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You fill in the characters: "Oill give it foive" "This week...............I `ave been mostly eating....." "I`m not pissed darling"

Thanks for the replies. I`m the O.P. Or should that be OAF? Clifton #4 may be closest to the mark. I do recall seeing advice at some point that one should contact Admin., if wishing to add a new school. The page I was on though, led me to believe I could complete the operation myself. I`ll go back, start again, through Admin. etc. Will the post I was trying to submit be lost or has it been retained on the system somewhere that I can access? Thanks again guys.

Nottinghamite #70 You say you lived near, and knew well, Johnny Larvin of Alderton Road, in the late `thirties. I lived on that road, born 1940. As you are older than myself, I trust that you are still well and hope that you are still active on this site. Do you recall what number the Larvins lived at, or if not, the position on the road?

"I`m only here for four minutes" ??? In Australian accent I think. "This violin plays better at night......the strings were made from a tomcat" Vic Oliver.

" `Ere, Look, No, You Naughty Tittermongers" Hilarious! Looks at watch, "Oooooooooooh!"

"The day the war broke out......my wife....said to me" Sandy Powell? not sure "Who rang that bell" - bus conductor sketch - English or Read? Loud introductory signature tune, last bars repeated over and over - followed by, in a loud, exasperated voice - "ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, WE`VE `ERD IT, GOD BLIMEY!" Who was that comedian?

Pev. #44 That was `Ray Ling the Chinese fence`!

Wide necked milk bottles, like a narrow cooling tower. The lid was cardboard, no doubt waxed, was about 4cm dia. with a semi-cut circle in the centre. Push the centre down with the finger and in one movement lift the lid off. Brown greaseproof wrappings for Oxo cubes, before foil and when there was only one flavour - beef.

@ #11 re: the cheque payment, your signature as well!

#19 4 good pics, also #28, but as the images appear to me to be in the body of the posts, as opposed hosted by third party sites, how do you do that? Surely each individual image is a greater pixel count than the maximum allowed, the one with four images especially. Interesting.

Firbeck #1 To answer your question - we did - we still have - and we still use it - virtually every day! What can be more sensible when gardening? Need a quick slash, no need to go in and take off muddy boots etc. Electric light as well. We have progressed from the old squares of Evening Post though, we use the Telegraph now..... Before I retired I was working as a visitor in some offices. Two office workers were talking. The young lady said that she lived in West Bridgford. The guy said that his grandmother lived in West Bridgford and that "She still had an out

Jackson # Nottingham Secondary Art School, `N.S.A.S.` black and gold uniform. We shared parts of the Art College premises but were not `Art College Students.` We used the buildings at top left of Clarendon St. (from Waverley) which was the original site of Clarendon College. The school day was split into two, the academic lessons at `Clarro` and the various art related ones within the Art College site. Pupils of mixed sexes would be there for two years from age thirteen to fifteen, having won scholarships (Ha!) from various secondary schools around Notts. The entrance exam was

Ard Dunby #23 Good post mate. A nasty cane that of Barnett`s. His office and vicinity always smelt of TCP to me. In later years I realised he was probably on the brandy. Sammy Salter`s pocket antics were widely observed, but I thought he was an excellent English and History teacher. Many of the others you mention were there during my time. Ashley #36 Yep! In our day it wasn`t used for any education, just school meals. Very plain and basic but y` didn`t leave ote in them days! Occasionally, salad cream was available, (`own brand` stuff by school meals svc.) It came in ex-`steri

Cinderhill Road, from Bulwell towards Cinderhill, on left shortly before Babbington colliery on right. There was a large concrete structure in the `fifties. Anyone know what it was please? Very approximately where Bagnall Road and Hollydene are now. I`m just nosey.....

