DaveN

A friend of mine uses Serif

Can't recall in recent years seeing any attendants in lifts in stores etc

While I think you're right about so few posting I think you find that on a lot of sites members don't post

Insurance Men at your door collecting weekly/monthly payments

How many of the programmes below do you remember from the 50's & 60's decades? All Gas & Gaiters Andy Pandy Animal Magic Arthur Haynes’ Shpw Avengers Batman Before Your Very Eyes Benny Hill Show Beverly Hillbillies Bewitched Billy Bunter Black & White Minstrels Blue Peter Bonanza Bronco Buccaneers Captain Pugwash Cheyenne Cilla Cool For Cats Coronation Street Crackerjack Criss Cross

The info below is from a book I have called Wrinklie's Miscellany Petrol Prices For Gallon Since 1896 1896 9d 1909 1s 1 ½ d 1914 1s 8d 1918 3s 7 ½ d 1928 1s 2 ½ d 1929 1s 7d 1945 2s 1956 5s 4d 1963 4s 9d 1966 5s 5d

Interesting article about the Park Estate in the Post http://www.nottinghampost.com/Transformation-park-rowdy-barracks-leafy-haven/story-21017076-detail/story.html

Melissa have a look at the link below http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/39467

Also in your area Melissa was the Windsor Cinema on Hartley Road and just over the border in Bobbers Mill The Capitol on Churchfield Lane

Racking my brains I think it was on the opposite side of Alfreton Road to Forest Road and just a little further up towards Canning Circus

How many of the programmes below do you remember from the 50's & 60's decades? Adventures Of PC 49 A Life of Bliss Any Answers Any Questions Beyond Our Ken Billy Cotton Band Show Breakfast Show Breakfast Special Children’s Favourites Children’s Hour Clitheroe Kid Desert Island Discs Dick Barton Special Agent Does The Team Think Easy Beat Educating Archie Family Choice Gardeners’ Question Time Family Favourites Hancock

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why does a round pizza come in a square box? What did cured ham actually have? Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground? Is an alcoholic just a drunk that's scared of a hangover? If shampoo comes in so many colours, why is the lather on your head always white? If a 999 operator has a heart attack, whom does he/she call? If money is the root of all evil then how come churches ask for it? Why is Bra singular and Panties

Take a look at the link below where in the article it states a single was 6s 8d http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/04/what-price-nostalgia.html

Amendment to pric eof a 45 record. I think the price I said was in late 50's and in the 60s it was 6s 8d - Sorry

We used to play with marbles a lot though back then

I think a single was 4s 11d and an album 39s 11d

Bet you went scrumping though didn't you?

Kids collecting bottles to take them back to the shop for cash on the returned bottles

Remember when:- A tablet was something you took when ill A remote was something faraway A mouse was a rodent A tweet was a noise a bird made Mobile was being active A recorder was a wind instrument

Petrol Stations where an attendant fills your tank and you stay in your car

For me some of the buildings now gone that I remember are the Victoria Station - Trinity Church opposite the station - Black Boy Hotel - County Hotel and of course the Empire Theatre where I remember as a child seeing Peter Brough with Archie Andrews among others. Also near the castle Granby street with the bus station. The road was of course widened and became Maid Marion Way.

Back in my younger (very younger) days I used to be long to the Gee Dee Model Railway Club when Gee Dee's used to be based on Hockley. Ah memories!

The article was in yesterday's Post

I've still got my darkroom equipment although not been used for many many years

I know Peter Hanson sold B & O as I bought a hi-fi system from them