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Greetings Caroline.....Reading everything on here will certainly bring back your youth lol Dennis

Hi Ben If you are "lonely and blue", then "put your head on my shoulder" lol

Couldn't afford to go to Highfields Lido so we always went swimming in Beeston canal. Jumping off the stone bridge or swimming down to the iron bridge and back. Dive bombing the duckweed and looking out for leeches

Because there were hardly any cars, icy slides down the middle of the road,( no rubber soled shoes allowed ) to be replaced by long skipping ropes in the warmer months

Hello Tompa....thanks for the information. I only want one for holidays...just for a few aerial shots of where I will be staying. I have got my eyes on a Walkera Runner 250.....costs about £200.....do you recommend starting with one as expensive as this. Everything that is needed is in the box.....so they say lol

I have 6 old 78s left...all in good playing order. Tommy Steele singing Nairobi and A Handful of Songs.....Petula Clark singing Alone Jim Dale singing Crazy Dream and Be My Girl and Paul Anka singing Diana I also have quite a few LPs from the 50s.....maybe a little crackly, but still playable

I forgot to mention in my last post that I first joined the railways in 1958 as a junior porter at Beeston Station. I was 17 years old then . When I reached the ripe old age of 18, I applied for, and got the job of a signal lamp man. This involved climbing signal posts and gantry's, filling up the paraffin lamps and cleaning the lens. Each filling would last just one week. If one was ever forgotten, of course, the lamp would burn out, so it would be me that was called out in the night to fill it up

I worked on the railway from 1983 until they pensioned me off in 1995. I started as a trackman at Beeston and gradually worked my way up to the dizzy ranks of assistant section PW manager at Trent. I honestly believe that this was the best job I have ever had....and I've had a few. It was just a pity that I developed arthritis in both of my knees and was unable to carry out my duties. Hence the reason for pensioning me off. Part of my duties as APWSM were to walk from Loughborough to Long Eaton and Derby to Long Eaton inspecting the track and finding work for the P Way gangs but towards the en

I'm thinking of buying a drone with a camera. Anyone out there got one and can you give me any ideas on which sort to buy.Are they easy to fly?

My first record was " Cool Water " by Frankie Laine.....The B side was " Bubbles " The first LP I bought was " Gene Vincent Rocks and the Bluecaps Roll "

Mine was ....Cool Water by Frankie Laine The first long player I bought was....Gene Vincent Rocks and the Bluecaps Roll Wayway back in 1955

Hi Benjamin....I originate from Rotherham. Evidently, our house was bombed out in the war so that's why I finished up here. Still love Yorkshire

I used to visit the shed from 1956 until 1960. Walter Hayes was in charge of everything then. Arthur Peel used to stand at the door to collect your entrance fee, I think it was 6d. I used to go most nights. Rock n Roll music was played every night except Wednesdays and Sundays. There was a café come tea bar at one end of the dance room. Whilst you were drinking your cuppa, the floor would be bouncing up and down to the rhythm of the dancers. No one was supposed to go into the control room where the two amplifiers were, but many went in to make requests for their favourite tunes. I remember ou

I should have remembered Christians' name. He used to service my taxi when I drove Dunn Line taxis. I remember that he went from working in the garage to driving coaches. Thanks Micky for the reminder

Hi cat....yes I drove for NCT for the last two years of my working life. I drove the park and ride service from Netherfield into Nottingham and the park and ride from Clifton Bridge into Boots and Nottingham. Never any trouble on those routes...only little old ladies with shopping trolleys to contend with lol

I lived opposite the Charlton Arms pub in Chilwell which was a Shipstones pub. I remember well watching the horses and dray pull into the pub yard to unload the wooden barrels. I nipped over to the pub yard once or twice for a bit of manure they left behind lol

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I know that Bob had three sons....Scott, Simon and the name of the youngest now evades me.....One of them might have lived in Cherrywood gdns

Hello dat....all I know is that Bob Dunn lived in Woodlinkin.....almost opposite the Citroen garage. I don't know where Cherrywood Gdns are

I worked as a porter on Beeston railway station in 1957. I remember well the level crossing. During my break times, I used to go up into the signal box to assist the signalman. One of the jobs he let me do was to close the crossing gates. can you remember seeing the big wheel in the signal box? I remember that one day, there used to be a train from Chilwell depot. it always came when Ericssons were turning out. The crossing gates were always left open for road traffic until the train was ready to depart. This particular day, the train was waiting to go, the guard waved his green flag and the

I remember the Ericssons payroll robbery. I cannot remember exactly which year it was, but I was working as a porter on Beeston station at the time. The payroll for the railway staff was always fetched from the Westminster Bank on the corner of the High Road and Wollaton Road by the station master. He always went there in one of the parcel delivery vans. The week after the robbery, he did the usual trip but took aslong with him four porters in the back of the van, all armed with brake sticks. Nothing like taking precautions lol I think the year would have been 1958/

I started Rylands juniors in1946 when it was just a wooden school. A Mr. Crompton was the head teacher and a Mr. McCaig was his deputy ( I think ) remember a Miss Bennett and a Mrs. Dobson along with a Mr. Sanderson. Can anyone else remember any of these....Best wishes

Ay up Cliff....thanks for he photos. I started at Beeston in 1961 and Bill Brailsford was my sub officer. Terry Brian was the station officer and Harold Hind was my leading fireman. If I remember rightly, Bill Brailsford left to go and live in Australia.. If ever we were out in an appliance and crossed from one county to the next, i.e. Notts into Derbys, he would always turn off the radio as if there were no radio signals into the foreign county. The Dennis F15 pump escape was still at Beeston when I started. It had a Rolls Royce powered engine and boy, could it move. The water tender was a

I remember all 4 of Beeston's cinemas. In my opinion, the Palace was the high class cinema whilst the Palladium was known as " The Flea Pit ".I used to visit the Majestic every Saturday afternoon for the afternoon matinee. I'm not sure but I think it cost 6d (2.1/2pence ) to get in. Mighty mouse. Roy Rogers and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were some of the favourites we used to watch and laugh at. A Mr. Johnson used to be the Majestic manager. When the film "Rock Around The Clock " was on...Johnno wouldn't let any lad dressed in Teddy Boy suits in fearing them wrecking his cinema.