philmayfield
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Bumping into old friend's trousers???
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Well he bought the club for £1. Offer him £2 and it could be yours!
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How can you get rid of Ray Trew? He and his wife own 97% of the shares - even though the club is only worth minus £4.1 million!
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But which trouser leg do you have to roll up.
If you are "interested" in freemasonary "The Brotherhhood" by Steven Knight is an interesting investigation. I don't believe in a "supreme being" so I wouldn't qualify.
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How old would your dad be now? That might show whether he or his siblings were in my year... I can't remember a lot of the boys I went to school with but there is another member of Nottstalgia (male) who was there at the same time as me who might...
I used to go to ballet classes with a girl who lived on Melbury Road. She was called Marian. Some of the houses on the top of that road looked unusual - they had flat roofs and curved fronts, but they're not there anymore
Yes, I remember the name Lloyd at Arno Vale. David, I think, in our year. Can't put a face to him though. Was Marian's surname Fell?
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Take care when you cross the Trent at "Bleasby Ferry". It's a bit too deep for a scooter these days.
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I had never thought about a personalised plate until one day I was accosted by a rather pompous elderly lady who lived on our lane.
"Do you have a personalised number plate?" she asked. I replied that hadn't and was not especially interested in having one. "Good" she said - "If you ever get a personalised plate I will never speak to you again!"
This, of course, ignited the flame and when I got home I went online and bought three - all of which alluded to my surname.
Sadly she died soon afterwards.
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Isaac Newton lived at Woolsthorpe (by Colsterworth) - not the Woolsthorpe (by Belvoir) - both in the Grantham area though. My only tenuous connection with Kinoulton is that my mother in law was born there!
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Dabbit was a brilliant stain remover. However the ingredient was carbon tetrachloride which was carcinogenic. That's why we don't see it anymore!
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I tried some a few years ago after remembering older relatives eulogising about tripe and onions after the cinema on a Saturday night pre war.
It was disgusting.
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Judging by the number of cars outside my local at "early doors" the drink driving message has not got home to some people. I've been in (on foot!) and they're not drinking Coca Cola.
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The Thurland Arms used to have a "men only" bar. Happy days!
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£1 for half litre of beer in a supermarket and 45p for a litre of tonic. A pub's got to have a lot of ambience and interesting customers to make it worthwhile to turn out - and then you've got to walk there on a cold winter's evening.
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£5 - for a pint of bitter and a tonic water in one of my locals (country pub) - that's why pubs are closing down!
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There's an interesting book about the WW2 oil exploration called "The Secret of Sherwood Forest" available online from Amazon.
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I live in one of those villages! Best side of Nottingham for commuting to town - not that I go into Nottingham unless absolutely necessary these days.
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Somewhere in the Eastern Trent valley, maybe even near Newark, easy commute back to Nottm and peaceful. Not sure about the winters though.
That's where I am. Only had to walk back from Nottingham once and that was in the 60's when the fog was so thick that no transport was moving. Had to keep stopping in pubs along the way for stiff whiskeys to keep warm!
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Give us a clue...Where was that?
Southwell area.
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Good heavens - not heard that song for years!
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Reading about Lord Lucan in the Sunday papers and how he has now been pronounced "officially dead" reminded me of back in 1974 the police searching a house in my lane to look for him. Apparently the owner was one of his gambling associates and his was one of the first places they came to investigate. When I go by I often wonder if Lucan is holed up in the attic! Yes - right here in Notts!
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Hi Rob.
Yes, I well remember the Barry Fisher incident. I knew Barry - we were in the senior cross country team together. I was one of the many who crowded round the notice board in the 5th. Form corridor to see the outpouring of vitriol over Eric Hutchinson. "Hutch" was not the pleasantest of masters and there was a measure of truth in what was published. The amazing thing was that Barry had the nerve to pin it up - he must have been very upset about something. He received the statutory thrashing from the Whale and was expelled. I recall it did him no subsequent harm and has done well in his life!
Discipline in those days was instilled by fear and not by a mutual respect. Many of the masters,"Hutch" and Frank Clark for example, were senior officers during the war and we we treated like the "erks" who served under them. I don't think they really wanted to teach but it was a case of finding a job once demobbed.
I kept my head down and avoided any "violence". Some of those guys certainly could not get away with their behaviour today. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Mellish ("spell-check" suggests Hellish!) and am still in touch with a few of my old friends, all of whom have done exceptionally well in their careers.
The majority of the staff were exceptionally good. Bob McCandles and David Sparrow (physics), Pablo Atkins (chemistry), Jim Key and Harry Hadwen (biology), Shad. Adams (english), Froggy Marshall and Freddy White (french), Newton (latin), Brian Brocklehurst (music), Charlie Evans (art) and many more.
Starting to feel nostalgic!
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Interestingly, JP Knight (1828-1886), the inventor of the traffic light,was born in Nottingham.
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#26. Somewhere on that map must be the old Brough motorcycle factory on Haydn Road. Is it the rectangle opposite the hosiery factory?
It was the building on the bend of Haydn Rd. opposite the Meridian playing field which was bounded on one side by Quorn Rd. I should know - I was responsible for arranging the demolition! We did have the Brough owners' club up for a viewing prior to it being knocked down. The larger factory/warehouse which was built on the site in about 1975 has since been demolished and the site is now occupied by houses.
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If they had put some commuter parking around the area of Clarendon, they could have used a few railcars each way. I'm sure quite a lot of folks from that side of town would have used it. Should have been relatively inexpensive. The infrastructure was already there.
Btw. Where did the Sherwood Rise tunnel come out in Basford? I used to live over in that direction but don't ever remember seeing it back in the 60s. It might have been possible to have had a commuter line right from the ring road.
It came over a steel bridge wth blue brick supports over Haydn Road where there used to be a high level station. It was next to the Stag Furniture factory and the Cooper Brothers hosiery factory - both since demolished. There was a coal yard and sidings on the Nottingham Rd. side of the station. The track continued on over Valley Road. It's all built over now.
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Ray Trew
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Well, according to the most recent accounts, the net worth of the company is minus £4,119,676. I believe the ground is owned by the City Council. Is there money to be made by investing here?
There are people who enjoy the kudos of owning a football club so someone of wealth may step forward. Good luck to them.