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#450 Catfan
I thought Nobby Aukland had a special boot and calliper as a result of contracting polio when he was a child.
Just had it confirmed from an old school friend.
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#10 ger
Billy Hayes was in the year above me at Player School, his brother Ray was in my class. I'm told Billy was a window cleaner and lives somewhere near the Fox on Valley Road.
Mick Horton still drinks in the Beacon apparently, has racing pigeons.
Mick Else was a miner at Babbington a 'Ted' through and through drape jacket, brothel creepers, the works, big mate of Stuart Aram.
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#18 Lizzie My wife was in the punchroom ? and there were several departments/rooms, sorry she cannot recall your mother. It seems they were not encouraged to move around too much.
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I remember! She was really upset when told me that she had passed her quota for that day and had to refuse credit to a bloke from Bulwell called Benjamin.
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EileenH #9
Had a similar thing in Debenhams, my wife went to pay for some items and was told she could have 10% off if she had a store card, she already had one but never used it and didn't carry it with her, she'd taken that one to get the 10% previously offered. Sales staff said the account would have been closed so it would be fine to have another one.
The application was rejected embarrassingly in front of a large queue. At home a request for a free credit rating from Experian gave a 98% rating Debenhams had taken the decision to decline the card as one was still serviceable. On return to the store sales staff got both barrels.
If someone offers a discount or interest free money for a couple of years, to me it would not make sense to refuse it. I never take any offer on unless I have the funds to cover the total amount and it is not cheaper to pay by cash. All of the data they have is 'out there' anyway.
Rob.L #10 Many people in Nottingham would perhaps have known it as Cavendish Woodhouse who began the first computerisation of credit control at Talbot House, my wife worked there from the beginning in 1967 as a punch card verifier.
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Fly I remember at Cripps working on BRS Scammells around that time I think they were Scarabs.
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Catfan #241 re # 238
I didn't drive these vehicles I repaired them and loved the engines for their simplicity and unique design.
The knocking was normally the sign of worn rocker arms which transmitted the power from piston to crank, they would run forever even when knocking.
Generally lack of power was because it required a decoke which was a simple and quick job.
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Benjamin #244
Reminds me of my son closing a best man speech.
I hope the newly married couple enjoy their holiday in Wales. I think that's where they're going because when I asked Mark (the groom) what he was doing next he said he was going to Bangor for a fortnight.
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Benjamin #9
Bodega 63 Regular fights, Les the barman very slightly built but never held back as he hopped over the bar and got in amongst them.
Ind Coope Double Diamond 2 bob a pint. A few in the Lion, a few in the Bodega, bus fares and fish and chips at Hadlams all for a pahnd.
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Prior to the Volvos Thompson Jewitt bought a fleet of Commer Maxiloads for it's Scandinavian operation.
The vehicles were powered by Tillings Stevens 3 cylinder - 6 piston - horizontally opposed - supercharged 2 stroke engines (TS3) I used to love these engines.
The air cleaners sat below the drivers seat opposite the inlet manifold and the fuel injection pump, so a broken injector pipe could spray directly into the air cleaner, this brought home the tech college theory of the rising characteristics of a diesel engine very clearly when it started revving uncontrollably.
Jewitts had the vehicles kitted out with winter packs, basically insulation kit surrounding the engine bay, a kettle for driver and studded tyres.
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Fly The first 3 years of my apprenticeship was at Citroen dealers Siddon's garage Mansfield Road.
Worked on Light fifteens, ID19, DS21 and Deux Chevaux (2CV) Loved them! Cars so advanced for the times in 1960 - 63
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My Son-in-Law has a box at the iPro stadium and every year he invites me and the Forest side of the family to the (local derby) match. I last went when Forest lost 5 -0, this year I decided to go, I'd got all my excuses rehearsed in case of another trouncing and was ready just in case the result went our way.
After today's news I'm at a loss.
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Terence12 #83 In 57/60 the bottom of your back garden would have overlooked ours 3 gardens on.
Broxtowelad #84 There was a Les Daft born around 1955 I'm told.
Blondie #97 Name Carol Waldram rings a bell but I can't place her I'll find out from a friend next time I see him.
