Will2017

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  1. Things you don't see anymore

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    2 hours ago, mary1947 said:

    Ian if I remember it was Wrights who use to take the photos.

    The photography company was Wrates. Regards, Will2017

    2 hours ago, mary1947 said:

    When we went on holiday it was mostley Whinthorp at Skeg now and again we would have a change and go to the seaslde town which had only a long road, which went up to the pullover to the beach, this town is  better know as Mablethorpe, in fact we were there that year when they had floods, we came home just one week before it was flooded.  In 1999 we packed our bags and went to live at the coast, while out house hunting there was a beautiful large house for sale in Mablethorpe, while viewing it the wallpaper had been removed, and what was on the wall a tide mark of were the water level had come up to during the floods.

    We did not buy this house, we ende up at Andeby, not Anderby Creek but Anderby Village. (but thats  another story)

     

  3. 60's groups and Nottingham Venues

    in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.

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    1 hour ago, DAVIDW said:

    Unfortunately I stopped writing my diaries after I left school , so like you have forgotten a lot of the bands I saw at the same Nottm places as you Lizzie. 

     

    I'm sure I went to Sheffield too , to see Sam and Dave and also the Bath festival which was the fore -runner to Glastonbury. We only stayed for the Saturday daytime and bands such as Steppenwolf and Canned Heat were on , as well as strangely the Maynard Ferguson jazz band.

    Also used to help booking bands for Digby College , Saturday night dances around 1965/66, though hardly remember any of the bands names now unfortunately.

    Played a few times at Digby College Saturday night dances. Regards,will2017

     

  6. Coronavirus

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    19 hours ago, Oztalgian said:

    Sadly we have had another death of with or from Covid, a two year old girl. My heart goes out to her family at this devastating time.

    Meanwhile our pollie wafflers have come up with a new meaning of a "close contact". It is now defined as "Someone who has spent four hours or more with a confirmed case in a household or household like setting." What a cop out! Given that Omnicron is a more virulent strain and more easily transmissible can someone explain this logic to me? We have yet further abdication of responsibility by the ruling elite. All in the name of "protecting the system". Ballcocks, it is only about reducing costs to the governments and bu$$ger the poor serfs who are having difficulty getting tested or getting their booster shots. The government run vaccination clinic where we live closed on Christmas eve and will remain closed until 4 Jan 2022. In the midst of a pandemic this beggars belief. I suspect that the next announcement from the Feds will be "this thing has got away from us and the only thing we can do now is just to let it rip."

    The duration (4 Hours) is too long considering it only took seconds to catch the Delta variant. It is too drastic a change so early in the "living with covid" phase and too narrow in its scope. What about work places? People will baulk at paying for the RAT when they can have the PCR test for free in spite of the excessively long queues and wait times.Will2017

  7. Alfreton Road in the 60s

    in 60's Nottingham

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    2 hours ago, Radford Boy said:

    I think the music shop was Papworths. I used to buy records there and drool over the guitars. I think there was a scientific shop a bit further down and across the road was Jackie Pownalls which I think sold all sorts of second hand items.

     

    38 minutes ago, Rob.L said:

    Didn’t stop Tony Iommi from making a career of playing with three and a half fingers…

    I bought a Vox AC 30 amp. and a guitar fro Papworths. Will2017

  8. What are you listening to now ??

    in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.

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    3 hours ago, DJ360 said:

    Just to complete this session...

     

    Mike D'abo wrote this and this is his version.

     

     

    The first released version was this..by Chris Farlowe:

     

     

    Next up was our Rod.

     

     

    And then the Stereophonics.

     

     

    It's a fascinating progression for a song.  And I think that it is such an inherently listenable and beautiful song, many people end up missing the point of it.

     

    My personal fave is the Rod version.. but they are all stunning.

    Paul Jones using the pseudonym Sheila McLeod wrote "I Want To know" that was recorded by Ten Years After. Regards,Will2017

     

     

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  9. Dunstan Street Netherfield

    in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum

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    9 hours ago, Rob.L said:

    There were allotments on Foxhill up to the 1950s/60s between Chesterfield Street and Garden Avenue, and also between Foxhill/Valley Road and Coningswath/Cavendish Road, where Carlton Forum was later built.

     

    Could they have been located there?

    There used to be access to Huckerby's (Rusher) field from Cavendish Road approximately opposite Belper Avenue.There was a well in the garden of of the house on the right hand side, I think it could have been a market garden. I thought that the Hatton family lived in the house. Regards, Will2017

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  10. Zoot Money and his bands

    in 60's Nottingham

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    10 hours ago, DJ360 said:

    So many of those guys are still around and still entertaining people.  I think they can be more relaxed as they have nothing to prove.

     

    Somewhere back up thread there's a big list of bands which played the 'Boat'.  I saw a lot of them.  Also some of them such as the Clockwork Toys, Carl's Fables and Sons and Lovers and Pete and Billy Cambell and the Mighty Sparrows were local.  We had them at the 360 Club too.  And then there were the likes of 'Tiny Davis Souls A Go Go', who IIRC were from Sheffield, or was that Mickey's Monkeys?.. and the Mike Stuart Span.  I think we also had all of those at the 360.  And of course Root and Jenny Jackson..who nobody believed we had secured for the 360..with the result that few turned up and we lost a small fortune on them. :wacko:

    Also listed up there is Victor Brox, who I think hails from Manchester, but often played the Boat with various bands.  I had the pleasure of seeing his daughter Kyla play at 'The Old Courts' in Wigan a couple of years back. Old Victor sat quietly in the audience ..polishing off a bottle of red wine, and joined Kyla on stage for a couple of songs. 

