Blondie

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  1. a charlesworth - This was back in the 50s a very long time ago, we left school in 1961.......Tony was English with red hair...........
  2. a charlesworth - I have been lucky too with my family too.......great lot.....................Did you know Tony Baker or David Nattrass?.........
  3. a charlesworth - perhaps your dad came from the family next door.....................I once knew a guy from my school called Tony Baker who lived on Orange Street and also a guy called David Nattress......... ..
  4. benjamin1945 - I can remember John Guy being very tall........I can imagine him being good at sport.......Last saw Sandra back in the 60's, she married young to an Italian chap, had a daughter, I know she was widowed early......I heard she married again later and that at one tme worked at a school for special children, I saw Marion Frost when she was working in the Arboretum pub............But this was all many years ago when I was single.........
  5. a charlesworth - It may have been on Muskham Street, but it was called Portland Baths, all one building, I think.........It is only family inlaw hearsay to me as I came from Hucknall originally, I married into the Taylor/Mabbott family in 1970...................Grandad Mabbott was born on Orange Street, he was the youngest of 20 children, they lived in 2 houses.......The story goes that the woman next door also lived in 2 houses, she had 19 children and did not speak to great grandma Mabbott again because she had one child more than she did, she felt cheated..........20 KIDS !!! phoar -
  6. Bilbraborn - Yes you have the right Brindley family......I think Pat was the eldest, we worked together in the 1960's..........Lost touch with her in the 70's.......She married a guy in Insurance, who was her brother's friend............they moved around the Country with her husband's job, forgot her married name............Lorraine Sharp was our friend Christine's younger sister, she married Barry Clifford, they got divorced..........Not seen her for a long time, she moved to Chesterfield .......Christine married Rob Barnes, who was a friend of my hubby, they emigrated to New Zealand in th
  7. a charlesworth - I doubt he will be in that book as he was born in1872 and played football on the early 1890's..............When he married in 1897, he lived on Bathley Street Meadows, I belieive it was a new housing area then.........His wife Gertrude ran the Launderette/Washhouse on Portland Street...........
  8. a Charlesworth - I know, back then you got paid for the matches you played in only - he left and joined the army and rose to Sargeant, he fought in WWI posted in Ireland, afterwards became a Painter and Decorator................My hubby, his grandson wanted to be a footballer, but had to go into butchering with his father.....He played for Aspley Old Boys when he was young........He had friends who were crack footballer's but had to give it up because of the bad pay, you could not afford to get married on their pay...............How times have changed..........What was your grandad's name ?..
  9. benjamin1945....Yes he is right person, blond good, looking - lived on Teviot Road, but he came to the Nottingham Textile School when he was 13...........He left school and went to Meridian, I saw him a few times about town in the 60's...................(Got to go Dinner is ready, will be in touch).......
  10. Merthy imp - Thanks for the search, first time anyone has been able to give me information about him, he was always being talked about in the family, saw old brown piccies of him in football gear.............My mother in law was his daughter, Wyn, she was born in May 1908, her brother Lez the cricket coach was born in August 1899........They originated from the Nottingham Meadows area, moved to Vernon Avenue, Basford and then on the Armston Rise on the Heathfield Estate, Nottm...............I did see the Football Post with the article written about him years ago but sadly it disapp
  11. benjamin1945 - Did You go to the Nottingham Textile School ?.......Frank Smith was in my class there, he was my first boyfriend, we were 14/15yrs old, he was a lovelly chap.....................John Guy was a friend of Ray's (cannot remember Ray's surname) Ray sang in a Hucknall formed group, they called themselves The Tremelose, we hung around with them as my friend Pat fancied one of them......John courted a friend of mine for a while, her name was Carole Boardman, this was way back in the early 60's. lost touch with Sandra and Marion after we left school.............Will Chambers lived next
  12. benjamin1945 -- The Milkman' Bram' was Tony Bramley, he married a Bulwell Lass from Bulwell Hall Estate, she was a twin..... I think Ray the footballer was his brother, there was 5 of them, another brother was called Ivor - Maybe I danced with you at the Locarno I knew a few Bestwood and Bulwell fellas..........John Guy, Frank Smith, Will Chambers and a tall lad called Ray who sang in a group, I knew 2 Bestwood Estate girls, Sandra Binch and Marion Frost from my school............where have all the years gone ?..........
