Martin Lock

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I'm only going back to the 1970s, but thinking about it my grandma and all other grandma's seemed to me to be of the Hilda Ogden type, big pointy glasses, silly lumpy hats and big broaches on their blue raincoats. But the thing is they were only 60 yrs old or so. I was only a youngster but to me they were old.

Coppers who we referred to as Tit-heads. Men of all ages smoking pipes. Football fans wearing knotted scarfs on their wrists. Mechanical mileometers on the front hub of bikes, click click click... Paint fumes with lead in (?) Asbestos buildings.

Plastic bread tags, various colours for different days and put on the brake cables of bikes. Plastic louvres for back windows of cars. STP stickers on cars. Stickers on back windows with 'ive been to...' Clutch/steering wheel locks. Repair men up telegraph poles. Wooden ladders. Old women who belong to The Blue Rinse Brigade.

Bliley. The car behind the blue Minx is a mk3 Cavalier, and also a mk2 Astra box van, which possibly makes this picture maybe just 10 years old? The body on the Minx looks extremely decent. Certainly a salvageable car, no?

And the house immediately right just after the bridge was where my friend David Torr lived. His family owned Torr's coaches which were stationed in netherfield. My school All Hallows always used them for weekly trips to Carlton le forum baths.

I'm currently using a Bang and Olufsen beocenter 9000 1980s I know, but surprised B and O havnt been mentioned.

I know, but couldn't be 4r5ed to trawl through everything. I'm only using a scrappy slow kindle.

Just curious as to anyone got a claim to fame to knowing a well known person from Nottingham. Whose friend or relative is the most well known, richest, or interesting?

Come on then. Any of you wore red braces carrying a filofax? Huge shoulder pads? Wasnt the Baltimore diner at riverside a popular place for such likes to meet?

Whilst I may only be a child of the 70's (just), I find it sad and surprised at how many of my schools and collages are no longer standing. All Hallows. Gelding. Still standing. Firbeck. Wollaton. Still standing. William Sharp. Bilborough. Replaced. Bilborough 6th form college. Replaced. Arnold and Carlton college. Gone. Basford college. Replaced. Even my old employers Robert Prettie. Olga Rd. Carlton Hill. Gone. Can I also include Balloon Wood flats ? I'm sure a lot of you who are older have many more buildings that you had

Passed my driving test in '87, I was living on Nuthall Rd but immediately found myself driving back to my old haunt of Bilborough every single night. Soon formed good friendships with kids the same age as me who had cars just as 'good' as mine. We probably got on everybody's nerves as we used to drive (sometimes fast) between Bracebridge shops and Cocko shops and everywhere in between, in convoys of 5 or more. The Milestone on Glaisdale was very popular with us all too, for a soft drink and a gathering. We also used to visit Eastwood, Ilson and Notts town centre on a friday/ sa

Good point. By the way, the residence on Bestwood rd near moor bridge, I'm a bit ignorant to the difference of gypsies/travellers or just Irish tradesmen living in parks, but what is the set up there? Especially the huge house that was built only a few years ago. Is everything legal there I wonder.

I see they've set up camp near me (j26 of the m1). It's all over the news. I've not really got an opinion on it, so long as they don't stray onto all the neighbouring estates. They do seem to find odd bits of land to park on until the police or council manage to get some court order to evict them. I'm sure everyone has had some sort of experience with these people in the past.

I was in the CTC (cycling) and had weekly meets there on a Wednesday during 83/84. I recall there being a full size snooker table somewhere in there.

I still have my handheld cb. A Harvard, with a 4ft telescopic aerial (although I always used the rubber duck) and it took 8 AA batteries plus 2 dummies! Used to ride around Bilborough using it. Nowadays I'd think twice of getting my mobile phone out around some of the streets!

From memory, my dad had an enscrowled name plate made. Reckoned one of the garages was absolutely choc full of plant pots when we moved in. Not sure if the house had a cellar but he said there was one that had been filled in. I'll ask him about it later in the week. One thing I do remember is our phone landline was a partyline. (Is that what they were called?) Sometimes you could pick the receiver up and hear certain neighbours in conversation on their phones. But they could hear me pick our phone up. Is that how they used to work??

2 memories of him. First was when he was walking down Wigman Rd in Bilborough and I was stood at my gate, he actually asked me where The Early Bird pub was. Second time was when I saw him stretched out in the back of a black and white Cortina cab going up Aspley Lane.

Worked on his parents bungalow in the 90s. Cass, his sister showed me in her garage Freddies white Rolls Royce silver shadow. I've heard its been bricked up in the garage now!

The house was painted all white (no bare brick back when I lived there), white mock Tudor black beams on the top half. My dad named it Wheatcroft after doing a bit of research (hope he was right after all this time!)

He was born in Sneinton I think, had a nursery in Gedling. Wheatcrofts garden centre is over West Bridgford / Ruddington way.

I lived in the old gatehouse bungalow on the corner of Llanberis Grove in the 80s. Always thought it was Mr Brough that lived in the big house at the top.

Lived in the flats (Newmill) in 81. I remember a giant of a man lived in a block near the Gondola. He was a proper 'greb'. Long hair tied with a band around his head. All the denim and sewn on badges. Stunk of greb oil too. Saw him run for a bus on slab square only to miss it. He shouted expletives at the top of his voice. Always thought he was an intimidating man, but probably cos I was so young.

Am I right in remembering the armed forces used to park all their military vehicles on wasteland at the bottom of Carlton Hill, opposite Carlton square? When I lived near Parks Corner I remember watching the convoy of tanks trundling past. About 1977/8.

I lived there 79 - 81. At number 3 there was a dear old lady living on her own.