Ayupmeducks

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  1. Too long ago for me to remember Mick. I know the caretaker lived on the premises though, there was a house at one end of the playground near one of the entrances.
  2. We didn't have a tv then Den, I think my mum first got us one about 1955 or 56. Our main problem was being on DC, they then converted us all to AC around 1955 era.
  3. I sure did Stan, infants and junior! 1952-1958. I can remember sitting on the stone stairs at lunchtime in summer listeneing to the test match for the ashes on those big Rediffussion speakers one of the teachers put out for us, and to think... we though it was live too!! Yep I recall when sugar rationing finished, early 50's, then sweets became a common thing in our lives together with fillings!!!
  4. Not the same one Bazz, I recall the one your on about from my ten years down under. I am on the mend, doubt I would be if I'd gone to a Doctor though!! I'm on a high salt/vitamin C regimin, the salt is to kill the parasites and the C for my immune system. Each day I am feeling a little better, so the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.
  5. Thanks Chris much appreciated. I'm fighting it and I'm determined to overcome it, whether or not it's possible to be 100% cured I don't know, but I'm determined never to go through this again!
  6. Odd shaped pub on the corner of Union Road and St Anns Well Road, a few yards down from the junction of Alfred Street South and Central.
  7. Sunday afternoons, mid 1950's, there used to be the afternoon movie on that old 12 inch black and white TV. Mam would go down to the sweet shop just on Alfred Street South opposite Turner Street and get a couple of blocks of Cadbury's choccie. Then we would settle down for the movie, scoff choccie and just pig out!! Dad would be snoring, he'd been to the Coachmakers Arms before dinner and was sleeping it off.
  8. Sorry to read of your illness, Ayup.... Best Wishes for a speedy recovery.. Rather wondered where you had 'got to'! Take Care Cheers Robt P. Thanks Rob, one thing about this disease, I like to get the word out how easy it is to contract and how nasty it is. I've found out the last few days that mosquitos also transmit it.
  9. These are the critters causing me so much pain.. Lyme
  10. As I've been very ill, as some of the members know. I have Lyme Disease, a debilitating disease caused by a tick bite. The disease is a bacterial/parasite based one, easy to get but bloody hard to get rid of and very painful!! Problem with Lyme is, it's so hard to diagnose as each patient has different symptoms, the majority of Doctors misdiagnose it and the treatment they dish out doesn't always work. I chose my own route after reading the horror stories patience had with their Doctors, I chose a natural method which is working, I am getting better. Salt/C regimen. 1g of salt and 1000mg o
  11. Your thinking of this guy perhaps? Idi Admin? Now there was one odd dude Mick....
  12. The military used to teach personel how to talk with a plum in their mouths Mick. A bloke who worked as a miner with me at Boulby in North Yorks was a first louey in the Royal Marines until he injured his knee, they paid him off. I asked how someone with a working class North Yorks accent managed officer training school. He told me they gave him ellocution lessons, in his own words, "they couldn't have a dickhead working class accent as an officer".. He still hung onto some of his officer ways, his name was Smith, but he'd also taken his wifes name, hence hyphonated!, Perrow- Smith! His
  13. I believe there were whole families working at Players Rob! We had a few Father and Sons working at Clifton Pit and Cotgrave. When I was at Wongawilli Colliery in NSW, there was a Deputy and his Electrician son there. They came from Nottingham and origonally worked at Cotgrave!
  14. It was an impressive building Den. When I first arrived on site, they still had the huge ramp up to what would be the manufacturing floor! Huge trucks and concrete mixer trucks used to drive up there, gives you some idea of how big that ramp was! I was there until your staff were installing the ciggie machines and started test runs, that was when I left Wilson Ford Rewinds for greener grass. What I was doing was stripping the fan motors in the sir conditioning units, fitting new end sheilds and scraping the white metal bearings. JP wanted silent motors, so selected sleeve bearings over bal
  15. WOW!!! Good collection of tyres, whats the price on 7x14's ag tyres??? !rotfl!
  16. I've had loads of fun baiting the 419 scammers. Been Captain James Kirke of the enterprise, that was funny, you can't imagine how thick those scammers really are!! Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. Even a billionaire business man, I got them up to 85% my share.. LOL Then I told them to eff off, you've been scammed !rotfl!
  17. Thats right, it was built on the council tip. Luckily, they drove hundreds of concrete pile's into the ground before they started pouring the thick concrete slab. I doubt it would sink, mind you, Clifton Colliery workings are also below there too!!
  18. Ahhh a 6F22..... I have over a 1000 brand new vauum tubes, been searching for some for an old Drake T4XC transmitter I aquired. I've located several, but still need a few more. All I need then is the matching receiver and power supply. Be nice to get it on air and have that old glow of tubes coming to life!
  19. I drank the Mansfield Bitter when it was real ale Den! Not long afterwards they were ordered to update their brewery to closed vessels and they then started to sell the pasturised rubbish. It was never the same without the odd drowned rat giving it taste..
  20. Is the big JP factory still operating near Clifton Bridge??? I commissioned the air conditioning fan motors during the construction of that place. It was years ahead of it's time, generated it's own electricity with six 0ne megawatt gas turbine driven alternators from natural north sea gas piped in via a four foot gas main.
  21. Must be a server error that doesn't like some of us, mainly the ex pats for leaving
  22. Took me over an hour to access the site this morning, I kept getting the "Cannot find site" message!! Caz had her computer checked out at a computer shop, the bloke had no trouble accessing the site from his area, but she cannot acces Nottstalgia from her home....
  23. Only been back once in 27 years Den to see my late Mum and Dad one more time before they passed on. More chance now of finding a hen with teeth than seeing me in Blighty! So rule me out of "coming back"