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Who were that two hit wonder band from Nottingham, 3 letters after the members names...maybe 1990/91? One who was chubby ran that pub which was on the junction of western boulevard with Radford Rd which was demolished to make a drive thru McDonalds (think it was called Whatsits and Thingumyjigs for a while?)
There were two white guys and one black guy and I worked at what was the Mobil petrol station on Nuthall Road next door to Ideal Cleaning and Sherriff Tool Hire. I left the garage and this black guy took my position and he'd only been there a couple of weeks when their record was a hit, (may have been a cover) and he left the garage high n dry and just never went back. Think they followed up with a second single then sank without trace. I remb that they had a lot of local publicity at the time as they came from nowhere and the chubby bloke wasn't usual pop star material. Who were they?
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re #46
I've got tears rolling down my face
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On 02/09/2006 at 9:34 PM, mr rob t said:
i don`t think it was. this full length video is rarely seen, that`s probably why it`s not been spotted before.
I always remember the corpo bus on the video but wondered if it was just one that had been sold having retired from service. I remb at the time keep pausing my video until I was absolutely sure the bus was definitely Nottm corpo.
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I just searched it on Wikipedia and it says the film made a loss.
One thing I did notice in the Wiki info is the details of who wrote the film; One name mentioned is Victor MacLure and although the spelling is slightly different, I wondered if he could possibly be a Grandfather of the wonderful Wollaton actress Vicky McClure. I know people in the arts often have roots laid firmly in the past.
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On 12/11/2013 at 10:36 AM, DAVIDW said:
Should be public now !
Next scene on unknown road . Other streets can be fleetingly seen through car window .
So what was the storyline of the film? He says "I expect they'll know who I am", so now I'm intrigued, who was Mr Knight? Enjoyed those clips. Sadly I cannot download the film because it says it's expired. I like stuff like this especially if some connection i.e location or actor. I did laugh at the schoolboy's face when he turned around. He's like one of those 30year olds we see on the news trying to pass themselves off as child migrants.
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Anyone remember the drivers of the old MG and Trent buses heading up Derby Road to Canning Circus and not being able to get their gears? Even as a little girl I got a cricked neck going home from shopping with my mother and when my dad came home from work that night, he took me to the old Ilkeston Hospital to be checked out.
Oh and my mother was a pain for nodding of to sleep on the bus and missing our stop at Gilthill near Kimberley and she would tend to wake up seconds after and then we'd not be allowed off until the next stop outside Bonser Engineering. She was a crazy woman and would berate me all the way home (saying it was my fault for not waking her up in time) and my little five year old legs would have to trudge back up the hill having been dragged around town all afternoon. She was a horrid woman.
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On 17/05/2016 at 0:41 PM, Merthyr Imp said:
Here's a photo of an F5 parked at the then-fairly new Mount Street bus station. Probably taken in 1972 or 1973.
I hated that bus station, accessing it thru that tunnel. I was terrified of the tramps as a little girl and everyone was smoking. The smell on the buses from it too. I do remb the canteen bus for drivers at Mount Street. I much preferred it when Trent moved their buses to the original Victoria Centre bus station, although still the vile fumes from buses and cigarettes.
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On 19/12/2013 at 9:47 PM, darkazana said:
Have a lovely print of the B1 Ripley Midland General bus on our wall. How anorakky is that. It is from an oil painting by M J Parnham a local artist.
I just ordered 3 prints from Malcolm Parnham. One of Wolsey factory, one of forty Bridges and one of Shippo's bridge over Kimberley Main Street and all featuring a midland general bus.
I was born in 1970 and recall in the first half of the seventies, standing at the bus stop at the top of Gilthill with my mother and guessing whether it'd be a blue bus or a red bus to Nottingham so that must've been when the changeover was from Midland General to Trent Motor Traction Company.
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On 11/02/2017 at 11:09 PM, DJ360 said:
I used to visit Kimberley often on nights out. We would start from Bulwell and head out via Kimberley to Langley Mill and Aldercar Working Men's Club And Institute.. Ltd
then on to The Three Horseshoes in Ilkeston, finishing at the Bowling Alley. In Kimberley, we often had a couple in the Highland Laddie, which as I recall was on a road high up on the left of the village as you came from Bulwell. Was wondering if it is still there/open. I very much doubt it. Anybody know?
