[Any one live on wimbourne road in 50s 60s]

Hi lived on wimbourne road for 21 years, what a community fantastic place to live ,how lucky were we, i'm Pete stevenso from number 10, be good to here from any one from back then ! cheers Stevo.

[Any idea what this ( Bovill ) street was?]

Hi re buses on hartley road, no58 came from addington road terminus down hartley rd then along bolavard past raliegh to town it was a petrol bus not a tram.i lived on wimbourne road and as kids when it was a pea soup fog got threepence for giding the 58 up hartley road to the terminus with a white rag and a torch. happy days

[Heart of the Midlands - Who did you see there?]

Blimey the firm i worked for put the security system in and frankie vaughn was on at the time, we were in the dressing room wiring the fire door, i remember there were lots of his fishing rods in the corner,i tried his top hat on and started singing give me the moonlight! GUESS WHO WALKED IN ??

[Did You Live In Radford?]

Trunch lane,yes we used to camp there, 6 of us 2 tents in a consul mk 1 remeber Lincoln hill 3 used to get out and walk up and mostly made it to the top before the car, mad happy days!! thought they'd last forever

[Did You Live In Radford?]

what about the Clarence pub on alfreton road ,had some good times in there is it still standing?

[Anyone who worked at the Coop Building Department?]

yes i was jims apprentice when i first started at co-op,ruddy and bernard remember them too, my brother Ken was a joiner, worked on a few jobs together

good times . What happened to all those years?

[Penerol FC]

Hi any one ot there who played for Penerol fc

[Anyone who worked at the Coop Building Department?]

Yea Mick went climbing with jeff to matlock a couple of times, it scared me stiff, he was like a spider a really good climber. me well tried it a coupleof times then decided to stick to football, and the names you mentioned yes remember most of them, brought back memories, once i was sent from the southchurch drive shop back to abbey st on my push bike to fetch a skirting board ladder and a glass hammer, What a plonker i was, still gave the stores lads a laugh, long ride back though !!

[Anyone who worked at the Coop Building Department?]

Hi Mick, I remember Jeff, nice lad but he wasn't at my firm, I went from coop to firm called A.f.A Minerva worked on Boots site for 2 years, then to Hornet alarms in daybrook with them for 12 years, nice small family firm , they were bought out by a big company in 1981 so i started my own firm called central alarms, sold that in 1989 and went to Isle of Wight started central alarms again on island and retired in 2008 at 60 years young.

[Anyone who worked at the Coop Building Department?]

Hi Mick, yes phil was apprentice with me, bill Stringfellow was in charge ,in fact he interviewed me for the job , left to go into security and fire alarms before broad marsh started, worked with Dennis Fisher though, he always had a flask of coffee made with milk and when it was my turn to make the tea i would to have a taste ,lovely it was!

[Anyone who worked at the Coop Building Department?]

Hi ,i worked as apprentice electrician at coop from 1962 - 1967 , 3 years on beechdale rd Dairy ,worked with Jim Bannister,John bathelor, Pete taylor , Harry ethrington to name a few , great days they were !

[School uniforms and colours]

Berridge school gold and black, i played in goal for berridge and lost most of my front teeth for my troubles , i remember dixon (mr green) our sports teacher saying "get on with it stevo we'll find your teeth at half time, nice man mr green!

[Mid air collision.]

Hi again, yes i saw the midair collision, i was in the playground at Windley school on forest road, it was a clear sky and the sun shone on the silver wreckage as it fell from the sky, didn't realise what it was untill teachers .

told us of the plane crash

[My Motorcycle]

Hi again ok my first bike in 1963 was a B.S.A bantam 125 did 55mph downhill with a following wind! then a enfiel bullet, triumph 21 , tiger 100,

B.S.A shooting star, B.S.A goldie, Tiger cub, Tiger 110, Thunderbird, Ariel arrow and 2 mopeds a raliegh runabout and a nsu quickley, i used to buy them keep them a while and sell them on ( and i apoligize in advance if anyone had problems after buying one of them!)

A good friend of mine Terry Woodcock died in a acciedent on Alfreton road, so we all sold our bikes out of respect for his family who lived over the road and i never rode again as i didn't want my parents to go through what terry's did, R.I.P MY FRIEND.

[Sir Paul Smith]

Well Paul Smith, yes i put an alarm system in his shop, while working for hornet alarms of daybrook

[Mushy Peas?]

Hey, i got a job at goose fair selling mushy peas, a tanner a tub , eat as many as you like the stall holder told me , well i did and spent thursday night sitting on our outside loo , that put me off peas for life!!

[Saturday Night And Sunday Morning]

Hi ilived on wimbourne rd, couple of lads got 10 bob each for just riding bikes up and down norton street when they filmed it!, missed out on that one!

I remember going to watch sat night sunday morniing at the Windser on hartley road, they wouldn't let me in , sent me home to get my long trousers on,

went back and got in ,told mum and dad i'd seen it, and they were horrified and sent me to bed with no tea!!

[new member]

Thanks for letting me know Dave when you see graham give him my best and glad barbara is ok, i know she got married and had twins, hope she's has had a good life

if ever anyone deserved it she did . by the way did i know you through football ?

[new member]

Oh my god, yes i did,on frinton road, babara was the most wonderful girl my first love and graham her brother was a lovely lad, a very nice family, me i was just stupid (enough said)

blimey i never expected this, its a real shock .

[teacher,s name]

Blimey i remember just few , i went to berridge school,Brilliant for football but not much else( entirely my fault )Mr Briggs was the headmaster, mr green the sports teacher ,a man we called crutch was the music teacher and a mr white took woodwork .

[new member]

Thanks you all for the welcome , yes Dave my name is pete Stevenson lived on wimbourne road till i was 21,then moved to bullwell .only found this site by chance but boy are the memories coming back now ,i can almost smell the tobbaco from players factories .

Oh, and nice one Benjamin!!

[The 60's, were they so wonderful?]

Well i was a rocker ,but had mates who were mods all nice lads ,no one got shot, alot of banter and at worse a punch on the nose , as someone said lots of jobs ,pretty girls ,good beer, great music ,how lucky we were!!

[new member]

Hello all, i'm now living on isle of wight, was born and bred in radford ,magic times, wonderful place to be in the sixties ,how i miss nottm

and the old days, still i think we were very lucky to have all the great memorys , hope to share some with you all. cheers Pete.

[Tens Motorcycle Club]

Hi, was the lad on the right Tony Meats? he lived in radford had a vincent shadow, also any one remember Jonnie Knowles, his dad had motorbike spares shop on Alfreton road ?

[Mods & Rockers]

Hi , i was a rocker from wimborne road ,radford had a b.s.a goldie magic days!!! every sunday off to matlock