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soon be bonfire night craig, am sure some "guy" will welcome them
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Netherfield
piggy and babs replied to mick2me's topic in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum
DEABILL ST AGAIN THE FOLLOWUP . NO ONE WAS QUITE A BIG HOUSE TO ME STOOD ON A TRIAGLE OF LAND ON THE CORNER OF DEABIL AND VICTORIA AND WAS ALWAYS PAINTED WHITE THE EXTENTION RIGHT ON THE CORNER ALTHOUGH ORRIGINALLY PART OF THE HOUSE WAS A BOOKIES SHOP PERHAPS THE FIRST LEGAL ONE IN NETHERFIELD BEFORE THIS I REMEMBER THERE WAS A MODLE RAILWAY IN THIS ROOM CARNT REMEMBER ANY CHILDREN IN THIS HOUSE AT THE TIME SO MUST HAVE BELONG TO THE MAN WHO LIVED AND I PRESUME OWNED THIS HOUSE MOST OF THE MEN WHO LIVED AT THIS END OF NETHERFIELD WORKED ON THE RAILWAY OR AT BOURNES TEXTILES LATER TO BECOM -
Good to hear. The Fab Two are very good! They sometimes play at The Lincolnshire Poacher on a Sunday night and always provide good entertainment. I liked the Bonfire night do's there as well, with the annual attempt at burning down the kid's play area at the back of the pub! On another note regarding pubs closing down I'm hearing that The Ram Inn at Redhill is closing though don't know how accurate this report is. It would be a shame but it's been an unlovely place for a while now. Extended and extended to try and cater for diners, it feels nothing like the old pub used to and is soulless an
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Another typical yank who wants to p155 on our bonfire !!.........LOL You'll be telling me next there's no Santa Clause either!!!
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Used to get a blown up lorry inter-tube from Chettles yard carry it all the way to Bobbermill about 10 of you would travel down the river leen when you got out you had blood sucking lechers stuck to you legs which you had to burn off. Build a bonfire on bakkies in September then live in it until Bonfire night ! Go out @ 8 in the morning and not return until 10 @ night , and your Mam & Dad never asked where you had been , and you where only 6 !
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Around bonfire night we used to get tuppenny bangers. If you added a short length of string to the blue paper you could light the string and leave the banger in somebody's front yard. It gave you plenty of time to be quite a safe distance away before the bang.
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We made 'bazookas near bonfire night, a piece of drainpipe packed at one end with rags and mud, and a lit "Air bomb" thrown down inside to stick in the mud, throw it up on your shoulder, point it at your mates and watch them scarper. It worked brilliant , untill I had a missfire and the 'bomb' went off in the pipe !!!! my ears are still ringing !!! Dobby off ground, dobby statues, dobby ball, dobby just about bloody anything that came to mind really!! Then there was stringy lurgy , (Usually a playground game this one) Somebody was 'on' and had to catch another , when caught, they held hands
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Lol, not quite, but whilst I'm at it might as well finish it? So there we were, a knackered boat, and I still had to get it out the water and dispose of it! ££££££££,s Quite a crowd had assembled on the bridge watching all this! amongst such was a bloke who came into the marina, asked if it was scrap and on confirmation said he'd get it out FOC, He was a JCB driver working on the DIY depot then being built next to marina, IN he drove, parked up and put the back acter straight through the roof and started to lift, off came the roof and deck etc, followed by lots more as he smashed it all up fi
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Have had to start new topic as if I try to respond to existing I get pc fault message! The Valve Shop was started by present owner's late father in the late 1950's, I believe originally in a workshop back of his house on Egypt Road New Basford (we got loads of tv cabinets as bonfire rubbish every november) As far as I know his first shop (nothing like the modern one just sold s/h TV's) was other side of Radford Rd where the police station now stands and next door to jackie clayton's bike shop. The reel to reel video recorder was "invented" (or worked on, developed etc) on the top floor of Wyc
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Northgate New Basford
Ashley replied to Craig Strongman's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
Yes, heard it said John Keetley good enough to have turned pro, remember his capri scooter? on back of that one night and he hit a parked lorry on north gate, I landed in the back of it! defining moment in my life as next day couldn't walk and unable to meet up with my ex girlfriend to hopefully renew things, we went our seperate ways she marrying a mate of mine, years later we met up and found we could have made it together, aw well (boo hoo) Always seemed to get in trouble with them 2! Alan borrowed my 500 triumph, he hadn't passed his test etc and put it through a fence and we both got don -
What about delivery to the Council run Nov 5th Bonfire, for stuff that cant be got rid of otherwise?
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Loppylugs If I remember correctly, jumping jacks were the first to be banned, followed by those aeroplane thingies, because they were considered unpredictable. Bangers were banned a few years ago because they were dangerous, then I think it was airbombs. Remember those big old coloured matches, too dangerous, can't have them. All the old traditional brands like Standard from Huddersfield just import stuff from China these days, which is amusing because many of these are downright nasty things. I can see the sale of fireworks to the public being banned soon and only licensed events taking pl
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Hmm, I dropped a clanger with my "2nd bridge over Meadow Lane after the level crossing" it was the 3rd in later years after the GCR/GNR junction branch that led to weekday cross was added in the late 1890's and not on the earlier map I was looking at. I recall such as it was a narrow bridge, the other 2 being almost tunnels. That high level branch had started way before Meadow Lane and was on a viaduct all the way, virtually opposite the entrance to the LNWR depot there was a road through an arch in the viaduct (seen on the map) one foggy bonfire night post closure in the 1980's I liberated
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Sorry to P on your bonfire Pooh Bear , but anything that takes your mind off the road for even a split second is ruining your concentration !! I know where you're coming from though!!
