tony1

I have always been very proud of my gravy. I do use some bisto, but ONLY as a coloured thickener. The same as I would otherwise use cornflour. Sometimes both. Gravy needs to be made from a PROPER STOCK,, which Bisto is NOT. Bisto has no taste. Yesterday the wife made gravy with nothing but bisto granules (we had run out of powder and the shop only had granules). It was awful. She's a great cook, but dreadful at gravy, but that's because she does not understand... she likes her food very dry.

Trolley Bus wires and Telegraph poles with several cross members

J R Makin & Son Shopfitters next to 36 Terminus bottom of Nottingham Road Basford. Weldon & Wlikinsons Dyers & Bleachers Rawson Street Basford P P Payne Ribbons and Labels. Haydn Road Basford Thorn Bendix Electronics (Formerly Ericssons / Plessey) High Church Street New Basford Gerards Soap Wilkinson Street, Bobbers Mill Frank Harts, Paint and Wallpaper. Old Basford. Earnshaws Paints Mill-in-the-Hole Bobbers Mill

Flowers and seats in the Market Square

My mother and aunts frequently alluded to a creature called the Fiddlygrub. Apparently it crawled into a paper bag and then pulled the bag in after it. I can't fully recall the application, but I think it was when something went missing. Mother and aunts,were Derbyshire born and bred. Has anyone else heard of this?

I'm with you 99% of that banjo I just could not stand the smell of rabbit, or hare cooking, ever since my dad turned my cousins dead pet into a meal. He and my uncle skinned it in the cellar and when they 'cut it's ring', so to speak, the stench was unbearable and no ventilation.Put me off for life.

I still get my Dolly Mixtures, but the hard ones have gone.

I'm sure there is a precedent for divorce in there, somewhere.

I'm here when you need me.

Public Conveniences.

Sitting here, waching TV and adverts... I am reminded that the breaks and programs were once punctuated with "End of Part One" and "Part two" etc., We don't see that any more.

Betterwear man: tiny tins of polish

I wish they would put some seating back. They have taken so much away. When you have problems with walking or standing, you need somewhere to rest your weary bones. It was quite well thought out before. Now, everything seems to designed around young mobile people. No thought for the elderly and less mobile.

I have many happy memories of various cinemas in Nottingham. One of the earliest is going to LENOS on Radford Road, to see Lady and the Tramp and riding on my dad's shoulders on the way home. My parents made sure we went to see all the musicals when the came to Nottingham. When South Pacific came to the ODEON and a special screen was built for the 3D experience, I did not want to go, as the circus was on. Of course, I had to go... and boy, what a 3D experience it was ! Riding on the big dipper and flying on aeroplanes and crashing into a lorry, on a motor bike.. Then I absolutely enjoyed t

He was just a trifle late.

I recall Clements were also on Market Street. I am sure I took my piano grades there. ???

It was a special privelege to operate one of these, at school. Wow !

Victor Borge Flanders and Swan

NUX bars

Newberry Fruits

I really miss going through the fluff and bits. Another of lifes small pleasures cast into antiquity.

Chocolate / Wrigley's gum dispenser machines on shop walls

Gees Linctus

Virol

The hard ones in Dolly Mixtures. I really miss them.