LongJohn

This is a request for help from anyone who lives in the Hyson Green/Bobbers Mill area - does anyone remember Berridge Engineering in Berridge Road? My dad worked there as their buyer in the early 60s - they made paint spraying equipment.

I remember when this was a railway - I spent from the mid 50s to mid 60s living in New Vale Road. This was a cul-de-sac leading to the pair of lines running into Victoria station. The end of the road was just blocked off with old sleepers. When the road went over the railway, the bridge was a nasty sharp turn. Still, Victoria station should not have been shut and demolished.

Hello MargieH #389:- I got in touch with Susan Fowler direct via Amazon when I learned via U3A that she had had her first book published. This was about a school in the east end of London which was evacuated to Cornwall during the war. Most of the kids were Jewish. Lots of them stayed in Cornwall - they were well received by the locals, and some intermarried. The U3A said that Susan lived in Penzance - I asked her this, and she said she planned to, but was still living in the Arnold area. I seem to recall she did play netball, but I'm not the best person to ask - I have the sport gene missing.

Hello LizzieM #387: Yes I did get your PM, but only discovered it this evening, after I'd written you the above reply #386! Duh! You'd never believe I spent 20 years in the IT industry, would you??

LizzieM #24: Was Carlton-le-Willows Grammar School such a prestigious educational establishment? I know I was always thought to be "posh" by my Colwick friends, but honestly I detested the place! We got off to a bad start - on the very first day, when the first lesson started, the teacher came in the room, and said something on the lines of "I know you're new here, but when a teacher comes into the classroom, you're meant to stand up"!! That, and referring to us boys by our surnames. ClW was run up on the cheap to house us baby-boomers, and yet it was run as if it were a minor public school. N

MargieH #385: I was a real boy scientist, but happily I found languages easy as well - made it hard when you had to choose! I remember "Basher" Bates well - he and I didn't really like each other personally, but we had a grudging professional respect for each other. He taught me French very well, so that I can still speak it. In fact, I made a friend a few years back at a WEA class in Exeter, simply because she is French, and I was willing to talk to her in French! How easy is that? Another little anecdote that might amuse you - a couple of years ago, I was having lunch in the Christian books

I think "Sluice Gates Road" was just what we called it in the family. It could be River Road. Anyway, it's the road that leads from the Loop Road junction, to the sluices gates themselves, through the former gravel workings that are now the lakes of Colwick Park. If anyone knows Trevor Shuttleworth, say hello to him from me - he won't remember me! Re banjo48's link in #22, apart from the fact that I can't make the link work, no these were not the cottages. Trevor's were definitely demolished to make way for the car park. The houses over the road belonged to a family called Bagguley. They wer

Hello LizzieM #20 - I was at Carlton-le-Willows GS between '57 and '64. I remember a Mr Wombwell the chemistry teacher. I was a real boff, and loved chemistry, but he made it seem hard! I went back to ClW a few years back, and got treated like royalty. Everyone kept saying "He was here between 57 and 64" as if I was out of the Dark Ages!

When I lived in Colwick (about 1962), I used to knock about on motorbikes with a lad called Trevor Shuttleworth. He lived in one of a group of really ancient looking tumbledown cottages. They are long gone, but they used to be on the site of the car park, situated where Sluice Gates Road meets the loop road. He had a rumour (no more than that), that Colwick cheese used to be made in those cottages. I give you this for what it's worth!

Thanks for the welcome in #9-12. I have been looking at the Transport thread - obviously lots of people on this site who remember far more about railways than me!!

I have only just found this site: I used to live about 2/3 along New Vale Road Colwick during my teenage years (1955-64), so we saw the 3 cranes trundling around the (appalling quality) track in Sands' yard. I now live in mid Devon, and I'm secretary of my local model engineering society. The other day I was round at the house of one of our members, who is Devon born and bred. I was admiring his freelance model of a steam crane, which he is hoping to display in Bristol in the summer at BSMEE in Thornbury. He fished an old video tape from a drawer: he had recorded the Salvage Squad programme wh