[The Rhinegold]

I worked there as a relief chef for a month late 70's, for a guy I new who was their main chef, his name was Pasquale Sorrentino & I had trained under him in the Dorchester Restaurant, Hamilton Road? the Rhinegold wasa great place owned by a guy who was a BA pilot & his Stewardess partner, he was always dead keen on supplying me with anything I needed - would just tell me where he was flying to that day & would pick me up some stuff at the local market there - imagine thet hapening today lol.

the waitresses were all attractive professional girls from the city who worked the evening shifts between them, the kitchen was so small, half of the prep for service was outside in the courtyard for lack of room, very busy & popular, I turned down into King John's Chambers last year when back in Nottingham briefly (I have lived in Scotland since '83) & was gobsmacked to see it still there in a sorry, peeling state after all the buzz of it's heyday

Johnalbert

The wife and i used to go to the Rhinegold in the late 80s and early 90s the owner then was Rod (Rodrigo) Beltran he was a great guy ,we used to go there every Friday night with some friends , we used to sit in one of the small booths, when it got late he used to leave us with our drinks while he went upstairs to do his paper work ,often stayed till 1 or 2 in the morning ,decorated in a rustic spainish style with oak beams, best food in Nottingham but not cheap, shame to see it like it is now , Rod sold the business and we were told that he was going to stay on as manager , new owners painted all the oak beams white only saw it through windows but it looked terrable, but for some reason it never opened again , good times , wonder what happened to Rod

[Harlow Wood]

johnalbert, iam trying to find anybody who was in harlow wood hospital near mansfield, i was in portland ward , sister langton was in charge, about 1953, then again 1963 in ward 9 , where sister williams was in charge

[Leaving the LACE MARKET 1913]

i am pretty sure that the photo was taken from carlton st looking up, with stony st on left where gas light is, on right is broad st

[Arkwright Street]

i used to live at the back longs the chemist on arkwright st and i often went to ozzies because he used to repair radios and he taught me how to repair them,i was about 10 , then we moved to healy st, i used to climb over our back wall on to arkwright st , the record shop was sharmans,

[Mr Williams- Music Teacher]

i remember mr williams at trent bridge, when we had music we went across the road to the meadows boys club,cant remember learning anything though, he used to get us singing ,up the jolly roger boys,he told us to sing loud so he could hear us while he went to the toilet at the back of the hall, enough said,

[Nottingham Smells]

going up drury hill on you right was a very old shoe-repairers thats perhaps where the smell came from, the person that owned the shop had it compulsery purchased to make way for the new broad marsh shopping center ,after broad marsh car park was finished he committed suicide by jumping off the top of it