ValuerJim
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Great choice, Col. Tom Rush wrote some great songs. Dusty Springfield does it for me too, with Going Back.
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Rugby was the only winter option at HP, apart from hockey. I fancied myself at football, and reckon that my time at HP closed the door on my international career.
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Remember the athletics competition? With the house flags ranged up a stick indicating the leader. Wollaton, black and yellow, was always in danger of relegation.
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The route I remember was down the cycle track, left along Arnold Road/Oxclose Lane as far as the Oxclose pub, then through the fields to Southglade Road? was this the steep hill? The best I could do was 7th, maybe in 1961.
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"I've got the law on my side!". "Yes, but I've got the knobs on mine". Classic.
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At HPGS, probably in the fifth form, to warn us off smoking we were treated to a film of a guy having part of his cancerous lung removed. In full colour!
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I worked at Players the summer holiday of 1966, on the Embassy/Number 6 lines, racing around on the teleflex replenishing the slides and hulls. The tobacco dust was swept off the floor and re-used for Number 6, but not for Embassy. Also spent some time in the bond, and on the first day was shown a cheque for some huge amount to be paid as duty, and filling the hoppers for the machines which, as I recall, were all made in Italy. Spent a few days on the pipe tobacco floor on the whiskey flake line; I seem to remember it was half an hour on and fifteen minutes off. Does anyone know Sandra Rine by any chance? I resolved never to clock on again.
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I worked the summer of 1966 in the Education Dept, further awards section, in the Council House, and spent most of my lunches either in Burtons or in Sybil's Pantry in the Lace Market. I remember mostly the salmon paste and the cream cakes. Did Burtons have a main distribution centre in Hucknall, near where the zoo used to be?
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Talk of poo sticks reminds me of a trick we played as kids. After dark, we'd pick up dog shit on the end of a sucker stick, put a little pile of it on a drawing pin pointed end up on the thumb latch of the back yard gate, and wait for Bill to come home from the pub up the footpad. Oh how we laughed when he pricked his thumb and sucked it.
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My earliest memory of a haircut is at Jimmy Dainty's, on Highbury Road, Bulwell, next door to Kenneth Clarke's dad's jewellery and watch shop. Sat on a board laid between the arms of the chair, looking at the Styptic Pencils and wondering what they did.
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Hope you are having a better time with it than I am. I updated last night, and now have to manually connect to the internet each time I log on.
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On 21/09/2016 at 8:37 PM, iandawson said:
Ultimate cult film, Z - from 1969..a must see movie!
I remember that film. It made a big impression on me at the time but I'm buggered if I can remember what it was all about. Something to do with a military coup in Latin America, or maybe southern Europe?
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I'm having a clear out and have a couple of Nottingham history booklets which might interest you or Cliff. One is 'Walks in Nottingham' by Keith Train - who taught me science at HPGS - published 1970, and the other called 'Nottingham City of Caves' from the 'Get to know Nottingham' series, third edition, by Andrew Hamilton for the Nottingham Civic Society. If you would like one or both, pm me and I will post them to you.
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Thanks for that Cliff. I see that Annie Briggs gets a mention, along with the duo she sang with. I don't recognise the Bo club, but the era is right - 1963/67 - so I guess I must have seen her somewhere else.
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Thanks, Cliff, but a bit hard on Toton! How about the Bohemia club? I can't recall that at all.
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I was idly listening to a programme on Radio 4 yesterday about Annie Briggs, and it rang a distant bell. She was born somewhere locally, used to swim in the Erewash as a child, and became a folk singer of the finger in the ear type.
She mentioned playing with a duo at a club called Bohemia? in Nottingham, and now lives up in the wilds of Scotland. I seem to remember having seen her once or twice. It was a very interesting half hour listen.
Does anyone remember her?
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Try slipping synecdoche and zeugma into a conversation. The problem is someone might ask you to explain them.
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9 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:
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I'll bet she hasn't got a sister called Parthenope!
And she was born in Florence.
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The first policeman on the scene of the crash which killed Eddie Cochran was Dave Dee.
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Has Southwark Street school been demolished yet? I'm planning the itinerary for a trip back down memory lane, and Bulwell Lane.
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It's long gone, hippo. Was absorbed into Bury FE College years ago and has been demolished. Bury has changed a lot since those days; we've even got a Primark now!
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9 minutes ago, FLY2 said:
Some salubrious establishments there hippo. Crikey !
There's nowt wrong with Bury. I guess that hippo taught at Derby High or Wellington, or possibly Bury Church?
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23 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
To quote my father "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach!"
.......and those who can't teach teach teachers how to teach?
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"HS1" "HS2"
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