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Every year we used to build a bonfire on some waste land on Moreland St.off Meadow Lane. We used to make it with a den in the bottom of the bonfire so that you could crawl into the fairly big space. You could get about six kids in it and we used to go in and chat and sing songs. We were also guarding it from the Sneinton gang who sometimes tried to pinch stuff from our bonfire. If ever they came we would run to tell our older mates who would be playing football and they would sort them out. I can’t remember how old I was then but I must have been about eight. About two hundred yards away from
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Whereabouts did you have your bonfire in Arnold, Compo?
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During the 1950s and early 60s Bonfire night was always a great festival where I lived. The estate would have a communal bonfire and families would bring their fireworks to the party. We kids would spend weeks gathering stuff to burn and the build up was like that of Xmas. The odd banger would be saved "Until Xmas" but was always let off within a day or two of Bonfire night - the temptation being too great to resist.
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yes she was jackson as were a lot of the old community in our part of netherfield in them days most of them did not have much but would always be there to help and support each other in times of need , our bonfire nights were community events different people all made and gave or sold large amounts of mushy peas , hot dogs, jacket potatoes , ect for most of them had very little money and could not afford to give it away but sold it at cost price but took the time and trouble to make large amouts of the things they made my mum always made cakes pies and cornish pasties it woud take her 2or
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Bonfire Toffee without black treacle 'aint bonfire toffee....
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did your dad use black treacle for his bonfire toffee a lot of people did but i always prefeared mine liter but i have never been much of a toffee or caramel lover or fudge for that matter mrs cox on traffic terrace used to make loads and loads of different bonfire toffees and toffee apples and sell them out of her back window on bonfire night they did not have front doors in those house until the sixties when my sister lived in the same house after they had been renivated
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Brought back memories of bonfire night as a kid. Dad would make bonfire toffee [very dark] and peanut brittle. He'd toast the raw peanuts first under the grill, and it was my job to rub the skins off before he mixed them in with the 'brittle'..
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Re the bonfire........Did they once use to have a massive bonfire and fireworks display at Wollaton Park on Guy Fawkes Night? Remember going there when a young one with parents and other relatives. Recollect an embankment overlooking the fire and display, together with a stone wall and an old dry moat at the top of the embankment. Closest I can place that now is on PTP at the site of the 1970 Balloons Special.
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I'll ask it before someone else does, did you hear about the baker who got electrocuted? re the bonfire, bit near wollaton hall? only the other week some youths sent to prison for trying to start one at canning circus
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Autokarna and Evening Post Motor Show
radfordred replied to radfordred's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Fingers crossed that the weathers better than yesterday ! Tonight @ 10 the lighting of the Jubilee Diamond Bonfire Beacon. http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/pressarchive/index.aspx?articleid=18498 -
Had to make a trip to the store for milk used it all in the batter non left for a Cappo, At the store i saw Lyles Golden sypup & Black syrup also by Lyles thats what we made bonfire toffee out of ? Need a recipe ,Thought i would get one before i bought it this time. Mudgie you should know
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Scarlet fever was common in in 1950's, I remember Dr Keavney (Snr) saying "28 days isolation" when I got it, 4 weeks off school! but had to stay indoors, AND missed bonfire night, well I saw my pals light MY bonfire in MY garden, (Actually it persisted down real heavy all night so not that much of a miss,lol
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Anything for me , just so long as I'm with the wife and kids , setting off some left over rockets from bonfire night, and drinking a glass of champagne.
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Thanksgiving is something that did not arrive here yet, unlike Halloween! I spoke to a girl from Philadelphia at a meeting the other day. We discussed the possibility of it arriving here. "Only after you burn the effigy of a disliked person on a bonfire, on November 5th, President politician, what have you?" I said.
