nippergrant

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  1. When I finally got a car there was no stopping my wife. Every Saturday starting about 10am I would drive her all round to every fords that she could find, neterfield-carlton-clifton-stappleford-beston-bulwell-basford-and others. Even better if there was a co-op scoop there as well. I spent many a long hour waiting in the car as I didn’t like shopping

  2. I thought the first post in this thread was great - really took me back to a very happy child hood in Cowlick, and then the follow ups with all the memories.

    I was born and lived on First Ave until mid 1960s.

    So sad to hear about Steve Maloney.

    Something that puzzling me....when I lived there the address was OLD Cowlick not just Cowlick as it is now.I wonder what happened to the "OLD"?

    Nipper - I recall the name from cricket on the rec, I was a lot younger than the rest of you and was always long stop. The shops were Mrs Deans and Parkinsons near church and the Allsops and ?? down Vale road just passed school.

    Spent a lot of time playing on Maloneys farm.. Does any one remember the old steel tanks and vessels in the paddock by the footpath to the park?

    Francine's horse was white [ish] and called "Spot" I think - i fell off him several times and got a kick in the jaw from him when he went nuts in the yard.

    The first ave bonfire was on land behind Ma lessons orchard [scrumping :))) ] just of footpath before little bridge over ditch [ which i presume is under loop road.

    Went to St Johns infants - Mr Brown the head, Mrs Crisp gave me a smack first day of school for not stopping chasing the girls, Mrs Wellum ? Mrs Salt? .....Mr Appleton the care taker....

    Thanks for triggering the memories!

    Welcome zigzag…I was born in colwick on vale rd..I new some on 1st ave a polish family up near the foot path Sheila Watson lived next to the waste ground at top and a few others that names elude me. Old colwick was the main rd through colwick and new vale road was opposite the church with Deans on the corner. Johnny Boynton lived down there he gave me my nick name nipper which I still have today. Parkinson’s shop was a bit farther along than allsops just a few houses between them. Steel tanks on the field next to the paddock we called the barrel field and used to jump from one to the other playing dobby. They got red hot on hot suuny days. Funny nobody else seems to remember them. When I went to st Johns school Mr Porter was the head latter when he retired Mr. Brown who taught us to right in italic writing which didn’t go well when I went to chandos. Mrs Crisp had me when I first started then retired. She gave a leaving party at her house near the forest in town for her class she taught. Miss may replaced her (very young) I was in love

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  3. There's definitely nothing wrong with a blast on the Mway. 85+ is perfectly safe in the hands of a good experienced driver.

    Never had a speeding ticket in my life.

    its not the "good experienced drivers" that are the problem its the reckless ones that are. Accidents are usually caused by the bad drivers, so it doesn’t matter if you are a good driver.

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  4. Noticed in the post today how the ng post code is one of the areas that have drivers with 12 points on their licence and not banned. I think that if you have accumulated 12 points then you must have a total disregard for the law and don’t care if you are a danger to others. Most people have broken the speed limit at some time I know I have once 3 points £60 fine but I learned to watch my speed and not done it again. That is the lesson we all should learn

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  5. #30

    They don't have cobs in Yorkshire, they have bread buns! So they probably wouldn't share my confusion the first time I heard the expression "He's got a cob on!"

    I lived in North Yorkshire for a while, so I'm bilingual, sithee!

    My daughter’s partner lived in Leeds all his life calls them bread cakes is that because he comes from a different part of Yorkshire

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  6. We called an ice lolly a sucker when I was young - is that still the same? When I moved to Leicester I went in a shop and asked for a sucker and the shopkeeper had no idea what I was talking about. Amazing how words varied so much between neighbouring towns. I thought at the time that the words 'ice lolly' sounded a bit posh

    My daughter went to Leeds University and on one visit me and misses called in on a chippy to get chips. So we walked in joined the queue looked at the menu board and couldn’t see what we wanted so when our turn came we stepped up to the counter and said two mixes please the man behind the counter stood and stared then said what’s that. I explained it’s a portion of chips with peas on top. He then said he’s never herd of that and asked where wearer from I said Nottingham he then said he’ll have to put that on the menu then gave us our mixes at half price…..I thought ever body knew what a mix was. How wrong was I

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  7. When I was a kid growing up in colwick there were few shops, 2 up near the church, 2 in the centre and 2 down other end near balmorale Rd. does any body remember going to the shop and asking “ave yea got any broken biscuits” in those days biscuits came loose in large metal square tins and a lot got broke. So the shop keeper unable to sell them used to give bags of broken biscuits to any kid that came and asked. Always had to say please and thank you

  8. I've had that sort of tripe. Just ignore it as you have.

    I even got some 'ransom ware' on my phone after visiting a site to look up a steam locomotive!

    And the phone calls from 'Microsoft Technical Support', claiming to have detected 'viruses' n my PC are hilarious. Always seem to be rfrom somebody with an Indian Sub Continet accent but called 'Peter'.

    I usually just say 'What P.C.?

    That gets them.

    Col

    HI DJ360…I’ve also had calls that say they are from my service provider saying that they have detected corrupted files on my router and need me to switch on my lap top or computer on so they can get rid of them. I know that my service provider do NOT contact their customers claiming you have a fault and this is a scam. I just hang up or say wait while I turn on the recorder. That usually makes them hang up. But I think it’s becoming a very big problem as some people don’t realize this is a scam to access their bank account and clean them out. Sad to say that they try and target the older generation who are usually trusting that gets stung

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  9. There is a film of the wreckage here.

    Thank you DavidA for posting this clip. It shows as I said the wreckage on the race course and the engine next to the house with Mr Davenport and some of the other neighbours standing round it. The hole in the wooden roof of the canteen of Sprays and other wreckage, cant tell where that is as no back ground but it looks like its on the allotment before the R.A.F. lads turned up to keep people away. I was wrong about the year (a year earlier than I though) so that made me 8 years old. I was at school at the time, colwick C of E in the play ground which was next to Sprays. Goes to show how lucky us kid were any one of us could have been injured

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  10. Think you'll find it was 2 jet provosts over the colwick area, I was in playground of Claremont Seniors so post 1957, we heard a boom in distance, looked and saw what looked like a round cloud, did not see any planes/wreckage falling as good few miles away, seem to remember engine from one crashed through glass roof of factory in netherfield killing a woman? may have been Lawrences Furniture Factory? was also at the battle of britain display at syserston when that vulcan crashed, there was a fire on impact which was maybe half mile away from crowd.

    I believe you are on about the to training plains that collided over colwick in 1959 February I think. I went to Colwick School and lived on the vale. An engine landed right next to an end house next entry up from where I lived at No 91 so that would be No 77. The woman that was killed worked at sprays in colwick and was in the canteen at the time. Her name was colliss don’t now her first name. Part of the body of the plane landed just beyond our hose on the allotment and my mother used to make tea for the R.A.F. lads that guarded the wreckage. Parts also fell on the race course

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  11. When I was a kid growing up in colwick there were few shops, 2 up near the church, 2 in the centre and 2 down other end near balmorale Rd. does any body remember going to the shop and asking “ave yea got any broken biscuits” in those days biscuits came loose in large metal square tins and a lot got broke. So the shop keeper unable to sell them used to give bags of broken biscuits to any kid that came and asked. Always had to say please and thank you

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