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    I spoke to him afterwards and mentioned those wonderful times at the Boat Club in the 60s and could clearly see him thinking back with pleasure.  He shook my hand and smiled.  'I remember that place..some great gigs there..'

     

    Who of us would have seriously thought 50 plus years ago... that we would have still been reminiscing about all that?

     

     

    We, "The Litter" asked Tiny to join the band after "Souls A Go Go" had broken up and we played twice at the 360 as was mentioned in one of your earlier posts.

    Regards,Will

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  11. Beatles in Nottingham

    in 60's Nottingham

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    10 hours ago, Socram said:

    I have just ordered a CD from Lake Records/Fellside Recordings of the Chris Barber Jazz Band, recorded at the Elizabethan Rooms. 

    Those who have visited the Beatles exhibition in Liverpool may recall that the first display is in fact of Chris Barber's Jazz band (originally the Ken Colyer Band), and their introduction of 'Skiffle', during their concerts.  Lonnie Donegan was the banjo player in the Barber band and the Skiffle craze kick started the Beatles, The Shadows and many many more. Later, Chris introduced the genuine American Blues artists to the UK. 

     

    Chris Barber died March this year aged 90 and still led his band up until August 2019.  generally acknowledged to be one the major influences in the British music scene, but seemingly, so few these days seem aware of it. Shame.  

     

    The producer of the CD says that he struggled to find jazzers with memories of the Elizabethan Rooms and it was only through here and Google that it made sense, though I never saw any live music there. 

    I played in the support band to the Big Three at the Elizabethan Rooms in 1964. The Big Three members were Johnny Hutchinson-drums,Paul Pilnick-lead  guitar and Faron Ruffley-bass guitar. The Big Three arrived with no pa so used ours.

    Will2017

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  12. Murder on Moore Road, Mapperley?

    in 70's Nottingham

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    12 hours ago, Barrald said:

    Hi, Many thanks for the welcomes mary1947 and Will2017!  :)

    Will2017 - so there is something to the story, thanks for the info!  You don't happen to know the year or names of anyone involved?  Thinking of going to the archives to see if I can get an old newspaper report or something!


    Cheers

    Unfortunately I do not any further info.  The EP and N archives would be the most reliable source of info. Good luck in your research. Regards,Will2017.

  14. Nottingham Bands in the 60s

    in 60's Nottingham

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    On 5/10/2021 at 5:09 PM, Dick said:

    Anyone remember Ivan Jay And The J-Men, they were quite popular playing around Nottingham for many years in the 60s,they later went on to be called 10 Years After.

    The name Clive rings a bell, a friendly tall blond lad he used to sing around the traps with a few bands.

    At the Sheds Beeston he used to put on a long black wig and do a terrible copy of a  Screaming Lord Sutch song.

    Hi Dick, the playedinaband site has some excellent information.

    Regards,Will2017

  18. Nottingham Evening (sic) Post RIP

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    On 3/21/2021 at 9:20 AM, Oztalgian said:

    Have never had a paper delivered in the 45 years we have been here in OZ.

    Years ago they used a machine to roll the paper so tight, put an elastic band on it and just threw it on your front garden. When it rained the first two pages were often sodden and in order to read it you had to unroll it and hold it flat or iron it to be able to read it. They then progressed to rolling it in Gladwrap which kept it dry but still left you with the problem of getting it flat. These days it is folded inside a sealed plastic bag, much more practical but still the problem of disposing of even more plastic. We only have one local daily paper and it can best be described as a comic it is owned by the Murdoch organisation so you can guess its leanings. I don't even bother looking at its website as most of it is behind a pay wall and i refuse to pay for rubbish.

    Correction....... I do occasionally buy the Saturday paper as it has a lot more pages but only when we are planning to have prawns so I can wrap the shells in it or use it for masking when painting.

    Years ago, when raining, the newsagent used to alert residents to collect their newpapers  by blowing a whistle.

  21. Porridge

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    10 hours ago, Stavertongirl said:

    I can remember my mum getting a porridger (at least that is what she called it). It consisted of 2 saucepans, the bottom one had water put in it and then the porridge oats etc were put in the other one and then slotted into the lower one, if that makes sense.

    When I came down for breakfast my heart would sink when I saw it on the stove. I detested the stuff, it was always lumpy and tasteless. Looked like polyfilla on the plate, grey and disgusting. I have tried the microwave stuff which is okay but I prefer my shreddies or muesli.

    I did however like the “raw” oats just mixed with sugar, one of my friends mum used to give us some as a snack. 

    It is called a porringer.

     

    Regards,Will2017

  24. Clocks back tonight

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    18 hours ago, Oztalgian said:

    You think you have problems with daylight saving Have a look at these maps of Australia pre and post daylight savings

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    Have a look at the No DST map. The yellow bit on the right is Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. The Green bit in the Middle is South Australia and the Northern Territory and the Blue bit is West Australia. All very logical except the half hour bit in the middle which should really be an hour difference to the east coast.

     

    Now look at the DST map, what a schemozzle as some states have daylight saving and others don't

    Pity the poor people catching a flight from the Gold Coast/ Coolangatta airport which is right on the NSW/Queensland border. If your are at one end of the terminal your phone could well show a different time to the other end of the terminal depending upon which mobile tower the phone is picking up. This time difference often results in the unaware missing their flights.

    We are further west than Queensland yet our time is half an hour ahead of theirs during the summer, and we now have 5 separate time zones to grapple with, stupid if you ask me.

    This year in Queensland is the same as in previous years with calls to review DST. Some residents still think that the introduction of DST in Queensland would cause the fading of curtains.

    Regards,

    Will2017