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Blondie #92
Carol Inger lived at the Coleby Road end of Lindfield I lived at the Shipley Road end, There were many good looking girls around that area in the 50s/60s she was definitely in the top ten %.
From what I remember she married Geoff Gamble who became a captain in the Merchant Navy he was in my class in the juniors at Player school.
Not sure who pbnotts is but if he lived in the low numbers he was either my next door neighbour or lived across the road.
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Madeline DaftChulla #82, Madeline Daft's dad was Les.
Broxtowelad #84
Dave 48 #85
A friend of mine 'went out' with Madeline for about 2 years, she had 5 sisters and a brother.
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I knew both Hazel and Madeline and I think there were more than the two of them. I believe Hazel married someone called Grenville Bishop who used to sing in a group at the Bowling Alley (Kath?) I last heard she worked in a shop in Eastwood.
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Cocked Hat had a small room as you said where mainly housewives used to get their jugs filled. (not a euphemism)
I think but not sure, that Len Orchard's at Broxtowe shops, Bradfield Road end might have sold draught beer as well.
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1886 10 mile road race Beeston George Chilvers was my GGranddad
Some contraptions here, I wonder if any were Raleighs. A few look like forerunners of the RSW 16s
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Malcolm I have revisited your original request regarding Charles Stanley Prince. Florence Rose did marry Charles Stanley not Charles Robert. I'd got 3 screens going trying to compare the records and obviously confused my 'Rs' from the other.
The facts are Rose married Charles (b South Africa) in 1916 when he was 46 she would have been about 19, he enlisted in the Army in 1918 at 48 and died at home 1st November that year aged 49. After his death all correspondence was forwarded to Florence Rose Harvey at Derwent Street.
There are reams of notes in the Ancestry Military section relating to his death but no real conclusion, just some mention of an infection I think.
Sorry about the errors can't see any connection after all (at this stage).
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Hi Malcolm,
I've just found and read this topic and noticed that your grandfather Edward Harvey married widow Florence Rose Prince age 22, I'd also clocked on the 1901 census re Mary Harvey that her neighbours were also Princes. This got me thinking which Prince did she marry. Red herrings though Mary's neighbours were not from my lot.
But from the marriage cert. #89 she was born Florence Rose Cooper, I couldn't find a marriage between F.R.Cooper and a 'Prince' but there was one for F.R. Cooper and a John H Lakin m.1915.
In 1916 Florence Rose Lakin married Charles Robert Prince, who, according to my family tree is my 1st cousin twice removed. He didn't die until 1951 so that one must have ended in divorce. It seems perhaps that by the age of 22 she had been a Cooper, Lakin, Prince and a Harvey.
Small world isn't it? When it is likely that your grandmother was the wife of one of my recent ancestors.
David Prince
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Ancestry - Military - UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services 1853 to 1928.
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Pianoman After many years searching census returns etc. I have got used to info names, ages and the like changing.
My GGranddad was a farm labourer in Norfolk and I tracked him right from 1851 he moved to the brewing industry in Nottm, Leeds back to Nottm and then Sawbridgeworth Essex.
When he arrived in Essex for some unknown reason he and my GGrandmother changed their birthplaces completely, by then he was apparently the leading Maltster in England and he was moving in grander social circles, perhaps he was hiding his past.
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Pianoman
Look for Robert Clay born 1825, Nottingham 1891 census . This census shows visitor Mary harvey 35 and Ernest Harvey 4. Queen's Grove. Although it states she is a widow that is not necessarily fact.
Look also on familysearch.org (free) and enter Ernest and Mary with actual birth date from naval records.
Hope it turns out to be a useful lead.
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in THE ESTATES - Aspley, Broxtowe, Bilborough, Cinderhill, Strelley and etc.
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#15 ger
I knew of the Lowndes family, Tony was in my year at school changed his name to Vince Taylor whilst in a one man protest on Strangeways roof.
Stan I seem to remember being a minder for someone who ran a pallet business near the Shoulder of Mutton. And also Mick 'Edgar' all passed away now.
Perhaps you knew of the Travis family, just heard the 'Denbo' died a month or so back.