FiftiesBoy

Members
  • Content Count

    47
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by FiftiesBoy

  1. In that case Jill, it could have been an Isetta still german but made by BMW. One of the original bubble cars.
  2. yep Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, The Rocketman and why did Flash Gordons spaceship always have a sparkler stuck in the rear with smoke floating up.
  3. Saturdays was the Windsor on Hartley Road
  4. Hi Mess, I frequented RSJS at the end of Beechdale Road then onto Glaisdale
  5. Hi Nige hope you enjoy your visit back to the past
  6. Hi Nigewaggy I remember you, yes the shops were a great gathering place, a friend of mine Leonard used to live at the grocers, but having looked on google earth street view it would appear all the shops on Ainsley Road have gone, the co-op is no more neither is Mr Wilsons off licence.
  7. Welcome Radford gal, and thanks for the update.
  8. hi piggy & babs, would Dave have worked at Bell Fruit.?
  9. I to remember that swing and sliding down the slagheaps on what ever was available cardboard, tin, anything.
  10. Navy Blue or Black blazer, light blue or white shirt, black trousers, tie dark blue with light blue and red diagonal stripes and a badge with the houses on Castle, Wollaton, Sherwood and Trent.
  11. Hi Mess When you lived on Elstree did you know the Longs (Ged & Elizabeth) ?
  12. Sat on the shoulders off our next door neighbours son, on the corner of Friar Lane and Wheeler Gate
  13. Unwin was the headmaster when I was there, music teacher we used to call chinny, looked a bit like Jimmy Hill pre beard, 'Noddy' Matthews (Maths), Mr Dobby, Hailey (PE) Messrs Brand, Edinborough and Dixon.
  14. Just had a look on the Evening Post website and read about the baths, jeez doesn't time fly over 40 years old. Does that mean the library across the road has gone as well??.
  15. Hi Radford Boy Spent many hours as you did on the Robert Shaw playing fields cricket, football, rugby and sliding on the ice when the fields flooded one year. Knew Ray Pugsley, Roland Scales, Mick Mellors, Roy Leivers, Aubrey Moult. Mate of mine, John Berry, used to live on Southfield Road most of us went to RS School. As you say the Co-Op used to be a gathering place for many as did the chippy on Ainsley Road. The waste ground eventually went when they built the swimming baths.
  16. Hi Radford Boy, Pat must have lived at No 63 then, I lived opposite David Carroll and Wayne Swinscoe lived a little further round the road.
  17. I went to Glaisdale and I am probably a couple of years younger than you Dave
  18. No, Trevor Morleys dad, if I remember rightly Gloria lived on Ainsley Road
  19. yep played for Reds 46/59. Would have been 62/63
  20. Hi Happy Jack, I lived on the est 50-early 70, the Newsagents changed hands and was owned by Bill Morley, at that time I had a paper round there. The Green Grocers when I knew it was owned by Mr Hoyes, as I used to pal up with his son Len.
  21. School swimming lessons used to be Radford Baths, loved the hot chocolate from machine after.
  22. Knew Brian and his elder Brother Paul(Smith) lived at the top of the crescent Does anybody remember the big bonfires that used to be built for bonfire night on the wasteland at New Bridge, all that wood just seemed to materialise out of nowhere.