Blondie

I used to go in my lunchtime at school for sixpence, used my dinner money - it was out of bounds and I got a lot of detention for it..............

That was Dave's grandma - Dave was born in Basford and then moved to Broxtowe............They were all big blokes.......

Thanks for that, I wondered what happened to them...............He did seem a bit gypsyish always wanting to be on the move......

I remember Alan the singer and compare with the bad leg from the Heart of the Midland in the 1970's...........Knew him well, he died a few years ago.......

I can remember going to see them with a fella called Ray I met at the Ice Stadium, he was related to one of the group........great time...

I can remember a barrowboy in the 60's/70's who used to stand at the bottom of Hockley opposite the Council House.......a small dark haired lad, looked a bit Italian .......He sold fruit and veg/flowers.....................He was a popular guy at all the local pubs/nightspots around town, I can remember him mainly going into the Cross Keys pub on Weekday Cross - (Larry London was a barman there).......cannot remember his name, but he married a girl called Sandra who I used to work with at the Solicitors......... He did well in business, owning a gift shop in Cornwall and a material shop in Bee

Benjamin1945 - Wally Swift was the uncle of a friend of ours called David Swift.......

Benjamin1945 - No I never socialised in Bulwell........saw Reg Guest at the Grey Goose Gedling a few times......

LizzieM - Your friend may know Rob Barnes, the drummer who is a friend of ours...................

Is that the side where the Football grounds and the Boat Clubs were built ?...........When I was at school we played hocket at Trent Pool..................

A woman I knew, Doreen had a huge crush on Reg Guest.............she would get there early to make sure she got in, was Friday Nights........ went with her mate Molly.........She would become quite ill if she missed him, that was back in the mid sixties.......

Lay awake waiting for Michael Flately and Jason Statham to return...............

The only sixties groups I can remember were the Beat Men at the Locarno and the University dances in the early 60's - Rob Barnes who is a friend of my hubbys played the drums, he was a great drummer and did a drum solo, they eventually went to Germany...........The Comanchies and the Tremeloes who were small groups played around Hucknall Town........Reg Guest Trio was a resident Group at the Grey Goose Gedling late 50's/60's............I can remember going to the Boat Clubs in the early 60's and listening to a few good groups, cannot remember their names though........The Leen Valley Jazz men

I can remember dancing there in the early 60's, meeting some nice blokes from Clifton, they were farmers boys.............Ivy Brooks was a ballroom dancing teacher and held her dancing classes there as well.........My friend Lorraine ballroom danced there......... she had her wedding reception there in 1971........

I can remember going to the pleasure beach at Colwick Park with my aunty Grace, she lived over a fish shop on Arkwright Street............we caught the boat at Trent Bridge, was always Sunday afternoons in the summer holidays back in the 1950's......

I can remember paying 10 bob a week at the Teenage Shop for clothes, next to the Co-op .......It was a fortune then and seem to take for ever to pay off............

I came from Hucknall - Hucknall was Hucknall Torkard until 1915 when Torkard was dropped, it was the name of the old Tocard family who owned just about everything back then, Oakenhall as in the Avenue was an old pronounciation of the name........there was also Hucknall Huthwaite where the Hcknall was dropped and there is an Ault Hucknall in Derbyshire........I did this in my project at school, just before I left...........

DARKANZA - Yes, Central garage was on High Street, next to Clarke's pram shop, stood back off the road then, just before the row of shops leading up to the post office..........a curtain shop, a pet shop, elecrtrical shop a butchers, Howitts sweet shop........waste ground which the post office was built on in the early fifties joined onto Wakefield Chemist and then Stallards shoe shop on the corner, opposite the old library......... I was born at Westville in 1945 at my grans.........moved onto Station Terrace, I can remember the old Hucknall very well.......the old post office being next to

I can remember these stories told by the poorer kids at my school in the mid fifties..........It was suppose to be a holiday fo them as they had nothing and they came back nervous wrecks, to scared even to tell their parents what had happened to them for fear of reprisals........A girl called Marlene, June and a girl called Audrey who were very traumatised, just 3 weeks of hard work for them making them feel worthless...........The teachers were clearly frustrated psychopaths who got delight out of torturing young poor and needy kids, maybe because they had to work during the holiday periods..

I'm a newbie Michael Booth, but whatever your troubles........I'm a good listener.........welcome back.............

Denshawe - Well let me in then, my knuckles are red raw through banging.....

Katyjay - Yes I remember this you mentioned, from a week ago, Malc can remember delivering meat to Mrs Birch and that she has a son who was older than him, Malc was born in July 1944, so was Trev Beach and Rob Barnes..........Trev lived on Walbrook Close and Rob Barnes was a drummer in a group and lived on Dulverton Vale............There was also a Mick Pinkett from the Newsagents on Bells Lane.......

Congratulations KATYJAY.....WELL DONE

Melissa J Kelly - Your only as old as the bloke you feel...........

Katyjay ------- Yes, that's the Ken, tall blonde, wore rimless specs......You must have known my hubbie then, he went to Crane school, he was born in July 1944 - worked for his dad at Joe Taylor and son Butcher's on Bells Lane.......Malc Taylor was his name, he and ken went around together for years......We still see Ken sometimes..........I met Malc, when a friend of mine Jane Rippon was lusting after Ken, I was roped into going out with Malc to make up a foursome, so that Jane could get Ken, that was in August 1969, Malc and I hit it off and got engaged after a month, on September 30th my