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A final visit yo say thank you, and goodbye. My memories of Nottingham, starting with a night in a doss-house in Atlas St. where extra beds were mounted on the stairs, with their lower legs suuported on chairs or boxes, and concluded with lifting a six stone, doubly incontinent, skeleton from his bed while the bedding was changed, are not particularly happy. But your courtesy, consideration and helpfulness have done much to improve them. The sites visited as a result of your comments and suggestions have made me realise what a lovely city you call home. All I have to give, in return, is so

Sorry for the delay folks. Events keep intervening. This stuff is gold dust. Among all the names and places you've mentioned there's bound to be something to create a spark in Dorothy's brain. Great news about the photo, Babs -if it will stop raining. It's all even made me remember the name of the chemist on the corner of Berridge Rd(?) and Cedar Rd - Mr Gidney, wasn't it? There was also an Indian greengrocer diagonally opposite, if memory serves. Lizzie preferred him, Gidney, to doctors. Billy supported 'County' so D might not have attended the 'Forest' parade, but she would certainly

First, thanks for the extra snippets. The Facebook site is tempting for its possible content, but the thought of all those 'friends' makes my flesh creep. But if I have no luck elsewhere (Flickr looks promising) I may cast my reluctant body into the breach. I've managed to dredge up a few extra facts which may jog a memory or two. Dorothy attended and taught at Mansfield Rd Baptist Chapel with Janet Selby and Pat Carter, (who, too, remembers the self flushing thunderboxes at Berridge Rd school). Also, Dorothy's next door neighbours in Cedar Rd. (she lived at no: 51) were called Melia, Ted an

Tracked down Jill Sparrow's posts -thanks LizzieM. Entertaining stuff. Jill was too young to have known Dorothy but some of the teachers' names may ring a bell. Thanks for the link DavidW. I've got a week before I see her again so I may be able to compile a suitable DVD which she might enjoy looking at. The Boys' Brigade has been mentioned in better days so that could prove useful NewBasfordlad. I'll try Jimmy King as well, maybe even find a photo of him somewhere.

I'm off topic and have only spent a few days in the city in the mid 60's, but I was married there, in July 66, at the Central Methodist Hall (?). My wife was Dorothy Newton of Cedar Rd Sherwood Rise, her dad, Billy, a postman there for all his working life, her mother, Lizzie, a housewife. I don't recall the name of her primary school, but she attended Manning afterwards. I also know that before she left Nottingham in 63 she worked as secretary to a group of plastic surgeons in the city and walked through the Arboretum to work. She was also a Methodist Sunday School teacher. Not a lot, is it?