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  1. What was your first car?

    in 60's Nottingham

    Posted

    My First mode of transport was a triumph tiger cub , cost about 7 pound . and then onto a 500 cc BSA shooting star twin which i had for years . and then onto a Berkley Sports car w2hich from the forom looked like a jaguar , well if you had a few drinks before looking. but it onlyhad one wheel at the back . it had a 350cc villiers engine so obviously its top speed was a little slower than a jag .

    and then onto the first of 3 morris minors . most were over 10 years old but i enjoyed them so much. NOw all my cars are newish but they only get me from A to B there is no thrill of sitting behind the wheel anymore. noblue perhaps i am not allowed to have fun anymore

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  2. A Pom down under

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

    Posted

    Welcome Morton,

    I left Nottingham (Radford) in December 1964 as a 10 Quid Tourist and lived in Adelaide until 1983 when I got transferred to Melbourne.

    Hope you enjoy the site.

    Cheers

    i was a Lenton Boy and went to Margaret glen bott

  6. Royal Ordnance factory - Nottingham

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    Couple of mates of mine worked there in the 70s Bessie Moore & Gren Turner. I got to know more about the place in the late 80s when they moved the pattern room and proof house there. We were making custom pistols at the time and used the proof house regularly.

    Bess Moore was he a stocky guy from over carlton hill , I cant remember the name of the suburb ? ( netherfield maybe ) if so we had a few drink together

  8. Savoy cinema

    in Lenton, Beeston & Chilwell

    Posted

    In the sixties we would go to the Savoy on a Sunday night . Sunday Night was normaly Horror night and sci fi , They were called X rated then and you had to be sixteen i think , but i would go in with friends at 14

    They were film like " The Blob " Staring Steve Mcqueen , and " I was a Teenage Werewolf " Staring Michael Langdon of Bonanza fame . There was also films that were considered very racy at the time but would probably

    be PG now .

    PS I can spell but can't type :-(

  9. Savoy cinema

    in Lenton, Beeston & Chilwell

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    Hello there, just wondered if anyone out there could remember the Savoy cinema holding it's Saturday film sessions for kids. I was friendly with the managers daughter, ( he was Mr Silvers) and I used to help sell the sweets down at the front! What street cred eh?

    I used to live off Willoughby Street so not far to go with my 6D for my ticket and 3D for sweets.

    Ah those were the days, we even had a visiting guest sometimes, i.e. the yo-yo champion of the world!! Well I thought that was who it was!

    hi all, am new too the site, i used to work at the savoy in the mid eighties, saw mr silvers about 2 years ago. retired now and sold the cinema to the guy that runs the scala at ilkeston. but was looking well. which daughter was it? if i remember rightly there were 4 of them and his son

    I was at school with one of his daughters Linda I think,

  12. Car Number Plates

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    the only car number plate I can ever remember was

    ARR405B which was on my dads Hillman Minx De Luxe, My dad (Ted Roe) always said it knew its own way to the City Ground.

    Couldnt tell you mine at the moment

    Funny about that cos the only number plater i can remember is my dads first austin a 70 which was scrapped in the early 60's ( MOC 851)

    its took us everywhere for about 10 years that i remember , day trips to Skeggie holidays to Scotland ( he was Scottish)

    My brother even used it on his honeymoon. sigh! petrol was 2/6 a gallon . no speed traps and not to many other cars on the road

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  13. A Pom down under

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    Hi Banjo48

    We have been very nomadic wandering from landing at Perth airport in Feb 76 and being stunned by heat and flies and customs officers wearing shorts :-). and then moving up to Darwin Harvey Bay Qld and even Canberra for a few years and now back in Roleystone. Our son Lives in Canberra with his wife and our one and only Grandchild. I am amazed at the memories that are floating around in my head from some of these topics

  14. A Pom down under

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    HELLO everyone I left nottm 40 years ago and now live in Perth WA . it is good to read some of your great topics and I have started to join in with a few of them

    hope to catch up with you all online soon

    regards

    ps I hope this is in the right place LOL

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  15. A Pom down under

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    ello everyone

    Thanks for having me on here with you

    I left nottingham in 1976 and now live in Perth WA , this is a very entertaining site and I am glad I found you all

    I have a good life over here but it is nice to get back in touch with where I came from

    and I hope I have put this message in the right place

    regards

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  18. Royal Ordnance factory - Nottingham

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    I remember Ernie Wragg when he was on the shop floor. Wasn't e a shop steward? Tom Streets was our foreman on H&V boring North shop. He behaved a bit pompous but he was OK really. Don't know where his money came from but he had a brand new Ford Consul.

    It was strange when I returned 10 or 12 years later to demonstrate milling cutters. Old apprentice mate Mo Edis was foreman on milling North shop and let me lose on a machine hogging out breach blocks. He tried to call my bluff in an attempt to break the cutter. I kept upping the cutting rate and eventually broke the machine but the cutter was OK. Saw old mates Pete Thorpe and 'Gypsy' Bob.

    There was a Mr Holmes there in August 1969 when I started