AfferGorritt

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  1. Mr. Martin (Maths) and "Daddy" Dakin (English) at Mundella. They taught me how to play solo whist after I'd sat my GCE's!
  2. I lived just up Carlton Road from the Pretty Windows. My grandma and grandad said it was called that 'cos of the stained glass which ran across the bottom of the pub windows. I'd just turned 15 at the time and remember the police calling at our house during the house to house investigations. Several coincidences that I didn't notice 'til recently .... Look at ... http://www.nottinghampost.com/search/search.html?searchPhrase=pretty+windows&where= In the "16 unsolved murders.." photos Arthur Cope is top right. In the "Cold case cops etc.." photos, the photo on the right is an artists i
  3. For years when I was a kid I wondered why my grandma sometimes called me an "auto christening" when I was at a loose end. It was only when I grew up I realised what she actually said was "Yer like an 'ore at a christening!"
  4. Eyup. Mi name's reelly Pete an' I'm Nottinghum born n bred. I ad a spell exiled in Astewood where they talk funnier than us, but I'm back 'om now. I've finished wok (I used ta wok at Players) an I've got 2 grandkids. One of 'em's dead keen on Nottinghum 'istory - specially t'bloody bits! I'll see ya arahnd (if ah can remember me passwod!) Anyway enought a that. Jeeves, have you finshed ironing my Times yet? Ta ra, Affer.