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The Nottingham studio was a bijou place in Wilson House on Derby Road. He always looked shifty - the camera just did not love him.

The video reminded me that Dennis was a brilliant local radio performer but could never hack TV. The production came across as a radio programme with pictures and wasn't helped that afforable home video post-production (software-based editing) was still quite a few years in the future.

Very interesting and no mention of the massive corruption within NCH, during the 1990s-2000s, with cricketers doing particularly well when it came to getting houses and jobs.

Many Nottstalgians will remember the industrial action at the Nottingham Evening Post, in the 1970s, when the management wanted to replace the old-fashioned production techniques with, what was then, state-of-the-art technology and the unions did not like it. Well, the man who was behind the switch has passed away. Christopher Pole-Carew

Jay Leno shows you round his collection of Brough Superiors. YouTube

Walking through town this afternoon I spotted a terracotta plaque that I had never spotted before. The question is: do any other Nottstalgians know where it is? (Apologies for the fuzzy focus, there must something wrong with my phone's camera). Mystery plaque

According to ST Water our supply comes from a groundwater source at Oxton.

There was a time when descaling the electric kettle was a fairly routine task. But, you know what, I can't remember the last time we had to do it and a quick peek shows absolutely no calcium build up in our current kettle. Have they done something to Nottingham's water?

Wasn't Carlton-le-Willows, strictly, one of those rare beasts a Technical Grammar School?

For the breweries the sale of their product was the key aspect of the tied estate. For the pubcos - Enterprise, Punch etc - it is the real estate that is the business driver not the sale of beer.

The big breweries were forced to sell their tied estates to Pubcos (property companies) by the Thatcher government. The minister who pushed through the Beer Orders, David (later Lord) Young, came from a property development background.

JOHN L. HIBBS LIMITED. Nature of Business: TYPEWRITER & OFFICE EQUIPMENT SALES, REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE. Address of Registered Office: 50 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham. Liquidator's Name and Address: A. J. S. Atkin, Atkin & Co., 18 Carrington Street, Nottingham. Date of Appointment: 2nd •November 1976. By whom Appointed: Creditors and Contributors

French Connection's branch on Victoria Street has now shut-up-shop for ever. Walking past it the other day I got to thinking about a small, city council art gallery that used to be at the bottom of Victoria Street? Does anyone else recall it? This would be early 1970s.

My memory was not playing tricks!

There was opposition from the unions when dustless collection was introduced. The old metal bins were very hard work to lift, so the physical demands provided quite an element of job protection. The wheely bins were far less physically demanding and that meant there was a much larger pool of potential workers to take on the job.

Putting out the waste over the weekend I noticed that our wheely-bin is date stamped 1988 and still going strong - despite its rubbish treatment. So, does any Nottstalgian have a wheely-bin that is even older?

Football was the High School's winter game. In 1914 the powers that be decided to switch codes; this was not universally popular with the boys and there was a tradition of organizing football teams despite official disapproval. The photo' (immediate post war) is one of these unofficial XIs, "Nottingham United". Unfortunately there is no indication of where it was taken, but it would be nice to know. I agree that it is probably a county(ish) location (Long Eaton did pop into my mind) but I cannot believe they would have travelled too far afield for their matches.

They are High School Boys but the headmaster disapproved of football so they had to play as Nottingham United. I agree with CliffTon about the church, so that pretty much rules out a city location.

Does anyone recognize this location? https://ibb.co/0XCdTdc

The Chopper looked cool but as a bicycle it was fundamentally dangerous and probably the worst design ever to hit the road not without problems.

The shop was definitely on the RHS as you walked towards Low Pavement. I would say it was the first shop after Pepper Street, where the three blokes are. I remember my father going in to the shop to get some new motor brushes for a Hoover Constellation.

It looks pretty run down along most of Bridlesmith Gate at the moment. Does anyone remember a vacuum cleaner shop in the short parade of shops just before Low Pavement? It would be middle-late 1960s. I's just as a kid I used to love the "thing on a spring" that bounced up and down in their window.

"conductor had to use the clock in machine outside the paper shop" Which reminds me of the electric clocks that used to be dotted around town, mounted on grey poles, which I presume were for the benefit of the bus drivers.

Many moons ago I began dating a lady and when I first visited her house I was mightily impressed, verging on intimidated, by the breadth and depth of her reading, if the contents of her heaving bookshelves were anything to go by.. It was only subsequently, after a little browsing, that I realized how few of the books had ever been opened.

This news feature has been mentioned before but the link is now broken. Here is a new link. https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-jack-dunnett-mp-for-nottingham-central-1971-online