MargieH

Interesting that the cigarette cards game varied from region to region. Paul says they never leaned a card against the wall - they just flicked cards towards the wall to see who could get nearest. Do any of you still have your old cigarette cards? Paul still has his, and matchbox labels

I was just telling Paul about the names for marbles and he asked if anyone could remember flicking cigarette cards towards a wall..... The person who got nearest to the wall got all the cards. Mind you he thinks that was when he lived in Grimsby about 60 years ago so maybe kids in Nottingham didn't do that?

Dave, I remember using the term 'shooter' but not any of the others. Stu, we used to call the big ball bearings 'bullies' too. I still think there was a special name for a one colour marble. I think I had an all blue one..... I hated it when I lost one of my favourites to someone else

Thanks for that FLY. I think that was what they were called where I lived, too. And Benjamin, I can remember blood alleys. Were there any more special names for particular marbles? What about those which were just one colour - did they have a special name?

All this talk about marbles has made me wonder.... What did we call the large glass marbles - not the ball bearing ones. I feel sure they had a name but I can't remember it. Yes, girls played marbles in the playground too - we didn't just do skipping!!

# 44. There was never a shortage of boys around me when I was in my prime!! But many of you Nottstalgian men would still have been playing with your marbles at that point. I feel a song coming on.... You were 'born too late for me to notice you..."

Hold your horses! = you needed to stop doing something Home James, and don't spare the horses! = time for a quick getaway

That's OK. But unless your aliases include the names Malcolm, Blackie, Lionel, Pete or Terry, it wasn't me!

I was in Mansfield from 1961 - 1963 and I did usually go out with boys who were younger than me! (But not ones who were still at school!!)

No mention of Woodthorpe or Sherwood....... Wonder if that was because there was nothing negative to say?

#27. My friend and I went to the Curzon to see an Elvis film - can't remember which one - in 1957 and they asked us how old we were. We were truthful and said we were 14 and they wouldn't let us go in!! Didn't know that Elvis films were considered so 'adult'....

Lizzie, that's so scary. It's the stuff of nightmares!

I, too, used to leave the baby in the pram outside the shop (in Leicester) when I used to go shopping. No-one would choose to do that nowadays, would they!

David and Katyjay, do you think you may be sort-of cousins several times removed? Amazing if you are! Although if you go far enough back, I suppose we may all be related to each other in some way.

Cliff and Mick, that is definitely where the shop used to be but the time I'm talking about was the late forties/ early fifties. Can't remember if the shop was a Co-op but it was definitely a food shop. As I said, I mostly remember climbing on the small concrete wall, walking round it and jumping off! Nice to see Littlegreen Road - I used to walk down there every day to Arno Vale School. (4 times a day actually as there were no school dinners when I started so I used to walk the 8/10 mile home for my dinner and then back to school again afterwards. Sometimes I had a packed lunch, but no

Still worried that I can't remember the Co-op in Mapperley. Does anyone know when it opened? I remember that my mum used to do her shopping at one time at a shop (was it a Co-op...) on the corner of Breckhill Road and The Crescent, opposite Littlegreen Road. I remember it had a concrete wall round it which I used to play on while she was shopping

Thankyou for showing/telling me about where the Co-op is - still can't say it's in my OWN memory but the picture helped.

I have a complete blank in my mind as to where the Co-op in Mapperley was, never mind the club above it!! And I lived near there from 1943 - 1966 (and continued to visit Mum and Dad there until 1981). I hate it when I completely forget things......... Please can someone tell me?

Katyjay, my maternal grandparents were called Selby. Apparently, Saundby Park farm was quite big and they employed several people to work on the farm so there may have been a connection somewhere there...... but we'll never know, will we! DavidW, depending on when your ancestors lived in N Wheatley, maybe my lot knew your lot, too. I seem to remember my mum speaking of going to dances in Wheatley, presumably in the village hall or something. Wish I could go back in time and be an observer .....

Our current car ends in FMC. We remember it by saying "fat man's car" ..... but Paul is certainly not overweight so it's not a very accurate way of remembering it!

Katyjay, if your grandparents lived in North Wheatley, they would almost certainly have known my maternal grandparents and possibly my mum and her siblings. The family lived at Saundby Park farm from 1887 - 1938 (mum was born in 1902) and in those days everyone in all the surrounding villages seemed to know each other, according to my mum. The villages were obviously much smaller than they are now. I have heard her speak of going to Wheatley...

Malcolm... so your great grandparents came from Waterbeach - that's just a few miles from us. Do you know which street?

I was born in a house on Hereford Road, Woodthorpe, which backed on to a railway in a cutting. When I was a few months old we moved to a house more than halfway up Woodthorpe Drive, which was my official home until I married I suppose. My parents were from villages in North Notts (Saundby and Misterton)

Can I be the physio or bring on the half time oranges?

#82. Beeston Mick, we were travelling from Nottingham to visit relatives who lived in Beckingham or Wiseton (can't remember which one on that particular day) we travelled through Retford on the way, I think