[Graham Stark]

R.I.P Graham Stark you made me laugh what more can I say

[Chaucer Street Horror]

Went to Chaucer street to have my tonsils out back in the fifties such dark memories

[Things our parents used to say]

Just remembered another one when it was time for bedwe were told to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire

[Things our parents used to say]

When asking what was for tea mum used to say " A run round the kitchen and a kick at the pantry door

[Car dealers]

Other old car dealers were

Morkel and Carnell on talbot street and Cripps (sold Routes Group cars) on lower parliament street also Oscrofts on castle boulevard these were the original Vauxhall dealers and lastly the carter gate motor company next to the corpo bus depot on parliament st

[Nottingham Bands in the 60s]

The only local band from the 60'S I knew were called Frankie and the Lance B trio played at the Wembley club on Sneinton dale and I think The Union Stewards club off St Ann's well road

[xmas pork pie breakfast]

My dad was a pork butcher and always made a pork pie for Christmas breakfast

[What were you and why /Teenage Years]

I was a mod went to all the clubs in the lace market did all nighters and drank too, much also went to the 99 club just over Trent bridge

[Any one who went to Nottingham Bowl in the late 60's]

Hi Katyjay Yes Connie was in charge of the bar and it was John Revel he left to run a pub in a village called Muggington in Derbyshire we went out to see him a few times.

You might remember my mum her name was Dorothy (Dot)she worked on the control desk for a while do you remember big Fred worked on the club door

[hello from ison]

Yes I can remember Geoff Hart worked with him Catfan I started there on the carrier bikes taking parcels to the bus station Geoff did deliveries on a motorbike with a side box we then both worked on the counter and phones serving customes. Geoff works for a motor factor in Ilkeston and I bump into him now and then. I went by the name of Alan there so as not to get mixed up with the other Michael

[What was your first car?]

My first car was a Standard 8

Bit of an old tub as it smoked like mad

And needed an engine rebuild But it got me on the road and stopped dad moaning aboutborrowing his old Bedford CA workbus

[hello from ison]

moved here 17 years ago from wollaton and now would not live anywhere else. still loyal to Nottingam Forest though

[Any one who went to Nottingham Bowl in the late 60's]

is there anyone out there who went to Nottingham bowl in the late 60's when Sid Vaughan was the manager. and remembers the great Saturday nights in the Club room,

[hello from ison]

Hello all

Found this forum when looking for info on the old Fairham Comprehensive School in clifton which i attended between the years 1959-1963

went into the motor trade from there, worked at a small motor accessory shop at the bottom of derby road first called Ingels then a motor Factor on Parliament street (Replacement services) moved to Hooleys next then Mann Egerton, Shipsides followed, then finshed up at AFG at Clifton Bridge and various other branches before moving on to the computer industry in 1990

[What was your Co-op Divi number?]

my mums was 38150 do not think i will ever for get it and then we used to go for the divi just before christmas each year