DaveN

Nottingham Forest Football Club was founded in 1865 by a group of shinty players and were known as Nottingham Forest Football and Bandy Club. Their home was the Forest Recreation Ground which was a racecourse from the late 17th late century until the late 19th century.

#30 In an article I read, it said he was allegedly from Bulwell

The first female Head of MI5 was Nottingham born Stella Rimington who went to Nottingham Girls’ High School.

You shoulkd have posted this in the Jokes thread!

#12. Im familar with the building as I worked there for a couple of years when it was Carpetmania/United Carpets in the early part of this century

The carpet & bed store (United Carpet & Beds) on Hartley Road (formerly Outgang Lane) used to be the Windsor Cinema which closed in 1963.

The building that used to be the Capitol Cinema on Churchfield Lane (off Alfreton Road) is a grade II listed building and currently used as a Mount Zion Millenium Church.

Tommy Steele made his stage debut at the Nottingham Empire in 1956

The Nags Head pub on Mansfield Road used to be where condemned men were offered a last drink before being taken to the gallows at the junction of Mansfield Road and Forest Road

The first 45, I bought was "Let's Jump The Broomstick" - Brenda Lee

The comic character, Desperate Dan, was created by Nottingham artist Dudley Dexter Watkins. In 1855 A man sold his wife, for one shilling and a pint of ale, in St. Peter’s Square. When Nottingham Castle was burnt down in 1831, the Duke Of Newcastle received compensation of £21,000. On January 31st 1968, BBC Radio Nottingham went on air for the first time In 1908, Nottingham’s first public telephone box was installed in Theatre Square. Chris Gascoine, who plays Peter Barlow in the TV soap Coronation Street, was born in Huthwaite. Actor and comedian Norman Pace (Hale & Pace) grew u

I used to work in Talbot House/Wollaton House Building in the 70's/80's for a finance company (part of G.U.S.)

Straighten Your Tie

Katrina I was in Freddie's class as well but I don't recognise your name

A couple more teachers I recall are Miss Moat and Miss (or Mrs) Tory (Trory maybe).

I'd have thought you would have asked for anonimity. I'll check out the news on T.V.

You'll be getting loads of begging letters then!

He's obviously not a mod as he's off his 'rocker'

He thinks it April 1st!

The thread prompted me to sort through some of my old books and I came across one from 1980 called “Who’s Who On Television”. In it were numerous comedians including probably lesser known ones and some who I can’t recall. My apologies if some of these have already been mentioned Stan Boardman – Colin Crompton – Alton Douglas – Mick Miller Others included Janet Brown – Jasper Carrott – Frank Carson – Charlie Drake – Cyril Fletcher – Larry Grayson – Dickie Henderson – Benny Hill – Frankie Howard – Roy Hudd – Jimmy Jewell – Don Maclean – Cardew Robinson – Terry Scott and Harry Worth.

False or forced laughs - there's quite a few 'celebrities' that seem to do it on tv.

Katrina were you in the same class as Freddie at Whitemoor?

Bye baby bunting Daddy's gone-a-hunting Gone to get a rabbit skin To wrap the baby bunting in.

Going off the subject slightly - do you remember those men in Woolies who stood by scales and used to shout something like "try your weight"?

Looking at the posts I assume we are talking about tongue twisters so here's one Red Lorry Yellow Lorry