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These Police drivers are highly trained boy racers "didn't you know? Bip. Some of their driving is pretty ropey. Not so long ago I saw a Panda car (with lights and siren going but he wasn't chasing) turn right out of Postern Street, by the old Boots labs, and then drive the wrong way up Lower Parliament Street toward the Ice Stadium.

You're thinking of the Horse and Groom on Wheeler Gate. It's now an HBOS bank. Next door to McDonalds.

Aaah. I can't quote chapter and verse right now but East Bridgeford (with the e) was/is the proper version while in recent times people have tended to drop the "e" simply because WB doesn't have one in its correct form. Changes in spelling over the course of time are nothing new.

Which side of trent bridge was this? West Bridgeford? Actually until the early 50s this part of West Bridgford all the way to and including Forest's ground and a detached bit towards Adbolton was actually within the city limits. Funnily enough the bit of the Meadows' side of the Embankment by the suspension bridge wasn't technically part of Nottingham. And to be even more pedantic it's West Bridgford but East Bridgeford.

Just before Christmas I attended a function at a certain Miners' Welfare, not too many miles from Nottingham, where the catering consisted of nothing but dripping butties.

As a child of the 60s I clearly recall my daily dose of cod liver oil followed by the reward of rosehip syrup. And from time to time there was a small bottle of orange juice to help build young bodies.

The idea was that it offered a 'return' option....back to Trent Bridge, or whatever. Don't think it was part of any designated route. With regards to trolleybuses in front of the Council House: didn't they simply use the island at the bottom of Market Street to turn around? Far more sensible than having having wires and poles directly in front of the ceremonial balcony.

No way that photo is from the early 50s. The clothes are wrong for a start and the area in front of the Council House is pedestrianised. And, if you look in the background there's a "modern" single deck bus. I'd say the photo was from the 80s.

Just spotted this on Radio Nottingham's website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/ar...3_feature.shtml

Today's journeymen are too well rewarded but the stars of yesteryear were undoubtedly exploited by the club owners and some of the managers. Matt Busby was notoriously bad to his players if they stepped out of line. The pictures of Denis Law come from a compilation volume of articles that appeared in Shoot during the 60s, 70s and 80s. Even into the middle 80s the modesty of even a top star's lifestyle is quite an eye opener. George Best had an E-type but for the rest it was strictly run of the mill motors. Except for Stan Bowles: who ran a Lamborghini - probably on the never never.

I think the manufacturers had to change the name to Lunjeelas because the powers that be didn't want people to think that the sweets had medicinal properties.

And here's Dennis trying out his new stereo.

Hey Rob, you're a bit of a sharpshooter yourself. Yes, the photo was taken when Dennis Law was a star at Man Utd and a former European Footballer of the Year to boot. He would be worth God knows how much in today's transfer market and living in a mansion. Not feeding chips and beans to his kids before going outside to wash and polish his Ford Cortina (Executive). It just shows how footballers' circumstances have changed since those days.

He's a Scottish footballing legend (no exaggeration) born in 1940.

Here's a useful link for anyone who wants a quarter of whatever http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/ Anyone remember Lung Healers?

This photo was taken in the very late sixties. Any ideas as to the identity of the legend I have blocked out? I was amazed by the modesty of his surroundings - the kids look like something out of "Kathy Come Home".

Crap! i can see it in my minds eye! did it have a 2 part name, you know, like Griffin and Spalding had? I seem to recall a mate worked there.............hmm......now ive said about its name....im not sure about the 2 part bit..................oh Boll*x!!! I used to walk by it when i had to park my car down the road where the grave yard was/is. Was it Reynolds? The gas showroom on Goldsmith Street was called Ridgards.

Virgin were never there, they were always where they are now, not opening a retail store in Nottingham until the 80's i actually did an outside broadcast from the shop when it first opened, fronted by my then colleague Erica Hughes, and his highness Richard Branson was in attendance As for a record shop in that area, i actually managed what was my former workplace Dixons, as a shop that sold off all the old records,cassettes, and 8 tracks that the other Dixons couldnt move, could that have been it? Sorry Craig but Virgin were at No 7 King St from about 73 onwards. The shop closed in 78-

Yer right it was the Playhouse before they moved to Wellington Circus. So who remembers the name of the gas showroom?

In the 70s wasn't Virgin at the bottom of King's Street just up from Gauntley's?

Does anyone remember the name of the gas appliance shop that was on the corner of Goldsmith Street and Talbot Street? It's now a bar (not the Spread Eagle). And going back even further what was that building the home of until the early 60s?

You've forgotten Stock's driving school, with the model car in the window, Selectadisc and North Midland Stationers. Further round there was Jack Brentnall's music shop on Theatre Square. The very infrequent No 2 bus had its terminus on Goldsmith Street.

A quarter of Midget Gems and a quarter of liquorice torpedoes. Mmmmmmm And in the summer a Jublee which you sucked into all the colour and flavour had gone, leaving a lump of ice.

I was a 9 year old consultant with a surgery in the back of mum's MG; the nurses T*** S*** and G***** J*****. And my trousers stayed firmly on

Didn't the rocket come out of the "exhaust pipes" just behind the seats? I seem to remember there wasa circular saw type device at the front of th B-mobile. I had the Daktari set complete with tiny spectacles for Clarence the X-eyed lion.