Cloudesley

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  1. Crap Cars of the 70's

    in 70's Nottingham

    Posted

    Heres one. Do you now what it is?

    Heres the clues?

    993 cc 3 cylinder 2-stroke engine,

    Manually adjustable radiator louvers,

    free-wheel device

    Do you kow any other Crap (or good) Cars of the Era?

    Moscovich?

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  4. Useless Comparisons

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    Perhaps we should have the irrelevant unit system where Land mass is always compared to Wales or Belgium, length is a number of double decker buses, height is the Eiffel Tower, distance is times round the earth or to the moon and back, small is how many on a pin head, explosive power is as you correctly say the number of Hiroshimas (not Nagasakis), light is number of times brighter than the sun and heat is the surface of the sun. Like we can all understand them!!

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  6. the clinton arms

    in Images of Nottingham

    Posted

    #28

    Yes, as people have said earlier in this thread this was called Russells (after Jane Russell) in the 80's and run by Phil Holmes who said he was an ex-A&R man for CBS, didn't know if he was or not but he put a lot of bands on that windowsill you mention, the stage was squashed into the corner of the pub on the outside junction, curved wall. It's the Orange Tree now. The band I was in played there regularly in this time

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  7. roland green

    in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions

    Posted

    #7

    I think it's turned into a thread about Stan Reid rather than Roland Green :-)

    I was there 75-80 in its first comprehensive days. The headmaster was affectionately known as "Yorick" due to his skeletal features, not that any of us had any idea about Shakespeare so we concluded it must have been an English teacher who had come up with this and the main culprit would have been mr Ray Chaplain, deputy head!

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  14. Blewits and other lovely fungi

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    The die hardship used to go picking them from their "secret" places, I was always told you couldn't cultivate them and they grew near or in. horses fields, blokes would bring them into pubs and sell them out of a brown paper bag on a Sunday lunch and they fetched a really good price to officionados, best recipe, fried together with egg, bread and lambs sweetbreads, what a breakfast that was!

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