My husband recalls the Highland Laddie on High Street being open as he's ten years my senior. It was already demolished when I started drinking in 1985 but a side wall still stood for many years until High St was made one way and new bungalows were built. I don't ever remb the building intact and used to wonder when I heard it mentioned, how it got its name, with where it was. I studied local history at school (KimboComp) but never heard any scots connection to the town.
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On 25/09/2014 at 2:18 PM, DaveN said:
Limey you mentioned Alton Towers from years ago. If I recall didn't they have a model railway exhibition inside the house?
Yes there was a model railway within the towers, way back in the mid seventies. There was also a children's roundabout in the courtyard area and chair lifts. My parents used to love going to the gardens. My sister was a baby so it was 1975 and I'd have been four. In the late 70's when advertising on TV, the advert was set to the music called 'EyeLevel'.
I distinctly remember the trainset as even though I was a girl, I've had a lifelong obsession with them. I'd spend ages outside Beatties when walking with my mother back to what used to be Mount Street bus station. She would be hopping mad but I'd just want to see 'one more' train appear from one of the tunnels. I'm 46 now, my 22 year old son is as train mad as I am. I still have never owned my own train set though
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re #357
Bless you TBI & Cliff Ton for that. I asked lots of ppl and they couldn't even remb the place but I was convinced I wasn't mistaken. Thanks for the photie too
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On 06/02/2015 at 2:42 PM, Cliff Ton said:
Everybody has discovered the Evening Post website is a real pain because of all the adverts, so that each page take several minutes to load. You can run various Ad-block programmes, but there is now a possibly decent alternative.
Notts TV (the local station) have got a local news section on their website. I'm not guaranteeing it's perfect, but it can't be worse than the NEP.
That's a refreshing news website. Thanks for the heads up. I may live miles away now, out in the land of carrot crunchers and Poles but I still like to see what's happening where I still call 'local'
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On 18/01/2017 at 11:04 AM, radfordred said:
Seems quite strange now that pubs only opened between 12 & 2pm - 6pm to 10.30pm which was only fully brought in, in 2005!
Back when pubs had regulated licensed opening hours, you just knew every pub was open every dinner time and every night whereas since pubs were allowed all day drinking, many pubs close on what were the traditional quiet days at the beginning of a week. Nowadays, especially in rural areas, you have to check their opening days and hours.
I don't know what the county licensing hours were but Kimberley was 10:30-14:30 and 19:00-23:00 every day except Sunday when it was 12:00-15:00 (11:30 using the back door of the Queen's) and 19:00-22:30. I remember seeing two particular wasters at the door of the Cricketers Rest actually knocking on the door if not opened on the dot of 19:00, I remember the couple had children (no idea where as they were in the Cricks from opening til closing 7 nights a week) and they hadn't worked a day in their lives (and that was seemingly rare in Kimbo back in 1986/1987). I did love the drinking culture though, I knew everyone from school/working in the 'village'. The Clyde was open until all hours, it wasn't unusual after a Friday or Saturday night lock in, to exit the side door at 2 or 3am...then I turned 18 and gave up drinking.
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this image is for sale on eBay by its artist Malcolm Parnham. He lists lots of rail pictures besides this one of Forty Bridges. Another I love is of an old Midland General blue bus heading Kimberley to Eastwood and is passing under the rail bridge which was at the bottom of the forecourt of the old National Garage/BP/Kimberley Caravans on the bend from Kimberley fairly close to Kettlebrook Lodge and Church Hill. He also lists a picture of the old Wolsey Nylons factory in Kimberley.
Loving others' pictures of the area and Bonser Engineering where my husband served his apprenticeship as a young man.
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On 27/06/2009 at 4:08 PM, Ashley said:
Was wrong re it being white but not the shipley gate (boat) if still there it's on the old road where you now go to the hog's head which was main road from kimberley to ilkeston, theres a good photo of it and other parts of the viaduct on picture the past
The pub is called 'The Gate' and is locally known nowadays as The sweet shop. No idea why, it's still a pub.
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On 23/02/2014 at 2:13 PM, Cliff Ton said:
I detect a bit of a misunderstanding.
What Ashley was saying is that #70-76 mentioned the fact that Dyggor Gaylord used to occupy the site where ikea is now.
briyeo in #78 referred to another company called Bonser Engineering who were "near where Ikea stands today".
Possibly two different things.
