ValuerJim

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  1. How about this one. Poems that make men cry? ROGER MCGOUGH - THE IDENTIFICATION So you think its Stephen? Then I'd best make sure Be on the safe side as it were. Ah, there's been a mistake. The hair you see, its black, now Stephens fair ... Whats that? The explosion? Of course, burnt black. Silly of me. I should have known. Then lets get on. The face, is that the face mask? that mask of charred wood blistered scarred could that have been a child's face? The sweater, where intact, looks in fact all too familiar. But one must be sure. The scoutbelt. Yes thats his. I recognise th
  2. Any golfing poets out there? Betjeman fans? Seaside Golf How straight it flew, how long it flew,It clear'd the rutty track And soaring, disappeared from view Beyond the bunker's back - A glorious, sailing, bounding drive That made me glad I was alive. And down the fairway, far along It glowed a lonely white; I played an iron sure and strong And clipp'd it out of sight, And spite of grassy banks between I knew I'd find it on the green. And so I did. It lay content Two paces from the pin; A steady putt and then it went Oh, most surely in. The very turf rejoiced to see That quite
  3. One of the main appeals of the Beeb is the absence of advertising.
  4. Dave N (#30). I was a member of the Gee Dee MRC in Hockley for a time, as well. Can't remember much about it, apart from helping to operate the club layout above the Elite cinema, on the same day as the students Rag Week procession went by, and throwing coins down from the top floor windows. Some of you refer to a seller in the Central Market. I have a dim memory of a miniature ride on railway being there at one time.
  5. My dad let me drive the Dido. It was a push/pull arrangement, and I drove it, from the carriage end, up to Annesley from Bulwell Common.
  6. Some of you might find these of interest. The photographs date from 1977, but the buildings were still there, just, in 2012. https://www.dropbox.com/s/y0jvev3r55vvnht/1-31-2010_002%20%282%29.JPG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/au3iufnh79m2dr2/1-31-2010_001%20%282%29.JPG?dl=0
  7. That looks like it Dave. Crunching along the prom. The buggers can bite, as well.
  8. Luxury! We never had a car. We had to go by train, normally an excursion from Basford North. Egg sandwiches were out before we got to Sleaford, eyes out for Boston Stump, and spot the herons along the 40 foot.
  9. No, it was a lot earlier than that - unless they are regular occurrences. I would guess around 1959.
  10. I guess you're right, Sue. Maybe it was expecting too much for them to look the same as I remember them from 60 odd years ago. Does anyone remember the year of the ladybird plague?
  11. My dad was an engine driver, and he made good use of his travel concessions to take us all on trips to the seaside, either a day or a week at Mablethorpe or Sutton on Sea. A couple of years ago I went back to have a look, and was dismayed at what I saw. Both looked on their last legs. It was late July, and the places were more or less deserted. None of the chalets at SoS looked in use and, worst of all, the beach has been banked up to the prom wall and is virtually on the same level. I have been away for 50 odd years, so my recollections may be awry, but is my impression of these places correc
  12. Did that involve getting out the long pole with the hooked end?
  13. I was in the 44th Nottingham for a time in the 50s, Chulla. Also in the photo is a chemists shop run by someone called Ackrill, who I seem to remember committed suicide.
  14. Saw the Beatles at the Odeon, maybe 63 - had to ballot for tickets - and the Stones at the Albert Hall? around the same time. Frequented the Brit mostly in the 60s, and remember a band called the Corsairs. Before that it was the Locarno, under 16s night of a Tuesday. Just soft drinks and groping.
  15. Not to forget Puffer Graham - with the little mound of spittle in the centre of his lower lip - Chick Farr, or Dynamite Thomson. Playing cards with the French 'assistant', and smuggling a girl into an assembly. Life on the edge! I also sang the Aida song, and I still break into the exerpt from the Marriage of Figaro from time to time. Was anyone on the trips to Crowlink in Sussex, c 1959, or Ballycastle, c 1962?
  16. I had a paper round on the Highbury Vale estate in the 1950s. The Dandy came out on Tuesdays, and the Beano on Thursdays, I seem to remember, and there was a correlation between the comics and the papers; the houses which took the Beano also took the Evening Post, whereas Dandy households took the Evening News.
  17. Thanks, Fynger. If the changing cubicles were all occupied, we had to change in the 'dugout', and risk being assaulted by the big lads with wet towels. I've still got dad's whistle.
  18. Surprised nobody's mentioned Northern Baths. We used to go there from High Pavement for lessons, and my dad stoked the boilers and blew the whistle for a couple of years after he was made redundant as a railway engine driver. I've not been back for a few years; are the baths still there?