Bilbraborn

I have the same problem. What makes it harder is I have two jobs where I work 'as and when' which means that no two weeks are the same. To make it worse I have a small (and I mean small) private pension. They just can't get their thick heads round it. They haven't a clue. They know the tax system is too complicated for the average man in the street and most can't afford accountants to help them. So they make it as hard as possible to complain. Meanwhile, Mr BIG can get away with it because he can afford accountants, so the tax man doesn't even bother them.

That's probably why I never frequented the place.I used to like me Newky Brown.

I only went to Ilko Road flicks with my elder brother and our cousin. I wouldn't have wandered around much and when the film finished we came straight out. I only new the area around Bright St. where my Aunty lived and Salisbury St. where my grandma lived. Bilborough was huge and it was normal to see classes of up to and above 40 kids at Glenbrook.

For us week-end TV was stuff like the Billy Cotton Band Show, and Sing along with Joe. (zzzzzzzzzzzzz), and maybe later, Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

I would think so being as a lot of it was filmed just up the road around Salisbury Street and around the White Horse pub. It was a film about a Radford bloke who worked at the Raleigh Cycle Works. Ilko Road Flicks would be the obvious choice.

I would also be a bit young for the Bohemian. I used to frequent Caplin's café at the top of Hurts Yard in the late 60s, mainly for the gorgeous girls who worked there. I also used to meet two sisters in the Maid Marion Café at the same time. My main Nottingham weekend venue as I mentioned on another topic, was the News House folk clubs. That is when I was not getting rat-assed on Newky Brown at the Trip.

I remember 'I married Joan' . "Joanie I'm home". Yes I remember. With only 2 black & white channels the only escape was the off switch.

As a complete and utter railway nut, I like to trace the course of long gone railways in the Nottinghamshire area. I can see what may be left much more easily than trying to see from ground level.

At Ilko Road flicks I saw Hiram Holiday, The Tommy Steel Story, The Duke Wore Jeans (Tommy Steel), Don't Go near the water and many others.

Like you I love the old buildings built in the Victorian times. They are so interesting to look at and seemed to have been built with thought for the surroundings. In this I am thinking of the amazing neo-Gothic architecture by Watson Fothergill, and some of the interesting buildings designed by TC Hine. But there is a downside. These buildings are expensive to clean and maintain. Most modern buildings are smooth sided and easy to clean and probably not even designed to last a long while and like Michael Booth says, cheap to knock up (and depressing to look at). I can remember

Anyone remember getting kicked out of Farmers for staying in the listening booths for too long?

We didn't have a local flea pit at Bilborough but Me and me brother used to go to my Aunty's house at Radford on a Saturday and in the afternoon would go with our cousin to the cinema on Ilkeston Rd. It didn't have a name so we just called it the Ilko Road pictures. Then we go back for tea. Happy days.

Then there was Mr Philps. Remember him in assembly. Class 5 sit! Must have been a dog breeder in another life.

Must have been Mr Saunders. There was also a teacher they used to call 'six foot misery'. His name eludes me. Remember Mr Bowker and his football and cricket hand books. In the late 70s when my eldest son started at Lenton Primary, Mr Bowker's wife was the headmistress. Can you also remember the other Mr Saunders? He was blind and came a couple of times a week to do singing lessons. I often wondered if he was blinded in the war. It certainly didn't stop him playing a piano.

I don't remember anyone with the surname Gavin (mind you. I don't remember much at all these days) You must have gone to Glenbrook schools - Head teacher at Juniors was Tommy Cooper. No not that one but still helluva nice bloke. You might have known David Bignall who lived on Wigman Rd. He would be about your age.

Hi Bilboro-lad. Welcome from Bilbraborn. I was brought up from the age of two on Wigman Rd between Glaisdale Drive and Graylands Drive. I have written an account several pages long of life in Bilborough in the 50s and 60s. I wrote it mainly for the benefit of two of my grandsons who live in Bilborough and go to Glenbrook School as I did. If you need any help with your book, I have loads written down. And by the way, although I am a coupla years older than you, I almost certainly shared time with you on Old Coach Road train bridge. I am still a railway nut now

Or checking out naturist beaches huh? Tut Tut

My dad has just got his letter from the council. On the side of the road with schools it will be parking meters to be paid with mobile phone and card. This is to make the staff from the 3 schools use their empty car parks and pay the WPL. My Dad will be able to have a residents pass (for his scooter? LOL), and visitors passes for us (which he will probably lose unless we hide it). The council have asked for comments. As if they give a hoot. REMEMBER- YOU VILL PAY THE WPL!!!!!!

There you go Jackson. You can go into Nottingham with having to be a criminal no-good horrid nasty scum-bag motorist. In fact you will be doing Nottingham City Council out of potential Parking charges/fines. You naughty girl. How will they be able to pay for the expenses of staff & councilors and Portfolio Holders (aint that a grand title) if we don't all pile into Nottingham and pay a parking fine or three? No wonder all the parties want to relieve us of our bus passes.

I have had a look at all the houses I have lived in on Google Earth but could not recognize any of the cars parked there. Even from fairly recently.

I think all the parties want to reduce handouts to state pensioners. Probably because we have contributed or still do contribute so much. Remember the rules. The more you put in the less you get out. For those who want to spend their lives watching TV and bleeding the system, they will be coining it in old age as well. Like I mentioned before, drawing a pension does not mean you can be free of all health care money worries. My dad broke his false tooth and simply can't afford the cost of replacing it. Even his free bus pass is useless now because he is so bad on his legs that he ca

I asked my missis what she was doing at that time. She said nowt but a slow smile crept across her face. Then she winked and then went into the kitchen to dry the dishes.

Didn't greasy Joan use to have a café down Radford? Or was that greasy Lil?

I can do both as my Dad still lives in the house I was brought up in. However, It is nice to look in all those back gardens we wouldn't have dared to nosey into all those years ago. The old woods where I used to play are now occupied by industrial units which are a bit life expired (like me) now. So it is nice to look behind the scenes to see if anything is left.

Actually St. Martin's pond. Martin's pond is at Wollaton near Torvill Drive. How confusing is that?