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Michael that is what I thought Bramcote to Spondon. There is a road sign at the junction of Derby Road and Lenton Boulevard, opposite the cinema which reads - Derby Road, Brian Clough Way. So is it the Highways dept. or Nottingham City Council stretching it a bit.

Brian Clough Way. Where does it start and where does it finish?

I buy Inks from 123 ink cartridges.co.uk Loughborough Road. Epson XP - 305, 10 cartridges for £20.00 4 black 3 colours x 2. Online only. Well worth a look.

He was our P.E. teacher at Player school, mid 1950s I would think.

My first car was this one, A Wolseley 6/80 bought between 6 of us for £30 , we were all 17 at the time and no-one had passed their test. On a weekend 6 went out and often many more came back. No seat belt or drink driving laws then.

My dad had a BSA /Watsonian combination and later an AJS /Swallow combo. I used to love going in them particularly when it was dark. Through scratched perspex, each street light was an enemy plane coming towards me and I was in my Spitfire. Imagination running riot.

Bubblewrap Nah! I meant proper English.

I feel sorry for the kids today. They are taught english at school and are bombarded with american spellings in all areas of the media, adverts McDonalds, iPhones. How are they to know which is proper? They then have the added confusion of textspeak. BYKT BTW, B4N.

#117 I think the article refers to 1928 when the home opened and also to 1986 when the article was written. In 1928 a skilled man's wages would be less than £5 per week and that would be for 6 days work. It is still not clear, but it seems to suggest that the council gave the kids £5 spending money in 1986 for 2 weeks in which is much more believable. There is also a statement that the children were from unhappy homes or from broken families, I don't know how this worked as I was from neither and I was not conscripted, and I've no idea why but I volunteered.

The use of 'could of' instead of 'could've' or 'could have' when did 'of' replace have? Rio Ferdinand - I fink he is fick togevva wiv many of his footballer friends, tell me your forts. The use of your when it should be you're.

Katy #265 Sorry I've just realised that the Thames Trader vehicle was registered in 1964 whereas the pics I posted #276 would have been early to mid 70s. Not sure if plastics were that advanced in 64 so the question remains, what toys did Raleigh produce in 1964.

Katy, obviously didn't use the right glue on the previous 3 attempts to post images.

Yes Katy, I'm trying to get 2 images to load, not sure what's happening yet though. There you go.

#269 Katyjay Raleigh toys, my son had a blue version of the racing car.

kids limbs covered in yellow or bluey purple patches (iodine?)

It's only a small burn, rub some butter on it. Falling heavily causing cuts and grazes, get up stop being a mardy s*d.

#12 Bet you carried on until you got to the glasses stage. lol

That lump on your wrist? It's a ganglion, get someone to hit it with a large heavy book. That blister. It's an infection, I'll lance it and paint it purple. That lump on your neck? It's a boil, put this tin of paste (Kaolin) in a pan of boiling water for about 10 minutes then apply the paste to the neck.

radfordred, Be fair radford, before they pulled them out they gassed you. Picture of the clinic on Friends Reunited - Player School, been humorously modified by Colin Polak who is a member of this site.

The sound of kids shouting "Mam, eh yer seen me woggle?"

Clapper? A contraption given away with the first issue of the Beezer. A hard piece of cardboard folded to make a triangle and fixed to one end was some stiff brown paper which folded inside the cardboard. Held in one raised arm and when brought swiftly down the paper was forced out and gave a resounding clap like thunder. Teachers straps. Used quite frequently at my 1st school and I suspect most other schools, although the Head used a cane when he carried out public floggings. Where did the teachers buy them from? Were they standard issue when completing teacher training?

Compo, Yes we did call them winter warmers. Can't think why other than we used them in winter and they kept us warm, Well perhaps not warm, we just liked playing with fire.

benjamin1945 WHY Not sure but could be man's inbuilt fascination with fire, there is something relaxing and mesmerising about a flickering flame, but to me it was more about the element of danger when a mate got his rhythm wrong or his string burned through and we all had run around trying to avoid a shower of burning coals.

Home made winter warmers Which was a Cow & Gate milk powder tin, pierced around the sides with a long handle made from wire rescued from the firewood bundle, attached to this was a string to give flexibility. Once fire was well lit the can was filled with coal. In order to boost the output it was swung windmill fashion or if you were the lairy sort in an X across the chest. Many an evening was spent on the corner of Lindfield and Shipley Road with our warmers we'd probably be about 9 or 10 years old.

Katyjay #2911 Friends reunited People's college secondary technical school - photos Brian is on lots of them.