MargieH

Looked for Sea View Fisheries on Google and their website said 4.3 /5... that sounds OK to me

Den, you beat me to it.... I was just going to say that. Never been in it though

I know people need houses, and the houses that were built were nice, but I feel sad that we can never walk over those fields again... or take my children and grandchildren to see them.

So maybe I'm mistaken about 'eggs and bacon' being toadflax...... now you've said 'birds foot trefoil,' that does sound more familiar.

I think I can remember the footpath which went from Plains Road down the hill over the fields. Did it have a privet hedge on the right hand side for the first part? I remember my brother and I once walked all the way to Sandfield Road down this path then over the fields. Last month when we were in Nottingham, we drove along Plains Road to see if I could spot where it used to be, but without success.... well, I am talking about 65 years ago! Phil, I remember the pillbox - it always smelled of wee inside...

I've never met anyone famous....

The thrift flower is called this name I suppose as it can survive on very little - poor soil and sometimes seemingly no soil in cracks of rocks. It makes the most of what it does obtain, probably not wasting anything. Perhaps a moral for us too? I used to called toadflax 'eggs and bacon' Did you? I have 'valerian' growing in my garden - it keeps trying to take over but I keep it in check (mostly). I've always called it 'Aunt Betsy' but maybe others have a different name for it? Before we moved to Cambs - over 40 years ago - I had never come across it, so it obviously wasn't in

Cliff Ton, thanks for the 1930's picture. The house I grew up in is on there (about halfway between Fairview Road and Maitland Road) at least it would be if it wasn't hidden behind a tree on the photo! The brickyard between Woodthorpe Drive and Breckhill Road doesn't seem to have been excavated much at this point - it was very active in the late 40s and early 50s with trucks on a 'railway line' going from there under Woodthorpe Drive. Don't know when it ceased to be worked... The photo doesn't show how steep that area is, does it, but that's often the case with photos. Phi

Banjo, thinking about your house backing on to Breckhill fields, was it on Coronation Road or further along the Plains? As well as playing in the brickyard, I too used to wander on Breckhill fields before they were built on. There was a cut-through path over a stile from Breckhill Road (starting a bit up from the bottom of Maitland Road) which led down to the bottom of Melbury Road / Wensleydale Road. It was an alternative route to walk to Arno Vale school via Coningsby Road. I tended to use the more standard route via Breckhill and Littlegreen Road but remember sometimes coming home up

I remember my mum taking me to the November service at the war memorial when I was very small. I seem to think the immediate area round the memorial was different/bigger then . This would've been in the late 1940s / early 50s

As I've said before, Phil, I went to the Sunday School at Mapperley Methodist for a short time before going to the same Sunday School as you until it moved to St Marks. Perhaps we sat together? I remember sitting in Arno Vale School classroom drawing pictures of some Bible story we'd just heard. Can't remember the story but it had hills, birds and people in it...

We were married at Mapperley Methodist in 1966. It was also interesting to see the steep slopes into the brickyards where I used to play as a child, sliding down the sides, climbing in the trucks until being chased off by the workmen, picking pussy willow from the bushes that grew there and negotiating the huge pools of water on the clay... it was always very slippery to walk on it especially after it had been raining

Banjo, so sorry you've had such a difficult time over the last few weeks but it's good that the cancer is contained. I hope the radiotherapy course won't be too traumatic for you - please keep letting us know how it goes. Sharing your experiences on here with relative strangers can be helpful, I think. And then, the loss of your dog..... I feel for you, as do many on here I suspect. Pets become part of the family, don't they... Thinking of you x

Nice flower pictures, Chulla. I've learnt something from the info on the bluebell.... I knew the stems were slimy inside but I never knew the slime was used long ago as a glue to stick feathers on arrows. If I'm out walking with the grandchildren and see the larger bindweed, we always have to pick a few flowers and stalks and make them into 'ladies'. (You turn the flower upside down so it looks like a dress, them poke a separate piece of stem from one side to the other to make the arms. There you have it - a lady in a white dress with a green cap on her head). My mum showed me how

Watched this all the way through, hoping I might see someone I knew, but seeing I was only 8 years old in 1951 there's probably no chance! Sobering thought that over 80% (just my estimate!) of the people in that film are probably no longer alive or, if they are, are very old. I particularly enjoyed looking at the Market Square as that's how I remember it. I'm a bit tearful now as I remember my mum taking me into town on the bus when I was little....

Just to let you know, we are thinking of you Chulla x

Did you mean to write that, Loppy?

Had you been reading 'Alice through the Looking Glass'?

I've always called red campion 'ragged robin' - what do you call it? Interesting that there are separate male flowers and female flowers... We have celandine which grow in the shady grass under our apple tree. They look so pretty, we don't cut that part of the lawn till they're finished. I first saw celandines when we used to visit my cousins who lived in the little village of Wiseton in North Notts. There was a canal running by the farm and the bank was smothered in the yellow flowers

Ben, I should have said that the photos were 'courtesy of' Ron Disney Photography, which no doubt means that whoever runs 'Nottingham Way Back When' lifted the photos from RDP's website!

Ben, it was Ron Disney Photography who put the co-op photos on Fb

I couldn't sleep a couple of nights ago so got up and watched a film I'd recorded about aliens and cowboys. It was very strange but I watched it to the end because I wanted to see what happened! We are also watching the series 'Hard Sun' which is scary because if the 'powers that be' knew for certain that there was going to be a whole world catastrophe in a few years time (a huge meteorite ?) this is probably what would happen..... The masses wouldn't be told because it would lead to total anarchy and then, when the story was inevitably leaked, it would be just seen as one of the many

Sorry you're not feeling well, Col. Perhaps you need to invest in a thick woolly hat to cover your ears, as well as a scarf when you venture out into the cold? Rest up and look after yourself..

My eyes are probably playing tricks but it looks like a Boy Scout (or Cub Scout) standing next to a horse!

Sweet little poems and pictures of fairies and their flowers, carni