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  7. Supermarket pricing policies?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    At least the change to real life terms meant the UK had taken a big step towards decimalisation though eh?

    [offtopic] How the hell did anyone manage to carry four old pennies so they could work the A-B telephone box? Our parents must have been superhuman. If you knew how to 'tap' them though you could get free calls [/offtopic]

  8. Things our parents used to say

    in Nottingham Lingo

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    pummad

    A fummad is some kind molecule according to Google, but as far as stink goes I've never heard it.

    Come to think of it, carnie, mam probably did say 'orming', not 'slorming.

    I've heard of this, my mam and dad both used it but I reckon the spelling is wrong, I reckon is should slauming and I think it may be an Indian word.

    Like avatar, bungalow, bangle, juggernaut, jungle, thug and verandah etc.

  16. Car Number Plates

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    When I was a nipper I lived in Papplewick and my dad had a flat roofed office at the back of the house. I used to sit up there for hours watching planes taking off and landing (Vulcans aaahhh) with an old WWII tank site for a telescope at Hucknall Aerodrome including the flying bedstead. The air shows were fantastic from my private viewing area. I used to watch the buckets throwing overburden on the Hucknall pit tips as well. Years later I'm at a company called 'Flight Refuelling' in Wimborne and noticed an old Rover 60 with the registration VTO 1. As it was a (cool) Nottingham registration I was intrigued. I found the bloke it belonged to and he said he'd bought the car from Alan Griffith's family, the inventor of the flying bedstead. He was the guy who built the flying bedstead that I used to watch as a kid from my dads roof. I don't remember the name of the car owner but he took me for lunch at 'The Harrier' pub down the road and we must have talked solidly for two hours about Hucknall aerodrome. He was one of the most fascinating guys I'd ever met. The fact that Alan Griffith was given the registration as a dinner award for his work on vertical take off and it was a Nottingham registration was purely coincidental.

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  17. Car Number Plates

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    A neighbour of mine in Cardiff has B10NIC, he owned a club by the same name.

    I have T5SUX which was bought for me my an ex. There was a pedantic, fascist traffic cop at the time who was terrorising the area. He busted me twice for next to nowt and he drove a police Volvo T5, hence the birthday present.

    My last three with the reg:

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  18. Car Number Plates

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    I remember car number plates originating in Notts usually had either TO, TV or AU at the end of the lettered part. E.G:- KTO, KTV, HAU etc.

    Somewhere I have a book showing how to identify a car county origin from it's number plate (of the period) from these last 2 letters, it showed all the counties in the UK.

    Must look it up and post on here, anyone else remember this?

    It was always in the back of the AA manual back in the day. Nottingham's were: AL, AU, CH, NN, NU, RB, RR, TO, TV apologies if I've missed any.

  19. Car Number Plates

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    My Dad bought a brand new Honolulu blue Austin 1100 (in '62-ish?) The registration was 204VAL, obviously a Nottingham registration and my sisters name is Val. When it came time to trade the car I told my dad not to sell the car with that registration but he did and a bloke in Wollaton bought the car so his wife could have the registration on her VW Sirocco, her name was Val as well.