  13. Merthy Imp..........I know he played for them, I can remember my hubbie (Malc) and my mother in law, (Winifred Mabbott, his daughter) telling me - There was supposed to be an article written about him in the Football Post in the early 1960's - At that time, he was the oldest living professional footballer still alive..........I have never been able to get any information about him though, not from anywhere, I tried the Notts County FC a while ago and they said their records didn't go back that far, but he did play for them..............His son, Lez Mabbott was the Cricket Coach at the Notti
  14. Terence12 - Yes, I got it wrong, I remember now it was the Moulin Rouge..................
  15. I can remember the Mechanics at the bottom of Mansfield Road.........It showed all the risque films, 1950/60's, was known as the flea pit..........I went with a fella from my school (he did my Technical Drawing homework which I couldn't do, so I had to date him)......We saw a fllm called "Never on a Sunday" which was X Rated back then......We were 15 (1960) and thought we were the daring young things..........He even bought me poppets............
  16. I know I'm going back a bit - I am a new member and I am reading old posts.......My claim to fame was my Aunty Grace being the first sheriff of Nottingham in 1976 and my Great Aunt Ada was the girlfriend of D.H.Lawrence ( the man who wrote them mucky books)............My hubbies grandad played footie for Notts County in the 1890's....the only time they ever got to Wembley, I believe he scored the goal, his surname was Mabbott.........
  17. Benjamin1945 - I Must have known you, I think I knew everybody my age - My name is Lynn, I left school at 16 in1961, can you remember the milkman called Bram, he lived on Ruff's Estate ?- I went to all the local gigs, socialised in Hucknall during the week as money was a bit tight, only had a £1 a week to spend back then, bus fares to Nottingham were a bit over the top........Was at the Locarno every Saturday Night though, came home on the last bus from Huntingdon Street Bus Station (11.30) - was always packed, very rowdy, but fun, snogged on the back seat - Nobody was ever left standi
  18. Katyjay - We had a sheet over my grandmother's clothes horse to make a tent, (my mum's clothes horse was too big), grandparent's had their own bungalow and lovelly garden, we had a terraced house with a back yard........But we did play skipping with the clothes line and ball games up the wall, roller skated up and down the big entry...............
  19. DAVE48 - My dad always carved the meat, (can smell it now).....He was the head of the house, what he said was law............
  20. I still have my Gollywog - he is a bit shabby almost bald all over.......I call him Tony Sambo and was 3 years old when he was bought for me in Christmas 1948........Still has his blue jacket and polka dot dickie bow, red and white striped legs.....luv him too bits and would never part with him, he will be buried with me............ I also played house with my sisters under the big table in the living room and in the attic when it rained, although we did get nice toys every year at Christmas and birthdays we made cribs, settees and armchairs out of shoeboxes and dolls houses out of big cornfl
  21. I came from Hucknall and we had everything from the Co-op.....Mums number was 4425......The milk was delivered very early every dayon a milk float, always on the doorstep when you got up........3 pints silver top, very fresh milk.....................When I was a teenager, we had a milkman called 'Bram' - I jived with him at the Locarno, he sometimes took me home, raining very heavily he stayed one night, too far to walk home, he did not want to get his new suit wet so he slept on the settee in the front room, my dad got up and saw him......He said to my mum" what's the milkman doing sleeping i
  22. I can remember my sister and myself unpicking last years jumpers and cardigans, winding the wool around a toilet roll holder, then washed and straightened...........My mum then used the wool to make hats, scarves and mittons (there was 4 children) - She had a treadle sewing machine and was brill at running up a garment at short notice out of pieces of material................. She could sew, knit and make a delicious meal appear out of almost nothing,...................She made cough syrup with butter, sugar and vinegar warmed up in the oven, it worked - I never knew how she could do the thin
  23. I can remember the Bedstead being built in the 1960's when all the old shops and houses around Byron Street and Truman Street were being pulled down,....................A friend of ours Vic Dawes used to run the place year ago...................Cannot imagine a Co-op being put there, I thought all the co-ops had disappeared.....................
  24. DaveN - Brilliant, just sums up my childhood days........
  25. Railway Children - still a good classic children's film......