Drabmuloc

Hi Mary1947, ballet, opera, theatre in general, to include serious and light pieces including musicals. Spent many years visiting London theatres, living just 35 miles north of the capital, but now we go to Milton Keynes Theatre for two reasons - they have all the major performers there, and, it's only a twenty minute drive! Keep your eye's peeled for 'anything' by the Northern Ballet...we have never been disappointed! We are also very fortunate to have on the doorstep the Wavendon Theatre....a great musical experience! They have three or four concerts a week and we manage to get to around a d

Hi all! Well another three months have gone by and no new postings....shame. Just booked the South of France for three weeks in June/July so looking forward to that. Outdoor bowling season has just begun (not looking forward to changeable weather!) so I hope I am as successful this season outdoors as I was indoors just gone. Sit here in the back garden, sometimes sunny and warm and sometime cloudy and cold, but, a glorious green all around! Went to the theatre last night and watched the Northern Ballet perform their new ballet Casanova. If you get the opportunity....don't miss it.....if you ar

Dear Jill, I will persevere, thanks for not picking up on my jaze.....er.....jazz error, and, he, Bengi, is only 25......such fond memories of that many years ago! Thanks for the sympathy, but, that's life! Took my brother, who lives in Pinxton, for lunch at the Countryman Pub on Sunday, and, if you've not been there I can well recommend it. Best wishes to all until my next post.......Drab!

Thanks for that Jill and Benj, and, I will keep watching and posting from time to time. Hey Jill....I thought the 1945 referred to the year he was born!

Just lost my first best mate, and, thus, my ties with dear old Nottingham are slowly, but surely, ebbing away. I will continue to monitor this site, but, I really don't hold out much hope for any further revelations as no body has come back acknowledging the existence of any of my youthful haunts which included the YMCA Jaze and Jive, the Dolphin pub in North Church Street, the Palais de Dance, Horne Brothers on Long Row, the shooting club underneath the Castle........the list is endless!

To all those who have communicated, and to those that will, I hope you all had a good Christmas and I wish you a happy new year!

...........and, I am delighted to note.......I am no longer a Newbie....I'm a Member!

Hi Mary1947! Just thought I would let you know.....treated myself to a set of Drakes Pride d-tec bowls this morning, had a roll up this afternoon (indoors obviously) and I surprised myself with their accuracy! Couple more roll ups and they will be ready for a league triples match on Wednesday afternoon.

OMG! Cliff Ton's picture is definitely St Ann's Board School. I really must go on google earth, go back to.....er.....yesteryear, and check out the streets either side and then see if I can see the Cavendish pub next to Cavendish Street.........it's all coming back. There was a tri fronted grocery shop called Tetleys, their son Keith died quite young. There was a Bookies on Southampton Street run by Charlie Williams. I think my dad 'probably' paid his mortgage. And May1947 you are so right, I had forgot the front entrance. Keep the comments coming guys and gals!

Hi all! When I opened up the site I had a notification that there was a new 'note', but, I can't find any new contact/notification......help!

Never mind. St Ann's Boarding School? Confirm, when you where there, it was not exactly a 'boarding' school, but, a regular primary day school. If it is the regular kids school then I went there too. All I can remember is the main central hall was huge, some of the class rooms led off on one side, there was a stage at the opposite end to the St Ann's Well road end, there was a metal walkway twenty odd feet above the ground all the way round, I think to get to the window mechanics, and, now I think about it, at the back of the stage was a very high wall and behind the wall there were further cl

.....I am intrigued to know the name that followed 'knocker'!

Hi Mary, no, the nick name does not register. My parents had a business near The Chase and round the corner from Southampton Street.

Hi Mary1947, I went there between '54 and '59, and, as far as I can recall, it was always a boys bilateral school until I left '59. Only did it later become a mixed school of undetermined (to me at least) educational format. Hi again Mary1947! Just read your intro and spotted your St Ann's interest. Now, this getting interesting. Where did you live to have an interest in that neck of the woods? The reasonI ask is because I am a St Ann's lad! ..........WAS a St Ann's lad!

Oops! That little 'e' gets in everywhere does it not! Must try harder to show I got some education at Manvers!

Hi ho, another months gone bye and not a word. Never mind. One point though, my title 'Newbie'. I used to know a guy called Newby Taylor, David Newby Taylor to be precise. Is there any body out there who knows him? I have a gift he gave me 'many' years ago and I would love to tell him I still have it.

Fascinating Peverilperil, what memories! I remember standing on the corner of the Forest recreation ground, Mansfield Road end, and the pathway coming under the cemetery, and, I dropped a tennis ball just as a group of 20 odd racers came round the bend. It rolled all the way through every rider....I must have aged 20 years during the 5 or 10 seconds. Exciting memory.....now, because nobody got hurt!

Hi All! What a sad sight the building is in Clif Ton's pics. I assume it is the back of the building as I think I can spot my classroom i.e. the same room as is behind my picture of the class of '58. Yes Benja45 'tis the same Ray Booty. By the way all.....the party venue of yesteryear was at the opposite top end to the cemetery........and, as I type, the owners name comes to mind....Mr & Mrs. Bernard Baines! Where on earth did that come from!! LizzieM, do enlighten me and (maybe) all - who was the Perveril Peril?

The Forest! Goose Fair, cycle racing and Ray Booty, learning to drive on the parking area at the far end. Parties at the house almost at the top corner at the cemetery end. The girls school opposite.....oh so many very happy memories. Coffee at the Bambo coffee bar, harder stuff at the Dolphin in North Church Street, jazz and jive at the YMCA, jive and 'other things' at the Palais de dance, the Beatles at the Odeon.........why did I leave?

Hi Benjamin1945, I have now ticked your communication! Am I right to assume the name reflects your dob and if so your were a year ahead of me........if you went to Manvers. I do hope your lol means 'laugh out load' and not 'lots of.......'!

OK, OK...............I am being a little impatient. However, I did prefer the LizzieM 'slapped hands' to the two that followed. I'm a new boy (bit of stretching of the truth to say 'new' boy, more like old man!) to this set up. When I first went on the now defunced Friends Reunited the response was almost immediate. I will, in the immortal words of Michael Winner, settle down now and patiently wait! Thanks, thus far, to all the respondents!

A bit disappointed with the response to the photo of 4BT! Will probably stop monitoring this site within the next couple of weeks.

Anybody out there wants to respond to the photo?

Anybody out there with possible names other than the form master JEG Etches?

Manvers was a bi-lateral school when I was there. Somebody mentioned a trip to the Alps. Was that the same trip I went on to Interlaken in Switzerland. I have fond memories of marching up a wooden bridge, built into a huge rock, on our way to Grindlewald Glacier. Wanting to visit Jungfraujoch, but, at £10 a ticket (20% of my spending money!) I couldn't afford it. Went up ten years ago and it now costs £100, but, so worth it! Playing in the snow at Schynige Platte.........if I go on I will start crying! Happy memories!