ValuerJim

Uppers: For the full set: 2. Forest's glory years. 3. The internet. 4. Clean air legislation. 5. Mmmmm - can't think of another one. Downers: 1.Margaret Thatcher. 2. Donald J Trump - potential. 3. Replacement of grants by loans for higher education. 4. Tax. 5. Tax

The fall of the Berlin Wall

Is the Orangery still standing? It's a good few years since I last visited, but it was looking very dilapidated and sorry for itself.

Might have played you Trevor. I was playing for Bonington OB around that time, and we played at Hempshill Lane.

My wife was crowned Miss Bulwell Depot around 1962/3 at the depot's annual dinner dance. It didn't make the Dispatch though. She didn't make a career out of it either; just went to work in a knicker factory in the Lace Market.

That's right. I had forgotten the upstairs 'dining room'? I think of Sandos every time I taste peppered gravy. Talking of posh dos, I went to a wedding reception in a shed alongside the Highbury Vale pub, but that was a touch above Sandos, I guess.

In the third shot, was it Sandersons? chippy, with amazing home made pies, just behind the bus?

We used to take a train out to Awsworth. There was a fishing lake just down from the station, and an abandoned farm and outbuildings. We split into two groups, each taking pot shots at the other with air guns and rifles. My mate was taking aim with his rifle and was hit on his right hand between thumb and forefinger, just below his right eye. We stuck to fishing and minor vandalism after that.

Sorry Ian, you have entirely missed the point the 'capfitters', as you call them, were making. The mild criticism was of the extent and coverage of the obits, and in no way denigrated Bowies influence and achievements.

There must be a limit to the size of arse which can be accommodated on a flight, in the same way that hand baggage is restricted to a specific size and weight. Do airlines have arse gauges, similar to those which check hand luggage eligibility? If not, why not?

Which direction is she(?) travelling?

Exactly Bubbly. Imagine sitting next to the girl on the right on a Ryanair flight.

Benjamin. As I recall, the RSA club on Bestwood Road dates from around 1960, so it would have been open for business for dad only for five years or so before he was made redundant: a wrist watch and £350 for 35 years service! I know he used to go there for his ASLEF meetings, with his mate, Bill Harrison and others. I guess you are younger than me, but did you go to the Christmas parties for the Annesley families, initially at Annesley miners' welfare club and finally at Highbury School?

Trackies have their place for people of all shapes and sizes, and they save time getting dressed to pop down to the Co-op. But how about crop tops and leggings for the volumetrically challenged? The things you see when you haven't got your camera.

Songs work sometimes, but more often it's smells that do it for me. Photographs are ok, but the best ones are those you keep in your head.

Benjamin I assume you have found Chris's Annesley website. It's a mine of information, and there are loads of photographs of Annesley railwaymen.

Dad would occasionally be rostered to drive the Grimsby/Immingham fish train, and he usually came home with something wrapped in newspaper - skate balls were considered a great delicacy. Never heard of them since, and wonder if it was a fatherly joke.

Has anyone any idea of what remains of the original Flying Scotsman apart, possibly, from the name plates and other plates? I guess it's like the old garden broom - ten new handles and twenty new heads, and still good as new.

Just read it, Phil. It's roundly ignored in this part of the country. It seems most of us are capable of treating the junction as a roundabout for the purposes of priority, without the need to attempt to drive around it.

The Master Cutler was transferred to run via Retford to Kings Cross in 1958, RGR.

Why do car drivers treat mini roundabouts in the form of a white disc painted on the road as a physical obstruction?

The Kong Nam, where I first sampled croutons, floating in the tomato soup. Was it 4s 6d for three courses?

One thing for which I will be eternally grateful; my kids have never shown any interest in Disney. When they were young and younger, the ideal family holiday involved camping. They now take their children camping, and to the same places we took them to - mainly the Llyn peninsula. I now regularly stay in hotels during golf trips, and feel very sorry for the children I see being dragged along. They seem ok though, so maybe it's just me!

Thanks for putting me straight. It was 50 or so years ago, and I've not been back since for a good look around. I dare say my recollection of the grand spiral staircases in the Co-op is a bit dodgy, and the miniature ride-on railway in the Central Market?

1957 - train to Southampton, ferry to Guernsey, and plane to Alderney. A De Havilland Dragon Rapide bi-plane, with room for six, which we filled, and a flight time of around 10 minutes at 2000 ft - I'm guessing that bit. First time abroad, and a great memory for an 11 year old, and not repeated until 1972, to Magaluf.