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Chulla
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#15 Yes, Katyjay, but before they painted ours green it was brown.
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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.
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#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.
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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'.
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Katyjay. So that's where my best Hawaiian shirt went to!
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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.
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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'
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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, but it might have been.
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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 trips out to De Montfort Hall in Leicester I saw Slim Whitman, twice, and Eartha Kitt.
Never thought that my favourite singer would ever come to Nottingham, but he did in the 1970s - Frankie Laine at what is now Rock City.
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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 not wanting to be stranded in Sheffield late at night I caught the next train back to Nottingham, arriving in time to catch a Midland General bus in Broadmarsh to take me to the Log Cabin at Watnall for the last pint!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 wondered what the customer thought when he felt the cold steel on his throat. I wonder if this would be banned by Health and Safety regulations nowadays?
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Yes, I still have the brochure, but I don't want to scan and download it's pages. It's not that interesting, apart from the prices. Sorry.
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I once went to see one of the nude shows at the Olympia - all the girls were static, as by law they had to be. I happened to look behind me and saw a chap looking through binoculars!
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Hello Highfield,
I am the historian of Rolls-Royce Hucknall. Any chance you could contact me, please. My email address is lindavia5@talktalk.net.
David Birch
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Being a new member I spotted this old thread, about Rise Park estate. We put down a deposit for a three-bedroom bungalow in February 1971, and received a brochure from the builders, J Enness and Company, showing all of the types of houses/bungalows (all detached0available and their prices. They were:
3-bedroom house, no garage £3980
3-bedroom house, with attached garage (two models) £4295 and £4400
4-bedroom house, with garage £5150
2-bedroom bungalow, no garage £4200
2-bedroom bungalow with attached garage £4650
3-bedroom bungalow, no garage £4650
3-bedroom bungalow with attached garage £4850
My neighbour has just had the roof lining on his 2-bedroom bungalow replaced - £4600 !!!
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I don't know how true this is, but years ago my father told me that before the war there were two shops in Carrington Street with the name Bogger - no doubt the spelling would be different but probably pronounced thus. One of the shops had a sign in the window saying "We are no relation to the Boggers up the road".
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The Canberra was operated by Rolls-Royce at Hucknall. This was the first accident involving a Canberra. The test pilot Richard Peach, the only crew member, was killed.
Chulla
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Get yer Hat on
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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An elegant lady in a large-brimmed hat is a joy to behold.