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A friend of mine's father was a director of Redmayne and Todd at the time. For a while they displayed the FA cup in the shop window. The cup was removed at night for security purposes. It was taken home where it sat on the sideboard whilst they enjoyed dinner!
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Read S. 188 of the Highway Code and that will answer the question.
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My one and only "package holiday" was back in the 50's when I went with my parents to Paris. There was no East Midlands Airport in those days. The holiday company was "Skyways". We had to make our own way to London and get a bus from Victoria coach station to Lympne airfield in Kent. This was a grass airstrip and the aircraft was an ex wartime Dakota. It was a strange experience climbing the aircraft steps and walking downhill to ones seat - the aircraft being a "taildragger". It flew at around 10,000 feet so it was bumpy all the way. It landed in Beauvais, some way north of Paris so we were taken in another coach which delivered us to our seedy hotel. Paris was an eye opener for a teenager. We had an evening trip around the night clubs finishing at the Moulin Rouge. Travelling across France in the 50's revealed a lot of war damaged buildings. I even saw General Eisenhower and General De Gaulle at a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe. I've returned many times - the most memorable being when a friend and I hired a light aircraft from East Midlands and took ourselves there just after we had both learned to fly. Now that was scary!
Phil
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Well, I'm with you on the splendid staircases in the Co-op but no recollection of the railway. I'm sure someone will be along about that!
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Hurts Yard was lower down, towards the Council House. I bought my wife's engagement ring at Twemlows, which was on Hurts Yard. I think the one Dennis is asking about was just 'The Arcade' as I remember, and ended ended up as a flight of steps onto Upper Parliament Street, facing the Co-op.
Twemlows was on Greyhound St. which runs from Long Row and doglegs into King St. I also bought an engagement ring from there!
Hurts Yard, which is still there, runs past the side of Pearson Bros. old store and comes out on Parliament St. and, yes, the Granary Cafe was up there.
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Can't imagine a Scotsman chucking one away with money in it.
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Didn't realise shopping trolleys had got that far north.
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Now that's real poetry!
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Many years ago one of our "early doors" crowd at the local was going on about how he loathed shell suits. Naturally next day the rest of us bought shell suits and turned up that evening to give him apoplexy!
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Hi Brian.
Harry Latto was metalwork. He used to travel on the Daybrook to Basford North train with us every day. His early morning duty was to light the forge. Arthur Boddy was woodwork in the room next door. He was totally mad and used to throw chunks of wood around the room.
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Brenda - we went both to Puccini's and L'Angolo. I used to go on business many times to Milano and Firenze. I was the customer so I was entertained at some fine Italian restaurants - not just the posh ones - the good ones. One chap I knew was the son of the Mayor of Florence at the time and he had cousins everywhere that kept restaurants. I remember some good times!
Back in Nottingham it was good to dine at yours and remember the true taste of Italy.
Phil
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Yes, followed you until you left for Italy. I once hired the whole of La Buca for a gang of us from the Sherwood Flying Club. You put on one of your excellent gourmet evenings. Just one of the more elderly members had cause to complain because you served rabbit. He said he had eaten enough of that during the war!
Good wishes to both of you.
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Was that the one at Chapel Point? Had the most awful fish and chip meal there back in July.
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Just dawned on me - Brenda and Alessio. Used to run La Bucca on Thurland St. and then opened a restaurant in Radcliffe on Trent.
Both superb restaurants. Proper Italian cooking!
Phil
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That sounds like an accident waiting to happen!
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The Brough works on Haydn Road was part of our old factory complex when it belonged to Moore and Company. The Brough owner's club came to meet there one Sunday many years ago. Sadly I was the person responsible for commissioning the demolition of it in order to build a new warehouse. The site now has houses built on it. It's directly opposite what was the Meridian sports ground on the Haydn Road/Quorn Road corner.
Phil
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You should have bought two and made a spectacle of yourself!
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It's a long time ago but It sounds familiar.
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I half remember, back in the sixties, a senior colleague at the accountants Hubbart, Durose and Pain, Ken West, mentioning the visit of the Stones to his house at Beeston. I believe he had a largish family. Does this ring any bells?
Phil
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I've had a few tenuous connections with Be Ro over the years. Initially, back in the fifties, I used to walk past the Daybrook factory every schoolday on my way to buy a return ticket at Daybrook station for the journey to Basford North on my way to Mellish. This was a train journey of about four minutes. I didn't live far enough away from the school, as the crow flies, to get a free travel pass although others who lived a few hundred yards further away had a pass even though they travelled from the same station. Such was the idiocy of those in power at the time.
Secondly, when I was in the accountancy profession, Be Ro were clients of ours although I never was assigned to that particular job.
Thirdly, Be Ro were customers of my old company. We used to make all the packaging for both the Nottingham and Newcastle Factories but this was before my time. Be Ro ultimately sold out to Rank Hovis Mcdougal.
The managing director at Daybrook was Tom Bell. His father, also Tom, founded the factory in Newcastle. The younger Tom came to Nottingham in the thirties and built the Daybrook factory. Tom built a house on Oxton Hill and was a great benefactor to Oxton village. He offered two thousand pounds towards the cost of the village hall if the village could raise the same amount (this was a large sum at the time). The money was raised and the hall was built.
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Google it. It's all there!
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Yes, we're regular visitors to Hemswell Antiques but never on a Sunday as it can get extremely busy with car-booters!
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Referring to MargieH's post re the 11+. Yes, I did sit the "scholarship" exam at the same time and place. There was no forewarning - we were just marched off to the hall which was set out with desks so there was no time for pre exam nerves. I must have passed as I got a place at Mellish. Thoroughly enjoyed my time there. All of my year seemed to do extremely well in their subsequent careers - doctors, pharmacists, accountants (like me), lawyers and senior academics. Few of us came from privileged backgrounds. Our own fathers were still making their own way up the career ladder after war service.
I went to the school closing ceremony a few years ago and have subsequently viewed the demolition site. Very sad to see it gone.
Phil
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The old brewery can be seen. The new building, which remains, was built fronting Mansfield Rd. In 1936.
Alley off Long Row ?
in Nottingham City Centre
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Henry Farmer was a subsidiary of Pearson Brothers. They sold pianos and organs and other musicalia. The shop was directly accessed from Pearsons. My old firm, back in the 60's, were the auditors and accountants to the group.