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Did you know that when the windmills were on what is now forest road one of the mill owners who was a notorious drunkard set off on horseback to sell his old nag at Mansfield market This he duly achieved and retired to the pub After several hours drinking he came out worse for wear to buy another horse for his return journey On his arrival home he was amazed when the horse trotted off round to the stable on its own The next day when he sobered up he realised that he had not only brought his own horse back but had paid more for it than he had sold it for ha ha The description of him coming up what is now Mansfield road was that it was amazing how he stayed in the saddle as he was rolling like a ship in a storm meeowed
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I saw some papers at angel row library that during the bread riots a local mill owner was dragged from his house and taken to weekday cross where he was severely pumped on Another report on the castle fire seemed to suggest that it was a put up job it stated that all the ceilings had been knocked through to make sure that the fire spread meeowed
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I had a conversation with a police officer about untaxed vehicles When I asked how long can they run on polish number plates I was told six months Then he informed me that the police had no means of checking them I remarked that if I fit a set of polish plates to my car I could run free of charge and no fear of speed cameras He remarked it would seem so sir just a thought meeowed
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You must be joking who on earth sponsors Notts tv You could have aliens land in the market square and Notts tv have got a pet on Another pc riddled channel
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thanks for that chulla it just seemed strange that all the wagons were American lots of them we lived opposite and one of them ran away and knocked our wall down I recall being on my three wheeled tin bike pedalling furiously down the path when I was suddenly flying through the air backwards My mum had grabbed me off it just has an American p38 nearly took our chimney pot off I think it was in the fifties that the queen visited the factory our garden was full of people as the rolls Royce pulled up no one would believe you now that we had the queens roller parked outside ha ha meeowed
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the palm tree was indeed on Gladstone street it was never very successful they once did some scenes for a film there featuring hywell bennet he had a series on tv as a workshy chap doing battle with the dole office every week cant remember what the film was called but they had a mobile hot dog wagon brought in and filmed some scenes inside the pub meeowed
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I remember as a child seeing one of the Birkin family driving into the factory yard on Gladstone street forest fields in a bright red cord motor car with big chrome flexible exhaust sticking out of the bonnet around the late 1940s has anyone any info on what the factory produced during the second world war I remember long lines of American 6 wheeled wagons with the star on the bonnet all along Gladstone street meeowed
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I had some tyres from Embassy tyres about a year ago while chatting to the chap I remarked that I had my first motorbike off his dad when he had the garage at basford near saxbys he said you didn't that was my granddad I retired suitably chastened I feel really old now ha ha meeowed
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I was saddened to here of the demise of chick wheelhouse I worked for him in 1975 one of the best You never knew what you were working on next from rollers to American motors The pitch was a absolute gold mine I still recall Pete his salesman playing endless tapes of the drifters Saturday night at the movies I came to him from one of the coop retail garages and chick said he thought they would wipe out the motor trade in Nottingham He couldn't believe it when I told him about the numptys who used to run it I can still hear his most used phrase when you found any problems on one of his motors No don't tell me that Bill A lovely man real old school boss I had the hots for petrol girl Karen at the time and was late back from lunch every day how on earth he put up with me I don't know I left when a job offer in Australia came out of the blue and never saw him again meeowed
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Hillman minx and other rootes group motors came with the heater and radios in a big cardboard box as an extra you got very little for your money in those days The heater pump was driven off the back of the fan belt There was also a thing called a bray heater that you could buy This was a pipe that went into the bottom hose which could be plugged into the mains and preheated the water system for cold morning starts Also some 1940 austins came with a built in jacking system called jackhall worked hydraulic rams on the axle The best technology advance was the extinction of sidevalve engines they were a nightmare meeowed
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there was a nix family that ran the chippys opposite st stephens on bobbers mill and Erica beardsmore who had the newsagent at the tram stop on Radford road was also a nix
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I remember the kho I nor restaurant in the late fifties went to a Christmas dinner there as a teenager and found my self sat next to Peter Butterworth of the carry on films and down at the bottom near bobbers mill opposite the le grand pub was a night club in one of the buildings upstairs think it was blue lias or orchid something like that the building is a white building next to the supermarket meeowed
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noel street baths started life as a roller skating rink now a climbing centre meeowed
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Hi Ray nice to see one of the old speed boat photos I remember you starting watts cruiser it had twin engines we had to take 5 gallon jerry cans down to fill it we had some great days outside the ferry boat pub at stoke bardolph with the speed boat racing also the spread that the boss put on at Christmas the first time I got drunk and have gone downhill ever since ha ha great times ray we had the best of it in those days meeowed
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ask your dad if he remembers bill and john the two lads he worked with at your granddads garage when he used to sell 8track tapes many years ago
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I used to come home sometimes from Claremont school standing on the rear axle of the dray and hanging on the tailgate The driver would be fast asleep with an old sack round him The horses knew the way back to the stables how the driver slept on cobbled roads was amazing must have been the beer ha ha my grandfather could plait all the mane and tails with red white and blue ribbons for shows he had lots of horse brasses and silver cones that went over the horses ears meeowed
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anyone remember robin hood coaches running from the art deco building and before that black and white coaches I believe running to Devon and Cornwall
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I was taken as a child to see laurel and hardy they looked so tiny from up in the gods and Jimmy James with Roy Castle as his side kick with the immortal catch phrase of are you putting it about that im barmy with the repost from Jimmy of why was you trying to keep it a secret great comics really earned their bread in those days
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t shirt printers 20 to 30 people employed there smoke was still billowing across the road at 10 30 am this morning
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it appears to be a clothing factory in the street opposite the Pelham pub connects palm st to gawthorne st
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has anyone heard how much net paid the council for late delivery of the tram system it seems remarkably quiet
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the same yew tree inquiry that tipped off the BBC before the raid on Cliff Richards home The old adage of follow the money the inquiry so far has cost £7.3 million of which the alleged victims received zippo at one time there was 1400 alleged victims He must have had a remarkable sex drive if all are true The amount of celebrities left with legal fees of over a million pounds it smacks of the Diana fund gone in lawyers pension pots meowed
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this is exactly what I have been railing against some one said that's hearsay it seems remarkable to me that if he did commit this amount of alleged assaults he must have been rather lucky not to have dropped a clanger once and produced any child Yes he could have been firing blanks but any offspring would have produced ample DNA proof This sort of lynch mob trial is the same justice that got blacks dragged out of cells and strung up in the wild west I say again it lacks one vital ingredient EVIDENCE
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birth control in the fifties that was standing on a biscuit tin in those days ha ha you had no chance of going on holiday with your girl friend you were lucky to be left in the same room together times change come the sixties and I was coming home four in the morning no one even asked where I had been I don't wish to ruffle any ones feathers but I am passionate about freedom of speech My grandfather died for it in 1918 so they wont get it off mee Meeowed
The Destruction of Nottinghams Historic Buildings
in General Chat about Nottingham
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We could have had one of the best market squares in Europe had it not been for sixties labour councils to have allowed sixties shoe boxes to have been erected was nothing short of criminal meeowed