benjamin1945

when Birchenall was playing for Notts at the backend of his career,he told me he could hear someone in the crowd shouting,GET HIM OFF HES RUBBISH,turned out to be his DAD,

Thanks for your kind words Lizzie, funny int it i came on nostalgia after diagnosis to keep my mind off things then some silly bogger does a topic on it

just realised my wording above didnt read right,ie good to see!hope you all know what i meant,

brilliant Trevor s,got diagnosed with prostate cancer myself in November,now on hormone therapy and start Radiotherapy in a couple of weeks,good to read all the above in similar circumstances and once again some terrific notts humour it has lifted my spirits.

yes Ashley forgot Birch was at leicester,he still lives that way,Mountsorrell i think,and he still works on the promotional side for them,i think micky played for a few clubs before injuries forced him to retire.Saw em both along with David Pleat ex Mundella school then forest,at a reunion at notts co meadow club a few years back

When i was at Henry whipple Junior school in the mid 50s we had some ding dong battles at football against Haydn rd school,and they had 2 players who really stood out,namley Alan BIRCHENAL who went on to play for Chelsea,Sheffield United and england under 23s,the other was micky SUMMERS,who Brian Clough sighned for Hartlepool,i think his career ended early due to injuries, anyway we still mostly beat em

i was born in March 1945 on the old bestwood est about 6 weeks before the war ended,so i dont remember owt directly,however i grew up surrounded by lots of uncles and aunts and used to listen to them talking about war times.most of them very funny and my favourite was regarding my Grandad and grandma,bill and mary jackson,the story goes (and it may have been exagerated for effect)that during a raid Grandad was running for the shelter with his brasers trailing behind Grandma was running behind him(she was known for having big feet)and stood on his brasers whereby they shot violently into his ba

1st job at 15 1n 1960,van lad Midland station,7.30 to 5pm 5and half days per week,wage £4/10s,loved it still remember the drivers,Arthur Parr,Ernie Keetch,Don Brittain,Noel widdowson,Bill Howe and a German we called Gerry,lovely bloke was a prisoner of war at Wollaton and never went home,bet we couldnt call him Gerry nowadays,did job for 6 months then went to MARSDENS,

a few more old favourites. Barkers potted meat,Binghams salmon paste,Parrs sausauges,Richmond sausauges,wonderloaf,Sunblest bakery and blanchards,duck eggs from melton,Bostocks Bacon,pyclets,colwick cheese,lard weighed in the shop,soaked peas with a steeper,ulster Bacon,Bev and Bon coffee ,there i go again,back to Marsdens

What is now Gayhurst rd was in days of yore called the jitty,at the top of which was halfpenny bridge,from there we did our Train spotting,7.30 pm The south Yorkshireman and at 10pm the Master cutler,i believe the bridge was taken down and now crosses the leen between BASFORD AND BULWELL

hey compo,brilliant pics,but where was reckits NOB OF BLUE?

i tell the wife i love her every day and buy her flowers from time to time,but never on Valentnes day,i always thought it was a day to get cards etc from a secret admirer much more exciting,consequently its been about 50 years since i got one

thanks for that,he had that army captain air about him,once played cricket for his Gibsons x1 v orston,i bowled and took 0 for plenty and batted for 0,on leaving the ground he was drinking A PINK GIN and bade me farewell with BYE PAUL THANKS FOR NOTHING,

i know what you mean,just enjoyed hour, then i had enough,the only ones i remember were the Footstompers,

tthanks cliff ton,i am learning

they were on sherbrooke rd,and were wholesale grocery and provision distributers,originaly owneb by Barry Gibson who lived at orston.i think they began as bacon suppliers then developed into grocery.i worked for them in the seventies in many roles,they also had a depot in moxley near birmingham and another in peterborough and i moved there for them in the 70s.they were suppliers to all the VG stores throughout the midlands.really great company to work for who must have employed a few hundred staff,would love to hear from any of them.i believe they were taken over in the 80s and eventually diss

TRYING TO START A TOPIC,AB.GIBSON,DAYBROOK,and iam struggling,new to computers and not the brightest,HELP PLEASE!

AH,AH,LIKE IT,

never mind DJ,YOU MUST HAVE MARRIED MY EX

Used to love jazz in the old Bell,tuesday and sat nights,do they still have it?

today we would all get counceling,when i told me mam,she just said,told you not to go on the railway what do you want for tea/? how times have changed

coming back from 5 penny rush at the vernon pictures early 50s we saw what we thought was a guy fawkes at the entrance to RAT HOLE on arnold rd,a gang of us ran down the steep embankment to claim it,it turned out to be a decapitated body,we got back up the embankment a lot quicker,with me that day were Harry Fewkes,Nev Olpin,Charlie ,Tacey and Daisy Fisher,it turned out to be tramp who had been sleeping rough in the RAT HOLE tunnell,anyone remember?

funnily enough bulwell Brian i was only about 300 yards from you at the time,and funnily enough in Art class on the second floor at padstow school,all i remember is Mr yarwood the teacher shouting dont panic,before he legged it down the stairs,before us

ah yes Trinity sq,lovely old church and Graveyard,surrounded by the buses,6,17,18,28,.and all the little shops,mechanics picture house opposite victoria station which was next door to marsdens restuarant. what was wrong with all that?//and all next to Foreman st newspaper offices,london Herbalist,a pub,cant remember its name,empire cafe and the peach tree pub,saw a few stars of the day in there,David whitfield,mike Winters and the footballer flip Le Flem. it was all ok,happy days.

all shoplifters dont stand out,ie young,drunk,chavvy,i caught a chap in kegworth a few years ago,he had pulled up in a jag,he was about 40 and very smart wearing a nice crombie and gucci shoes,in was when goods had price tickets on, i watched him take the ticket off a 2.99 bottle of cheap plonk and put it on a bottle of jacobs creek 7.99.he paid the 2.99 and left the store,when i nicked him he was most indignant. turned out his girlfriend loved jacobs creek, oh yes and he had over £300 in his wallet,loved catching his sort.