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I remember going to the fair with my Mam as a nipper to see the Lord Mayor declare it open and we'd enjoy the look around the sideshows and stalls taking in all the colours and sounds and aromas. Then during the following week at school we'd be asked to write a story about our "trip to the fair" and during art lesson told to capture the scene, on a sheet of sugar paper, by splashing paint about on tables covered with old newspaper.

Oo will yer be gooin wi?

I remember 'avinago at the Pole Vault at the school's House Sports Day. Never done it before. I just took the pole from the teacher and ran down the runway concentrating on placing the end of the pole in the little trough at the end, like I'd been told. I got off the ground ok, I obviously dint clear the bar, which had been set at an optimistic 6'. However, we did get a point for entering. Come On Sherwood!!!

Mi dogs a barkin............My feet ache

Aye it's evry man fer issen alright duck.

Scuttlebutt: A Nottingham word derives from: Scuttle.......Wot yer put coal in. Butt............Wot yer keep water in. When unscrupulous Nottingham coal merchants wished to gain an advantage over their competitors they would employ the services of young lads. They would send the young urchins (or scuttlebutts) round at night to wet down their rival's coal stock, using any method at their disposal, making it difficult to light thereby spoiling their reputation. So when they found they could no longer sell their coal they would be forced to enter into another trade e.g. purveyor o

The living room carpet looks familiar. We had that fitted in our first house and liked the pattern so much we chose it again for our second. I think we bought it from Waring and Gillows.

I was an A.B.C. minor

The area looks familiar. I remember admiring the new Bond Bug it was a bright orange two seater.

The garage seemed to specialise in and sold new Reliants.

Eyup Cliff. I was thinking it was near the Melbourne Road junction.

Thanks poohbear that name came to me a bit ago but I was thinking that was a shoe shop.

Who can remember the name of the garage that sold 3 wheeler cars and vans on Nutthall Road ?

David W. Re finding a particular page..... I just found that if you click on the little triangle it opens up a box that lets you put a specific page number in it.

Could one of the Nottstalgians in America get them for you and forward them on?

Street photographers.Usually when yer wer at the seaside.

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E ent gorra plaster on is eye like I ed at is age.

I'll tell yer what. Yer don't see them green pennants fluttering on bike handlebars anymore; earned on the successful completion of the cycling proficiency test. I wonder if that's why a some of 'em have come a cropper in the Olympics?

Did you have the flattened dent in the finger where you'd gripped the pen?

Talking about ink wells.Do you remember the wooden pen stems that were issued at school, along with the separate nib that fitted into the end? I remember our being told by the teacher to suck the new nib to remove the wax coating and so allow the ink to flow.

Hope it's a clear sky. There's very little "light pollution" at night up here on the East coast so I should get a good view.

Not exactly a celebrity visit but when I worked at the Arnold baths in the 70's I was looking out through the foyer window with a workmate when he said "D'yer know who that is ?" I didn't but he said "That's Tommy Lawton".

Does anyone remember Joyce who taught swimming to the school kids at the Arnold baths; or Hazel who worked there as a teacher and a pool attendant

My Mam got a signed photo from Henry Cooper during a shopping trip to town I wasn't with her so I don't know where he was. She said he "smelled nice" so I reckon he must have splashed the Brut all over.......I managed to get a signed photo of Sunny Sunblest when he was at the opening of a supermarket. Mam said "E din't look very sunny did e?" I just remembered......I got a signed photo from Charlie Chester at the same time......It was the opening of a supermarket in Hyson Green I think.