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Bit late to post this now but I hope you all enjoy just the same. I moved from Elstree Drive in Beechdale to Russell Road Forest Fields in the summer of 1961 ready to start at Forest Field Grammar School in the autumn. The Victorian terraces with outside toilets and cellars were quite a contrast to the 1930's semi I was used to in leafy Beechdale. I soon made friends and enjoyed living close to the Forest and Goose Fair. The most striking thing to me was the cobbled streets. I was very nervous about riding my bike over them but soon got used to it although my bum was sore for a while. It w
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The Rediffusion shop near the Odeon was managed in 1977 by a guy called Stan. He was brought in when the area manager discovered that the manager was selling as many bootlegs on his own account as Rediffusion stock and sacked him. They had a bonfire with hundreds of bootleg albums although Stan managed to hang onto a few. He gave me one of them, a live recording of The Stones in Detroit ( the gig where Jagger forgot what town they were in).
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I had a bonfire today and the smoke was 'puthering'. I haven't thought of that word in years, is it Nottinghamese?
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Northgate New Basford
Ashley replied to Craig Strongman's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
Ayeup John, I only remember that shop first as a s/h "junk" shop, (would now be termed house clearance) and later as start of "Northgate Wholesale", though must have come round your house a lot earlier? as recall Sharon being born, plus her Op. and of course our holiday at Mablethorpe As the former that shop was a great source of bonfire rubbish! -
Phil, in early 1980's a few young bikers started coming in fox & crown, you'll know some, Mick Sirs (Sears) Pero, Muz,? after pubs shut they and (then) us used to go up the "banks", the various cuttings around and behind the gpo depot, many a good night was had sat around a bonfire there, often passing out till daylight!
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I have googled Father John Tyson and British Pathe news as a item called Teddy boys help Church 1959 I can,t view on my iPad so will have a look later on the main computer I,m sure someone may be in this film I didn.t live in Nottingham till I was 10. Hubby lived on Lees Hill Street about 1959 ish can anyone remember on Bonfire night a big bonfire at the crossroads right in the middle of the road behind St Stephens Church
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Some names I recall there but mainly surnames, probably younger brothers etc I knew as 5 years younger? def the case with Jimmy Dalziel and Bruce Gardiner, the night Jimmy shot with that airgun I too got hit but obviously not so serious, re the axes saws etc I remember David Holland cutting down a massive poplar tree at back of Wombells factory, don't imagine you'll recall the 2 "garages" (former stables with hay loft that became our den above) attached at back of our house? they went up one bonfire night! Dad slept through it all in kitchen armchair! "Some" incident with gas lamp did happen a
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We weren't as daft as you are making out Ashley. I lived in Chard Street opposite Liddington Street until 1956 when I was 15. I have no recollection of the bonfire being built around the gas lamp, besides, that would have fetched the paint off. What I can declare is that the fire was deliberately built directly over the main water stop cock plate in the middle of the street junction so that the brigade couldn’t access it. Now that’s thinking. Seriously though, they were crazy days. No thoughts of danger or the possible consequences of our actions. In reality what happened was that the ‘Black H
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Snow so deep it came over the top of our wellingtons on the way to school. Schools that never shut because of the weather. Playing football and cricket on the road String Ticky, Tin Can Lukey. Playing on frozen canals when you could hear the ice creaking. Treeclimbing. Being taught at infant school by embittered spinsters who were left on the shelf after WW1.(I worked that out later) Carrying torches at night. Being able to see the stars at night because the street lights were so dim. Bonfire Night with absolutely no health and safety considerations. Smog.
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Never understand why pubs don't do hot peas and mint...Just a bain marie cooker on low.No brain power needed,and a HUGE profit.they don't stink the pub out either like some of the crap they serve up. My old man looked forward to Goose Fair for one reason...Mushy peas. By the way have you noticed the weather?....somebody told it Goose Fair was on it's way...same on bonfire night.Rain Rain Rain...
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Scarlet fever! was confined to the house for 28 days when I got it and not only missed bonfire night but also the rubbish collecting,
