benjamin1945

Tried em all...

They tried but to no avail mate///

Yes OZ..............cant put it right....

Not really a Dance.......more of a ''Strutt''........but i love this..... GO GIRLS !!!

Back to 1974 and a bit of Nottingham ...........brilliant group and should have had more Hits......

Can't beat a bit of SCHADENFREUDE...Brew........

Good job i weren't on a date...............obviously told the wife when i got home.....she's still laughing.......bless her....

If i don't laugh i'll cry..............my morning in Bulwell was a total disaster....not been for over a week so was looking forward to it........ Anyway whilst driving there my 'Speaking Valve'' fell out...Turned out i'd put the wrong one in......so now i'm Voiceless...but eh-ho i'll get by with a few bits of sign language....... I was really hungry so ordered a big breakfast in Jeromes'' using sign language in a fashion......was really enjoying it when my ''Essential Tremor kicked in...causing me problems using the fork..splashed the food around somew

lllLOVED the way they dressed back then bought all the same gear...to Strutt in'' Cuban heals..Collarless jacket slim Jim...Oh how times have changed...

My first beatles record purchase........still got it.........

So sad Rog.......all towns and Cities are going the same way........our World is becoming unrecogniseable from the one we knew and grew up with......and its not for the better.........

Only just seen this video...........Found it fascinating...and the reasons for the building of Aspley estate and Old Bestwood estate i find heart rending............people in ST Anns and such areas were living in what we today would call squalor.....and these new built Council Houses were a blessing from above when the people started moving in in the 1930s..... Many people today knock our Council estates but never stop to think of their origins.....and the better lives it gave so many people...........

Thought about time we had a nice piece of true 60s memeranda............. Feel like doing 'Cart-wheels' across the floor.......

Yes Kev.........at a venue in Tamworth 1970 ish..........think it was called Tamworth Castle.........even asked for a dance.....but she turned me down with a lovely smile.......

Called on Polly.........needed a lift....it always worked........ Still turned me down for a dance though........just like Tamworth 1970 ish...lol

Had message left in my office in Moxley West Midlands......52 years ago today''''' Paul (Ben)..wife had 3 babies...Ward one........City Hospital........ 20 years ago today........Had 'Heart Attack''' up the Derbyshire Hills.... Wonder what today will bring? Might stop in....

Lovely World globe for sale in the 'Heart'' charity shop this morning......Lady called 'Shirley'' served me....Black Lady originally from Antigua.....she bet me i couldn't show her where Antigua was on the Globe......I said you mean where the famous footballers...Viv Richards and Curtley Ambrose are from ?..... She laughed her head off even before i showed her where it was....completed the purchase with a short rendition of ''By the sunny Caribbean Sea''........nice encounter..........

Think Babs black boyfriend as moved on to new Pastures..........not seen him for a few weeks now..........reckon she got fed up with his ''Wooing''....... She's very stuck up and has several other 'Suitors'....but she just sits there preening herself....... This morning she was watching a young Squirrel hopping along the garden fence which didnt bother her.....when a black and white cat shot across the garden and chased the Squirrel straight up next doors very tall fern tree..........this didn't please 'Babs' at all...........she's not normally a fighter..

Thanks for that Stuart....been bugging me.....i too remember the Arnold upstairs bit.........

Your right Rog...........but the people who run Bulwell seem to realise how important the free parking is.......long may it continue......

I recall the Coop on Southchurch drive and the upstairs being referred to as ''Scoop''..........can't remember why.....can you CT?

Just read in todays paper that Shops selling Persil are keeping it under lock and Key.........at £15 per pack who can blame them.... When self-service stores were really taking off..early 60s...we at Farrands/Marsdens..........decided the only item we couldn't put on open display was ''Chatka Crab'' at 6/6 (about 30 pence)........how times have changed hey......

Still think Bulwell branch would make a great ''INDOOR Market'''........equally sure it would attract customers from further afield.......Lots of potential customers who love a bargain and lots of people who would like to set up their own ''Flea Market'' type stall..........What better place than Bulwell with its 'Free Parking'' trams...Trains...and Buses....... They could also make it a ''Cash only'' site.....leading the way for the rest of the country........LOL............

I was a great fan of Ricky Nelson in the early 60s..........used to go to a youth club on George street.......''Coop Arts Centre'' i think it was...ran by Mrs Pettit off Bestwood estate.......lovely lady who took 'no prisoners' when it came to 'Teenage Behaviour''........threatened to 'Bar me'' and tell me Mam when caught 'Kissing'' Sandra on the 'Fire Escape ''..(loved that fire escape)...Mr Pettit ran the football team called ''Coop Pathfinders''..and always got us a good deal on new Boots....... Went to the Coop youth club for a year or so.......all or most of the Lads and g