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Any idea what Que Soy Presto meant??
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Yes, the 'Ten Bob Tourist' was a common theme for Poms (That's what anyone from England was called in them days) to either go to Victoria, Adelaide or New Zealand. Unusual for them to settle in West Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales or Queensland.
Specifically on this topic, I recall that I 'volunteered' to get my certificate through school at the Radford Baths. I almost drowned on my first 'lesson'. Eventually got there though.
Problem in wearing glasses in those days, as soon as you walked into the pool area, couldn't see a thing as the glasses fogged up...
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Dad was there in the early 50s. Left for Oz in 1964.
Looks like a lot of us left for OZ in the late 60's
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Big Mac,
'Adolf' was headmaster when I was there, all of the others were still there.
I'll get more details to you. Do you remember Simonite, Whizzo, Jennifer Snell, Smellio?
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We lived in Strelley as kids near Moores Farm, we walked over the fields to what we called Bluebell Woods, which had a pond and we collected tadpoles and kept them until they grew into frogs. Yes summer holidays seemed to last forever.
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Wasn't Woolworths on the corner of High Street and Albert Street?
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I notice that the Byron on the corner of High Street and Station Street is now a Bingo Hall. We lived in one of the new estates in Papplewick with the Colliery just a walk away, all hosing estates now.
Did my brothers paper round a few times (newsagent at the corner of Watnall Road), now a caff I think.
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The Bernadettes I attended was in Sneinton Dale.
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Planning a get together of the 1965-1967 group of Students in late October. Let me know if you can make it to Nottingham on the 25th October 2013.
Paul
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Thanks Trevor S. Yes I did say Telco meaning Telecommunications supplier a la BT or Verizon etc on your part of the world.
We don't have Tesco, just a lot of the management team from ASDA, M&S and Tesco running our supermarkets over here.
Paul
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Hi Stephen,
No Same spelling, but different family. My Aunty Betty worked there in the 60's and every weekend would come home with lots of samples... A few yaers ago, I was complaining to a local Telco about service (or lack of) here in Oz and it turns out her unmarried name was also Watmough and she was the great grand-daughter of the Watmough sweet 'owner'. It went broke in the late 70's I understand and during it's heyday was well know in Nottingham for his donations to the poor and needy.
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In late 1964, we were living in Hucknall and has both Trent (Red) and Notts and General (Blue) covering the area. I went to school in Sneinton Dale and caught a Nottingham Transport to Parliament Street Station and then a Notts and General to Hucknall. At that stage there were still trolley busses running to Bulwell.
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Compo me auld duck. Good to see you here too.
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LOL! Thanks Commo, it all makes sense now...