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I worked for Barnetts and we sold Sweet peanuts (Although we didn't make them anymore , just bought in bulk and re packaged as ours!!!) Barnetts were still making (in 1990 any way) Lunjeelers Barnips Peardrops Chocolate Limes (My mum and dad met over a bag of Barnetts Chocolate Limes !!!) Acid drops Mixed Fruit drops and Bonfire toffee All the rest , Jelly Beans, Jelly Babies, Peanut Brittle, Winter mixture, Dolly Mixtures etc etc were bought in, in bulk , and repackaged as there own !!! I probably had 30 lines on the van , of which only 7 were Barnetts own. !!! There was one blo
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Northgate New Basford
gingernutman1 replied to Craig Strongman's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
Craig, its wonderful to have made contact with you after all these years ! yes it was Police pond at Dunkirk were we went fishing. My dad built the hidden bath in the kitchen, which was beneath a bath size kitchen worktop, he connected the taps to a gas copper which was sited in the cellar, very few people had a running bath in those days. Yes I can remember having to guard our bonfire, was it sited on the cobbled street outside your house? Can you remember going to Leno's cinema on saturday. Sorry to hear about your auntie Kath, but as -
I think us picking it up is nearly correct, but we wouldn't be picking it up if it wasn't promoted by our American owned (Or managed) supermarkets A couple of years back there were no shops specialising in "Holiday stuff" You know Haloween and Bonfire stuff in August , Christmas lights and stuff in June ,Easter stuff at Christmas Etc Etc Etc but there are now. It is gradually being forced upon us , as years go by more houses are covered in lights for Christmas (Some lazy beggars don't even take them back down!!)
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Northgate New Basford
Craig Strongman replied to Craig Strongman's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
So many people to answer....start with my old mate Brian, blimey mate, good to hear from you! What a great site this is! My mum still lives there on Northgate, but my Auntie Kath, who moved away and married a very rich man, died about 5 years ago. I remember coming over to your house, with the hidden bath near or in the kitchen, I was fascinated! Also baby sitting Hilary, and the things we used to get up to, your mum and dad leaving us a bottle of Shippos orangeade, and lemonade. Remember the Sundays we would go fishing, was it Police pond? Wow, so many memories, some more in a bit, I ha -
Northgate New Basford
Ashley replied to Craig Strongman's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
Hi Paulus, knew Potters Terrace well, 2 mates lived there, John Sheldon and John Stokes can't recall what numbers but 2nd and I think 6th on right facing terrace, John Stokes had twin sister Pat and younger one Sharon, doubt there in 1970 though? all those houses had outside toilets 1960ish. at end of terrace there was big drop onto back of ropers garage, some kid jumped it and went through ropers roof! The Laundrette you refer to used to be a s/h (junk) shop used to get loads of bonfire rubbish from there! later owner/renter of it started "The Northgate Group" not sure what they did but bec -
Yes I remember well the "Bonfire Wars" in the Meadows in the early 1960's. We lived on Pyatt Street then and all the big lads ( thats secondary school boys!) in the nearby steets got together to build a big bonfire on the "Rec" not far away. It was an annual thing in the days before the organized fireworks displays we see today and entire families would go down there on Bonfire Night to see the fire burn and also to let off fireworks. My last Meadows Bonfire night would prove to be in 1962 and I recall it well because when the older lads came calling for any old wood my dad decided it would b
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Hi Val, I grew up on Bramcote Hills estate from it's beginning and remember the Rose Grower very well. At the bottom of our road (Bankfield Drive, at the junction with Sandringham Drive) was a patch of wasteground which had been left for when the surrounding houses were built. It was where we kids played and, most memorably, was the site of our local bonfire on November 5th every year. The land was bought by Hardy Hansons and, despite local opposition (see here), the pub was eventually built. I can't remember which year it opened but it must have been around 1970(?). Bill was the landlord
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Well just to poo on your bonfire ,,I have googled it ,and guess what ???? Yup, the Romans introduced it !!
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Sherwood Station?
firbeck replied to mick2me's topic in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum
I think not, they're safe enough here, I'll leave it to them in my will if they're that keen, along with some of the more interesting stuff. Here's a sad story, my uncle was decommisioning Swithland Sidings Signal Box in the early 60's. He removed the big sign to give to me and stored it, but the powers that be found out about it, gave him a ticking off and sent me a bill, even though I had never seen the damn thing. They wanted £20, which was an impossible sum for a school kid and probably above the national weekly wage at the time. When I told them I couldn't afford it, they had the sign ch -
My mate used to be the architect for Shipstones, when it closed down, Greenalls took great delight in destroying everything. Fortunately he managed to save a few things, I have a Shipstones leather bound folder that I use for surveys, which by coincidence is sitting next to me, a set of huge transfers that were applied to their wagons and best of all a picture of the founder that used to hang in the boardroom. When Greene King shut down the lovely Ridleys Brewery near to us, they ripped out all the brewing equipment within days, the reason, our local authority were appalled at what at happene
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far as I am aware goldies DBD34 500 and DBD 32 350 at least came with clip ons? not sure as out of my league cashwise till mid 70's, classy looking but headlamp stuck a bit far out? plus poor mpc (miles to the clutch!) had to slip such such are RRT2 gearbox or rather gearing meant slipping clutch up to about 25mph (would do 60+ in first) I fitted mine with Bigger g/box sprocket I think from B33 which made it a lot better, yes remember both those 2 guys Pete Butler last time I saw him still had his, remember the other Butlers from lower down Northgate? them and Hollands (been trying to remembe
