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I hope I am wrong but I don't think Australia will manage to score in free play as we do not have any attacking players. Lets see how they go against Denmark. Though it was a win for England unfortunately I did not see much cause to be confident

Used to love their Cornish Dairy Choc Ices, quite expensive a 6d but yummo

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Is Is our MargieH on these photos of Harlow Wood prizegiving 1965? (Posted on another site by Heather Johnson)

I can remember starting work back in the sixties with a canvas gas mask holder haversack as a bag to take my snap to work. It was just right for a Tupperware sandwich box and a Thermos flask. Purchased of course from Wakefield's Army Stores in Mansfield. There was also a store called Yeoman's that sold similar stuff.

Liver too in a proper mixed grill

Great Picture Ian, Just starting the build of the "new" stand purchased from Hurst Park racecourse. Don't forget Mike Stringfellow and Stags best ever full back Colin Toon and a special mention of Sandy Pate and Peter Morris

Whilst looking for something else came across this It says that it was at the corner of Hempshill Lane and Coventry Rd Bulwell and demolished in the 1950's Picture source Eddie Dexter

Yes, past the edge of Bestwood on the A611. Starting in Mansfield through Rainworth, Blidworth, Fishpool, (Ravenshead) Papplewick twice, Hucknall, Bestwood, past Bullwell Forest Golf course, along Hucknall Rd until it met Mansfield Rd and on to Huntingdon St.

I think it might be winning or does patience reduce as we get older? Microsoft continues to "push" updates and often when I turn my computer on it appears to just sit there doing nothing and when I eventually am able to interrogate it I can see it is doing a major update. Why don't the nob heads at MS just put a message on the screen asking if I want to do the update now or later before it goes and ties up my computer for many minutes. Yes I know I can turn off the automatic updates but some manners even in todays electronic world would not go amiss.

Ian, That is Ratcher Hill Quarry that can be seen at the top of this photo The Bridge you can see in the first photo is most likely the one over Oak Tree Lane Mansfield Colliery was better known to locals as Crown Farm or "Crownie"

Ian, that box was near Ratcher Hill Quarry roughly half way between Oak Tree Lane and the new Rainworth By-pass and close to the Ransom Hospital. Can't quite work out what road is on the bridge above the line

Just Seen this photo, so many memories as we always stood in the East Stand, as a nipper with my dad or granddad level with the second post in from the Kop end and passed down to the wall at the front so I could see. Much later as teenager and adult level with the 18 yard box at the Trent End

Any computer program that says "do you want to use ***** "(name of program or application) When I click "NO" why cant the stupid thing remember that and stop bl**dy asking

I think it is the jangly intro that makes it sound a bit like the Kinks. There used to be a great pub on Oak Tree Lane in Mansfield called the Flamingo it was a Holes, Newark brewery, pub and had a waterfall in the lounge area. My favourite Manfred Mann song is of course Mighty Quinn with Mike D'Abo doing vocals as sung at the City Ground after the signing of "The Mighty Jim"

I think you will find it was Percy Shaw from Halifax in Yorkshire.

June is the first month for what passes as winter down under and like Margie we have two blackbirds (yes the same ones as in England) who take great delight in throwing the mulch from the raised garden beds everywhere in their search for grubs. It often takes half an hour in the morning to put it all back, it is surprising how far the little buggers can throw it.

Why don't we have decent crusts on sliced bread any more? The ones we are getting now are so thin you can see through them.

Can't remember ever having had a pork pie at the football it was usually a meat pie and a cup of hot Bovril. I think the meat pies might have been Dormston? Do you remember the "new" stand purchased second hand from Hurst Park racecourse coming to Field Mill. If you remember the old rickety Bishop Street stand here is a view of the corner of it just before demolition and the streets and town behind. Did you know that Field Mill is the oldest ground in the Football League, being used since 1861 As for this sponsor naming ballcocks Mansfield play at Field Mill not One C

Don't think Frozen Pantry was there before we left for Oz but A.E Bird and Sons Fine Pork Butchers. The best pork sausages and pork pies for miles around. A slice of gammon, fresh dug new potatoes and fresh picked peas, sublime. Can't get a decent slice of gammon here now that all the local "British" shops have closed. Who used to have a grilled pineapple ring with their gammon? I did.

The Brown Cow was home to the Mansfield Folk Club for many years. Had a few beers and sung a few songs in there in my time.

R'L' Jones's Sunecta Mixed Fruit was a favourite of mine as a kid The Mandora plant was on Bellamy Road and was Mansfield Breweries soft drink brand. It was sold to A.G.Barr the makers of Tizer and Irn Bru in1998

The only things I remember from Blackpool are the Grand National roller coaster, the tram to Fleetwood, the fantastic Wurlitzer at the Tower, and of course the illuminations. Here is Jasper Carrot's slightly rude "Day Trip to Blackpool"

In earlier days platform 2 was for Barton buses and after they moved some services to Mount Street Trent used to use it, almost exclusively except for the Mansfield District Traction Bus to Southwell. Most of the buses I caught from Huntingdon Street used platform 6

Ian, You forgot Calverton