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I'm old enough to remember the Palace cinema and the Palladium cinema on Beeston High Road, also the Majestic, later the Essoldo cinema at the junction of Station Road and Queens Road. A Mr Johnson, I believe, was the manager here round about the 1950s. When the film " Rock Around The Clock " was shown, anyone wearing Teddy Boy suits were not allowed in. I think I recall that a lady called Hilda was an usherette at the Palladium cinema...also known as " The Flea Pit ". I have many many memories of Beeston as I grew up from being a child to getting married there

I don't know the different body types or makers of these buses, but I do remember catching the double decker shown above to go to school.. At the time, they were streamlined as opposed to catching a GUY bus with no closing doors

Hi Catfan......only once did I break down....but I know what you mean

Hi there imp.. What memories have come flooding back seeing a picture of that six wheeler. The doors were front for entering and rear for alighting, but this was very often ignored I visited Staunton Harold reservoir some years ago. I wanted to take a photo of the large stained glass window in the church there but on seeing my camera round my neck I was told politely to leave as no photograph taking was allowed. I didn't put anything in the collection box that day lol

I was a fireman at the old Fire station in the council yard at Beeston. The appliance room was at the side of the tower and the sleeping rooms were on the other side of the yard in two converted houses. The rest room and TV room was in a tarren hut and the kitchen and showers was behind this. We moved to the new station in the early sixties which was situated on the junction of Middle Street and Station Road. It had all the mod cons.....a bar, a rest room , a TV room, A snooker room, a large hall with table tennis. and of course, central heated. The pole was situated in the hall.. There were j

Can anyone remember Frettinghams dentist on Lenton Boulevard....just before the traffic lights at Derby Roads.. My dad had a pair of false teeth made. I fetched them from Frettinghams and took them home. Unfortunately, they didn't fit properly so my dad got to work with a nail file and started to try to file them in the shape of his mouth. It wasn't until two or three days later that he received a letter saying that they had sent out the wrong set of teeth. Guess who had the job of returning them....not my dad

No need to shurrup Ben....just keep making me smile lol

It's a pity that cannot remember any names of my old school chums. Maybe there is someone out there who remembers me....Dennis Baker

Hi Ben...that photo is about 7 years old now

Are there any ex Dunn Line drivers out there. I drove for them for about 5 years and had a wonderful time working for them. For the last year, I was doing the Rolls Royce at Bristol job., starting at about 2-00am on a Monday morning.....driving down as far as Michaelwood service station where I took my 45 minutes break. From there I drove in Filton, near Bristol, Where I picked up the Rolls Royce VIPs and chauffeured them into the Derby works arriving around 10-00am. I then waited until about 4-00pm when I had to pick them up again and take them back to Filton. I then lodged out at a pub ( can

Can anyone remember the route 1a. It ran from West Crescent in Beeston Rylands to Nottingham Granby Street. It was jus an half hourly service. Later the number 29 ran on more or less the same route but veered off at the end of University Boulevard then turned left towards Boots, up Lilac grove onto Meadow Lane, left onto Roy Avenue then to its terminus on West Crescent

I saw Tony Christie and the Barron Knights at the HOM

Hi Benjamin....I can't remember the Marsdens shop at all. I lived on the High Road from 1960 until 1995. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to where abouts it was....my memory is fading lol Hi Michael...nice to meet you. Did you live in Chilwell?

I had the great displeasure of attending Henry Mellish Grammar School ( Smelly Henry ) from 1952 until 1957. I wasn't one for school at all and was glad when I left. Can anyone remember Mr Houston, the headmaster. Tess the deputy head. Froggy and Chalkie White , the French Teachers, and not forgetting the infamous GEG ( George Edward Goodall) He was the Latin master. My favourite teacher was Mr. Boddy the woodworking teacher. I remember the wood store room at the end of the class room when two or three of us would get a broom handle and insert it through a hole in a tea chest and use it as a d

I used to live on the High Road in Chilwell , just across the road from the Charlton Arms pub. When I first moved in there, that was in 1960, before all the houses around Redland Crescent were built, I could see the monument that was erected in the depot to commemorate the big explosion that happened during the first world war. I also remember at the bottom of the garden there used to be a farm and in the field at the end of my garden was an old double decker bus where someone used to live. Can anyone remember the old brick yard. My children used to go tadpole collecting there. I was a firema