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#34 katyjay. This is remarkable. I too was in the school play The Pied Piper Of Hamlin - in the infant boys at Crane. And I too wore a brown paper rats head, scurrying on to the stage at the appropriate moment. Brother and sister taking the same role some years apart, talk about co-incidence! Needless to say I never trod the boards again.

#28 NewBasfordlad. The expression 'jarvo' for a job for oneself, came from Rolls-Royce Hucknall. It might have originated at RR Derby. People moved jobs and it is likely that an ex-Rolls-Royce employee took the term with him to Bestwood pit.

#38 The Pianoman. The old Bells Lane mini island. The turn to go back to Nottingham really was tight, sometimes causing the poles to disengage from the wires and flail around. The conductor would then retrieve a very long pole from what looked like the exhaust pipe (it wasn't, of course) and hook them back on. A pole at the side of the island had a pull-down handle that changed the wires' points so that the Midland General trolleybuses could continue on to the Kimberley direction. The Midland General trolleys and buses were luxury compared with NCT transport, having cloth-covered seats,

Mention of the Hand and Heart reminds me of the (very) old joke about the signwriter who painted the pub's sign. The landlord came out to see his work and told him - with dropped aitches - The spaces are too wide between the 'and and and, and and and heart.

#11 Obviously it wasn't a Sildenafil tablet. They have the opposite effect - so I'm told. Isn't it interesting, I typed in Via.ra and it refused to transmit. Type the medical name and it works. What's happening?

Very good, Katyjay. Mrs Chulla liked it too. What's happening? I posted this but it did not transmit. Did it a second time and the first one is there! Similar thing happened to another posting today. That one did transmit, but then disappeared. Subsequent attempts have all failed. There's summat up a summat.

Very good, Katyjay. Mrs Chulla liked it too.

This thread reminds me of a question I have thought of asking for some time. If a soldier dies in a foreign country, or, if someone goes down in a ship, who makes out the death certificate. Are the person's details sent to their local Registry Office, or is it done some other way.

#18 Wills Woodbine, a Park Drive or a Players Weights? Doubt it is an E-cigarette.

Now then. She would she not be elegant without any clothes on. Besides, who would want to see a naked lady in a large-brimmed hat?

An elegant lady in a large-brimmed hat is a joy to behold.

#15 Yes, Katyjay, but before they painted ours green it was brown.

Yes it was sometimes spelt as one word, but when I was young you usually saw it as two words. My parents always spelled it as two words, and one usually does what mam and dad did. Interesting, on the map, it is placed beyond the crossroad. Strictly speaking this is Nuthall. On the opposite corner to 'TH', which used to be a toll house, there was the county boundary marker. This was removed when Holden Square was demolished during the building of the big island. However, I remember the date on the marker was 189x, so perhaps Cinder Hill did extend into what is now Nuthall.

#171 Katyjay, yes it was 107353, but before that it was a four-figure number beginning with 3 (3xxx). This, I would imagine was mam's number at the Cinder Hill Co-op. Note Cinder Hill was two words in those days (I still spell it that way). Strangely, the No.1 Branch was on David Lane, Old Basford, near the crossings, and not in Cinder Hill itself.

I remember me mam telling me that she was sitting in the Square one day wearing a pair of pointed shoes, when Tug Wilson came up to her and said ' do your toes go all the way to the ends'. To which she replied ' does your head go all the to the top of your helmet'.

Katyjay. So that's where my best Hawaiian shirt went to!

Another saying, popular when I was a lad - You're daft, me duck, you follow balloons. And another, a sarcastic answer to the question 'Where are you going?' - Up Meg's arse to see how far it is.

One of mam's sayings (same mam as katyjay) was if a knife wasn't sharp she'd say ' I dare ride bare-arsed to London on that'. I continue this family saying. The saying describing someone as 'Like a man made of smoke' should be 'Like a man made of smoke and stuffed with straw'

I remember it, but would put the date at 1948/49. I say this because I was visiting my aunt in Old Basford and witnessed the flypast from her back yard, on a Sunday I think it was. As she was married in 1948, this must have been the earliest date it could have been. In the post-war years the RAF used to have operations involving the squadrons of Bomber and Fighter Commands, which were in effect practices in readiness for war. I recall that the aircraft in the formation were all bombers, Avro Lincolns and maybe some Lancasters. I am not aware that the reason for the flypast was celebratory, bu

Difficult, perhaps, to believe now that the stage of the Odeon cinema was the main venue for the top singers/groups visiting Nottingham in the 1960s. Those I saw there were: Johnnie Ray, Bill Haley and his Comets (both performances and later at the Locarno, I think it was), the Platters (bought the last seat in the house - fifteen bob), Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, The Animals - they sang House of the Rising Sun, a few weeks before it was released. Pre the show they were in the men-only bar of the Bell. In the 1950s I saw Guy Mitchell at the Albert Hall, and Lonnie Donegan at the Empire. In tr

Pete Seeger headed the greatest of all folk groups, the Weavers. Looking at the tracks on the CDs I have of them there are numerous titles that were made famous by others artists after the Weavers had recoded them. They are; Wimoweh (recorded by many), The Roving Kind (Guy Mitchell), Midnight Special, Bring me a li'l water Silvy, Rock Island Line (all Lonnie Donegan), Wreck of the John B (Beach Boys), Around the corner (Eve Boswell). Such was their influence. The Weavers toured Britain in the early 1960s and I went to Sheffield to see them. When I got there the first house was cancelled, and

katyjay (me skin and blister). Tom Bridges lived in the cul-de-sac on Ainsdale Crescent, not Broxtowe Lane. His lorry was a war-surplus American-make (Chevrolet, I think) supplied by Hooleys. In those days Hooleys used to put a small H between the letters and numbers on the registration plate. The things you remember! It was always grossly overloaded, but never seemed to let him down. Would never pass an MOT test these days.

My aunt Connie worked as a cook at the NAAFI in the early post-war years. I remember that Wilfred Pickles did his Have A Go show there one week. Had there been time for another contestant it would have been her. In more modern times, I went out with Jyll Ball, a local songstress, for a while in the early 1960s. She worked there at the time. Sadly Jyllian died a few years ago.

A few years ago I used to drop into a barber's in Hucknall. It was there that a WOMAN cut my hair. I only hoped that her name wasn't Delilah! It was never like that at Widowson's at the bottom of Broxtowe Lane. I never once went in there and straight into an empty chair - it was always full of Crane School lads, with enough hair on the floor to stuff a mattress.

When I was a little lad living with my grandparents in Old Basford during the war, grandma used to take me to Benny's the barber on David Lane, opposite the Co-op. He never used electric clippers, just the hand-clippers that pulled the hairs. I always screamed my head off. In later years I went to a barbers where one of the hairdressers had a 'party trick'. He would get the cutthroat razor - to finish off the sideboards - and hold it in front of the customer's face, to make sure he had seen it, and then quickly draw it across his throat. Obviously, it was the flat back-edge of the razor. I wo