philmayfield

I remember that! Mrs Borton was the dancing teacher. She worked hard on me without success. I had two left feet and still can't dance to this day. No point in trying now!

GAY stood for "Gedling Area Youth" club Phil

I thought they all played banjo down in the backwoods of Norfolk. A bit like "Deliverance"! Phil

I agree. The new website is inferior. The BBC seems to be losing the plot by being too simplistic and PC. Phil

The school was Hazel Grove. Phil

I remember back in the 1950's when I was in the rowing club at Henry Mellish we took a small rowing boat for a few hundred yards up that culvert. Probably a foolish thing to do! Phil

These are Ordnance Survey bench marks to calculate heights from a known reference point. Probably obsolete now with GPS. Phil

Skinner and Rook. Corner of Clumber St. and Long Row. Phil

Yes, Atkeys. I think they moved to Huntingdon St. next to Hopewells and opened a "Mini Clinic" on the site subsequently occupied by Sytner. I certainly remember driving my Mini up the ramps. Also, at the bottom of Arkwright St. near the station, there was "The Chequered Flag", on both sides of the road, who sold second hand sports cars especially Triumph TR"s. There was also Mitchells on Tollhouse road, next to the big Co-Op who were the Triumph dealers. They amalgamated with Trumans to form Truman Mitchell and moved down Derby Road to where Jaguar and Lexus are now. I think it was Mann Egert

Robinsons also had florist shops under the name of Thos. Robinson Florists. I think one was on the WB side of Trent Bridge. I believe Tom Robinson jnr. lived in Thurgarton. Phil

I think this is the aircraft you flew in. Phil

As John boy says, weekend parking will be chaotic. The Crown Estate have been excessively greedy in putting too many retail units on the site commensurate with the parking spaces available. I'm surprised that M & S and TK Max have not properly researched the situation. Phil

The "Yellow Peril" to which you refer was most likely the yellow Grumman AA5 Traveller, reg G-AZVE which was operated by the Sherwood Flying Club up to about 1977. I have about 50 hours to my credit on that one and George Hemsley would certainly have flown it. The only light aircraft with a V tail, as far as I am aware, was the Beechcraft Bonanza and the club never operated one of those. I knew George through the flying club and was also a customer of his when he was a director of Parr Computer Services. They became the first Apple agents in Nottinghamshire and I bought one of the original Ap

George Hemsley is the man. Still alive, in his nineties and living in Cropwell Butler. He was a flight engineer on Lancasters during the war. He was a member of a flying group to which four of us belonged. We bought a Piper Cherokee in 1980 which we kept at Tollerton airfield. I crashed it and wrote it off in 1981 and survived to tell the tale! Phil

Barton Hart retired to Bleasby and is buried in the churchyard. He taught my late father at Trent Bridge school. He was the organist at our wedding in Bleasby Church 35 years ago. His playing was starting to sound a bit like Les Dawson's. Some of the congregation could see him swigging from a hip flask and eating a bar of chocolate during the ceremony! Used to see him regularly in the Waggon and Horses sitting on his stool in the corner of the bar passing round his snuff. He had a wife, Eva, whom he used to refer to as "the dragon". Phil

I believe he used to live in the Mapperley Park area. Phil

Yes, I remember him. Think he might have been in the cross country team. I believe he was in the "Arts" 6th. Form and I was on the "Science" side. Phil

"Spud" Morrell is the wrong name. He was Mr.R.S Morrow. Irishman - English teacher. Used to drive an old Bentley during my time at Mellish (50s/60s). Not very good at keeping control of a class. Ran the "Radio Club" and was an expert on things electrical. He claimed he invented radar during the war before Robert Watson-Watt. Left to teach at Carlton Le Willows. Phil