Cockwood! Wireless dials with names like `Hilversum` `Stuttgart`

Will this do? Anyone like higher res.? SPIKEISLAND9

Hi Scriv. Must be a terrific feeling having traced your Mum! Are you now aware of your Mum`s sister, Erica? I`m married to her and after more than fifty years of it, I`m beginning to warm to this family. I think it was when you mentioned Brewery! Like Sylvia, Erica wondered for decades what became of Val and would love to know more. Any chance of a PM? SPIKEISLAND9

`e giz me the sodding pip `e does, `es bin over there chewing to `er for an hour. Yer neen`t start blaughtin` Look what I`ve found Dad! Yo ent found it cos it ent bin lost. Yor trouble is y`eat enough for two ar**holes an y`v only got one! (And I was a skinny kid!) SPIKEISLAND9

FLY2 #20 Snap! Wife and I had our first Indian there as well. Mine was brilliant, wife thought she was going to die. mick2me #18 That`s the one. Under `Oscroft`s` bridge in Cliff ton`s pic. @ #19 and down on the left. Fancy that being where Miah started. Someone recommended I could get food there to bring home. Takeaways as such were not up and running at the time, approx. `67/8 although someone will probably correct me. I went in this restaurant, asked for some food to take home. There were no polystyrene containers etc. at that stage. They just kitted me up with two or th

My granddad gave me some sound advice on his deathbed; "It`s worth spending money on good speakers." SPIKEISLAND9

mick2me #6:: Interesting. David Miah/Meah, Sen., owned the `Kho-i-Noor` on Alfreton Road which I would think is the one you refer to. Good stuff in there, I used it a fair bit in the early 70s. I didn`t know that he started his career on Arkwright St. Do you recall the location of that one? There was a `Star of India` adjacent to the overhead rail bridge, on left going into town. There was another on the opposite side not that far away, I don`t recall the name, it will have been very close to Archie Tizley`s tackle shop. David (Sen.) also had a daughter living just off Loughboro

Surely someone else can recall this? Long before the days of reality television... Back in the days of the `Light Programme`, the `Home Service` and the `Third Programme on the wireless, when broadcasting really was London-centric, if Nottingham was mentioned, (about once a month,) locals would look at each other and say, "Oooooooooh!" So imagine my surprise when the BBC announced that they were to try a special programme, coming from the City. Early one evening, early to mid fifties* BBC say they are to attempt to commit a crime in the City of Nottingham, to be carried out by journalist B

Sabotage infrastructure? At Edwards Lane rail bridge, during WW2, large concrete blocks were placed adjacent to the road, ready to lift into place and block the route if and when necessary. I will have seen this, but was too young to remember, I only know from parents` tales. On the same rail line, closer to Daybrook Station, the line ran on an embankment over a single arch, brick-built bridge, which was probably for farm access. With other local kids in 1948/9/50, I noticed `items` in the brickwork, which had all the appearances of dynamite, (according to cowboy films we had seen at t

#10 - 69 yr old ben: Ya come on here, nick my bike, nick my strawberries, now you tell me it was your grandma lived above my grandma and stamped about with pit boots on. Somebody did, mine was always moaning! fch782c #11: I can`t place any of the male Bulls, but I was aware of a female, maybe Edith sounds right but I can`t be certain. I think the family lived near the Alderton Road end of Rosecroft Drive, if not, close to that same junction on Longmead near the two shops. denshaw #12: I didn`t know that newsagent at Calverton, so cannot know the answer, but I`d bet a few quid on it

benjamin1945: So it was you! Every time my mam sent me to the shops on Arnold Road, the Bestwood kids would fiddle with my bike while I was inside. Tyres let down,one time. Light gone, another. Then pump gone. You`ll have known Morleys the chemist then, and Peter Pottage with his `funny` hand at the Post Office/newsagent. And nobody could forget HoleHouse the ironmonger. Such a quirky character, he warrants a whole forum to himself. Is it just me, or were those strawberries the biggest and best flavoured you`ve ever known? Even better than nickin `em, was pickin