Arnold Mick

@radfordred - we always sat round the table for dinner, Mum, Dad + 3, and when we kids had finished we had to say "thank you for my dinner, please may I leave the table". School dinners - when I started having them, early 50s, they were 9d a day.....3s/9d a week. Later in life there was summat else that used to cost 3s/9d.... from the barbers...and it wasn't a haircut!

He was good at Forest (after being signed from Wolves) but a certain Mr Clough got the best out of him at....can't bring myself to write it!....D..D....Derby

.......From tin to plate in less than eight! Bloody great!

Ben, do you remember the 'I-Spy' books in the 50s? Covered all sorts of spotters' delights! I-Spy on the Road...I-Spy in the Countryside....I spy on the Bus...etc. Did they ever do 'I-Spy in the Grocer's Store'? Bet you filled it up in about a week and bagged maximum points!

Leave that window open, Phil, it's my way into the pub. I haven't got a Covid Passport!

Earlier post mentioned Lamcote coaches. When I went to Bramcote Grammar our school bus was Clarkes of Epperstone where it would commence with stops at Calverton, Lambley, Arnold, Daybrook and last pick up at Mansfield Rd/Valley Rd junction. At that point a Lamcote coach would join the same boulevards/Derby Rd route to Bramcote. Our last pick up, a swotty lad named Peter, would excitedly advise whether or not the Lamcote had already passed. This would be an indication to our driver to put his foot down and beat the Lamcote to the Bramcote. Most of the drivers were up for it and there were many

Correction Mary! 9th October 1965 at the City Ground, those fabulous boys in red played West HAM! ....and scrapped to a 5 - 0 win! Addison, Hinton, Storey-Moore, Wignall and Wilson the scorers. The attendance was 19,262 and, for the moment, I can't recall all their names but I'll get back to you.

Most afternoons I sit in front of my pc and........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!......Oh! Where am I? Is that 6 O'clock at night or in the morning?

Mablethorpe, Sutton-on-Sea, Anderby Creek, Chapel and Ingoldmells (Skeggy too big & posh!) what great places in the post war decades! The village name Mavis Enderby always intrigues me whenever I see the road sign but wonder if you actually drove through it on the way Chapel. The 5 sail windmill is still there at Alford. Memories, such memories!

Wow! Holidays abroad 1950 - 60! We didn't have a holiday until I was 11 years old in 1956...me, Mam & Dad + 2 sisters, auntie & uncle + daughter and fiancé....all in a small bungalhole at Jinglebells. But we loved it. Hits of the day I remember hearing everywhere - 'Lay Down Your Arms' by Ann Shelton and Que Sera by Doris Day. Went in caravans there for the next 3 years...then upgraded to Mablethorpe! But did go to 2 BB camps at Whitby in '58 and '60. In later years I've had some great holidays abroad and cruises but I'll never, ever forget those first holidays on the Lincolnshire Rivi

The nearest I have been to cowboys is when I stood and watched some brickies at work on that new housing development by Percy....somebody or other!

Just a joke folks. Just a joke!

Yes, definitely was a cafe on BMBS. And wasn't Peoples College also on that site at one time?

Leicester has a 'Pork Pie Island' and I wondered why. At that junction there's a round building (Library?) that resembles a pork pie!

First off, this thread was started by Joy in 2009...and is still going! Shows just just what a great topic it is! Thanks Joy! Remember The Musters well...great place! Remember seeing the late/great Bernard Manning there and, if I remember rightly, did he sometimes swear? I remember Roro's debut(?) there and the compere's build-up introduction included "...here for one night only, stopping off on her whirlwind tour..." . After that night she was never out of the place....couldn't get rid of her....resident artist! But she was good, bless her! Also remember Roger L'Idiot and saw him a

I worked on the site for Otis installing the lifts. We started installing the lifts before the upper floors of the towers were done. We watched as the pre-cast concrete sections were lowered into position by the crane and large screw studs on the lower section had to be be located into slots on the upper section being lowered by the crane before nuts and washers were fitted to secure. On some occasions the labourers struggled to get the stud and slot aligned so the 'technical expert' just hammered the studs out of the way and that fixing wasn't used! These high rise flats were installed in all

Yes, remember the Pigalle! It was originally on Drury Hill and was a bit of a gambling den as well! I remember punters throwing 10 Bob notes on the Roulette table instead of chips! 10 bob would have seen me halfway through my Friday night jaunt in '60s Nottingham! Remember Drury Hill? I had to do my driving test 3 point turn down there!

Years ago Otis had a very big manufacturing place in Liverpool but company structural changes meant it had to close and they had to use crap made in France! They transferred UK HQ to Leicester when they took over Evans Lifts on Abbey Lane.

Otis used to have a small, local office on St Peters Church Walk, just behind the church.

"You're not gooin' to them baths till yuv learnt to swim"!

I can't remember using a 'johnny'(?) to erase a mistake in my exercise book?

Catering mainly for uni students!....ever counted the number of barbers/hairdressers?

I played football against Arno Vale for Arnold Kingswell - 1955? Also remember getting the Coronation mug and NT (still got the NT) Later, when I went to Bramcote Grammar we all got presented with a new bible. Don't think I've got that but got my Boys Brigade bible!

For us it was the Metropole, Mansfield Road, Sherwood. 1d e/w on the bus from Arnold, a tanner to go in and 3d for tuffies! You were handed a picture card as you went in with the aim to collect the set. We also had various tin badges pinned on our lapels...can't remember how we were awarded them Another highlight was going up on the stage when it was your birthday and shouting down the microphone "Thank you, Minors"! Oh yes, singing the club song..."We are the boys and girls well known as, Minors of the ABC....etc, etc"! I seem to remember, on occasions, we also went t

Hi Liz - I was with the 1st intake in January 1953 having been at High Street Infants. It would be the same Mr Ellis that taught us both at Kingswell but there is a bit of confusion with the Arnold High connection. I am on here as it has connections with the first intakes having been 'refugees' at Bramcote Hills Grammar (my school '56 - '61). So Mr Ellis never taught at Arnold High. He later went on to become Headmaster at a school in Kirkby in Ashfield. You might have been at Kingswell at the same time as either one of my sisters - Shirley / Linda Fox