don walker

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  1. st.anns chas, good photo of y bet you wish you had it now, don,t worry about cracking on a bit , you should see me some times, well all the time,, sorry can,t help you to put photos on page it,s to complicated for me, does my ed in
  2. now, I,m not trying to get up any bodies nose ,and I don,t follow foot ball,, but looking at the game from the other side of the fence I recon that all footballers should get paid by results if they win they get a bonus if they loose they get a token payment, before I retired I got payed by results, I find it totally unacceptable that the likes of beckham and others get millions and millions of pounds a year for kicking a bag of wind about when highly trained engineers ,scientists, etc get a fraction of this . Have we got our priorities wrong, is it just me out of line ,or do other pe
  3. Michael, was it the heartbeat shape they wear a cracking car to drive but Christ they could rot, they suffered terrible from metal worm rot but I have a soft spot for them.
  4. st ans chas yes the brakes on a mg y are something to be desired they are crap. but I, will tell you some thing you would not pick one up today for £20 put another 3 naughts on the end (If its had a nut and bolt renovation)
  5. the first car I had was a 1951 Vauxhall Wyvern L " the Heartbeat taxi shape" I did try to buy the actual Heartbeat taxi my bid was the highest but they decided to take it off the market, so I settled for a 1950 MG Y .We call her doris she is in showroom condition we are very proud of her
  6. esso used to give away a small stuffed tigers tales when you bought some petrol,, used to hag it from the petrol filler cap ,so it looked like you had a tiger stuffed inside your tank, the hairs off the tail come off and contaminated your petrol and clogged up the bloody carburettas .Another free gift with petrol was those bullet hole stickers you put on your windscreen, they could look effective.
  7. Christ me eds urtin gunna tek 2a3 tablets un lie down for a nour a two
  8. ivor thrist what a cracking little poem put a smile on my face too
  9. carni, you,v made my day, did you know it or did you look it up anyway cheers
  10. when I was at colligate infants we learnt a poem and it began Look out, look out Jack Frost is about he,s after your fingers and toes ..... can,t remember any more, can any body help. When it was a frosty morning the teacher made the class resite it Another one was,,,, I was a bird in the top of a tree,, ,this is the song he was singing to me,,, god loves us all in a wonderful way,, be happy ,,,be happy today, how many of you ex colligate young at hearts can remember that one. such innocent days, Christ that takes me back.
  11. just watch an advert with a lizard running down the road chuntering to himself,, Whats a lizard got to do with a bloody bank,, is it me or them that's on another planet?
  12. I wonder how much of the fees these so called self loving, talentless, hypercritical, smarmy, tossers, that advertise these adverts begging for money, give to the product they are touting. these adverts all ways come on when you are sitting down for something ,to eat.. I think the first advert to hit the T.V screens was gibs sr tooth paste back in the 50s am I right,
  13. anyway thanks for your help I hope it is the George I,m trying to trace.
  14. I,m no good at this game it goes right over my head I,m learning as I scratch about
  15. hi, mike and andy the above has given me something to go at I will start my reseach first thing to morrow, been on ebaay thanks everso for your help will let you know how I get on cheers, whats the bottom attachment can,t see nothing on my screen.
  16. about 2 years ago there was a t.v program called undercover boss,, there was a particular episode about a Nottingham small ware house ,the company which operated from the ware house was into removals. Can anybody recall the name of the company or have any info about the chap who featured in the program, his name was George Burbanks. Its a long shot but some on might remember something, thank.
  17. can any body remember MOONS bargain basement on shakespear st, you could buy dead cheap cars everything from morris 10 to a Austin A40 sommerset anything from about £10 to about £30 guaranteed all goers,, well sometimes
  18. old man oscroft committed suicide back in the late 60s I think it was, he put an hose pipe from his car exhaust into his car, he parked his car on his premises on castle boulevard the body was found on Monday morning.
  19. that field where you built the shooting range on was a very old meadow before that. I used to picnic in it with my sisters when we were very young. in the spring and summer it was alive with butterflies and bees there were thousands of wild flowers in it, it was the last meadow in Nottingham that I knew of. The farmer used to graze his cattle on it from time to time ,GERNSEYS AND JERSEYS. On bede ling ave there used to be a small shop where we used to buy three penny worth of broken biscuits. also there was a chap lived in bede ling ave. who was a train driver his name was pete pane,,
  20. in our street we used to put a tennis ball in one of your old ladies stockings then stand against a wall and sling it around as fast as you could great
  21. it seems to me that if you graft all your life and struggle o pay of your mortgage the gannets ( local government etc)take the only real asset the ordinary working man &woman has to pay for a bed in a home ,,but in the bed next to you could be somebody that's never even tried to buy a house or been to work, they would probably get it for free,, this can,t be fair, this is just a generalisation, I am not pointing a finger at any one in particular, and how on earth do these people come with the figures it costs to keep some one in a home,, do they think of a figure and then double it.
  22. yes colemans used to meet up with some of the girls from wood bestows (Clifton ltd.) in the back room of the crystal palace,, we would have a few drinks and then go to colemans. it used to get bloody hot in there sometimes , Even now I can see all those lovely lasses dancing around their handbags. looking very desirable I remember a couple of records I used to like to hear in there was mirror mirror pickertons assorted colours and surf city,,, what a smashing thread ,many cracking memories.
  23. I had a A55 1958 that had a starting handle
  24. I went to the one on Kirby st. next door to the bevoir castle pub on the corner of bell st.