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I was seven when MMW was opened..but even then i thought it looked cold. The majority of Nottinghams citizens bused it to work...probably had little or no bathroom..never stepped on a plane..and the concept of owning a property was alien. But the guys with the fountain pen and slide rule..didn't endure the slum shame of many. They Knew!...that fine architecture and spacious houses were being levelled for ticky tacky boxes. We were not as savvy as we are today..and i have seen my Dads wage slips from 1969..he'd be more interested in trying to make it stretch and feed four lads...

Yes..i have seen that Willow- excellent viewing.Talking Pictures often show old Public Information Films...quite amusing and charmingly dated.

British Telecom building, bottom of Hucknall Rd.

Bluecoat Street.Some changes have been made in the form of bricking up the entire gable end. This was a blue & yellow fully open National Garage in my day...Pumps and car wash. The wall of Bluecoat School is visible.Across the road are the dwellings of North British Housing Assoc...Cutts factory on Huskinson St.once stood there.

I thought we were blessed when Nottingham had two shopping Centres less than a mile apart.When Victoria Centre came ..i didn't know myself, shopping out of the rain, relax, have a frothy coffee and climb the ramp onto Glasshouse St.and drive home.But living in town for the first two years of this centre..a decline and change in the way we shopped occured.Those who didn't or couldn't afford the rents and rates...which were high..(and rumoured that rich Arabs owned them)...got squeezed out.Shops and small Grocers on Mansfield Rd.began to close..this major thoroughfare became dusty & dirty.Ev

Arnold Rd.Ben...crisp and clean pint..went out me way to drink there..played 5-side and always had a drink after...this would be 1983- 1990. Was it the Pear Tree further down?..on the corner of Park Lane..could rattle on all night about pubs.. sorry!!

Yep..Den, when i worked on Howbeck Rd..used to get the bus outside H.Samuels..3 buses were pushing and shoving. Got the bus to Killisick- NCT of course.

Interesting this..picture taken at Asda. Finney Elecrtric And Omnibus Motor Company. XTO 249 in 1977.

These are the poplars young Trogg mentioned.

1950.Split screen job outside The Kardomah.A quiet Clumber St.in 1944. Thomas Cook must have had lean times..trips up the Rhine...might have proved a little hairy!

Clumber Street.Some nice motors too...wouldn't mind that pickup! Yorkshire Penny Bank, Greys and the Kardomah.

Sammy Wards has many special memories for me...when i worked across the road...when out carousing...sometimes it was too late to go home..i often waddled to the portacabin at Island Street gates and kipped in the night watchmans chair..limping into Sams early doors Saturday morning for a coffee and a hot pie or sandwich. Gave Albert Sprideon a heart attack one day...nipped over in me Hyster for an ice cream in between unloading tautliners...good times!

Cottee & Edwards on Castle Boulevard.some member on here had a connection with the garages along here..i recall penants flying and cars & tyres for sale. Before the likes of 'Mi5' moved in.

Up until the early 1970's Ristes sold petrol...wasn't unusual to see High School Boys peeping inside to see a 1930's Rolls being worked on.

1973 here..my memories in particular start '75ish. Took a Clifton Girl out to the flicks..Death Race 2000 if i recall..the warning bells were donging well before the 'left lion' meet..she was from Clifton and had 3 sticks of Juicy Fruit on the go.She was definitely 'wearing' Harmony..into the Odeon...after a feed of Hotdogs, Butterkist, Sherbet Limes and Kia Ora..never got so much as a peck...drenched in Charlie..i was pineing for the nearby 44. I was talked ..after a tactical squeeze into a Pizzaland pizza...bumfluff decreed i was eligable for the caraffe of sangria. Two later ...a

An unfinished Maid Marian Way Subway in 1966.Later...all ship- shape.

Just love the colours on this 40 Trolleybus photo.

There is one sitting outside the jockey in Bulwell..the photo is on here..and the net.Yours?

Behind the posters i recall a carpark full of green Post Office Telephone Anglia vans. Where the ice cream van is..was a shutter that emerged speeding Telegram Despatch riders on red motorbikes.

The big WHY? over here..should the uk taxpayer fund Eugenies wedding?

Telephone Exchange building..early 1980s on Broad Street.

My mate John Draycott works for Bodill..."since school like". Up on Portland if i recall.Early Bodill family..camping out?

Captain GC Vickers VC.. in Nottm Market Place..a reception presenting him with his Victoria Cross medal.Standing alongside him is his Mother.

1981, the demolition of Great Central Viaduct over Hucknall Lane- Bulwell.I witnessed the steel section come down one particular Sunday..think my Dad nabbed a brick from here.

Every evening after tea..we'd go and see what Watts had pulled down...and what Wimpey had put up!1971 this, we'd never seen canch's of breeze blocks before..nor these bleak concrete underpasses..cept the precint in Lenton that was crap. Looked odd..shuttered concrete versus the old common brick. Is that the Liberal Club..peeking out? Catfan'll know..he was Union Rd..as was our old member Tompa.