benjamin1945
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Entanyonyagoranyonya?
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Yerrayo
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Just finished reading 'Immortal, biography of George Best,so very very sad,
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#6 yes Limey,a definate conection Sawley way,i read somewhere he was on a train to Attenborough,and was woken up by someone shouting ATTENBOROUGH' or might have been his brother David?
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HERE HERE, Trevor,
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All gobbledegook to me,anyway aint found another bulb like it ,it was a 60w osram,do they still make em?
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YOU never said you were gonna be picky mammasue!
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COS i'm useless innit ayupmeducks,
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When i was skint in the 80s and living in Basford i had a light bulb (old type) that would'nt go out,it was in the bathroom and the string broke on ON,It was on permantley for at least 5 years, also the sink and door were hanging off,but they were some of our happiest days,we still reminise and laugh about those halcyon days,.
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do you think if i knew about things like ...12 inch makita planner thicknessers,my life would have been more fullfilling and possibly less marriages ?
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When ive sorted Lizzies tellys,i'll shoot round to yours 'peveril'........i'm crap with bikes as well,
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It gets a TEN from BEN !
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There is nothing really new is there,Sainsburys etc are only doing what the small independants were doing years ago,beer-offs used to be opeen till 10pm,then shops like Mace,VG,Spar,Vivo,APT,Wavy line etc copied the American 7-11 stores.
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Never mind Airports,.............anywhere!
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Nice one Albert
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VG STORES where a national franchise with over 2000 shops,ABGibsons of Daybrook where the suppliers for the Midlands,Lincs and East Anglia.
I Joined them in 1969 and my role was to persuade Mace,Spar and other independant retailers to join the VG set up, Nottingham was not as abundant in VG stores as the other places mentioned.A few i remember are beaumonts of Cotgrave,Walthams at East Bridgford,Johnsons on Carlton Hill.
Gibsons sold out in the 80s to Laxons of Coventry who in turn sold out to some international set up .who wer,nt interested in the smaller business and the concept of Voluntary Groups.
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Another brand name just came to mind.
VG STORES
The first time I saw this chain was a small village store in Hampshire Circa 1961.
I believe it was an effort by local shops to buy in bulk to compete with the growing supermarket chains.
I have been trying to think of their food brand 'NISA' comes to mind?
They were a national concern AFAIK.
Do they still exist?
Does anyone remember them?
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Looks like what used to be the Newsagents
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Midland station?
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He was asked,........'do you have problem with drink'?...................no i like it!
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Almost identical to you Bazza,but i miss the 'BUZZ' i know i'm wrong and i'm slowly coming down.
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Ah,my mind,still a cross between Bobby Moore and Norman Hunter, and oh yes Walter Mitty,..
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I LOOKED for Bolton cos they had played Forest and drew and i wondered how they had gone on in their other games,..THATS ALL!
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NICE 1 DAVE, i only noticed Bolton
50 years ago
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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50 yrs ago bumped into Judy Dench' literaly, they were constucting Maid Marian way,i was running for a bus and jumped over a barrier on mm way knocking her over,...........i helped her up and told her how sorry i was, she was'nt best pleased...neither was i ,............missed me bus!