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Phil, don't ever recall seeing your 'blue plaque' on the church walls!!!!

Started this thread with an aerial image which has disappeared so I'm going to plonk it in again. Not sure what date it was taken but things have changed and looks like they will continue to. Quite a few on this site including myself, have memories of the church, hopefully happy! I spent a lot of my youth in the schoolroom underneath with the Cubs, Scouts & Senior Scouts. Remember especially the jumble sales, the 'Gang Shows' and of course the lovely Girl Guides. Looks like it's up for sale, will the building stay or will it go, like

Had a couple of friends who worked at NCV in the 60's, Pete Mason and Eric Braham, I think they were mechanics. They kindly found me my first car - a moggy minor traveller.

Thanks Will, have already sent my lists of bands to Rob at Playedinaband, didn't stay long with Just4, I was deemed too young!!

Like it or not I'm going to carry on with this tale. who knows, it may ring a few bells!! Into the big wide world then in 1965, armed with a qualification in music no less - time to jump onto the musical bandwagon, alas, no demand for a recorder virtuoso, time to change tack. Decided to spend my life savings (£30) on a drumset, there was going to be no peace in our house! Along with some friends from Gedling school, The Audenboguls were formed. Unfortunately none of us could play any instruments but at least I managed to apply the 'letraset'! After ma

Used to like Russ Conway, think he sometimes appeared on the Billy Cotton Band Show! Didn't he have a finger missing?

In our house we had PHB soap!

Gas powered buses - nothing new!! Have two or three of these newsletters if anyone is interested.

Nice picture CT, much prefer the building on the left, the planning committee obviously not aesthetically minded - nothing changes!!

Went to the wedding of a farmer's daughter at the weekend, it goes without saying that 'We Plough The Fields and Scatter' was on the hymn sheet, however, the German bloke 'wot wrote the words' wouldn't have been looking out of his window at this!!!!! That's what you call a tractor, for sale at the moment, one careful owner, £250k if anybody's interested!!

I take it you enjoyed your school dinners then den? The bell at Gedling wasn't very musical, I think they just blipped the fire alarm unlike at primary school (Plains Road) where we had a proper handbell - not sure who had the honour of ringing it though?

Left school in 1965, started as an electrical apprentice at Players. Thought if I started puffing away I might not be able to stop so sold my allowance (Perfectos) to a relative. As I was there until around 1979, made a few bob without any damage to my lungs!

Took a stroll around what was the spoil tip, now part of Gedling Country Park. As previously mentioned, from the classrooms used to watch the buckets tipping so stood on what is now a grassed bank and took a photo of the old school - sadly the bulldozers are moving in next week! Had to zoom in a bit so not the best of pictures but shows the school and Perlethorpe Avenue which on a bike was very dodgy, especially turning the corner at the bottom!

David, remember taking the main music exam which was in the library on the upper floor. Not sure why Mr Wilson was allowed to be present but like you I needed a bit of help with some of the answers and whilst certain pieces of music were being played he did his best to give us some clues without actually saying anything, dancing a waltz springs to mind.

Thanks to CT who has repaired all my image links, thought I might carry on with this thread which stared at Gedling School. Sadly, the buildings are now derelict and due for demolition as the picture below shows. The music room which was on the ground floor and now boarded up was our form room in 1964/65, FDWilson being our form teacher. Those of us who decided to take CSE music were told we would have to be able to play an instrument and as I was able to play 'chopsticks' I figured the piano would be ideal for me. FDW had other ideas and so I ended up with the drea

Phil, I knew Bob Coote fairly well from my time at Players. All the factory clocks were sent an electrical impulse every 30secs, triggered from mechanical master clocks which Bob used to maintain. Whenever we altered any wiring to the clocks we had just the 30secs to disconnect and reconnect. If we missed a pulse, all the clocks in factory would be out so we had to go back to the master and send an extra pulse. When the clocks changed (BST), we had to go in on the following Sunday and either switch the master off for and hour or send another 120 pulses down the line. Spent many an hour ad

Never mind the OJ and CLO, what about that 'orrible chocolate' covered in hundreds and thousands and that malted concoction ('mop')! No wonder we're all still chugging along!

LizG, no buses yet but you might like this image which I posted earlier but which has since gone missing!

Mary, came across Doug in the mid 60's when I started my apprenticeship at Players. He was a fitter and had to supervise me for a time and help me with a tricky test piece, fitting a square within a square! I also played football with him in the engineers team. Bumped into him a few years back at the passing of another Players engineer. A good man and a pleasure to have known him.

In the 60's the bungalow was owned by the Broadbent's. Knew the children, Jimmy and Shirley (who went to Carlton Le Willows school). She asked me to a school dance once which I declined - big mistake!!!

Here's a photo (circa 1950) for you Bulwellians! Bet some of you paid a visit before the days of Boots?

David, don't know if you have seen it but there was an article in the Nottingham Post, July 10th, 2017 which featured your old workplace. I saved it with you in mind and it has been gathering dust in my garage since it was published. If you would like it please PM me. Good luck with the One Show!

Pete Ham and Tom Evans, Badfinger. Good documentary on YT.

Did my apprenticeship at Players (Radford) so have been in all the ARP tunnels. Music while you work was broadcast to the factories from a big valve radio/amplifier deep underground, I think Les Bacon was the operator. Hopefully there is an image attached of one of the shelters.

Nice list Socram, what we need is a few photo's - here one I took earlier!