Adrian Adams

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  1. Pandit or Pundit, Aylward, Roosevelt, Cheshire (Ryder-Cheshire) and I'm told Makarenko but I don't remember that name. Shweizer, my house, was first after you came down from the office, library etc.
  2. Hi, Adrian Adams here (Adi) . Mr Sergeant was music teacher then - early on. My family ( at least my dad and I ) went to Oz (Toowoomba) in July 66. Parents broke up. I was in ACHS from 62 I think to 66 . There was a Penny but she had 'boyfriend ' Michael Butt , who was new to the school. Michael Samuelson (Sam) doted on Penny. I met up with Glenys Edmunds years later and we had a relationship - me going back and her coming here. Gillian Bales was also in Aylward I think. My mates were Rob Redmile, Jeff Sellars, Mick Flint, Andris Vasolevskis, Johny Joyce, Paul Livock ( a grade above me) now a
  3. Hi, Barrett, Welcome I don't recognize the name - is that you Paul? ? I still have to post all my report papers on here , I've got them all, just don't have the time. Let me know who Barrettkeller is? Please. Adi.
  4. I was born in 1950 , Things changed so quickly from then. My grandmother , hairdresser shop in Vernon Road Basford , moving to W. Bridgford , I still remember the smell of that shop, ammonia, perms etc, She still ran the shop.. And the devolopment of W Bridgford towards Edwalton beyond Valley Road. Things calmed down after that initial growth in 1950 -53 and I was able to play anywhere , over Ridgeway Close to the fields and , in the Summer, the gypsies and the horses, and the woods behind the pub, the Meadow Covert. All gone now. Housing tracts. Which is probably what they thought in 1951. T
  5. I remember the Globe, near the bridge, We called it the flea pit, no idea why,?. But on Saturday mornings catch a 21 bus from West Bridgford, or walk, and see FLASH GORDON , Killed!! Then next week - HE WAS ALIVE t'was amazing ! Was it the Odeon near the Square , used to be called the Ritz, - I saw The Searchers, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Dakotas, Etc there. My mother saw Shirley Bassey there and others and Adam Faith AND in Central Avenue was one of the best jazz clubs in UK , the Dancing Slipper, with Johny Dankworth and Chloe Lane . My mother saw Julie Andrews aged 12 at the Em
  6. Maureen was Glenys's best friend. Penny was in Roosevelt and Sam (robert Samuelson) had a crush on her until Michaeal Butt took over. THE GLOBE, that was it , THE Flea Pit we called it. Was Martin Bayley the boy who hung around the girls - just perhaps a bit girlish? Could be some one else - there was one.
  7. Was there one in Arkwright St , down near London Road and Trent bridge. Remeber every Sat morning seeing Flash Gordon , being resurected from certain death the week before.
  8. Am I able to download photos, report cards JPEG or PDF onto a post here ? Would be great. Have all my report cards and the 63 Arnold High photo off Friends Re-united + my own photocopy. If any one has an original of any school photos please do tell me. Am bringing my thoughts together to relate my Arnold High experience. It takes time as other memories come as you relive events and you remember things LONG forgotten. In the back f your mind - I have to write them down. I think I really "skimmed" the whole experience , because of troubles at home. Coming back from Austria I was taken to anoth
  9. Everyone called me Adi. Was there with Rob Redmile Johny Joyce and Andy Vasilevsksis, Lap, (All from 2H) . I started I think in 63. Left afetr GCE's in 66 - went (sent) toAustralia. I had long hair from 3rd form, Wore cuban heel boots, My name was callede out at ecvery Assemby for long detention.thans to that awful man Spellman. No one played rugby. I remember that huge PE teacher trying to get us to play Union and we were confused -"what is this garbage?" and some of refused to play so , strangely he let us play proper football which we had played since being able to stand up. In 2H was Mich
  10. This are the details of the plane from one book - 467 Squadron Lancaster LM219 PO-G crashed near Saint Germer de Fly. Hit by fighter aircraft the Lancaster crashed at ‘Le Grand Montagny’ only two crew managed to jump and escape. F/L Robert W. Reynolds RAF (+), P/O John D. O’Driscoll (RNZAF) (+), Sgt Ronald J.Taylor (+), F/S Horace A. Cummins RAAF (+), F/S L.Jimmy G.Walsh RAAF (escaped), Stephen S.Adams RAAF (escaped), Sgt Gordon T. Tipping RAF (+), F/S Gilbert G. Podosky RAAF (+) Capt Bonham-Carter was Leader, my mother would have tea with him and his wife. She said he was lovely , kind
  11. My dad Steve Adams flew Lancasters from Waddington. Shot down in July 44? Must look it up. I have the plane number, and the mission - to blow up a rail tunnel entrance holding munitions. He was one of two who managed to bail out and survive. He was helped, sheltered by Maquis who gave him fake ID , I still have it, He had blonde hair though , used a lot of BMW bikes then, stolen from Germans. Have pictures of bikes and his log book, but pages torn out , probably RAAF intel, . Trained in Canada where more people died than in combat.
