Tompa

We always went on the train to Skeggy, exitment broke out when Boston Stump came into view..... could never understand why, it never looked like a " stump " to me anyway. lol.

And the water was a dirty brown colour and tasted like rust, but my foster Father used to say, Gerrit darn ya, and stop bloody moanin or I won't get ya a monkey on a stick. LOL Never did get a bucket an spade like the other kids, had to use empty ice cream tubs, those were the days lol can't believe I survived it all

Fetching water, Chapel St ca: 1950 Leonards

Chapel St Leonards ca: 1950

Another view of 60 Cockington Rd bilborough

60 Cockington Rd Bilborough Portland Rd junior school is just behind the house

Crikey managed to get a photo on here..... My class photo from Portland Rd junior school, 1949 or 1950... not sure

Portland Rd Junior school..... Ignore this, I tried to upload a photo but as usual it did not work.

Used to get a cows heel ligament to chew on, cooked of course, we called it Paddi-Wack, or something like that, how strange is that ???

Home baked bread that had gone stale was thrown into a bowl soup.........after that Mike Tyson would have had to watch out.

I love Sweet William....... the flower I mean

Memories..............oh got plenty of them, like going out dog-ending wi me dad and making rollups, or going to the railway sideings and pinching coal. Nicking a bottle of milk of somebody's doorstep oh dear making it sound like I was brought up rough. lol

haha, love it

I will be 72 in November

That's the place Terence !!! crikey how clever of you... wonderful

No I was born in Radford, I was put into Hartley Rd childrens home at the age of two. Went to a foster home in Broxtowe for a short while then onto another set of foster parents at Bilborough at the age 6 and lived at Bilborough until the age of 11, then back to my real mother until I left school, then into the army out of the way of it all. lol

I remember going to the pictures at an old farmhouse, or whatever it was,and it did have a sort of court yard and it was somewhere in Bilborough and the bloke who showed the films,( Lassies come home, Flash Gordon and the clay men, Hopp A Long Cassidy ) had only one leg, can't remember too much about the place but it might jogg somebodys memory. Cassidy

Oh dear, I can't remember, I know it was a wooden building, and not far from it there was an orchard where I used to go scrumping ( God helps him who helps himself ) lol it's was only cooking apples, so I did suffer the after effects lol. I was about eleven when I moved from there to Bracebridge Drive, and after that to Union Road St Anns. But you are probably right. Thanks to all your replies, fantastic at there are people out there that still remember .

I used to walk from Cockington Rd to Woolaton to attend Sunday school. Always got a picture stamp to stick in a little attendance book. Our Doctors surgery was on the corner of Russel Drive and Woolaton Rd The house is still there and is called " Doctors Corner belonging to Lindens Medical Group. I doubt if the Doctor who stiched up my lip after being biten by the family dog after teasing it, is still there.

Cliff Ton, I think you have hit the nail on the head there, Lord Nelson it must have been, another pub up near the main road, I think was called The Sun Inn.

I lived 4 Union Cottages off Union Rd from about 1955 to 1959 then joined the army. I went to Shelton St school. Bought Park Dive or Woodbine fags and a match from a little baccy shop, used to call the bloke who owned it Mr Diddle, he always a fag end in his mouth, so small that its a wonder he didn't burn his lips off.

Thanks for posting the photo of Clayton Square,the black door in the bottom left hand corner is where I lived. My uncle Tom lived next door at number 2. My Dad was known as Fats Leeming although he was never fat to my knowledge, haha. The tall building in the middle of the photo was a pub, it might have been called the Sun Inn, but can't be sure of that, I know it was a pub. Gas lighting and water tap in the middle of the yard, no such thing as a sink to wash in, we used a bowl, the toilets were outside, wooden shed sort of things, and a bloke came with a horse and cart and emptied them now a

Yes, I think that's the one, I know it was just off Denman Street

I was born in Radford, Number 4 Clayton Square...1943 Put into Hartley road childrens home aged 2 can't remember exactly. Put into foster care and grew up on Cockington Rd Bilborough

Love thy neighbour, and all that eh !!!