radfordred

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  1. I was also in Bluu the Saturday before, if you were in the same time as me I doubt you would have missed the lady in the opened backed black velvet cat suit?
  2. Errrrm lace market Skin (empty @ 10pm on a Saturday night ) & Bluu bar the only 2 bars now left open on the once buzzing Broadway. Sugar Bar now closed. Santa Fe on the 1st floor of he Corner house closed.
  3. Well done Pete & Barbara (she did tell me she had the hots for you back in 60s) I'm sure you'll get 2 on the scoot , has she met up with my Auntie yet ?
  4. Cheers for that Rob ................found this as well Davis is known by the nickname "Tinsel Tits" by his BBC colleagues.
  5. That bloke off the telly presenter for the BBCs Dragons' Den @ the base of The Angel of the North last week .
  6. The Mill @ the bottom of Hockley ( now apartments ) used have the front of a truck bursting through a wall , sure it was also the DJs box ?
  7. Welcome another young un............. what about here ?
  8. Tavern in the Town / Dog & Bear / Fountain / Mortimer's Cavern / Flying Horse / Turf Tavern why did they close/destroy all the best pubs in town ?
  9. Theodosius 501 chippy used to be between The Anglo American garage & The White Horse on Ilkeston road was the dogs . Very really use a chippy now , but the odd time my lad wants to be bored to death & join me in a visit to the city ground the one just up from the train station or the one oppostise Trent Bridge House on Radcliffe Road both fill a hole . I only ever have chips & curry sauce the one on Radcliffe road as currants / or raisins in it ........well i think that's what they are ?
  10. The Snackery formerly Harry Lomax's fried fish restaurant. More here http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?sh...c=248&st=40
  11. Ha ha so there was a chippy on wollaton street ?
  12. The Ritz Cinema was built for the independent exhibitors; Ritz (Ilkeston) Ltd. and was designed in a modern Art Deco style by the Nottingham based architect Reginald W.G. Cooper (his seventh cinema design project). It opened on 20th May 1938 with Barbara Stanwick in "Stella Dallas" and British film star Victor McLaglen was guest of honor (invited by his nephew J.V. McLaglen who was the first manager of the Ritz). The cinema had a very distinctive style that was very similar to the Odeon theatres which were being built at that time. There was a slender fin-tower feature and the main facade was
  13. On the plus side have you ever tried to get a taxi back to Nottm after the soul night in Ilson ..........no chance .
  14. There was a very well to do mate of mine who even had a double barrel name did a ridiculous time at university every time i saw him he was jetting off to some far of place to do is work or his sister used to tell me which part of the world he was in , he once sent me a book which i never paid much interest in , after many years of not seeing him i bumped into him on his push bike on crown island where he was off too work on the night shift @ pork farms . He asked me if i had got the book he sent me which was an Atlas on the opening page it said cartography by followed by his name. So no more
  15. And Pumps before nicking most of Limeys to make it a massive pub . If you look where the side entrance to The Exchange was its now an outside bin storage for Squares .
  16. Sounds like the they have upset the health and safety & environmental health officers once they get there teeth into you its cheaper to throw the towel in and lock it up .
  17. From Dens FLYMO TURBO COMPACT 330, Used grass cutter for sale tread http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1811 From http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/www/press...?ReleaseID=1133 The keys of a refurbished Tarran bungalow have been handed to its delighted tenant in the final stages of the City Council's programme to replace these 309 wartime 'prefabs.' In the latest phase, 34 bungalows have been completely re-furbished, at an approximate cost of £2,574 million, under the City's Tarran Bungalow Replacement Phase12 programme, which is almost complete at three sites at Cinderhill, B
  18. "I wor joost abaaht ter tek a baff after wok before gooin dahn tahn fu the fanneh - but me shot wor dotteh so i went aht ter gerra new un."
  19. Illustrated History for VTV172S http://web.ukonline.co.uk/robsly/vtv172s.html
  20. see here http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry54490
  21. Belarus away a decent side , lets see Wednesday ?
  22. Anderson's (Ando's) pawnbrokers opposite the entrance to Sidney Pearson hill infants later moved across the boulevard opposite corner to your Spots butchers which was then Bacon Bros , also Simmons hardware shop Denman/Radford Blvd corner .