Dyggor Gaylord weren't exactly where Ikea is but in the old Bonser Engineering /Lansing Bagnall yard (They also had an office just off the A610 on the eastbound side of the dual carriageway at the turn off for New Eastwood which later became something to do with Raleigh) DG had massive earth moving machines used in road building and during the late eighties/1990, I was in my home above Gilthill (near the white house high on the hill above the farm) and I heard and felt a huge bang. I got up and checked around the home as it sounded like something so close. I found out later that day that a tyre blew out killing a Kimberley man; Colin Keitley and two others. I was haunted for years that I'd effectively 'heard them die'
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On 27/06/2009 at 9:29 AM, mick2me said:
If you are talking about the structure that can be seen to the right when going down Challans Way Ilkeston,
I was on the top of that structure with a work commitment earlier in the year.
Takes some getting to, an I had to access it via railway land off a Bridge (Awsworth Road Perhaps?)
There is no public access AFAIK?
Looking at Google Earth or Maps.Google.co.uk might be good?
Images anyone?
Possibly you mean Bennerley Viaduct known locally as a Black Bridge. It's constructed of iron and still standing whereas Forty Bridges was demolished in 1973 to make way for the A610 bypass.
if I remb correctly there may be a picture in one of the books by Arthur Plumb; called Kimberley in old picture postcards. My books are currently 'in a safe place' so I cannot look and tell you which edition.
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On 16/10/2008 at 5:44 PM, .... said:
I DO remember The Flying Horse having a reputation as a place where gay people met, Bazzer. I drank there in the late seventies but I think it gained that reputation before that. Quite agree about the 'so what', though.
I used to go in the News House and my mother used to say it was a 'gay pub', never saw evidence of it myself and don't recall the FH being gay either. Iirc Gatsbys was a gay pub
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On 23/03/2009 at 6:59 PM, Fynger said:
Cant count the times we all turned up at the Sal to find upstairs had been decked with tables with posh tablecloths on em to be told 'you not allowed in no more'..its now a restaurant....then had to wait 2 weeks till it reverted back cos no one went in.
Seriously? Upstairs in the Sal was on my Saturday pub crawl back in the late eighties and also we would go in there on Friday before heading to Rock City. What's the place like now?
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On 15/10/2008 at 11:46 PM, zab said:
The News House on St James Street was for many years my favourite pub in town, now totally ruined in the interest of profit and an Australian theme. Also, not a regular but I always enjoyed a pint at the Crystal Palace.
Been trying my hardest to think of that pubs name which is why I'm on this thread. Used to go in there on Saturdays after going in Way Ahead record shop to buy vinyl. Cheers!
Can anyone tell me the name of the pub on the left of Market Street as you went up the road? I used to go in there when on a Saturday all dayer with my old drinking buddy in my late teens. The pub vanished when the Pearsons site behind it and down onto Angel Row was redeveloped at the very end of the 1980's. I recall inside of it was a well, could've been a fake one as it had a wire ledge in it and lighting and a skeleton on the ledge. People used to get up and dance on a long bar (not where the drinks were served but another bar across the middle of the pub)
I was fortunate enough to be raised in Kimberley and when last orders was called in the Nelson and Railway, we could still get drinks in the Cricketers Rest, Queens Head and the Lord Clyde...didn't bother with The Gate as the landlord was horrible. It was great living there with being a brewing town, Friday afternoons when the draymen knocked off work was always fun in the pubs especially the Nelly & Clyde. I left Notts in 2000 and since then Greene King bought out the brewery and closed it.i just cannot imagine the place now.
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I absolutely love this thread. So many great actors and actresses hail from Nottinghamshire and they're all proud of the fact. Coupled with such great locations for filming, it's really the best in the country. It's a great pity that TV isn't what it used to be. I love everything made by Shane Meadows and the talent he has discovered.
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Whilst I've always said duck, a friend of mine 'Nottm born & bred' ALWAYS calls me duckie.
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Something is bugging me having seen the Muslim girls boarding school in the news. What did the Jamia al-Hudaa in Nottingham use to be? It's an old building. Please help
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#28
Absolutely love that
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Giltbrook Hall
in General Chat about Nottingham
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Absolutely not the same place. As it's already been said, Giltbrook house is/was a nursing home but it used to belong to Doctor Towle who had his surgery in front of it. Someone has posted an aerial view of the old folks home. I know someone who used to work there.
Giltbrook Hall was just after the Bonser forklift factory and belonged to the same chap who owned the tannery. It's all long gone but don't be mistaken with the old Giltbrook Doctor and his house.
(Apologies, didn't realise the topic was SO old)