  12. This site wouldn't save my reply - too tired to write it all again.
  13. That would be really great. Always confused me that Forest were in the county (W. Bridgford) and County were in the City. Know any more about Rob.?
  14. Was twitchell a word used in other parts of Nottgm?
  15. I remember Peter Long was one of the first kids I met at the Valley Road pickup in W. Bridgford . He was a year , maybe 2, ahead of me. He lived almost next to the pickup point in Alford Rd, He had a great artistic talent. He was able to draw naked women from memory/scratch - I presume - ( brilliant master pieces to me at the time of course) - a great drawer - should have become an artist but I lost contact with him as time went on.We sat together on bus.usually as last on. Ralph had occupied the back seat which I wanted.
  16. We were great friends from 63 - 66, We got drunk together New Years Eve 65/66. He was invited to a party in Arnold, he invited me , we both got thrown out before we got in - probably because of me as I had a reputation ( name called out at every assembly for detention). We got drunk. I managed to get the last city bus back to the square but the last #21 had gone (gone midnight) and I was walking down Arkwright St drinking a bottle of cider and a mini-van pulled up., a car ran into the back of it, pouring rain, - they lived 2 doors away from me and gave me a lift home . We got into trouble as
  17. Could be. He lived in Arnold in the 50's 60's. We were both good footballers. I was the first to score a goal from the corner in the Dutch Barn. Miskicked it and it bent in - goalie wasn't watching obviously but I figured out what I did and was able to be useful on the right wing. No good with left foot. Rob had dark hair, fairly darkish skin ( I was dead white) , left in 66, Lost touch with him then. I went to Oz. Not by choice. ADI
  18. Yes it was a REEALLY OLD single decker - I was in Schweitzer . Kids with me , in my year were Rob Redmile, Mick Flint, Jeff Sellars (aylward) , Robert SAmuels (Sam), Johny Joyce, Andris (Andy Vasilivskis) . Next door in Roosevelt was Michael Butt ( he came from down South late in my last year, ) not many outsiders came in. Both Paul Livock ( a great friend and still local but a fine psychologist) & Charlie Phipps were in the year above. Will write more when I get a chance - Adi PS What year did you come and go Trevor?
  19. Mr Dockerill is there in the photo looking handome with his shock of silver hair. Very striking - (never hit me though) He was my form teacher in 2H . Always wore the cape as did Jim Briers and Lilley. He was a stern man but I liked him. He had good ethics. Some didn't.
  20. The route must have changed - as the tinsel factory was on the right hand side going up Porchester Road - probably where bus usually broke down. Went up London Road, up Carlton Road into Porchester and then Woodborough which became Mapperley Plains Road. I remember going past the Boots factory. And later on that was close to the Bowling Alley which they finally let us do for Sports day one year. Was great. The bus was OLD, musty smell. First words anyone said to me on first day getting on bus was the driver " a bread and dripping boy eh?" - I was skinny . I found a rough photocopy of the Septe
  21. I can't remember the trip back for some reason except we'd go the bus at the mound out the front, with the other buses. I was probably in long detention and had to get city bus back.But it came as far as Valley Rd in W. Bridgford, went up to Melton Road, over the river and up London Road , did go up Porchester Rd I think, then, past a tinsel factory I always remember, thinking what an industry.? There was only the driver, no woman keeping us in check. That all ended a couple of years later and we were all given a pink bus pass. I had to catch the 21 to South Parade, go across to Long Row and c
  22. Hi All, Came about this site by accident trying to find a school student photo, the ones we lined up for in front of the hall, in the quadrangle. My name is Adrian Adams but all knew me as 'AdI'. I was there from 62/63 to 65/66 when I had to leave to go to Oz. I was on Roy's bus, the last stop at West Bridgford , 6 of us waited there. I lived in Edwalton , probably the furthest south, had to walk across fields and a playing field to get to the stop. Will post again later. Ralph Smith was on that bus. Always sat at the back so must have got on first. Bus never made it up Porchester Rd in snow