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  1. 1 hour ago, Cliff Ton said:

    "Back in the mid-60s there were rather a lot of Ford shops."

     

    There was one on the High Rd Beeston.  I spent many hours in there with mum buying towels/tea towels etc.  In fact in the mid 70s II bought things from there for my 'bottom drawer' and until a couple of years back still had one blue & one orange towel that had a border of white ducks. There was nothing wrong with them except a little faded & I thought time to let go to the charity shop.

  2. Somewhere I have a book (can't remember what it's called as I've had it years) which is to with Ilkeston and refers to ey up mi duck as a local saying & which according to my ancestry searches Ilkeston was originally in Derbyshire.  The same with Stapleford.  I had a great deal of bother searching for ancestors in Stapleford Nottingham only to find they were in Stapleford Derbyshire.  So I would guess that HUMD was more local to Derbyshire?

  3. Don't remember those names but Queens Rd was/is a looooong road.  I lived on Queens Rd near the rec on Dovecote Lane.  Our neighbours were The Camerons I think Mr Cameron was a Professor at the Uni their son Ian & his older sister.  Other neighbours were Mr & Mrs Day & their kids Kevin, Richard & Kay?  & Mrs Haynes & her girls Jean, Angela & Linda forgot or maybe didn't know the names of anyone else.

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  4. 1 minute ago, MargieH said:

    I think my aunt used to teach at a girls? Secondary school in Beeston.  She was born around the turn of the century and presumably retired about 1960.  Her name was Gwen Selby.  Wonder if anyone on here went to that school…..

     

    I went to Nether St school ie Beeston Girls Secondary School from 1966-1969.  Our headmistress was Miss Herring who always got battered fish from the local chippy spread over her car by the 4th year leavers on their final day!

  5. 9 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said:

    My chief memory of that area is the crossroads at Queens Road - Station Road (where the cinema used to be).

     

    In the late 1970s that junction had a double-mini-roundabout which baffled many drivers and caused more problems than it ever solved. Fortunately they've gone out of fashion now.

     

    We moved in 1969 so didn't get to see the roundabout guess they should have stuck with the traffic lights.

  6. I don't know about that!    I used to go on a Sat. afternoon with some friends it cost 6d.   My mum used to take in 6 students from the Uni or from Ericssons.  One time we had a uni student his name Vijay Verma ?  He took me now & again to see the Indian films that were being shown.  On his birthday he received via the post from his family some lovely wrist bracelets which he gave to me afterwards - I wish I still had them - don't know what happened to them but they were very bright, colourful and had little jewels on them! 

  7. In the mid 60s  does anyone recall on Queens Rd Reynolds sweet & ciggy shop & I think there may have been an off licence attached opposite the Essoldo and alongside was VG food shop.  I think there may have been a chemist inbetween.  On Station Road there was Mrs Bennett a rather large lady always grumpy, sat in her chair and didn't move if she didn't have to.  She sold fruit & veg, tinned food, loose dog biscuits, cold meats that she'd slice.  I remember being sent to Bennetts for a quarter of corned beef for 1s 6d.   I'd always get a threepenny apple on the way to school until she told me it was now threepence h'penny and that was the end of my apple a day!.  On the other side with the bus stop outside was a shop that sold paraffin - I had to go with a small can & get it filled for our heaters in the hall & bathroom, pots & pans etc I guess a hardware store.  Further up was the chippy and then on the corner of Middle St was a sweet shop with a very nice lady that ran the shop.  I remember one day whilst off to Bennetts a man on a cycle was knocked off his bike by a lorry, run over & killed.  I was told to stay away so I can only imagine the scene except there was an awful lot of sand spread on the road. 

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  8. On 3/30/2022 at 8:26 PM, mary1947 said:

     When we were training to Razor cut (ladies) we all so used a cut throat razor but we had to pratice on blownup ballons. At the end of the day, the tutor would always have to order some more ballons for the next session. 

    Prendeds theres a name you can't forget they had about  8 salon's at the time there was also Stanley Dennis who allso had about the same number of  salons. Can you remember the shop above The Talbot /Yates/Slug & Lettce it had scissors that permantley would keep swinging. This was Stanley Barber's  and then there was Clarks school of Hairdressing who would give you 6 month's training then claim you were a quilified stylist, at a cost of £500 which was a lot of money at the time. How can you train to be a qulified atylist in 6 months when it used to take normal stylist 5 years to become qulified 

     I always went to Clarks to get my hair trimmed.  I was in awe of the lady that cut it she had very long brown hair that she swished from side to side as she was cutting.  That did it for me I wanted to go there and train when I left school.  Unfortunately my mum was a widow by then & couldn't afford the £500 fee so I never got to be a hairdresser as being stubborn if I couldn't go there I was going to be a florist instead :crazy: 

  9. I first heard this played one Friday night in The Fountain pub in Nottm town centre can't remember the name of the area but it was a bit further down and on the other side of the walk from the clothes shop Wardrobe and a bit further along on the corner was the clothes shop Birdcage (another of my haunts!).  I was with a friend & asked if she knew what it was as I luved it!   It took me yonks to find out the song title & that it was The Elgins singing it - still luv it today.

     

     

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  10. On 8/8/2021 at 3:11 PM, Jill Sparrow said:

    Are you thinking of Henry's?  It wasn't there for very long. Built more or less on the site of my mum's favourite coffee shop which was a glorious building that should never have been destroyed. THE ORIENTAL.

     

    Henry's later became Smith's, I believe, before they moved further down.

    Yes, that's the one - thanks.

  11. 18 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:

    I can remember Boots when they were on Wheeler Gate. Quite a small shop.  Also Henry's, Richard Shops, etc, but I can't recall an eaterie at street level other than The Pizza Place below Sissons.

    I remember Boots cos as daft as it sounds I remember the big brass buttons all over the glass doors!  Whilst I'm at it what was the large store a bit further down from Boots it had household linens etc on the ground floor and downstairs was ladies clothing possibly other things down there.  Don't know if there was a first floor.  It may have been alongside Chelsea Girl?

  12. 18 hours ago, Cliff Ton said:

     

    What years are you referring to ?  I walked up that stretch of Wheeler Gate many times over the years (to and from Broad Marsh bus station) and don't remember a Wimpey there. Could it have been another brand of burger ?

    1972/1973 but you could be correct in that it might have been a burger bar but not a Wimpy - I really can't remember.

  13. When I used to go with my BILs father and his dog to collect golf balls from the golf course at Bulwell I'm sure we walked by some nissen huts justs before entering the golf course but I of course may be wrong it was a very long time ago and I was a small child.

  14. On 8/5/2021 at 8:14 PM, Cliff Ton said:

     

    The Wimpey near there was half way up St James Street, on the corner with Maid Marian Way. If you scroll back in this thread there are several photos of it.

    I've looked at the photos and have obviously got my bearings wrong as that's not the one.  I would have sworn it was opposite Boots the Chemist on Wheeler Gate with Sisson & Parker a bit further down.  I will do some head scratching and try to remember.