year I must go and show them I have transferred about 1,500 pounds a month into Thailand for the past year, with a copy of every page of my bankbook plus a letter from my bank giving my account details as of this morning, plus copy of a dozen other documents. No free health treatment of course.
So why? because I'm happily married to a wonderful woman here. Both her daughters have got a good degree and both are working. And the local people are wonderful. But the beaurocracy hates us being non-asian. Oh, and I was once physically pulled out of a queue for a theme park because I was queuing with my wife and the girls but the foreigner's queue, with it's ten-fold entry fee was elsewhere.
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Dr (Bill) Chapman was a wonderful teacher. He once told me I spoke French like a Spanish cow! He was probably right. He had a good singing voice and sang as the Pirate King in the school production of The Pirates of Penzance.
I last saw Doc Chapman at the City Ground years later. One of the teachers I remeber fondly.
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On 1/2/2021 at 2:31 AM, Cliff Ton said:
There’s a lot to comment on, and I’ll have to start somewhere, so I’ll thrash around at random. Some of this I’ve posted in other threads, but so what…..
You seem to be one year older than me. You were at Brinkhill; I was at Greencroft. At Fairham I was also in Fleming. I always liked Smart; got on ok with him and seemed reasonable and decent.
I’d forgotten about the holy trinity of Gideon Bible, Hymn book, and timetable, but now you mention them I also had the set (at least to begin with).
I was never taught by - or had any involvement with - Fred Riddell, but in all the years since then, I’ve never seen or heard anyone say a good word for him. Often as people get older, they look back on unpleasant school memories with slightly less anger than they felt at the time. The universal exception is Riddell. People hated him then, and they still hate him now. I almost wish I'd been taught by him, just to see how unpleasant he was.
And I never really liked Naylor either. He always seemed a bit volatile and potentially nasty.
I never went to any reunions because I was never aware of any, or didn’t know where to look to find out about them. I think they happened in the days before ‘Social media’ was invented, because I wouldn’t have missed them now. I used to be on Friends Reunited as well, and was disappointed when it closed. I grabbed a lot of infants and junior school photos from there before they vanished - but there were never any school photos from Fairham. Only photos of sports teams, societies, and prize winnings. Friends Re also had a section for work places, and I definitely wish that was still around.
And I know the L-block bridge you’re talking about.
And I remember the flats being built.
And I did a paper round for George Parker’s shop (which you mentioned in the other thread
https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/2565-clifton-picsvideos/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-655211
Many years after I left Fairham (Fleming House also, Graham Hind as Housemaster, a wonderful man) I was on a train to London and Fred Riddell was there and his voice took me back to that frightened schoolboy of about a decade before. I so wanted to go and tell him and his political friends he was with what a swine he was, but I desisted. 50 years later I'm still in two minds whether or not I should have.
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I hate the word "awesome" which appears to be the only adjective Americans know. They are also too fond of the word "absolutely" instead of just saying "yes".
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There was one at Clifton, roughly opposite Clifton Library. I lived in a flat over Fords early 1970s.
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Beekay, the easiest way to start your tree is to go and talk to your oldest living relative and ask them what they know.
Otherwise they sometimes inconsiderately go and die and then all that knowledge they had is gone forever.
Get your own birth certificate. That will tell you your parent's names and mum's maiden name. Find their wedding certificate for their parents' names. That's a good start.
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My father was in the Royal Navy from 1938 until 1952. He served on a number of ships including the battleship HMS King George V, and HMS Glasgow when they rescued the King of Norway and the Norwegian gold reserves ahead of the German army.
But most of his war service he was on convoy escort duty across the Atlantic on HMS Gentian, a flower class corvette. On one trip he kept a diary from when they left Liverpool to arriving in Nova Scotia. I found it in his effects when he died 7 years ago and I typed it up and offered it to the Imperial War Museum. They were very pleased to receive it because as they said most war diaries were written by officers and my dad was an Able Seaman and he wrote about life below decks. Like most servicemen he never spoke about his war service except once when he said that it's not nice having to kick bits of your mate overboard after you've been attacked.
I am still very proud of him and his generation and what they did for us.
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And despite his forbidding appearance he was a nice bloke.
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Albert, I think you are so wrong about Mr. Mullaney. He was one of the kindest teachers I knew there.
I once told him I didn't understand the point he was making in maths and he got the lad next to me
to stand up and Mr. Mullaney sat down at the side of me and worked it through with me until I
understood. Few teachers would do that.
He was as bald then as I am now 60 years later, and one Christmas our class bought him a joke
giant comb and a dispenser of brilliantine. You wouldn't do that for a bad teacher. And he took it
in good stead.
Now Fred Riddell..................
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My dad was a jobbing builder and he always maintained that when they were filming this on Meadow Lane he was roped in as an extra in a crowd scene. But I've never been able to spot him.
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I went there in 1958-59 for one year until I was old enough to go to Fairham. My teacher was Miss Balfour.
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HSBC online banking help line. Fine if you speak Hindi, otherwise unintelligible. Outsourced so you stop ringing them.
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Kenyon, Fleming, Penny, Hunt, Whittle, Elliot, Lovell, Brittain.
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Ah Dr. Jerkov, I remember Flesh Gordon.
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Get a copy of your dad's birth certificate. Fortunately there was only one Ernest Spencer born in
Nottingham in the December quarter 1906.
You should be able to find your dad in the 1911 census to give his parents and maybe some siblings.
Look either side of his family house in the census because relatives often lived nearby.
The 1939 census, although all details are not yet released, could be of help.
Voter's lists might be held at the Records Office.
Possibly the baptism registers of the nearest church might be of help.
There wasn't a census in 1941 because of the war.
Join the Nottingham Family History Society.
I hope that lot is of help.
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I live in Thailand and I make sure I have a big English breakfast every Sunday. Fortunately there's a man who makes lovely Lincolnshire sausages nearby but ordinary mushrooms are not so common so I sometimes have to use straw mushrooms.
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I was an in patient there in Princess Mary Ward in the middle of 1958. Sister Scott, Staff Nurse Lovell. Why I remember them from nearly 60 years ago I have no idea.
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If you mix borax with sugar and a little water it soon goes hard. But I like the idea of borax and peanut butter, I'll try that out. We have lots of different types of ants here in Thailand, but fortunately the large red ones prefer to live outside.
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And then booked you for drink driving?
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He was also in an episode of "The Big Bang Theory" as himself.
A trip down memory lane - Radford
in Old Radford
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Jill, whilest I agree with you that it's nice to look at the original source documents when tracing your family tree, living in Thailand makes it difficult to nip down to the Nottingham records office!