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With all the poverty around that we keep hearing about among the ordinary working ???! people,we can expect a quieter time around Bonfire Night this year as no one should be able to afford fireworks.
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It can be Quite lively round here with Bonfire night starting a week before the 5th and going on or a week after. It also coincides with The Diwali celebrations, Festival Of Lights, which start Sunday 3rd to Thursday the 7th. So we have plenty of fireworks going on, for about a fortnight, no use expecting sleep until well after 11pm. Back to living on a budget...lots of nice warming Jacket Potatoes,Hot Chestnuts, Hot Dogs and Burgers, all home made for economy, don't forget the Toffee Apples and Bonfire Toffee. All much nicer and cheaper home made.
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Remember what the day after Bonfire night was like in those pea souper days, what with the smog and the smoke from the bonfires, the air was thick, any one with chest problems like Asthma had a real struggle. On the walk to the bus stop for work the next morning , if you couldn't see the people in the smog, you knew they were there because of the little coughs coming from all directions. And still i would light up my Parky on the top deck of the bus.
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For us long dark nights are something we look forward to. They mean roaring log fires, lots of comfort food, preparing for Christmas and all the feel good factors it brings, family gatherings, and catching up on the indoor jobs, that you don't want to waste sunny days on......and I love the autumn colours that are on their way now and of course it's not just Christmas on its way, there is Hallowe'en (or Samhain for the pagans among us ) and Bonfire Night, and if you are lucky enough to live in Lincolnshire you have Mischievous Night to not look forward to!!!!
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8 Wigman Rd. That was nearly opposite Wellers or probably Chromoworks. Was it up an alleyway? I used to play around 'Tin Bridge' on Woodyard Lane. OOPs! I've just realised I can remember the dismal wail of the saws at Brown's Woodyard and that has been gone years. We used to slide down the bank on our backsides and get our trousers covered in dust. That earned me another clout off me mam. Then she got covered in a cloud of dust. There was a big house near where the canal used to cross Woodyard Lane. It had an orchard so we used to go and test the fruit. You know! Just to make s
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We used to collect our bonfire wood the same way and if we were lucky some times we would find a penny or two down the back of donated chairs, you would have thought we had found a fortune, off round the shop we would go for some dudoos. In the 50s, when we used to block Hardys Drive with our Bonfire, A Jumping Jack got stuck up my dads trouser leg He had a really bad burn.No one helped him because they thought he was joking.They were soon banned when Elf and Safety got started.
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At the bottom of Denton Street (opposite Douglas School) there was a piece of waste ground (had been a church there earlier, later made into a garden of rest)) where we kids from Denton, Kyam and Ronald Streets built our bonfire. A few weeks beforehand we little bands of scruffs with home-made trolleys, broken down prams and battered tansads (push chairs) roamed the cold streets, with holes in our shoes and red rimmed legs from our wellies, asking for old stuff, furniture, rags,,,anything. it was all piled high with a look-out posted just in case any other 'streets' came along and fired it.
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No idea of era you are talking of Tim but did you know Malcolm and Frank Winship at I think no.7 Premier Rd? was 1957 to about 1961, their father was manager of The Futurist cinema, nowt bonfire night wise but had lots of fun times at their house, model railways, experiments in making rockets, explosives etc!
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A group of us when were about 11 would meet up at a friend's house on Premier Road paround bonfire night and knock on doors in forest fields asking for old armchairs. If we got ones with castors we would race them down the pavements on Premier Road and then try and stop before going onto Gregory Boulevard! Once it got dark we would put the chairs on the bonfire
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1977, Rediffusion was run by a guy called Stan. He told me that he had replaced a manager who had been selling loads of bootlegs 'off the books'. Stan and the area manager had gone through the stock when he took over and made a massive bonfire of the records that were nothing to do with Rediffusion. He missed a few which he gave me, a white label of the Stones Live in Detroit and a Hamburg recording of the Beatles, again on white label.
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Out of the shoebox photos .
NewBasfordlad replied to DAVIDW's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Lets just say holidays in Cornwall, bonfire night bloody firework in combat jacket pocket, 4th troop, Sgts mess have you got me now. Its been a long time Ian a very long time, how you keeping mucka. Colin -
Our bonfire used to be built on the site that became the Nell Gwynne pub on Oxclose lane. It had a long alley skittles game out the back and was always a rough pub. That has now gone too. I recall an old lady complaining about the picture of Nell Gwynne on the pub sign. She said it was indecent and immoral. You could see just a nick of cleavage above the blouse!
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Well sorry to piss on your bonfire re 9/11 matey-boy, but there were no trucks in and out of the twin towers in the night, my very close mate was working there at the time and I'm pretty sure he'd have noticed something occurring (Double 'r' ?? ) By the way he was joint head of security, and night shift GM working for Dando/Mathieson securities. And the first he knew of it was a ruddy great bang as he was awoken from his bed when the first plane hit.
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Not me, but I recall near bonfire nite, peoplle leaving a lit penny banger in dog muck on the doorstep, knocking and running away.
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Sure did. Not only that was dragged up in the house with the marooney colour front, above the mini's left wing mirror. The shop was run by the Parry's, then next door were the Luptons, then us, then the Tootins. Advantage of the cobbled streets was that you could have a bonfire on November the 5th without melting the bitumen. One bonfire night it got a bit close to the Parry's shop and caused all their windows to crack. They weren't too impressed. The Luptons kept ferrets and used to throw an occasional rabbit over the back fence. Used to walk down Queens Drive, cross 'Apenny bridge, and then
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Bonfire night was a great time when I was a kid in Langar. Almost all the kids in the village got together a couple of weeks before bonfire night to build the bonfire on Earl Howe Cresent green, we got the wood from local farmers and from what we could find or beg around the village, A few days before bonfire night we would go around the village asking a penny for the guy, to collect money for fireworks which were brought from the village shop by one of the older boys. Even the village shop keeper got into the sprit of the night, when the fire was lit and the fireworks were setoff,, he woul
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We would build bonfires on waste land that had been bombed,but good job no one dared try and destroy it,we had a big hole in the middle our own little den,good job we were safe,never mind worrying about hedgehogs,we had kids in our bonfires,its amazing how we collected bonfire rubbish we had an old trolley,billy cart but we could carry settees old beds wardrobes infact anything we could cadge,including old tyres,great blaze,but loads of black smoke,cannot remember having many fireworks,just a couple of jumping jacks,that we jumped about with,elf n safety,no way
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Always loved The Horse and Groom, such a cosy pub. It's getting rare these days as it's one of the dwindling amount of pubs that hasn't resorted to knocking all the smaller rooms through into one big open-plan space and it's all the better for it. Linby looked beautiful at Christmas the way the village was lit up. I called in for a pint at The Horse and Groom and there was a lovely warming fire in the grate and an equally warm welcome. Smashing place. Been in and around Linby quite a bit over the years, have a regular walk that passes through Newstead Abbey and Linby from Papplewick, used to
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carolyne club used to be the original railway mans club opposit the top end debil st so many memories of that place in them days used to have a wall about 4 ft high in front of it next to the path i used to sit on it with my guy just before bonfire night asking for penny for the guy. also when the lads came of shift my sisters used to wait for them there we younger ones would hang about till one of them gave us a tanner for six penny mix then they would all disapear but we did not care we had got our chips now and once we ate them off we went home . i also broke my coller bone skididing o
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Love that smell too. Not so keen on the smell of my clothes and hair if iv been to somewhere were theyv had a bonfire though. Used to play out when i was a kid the next day, i remember we used to get the fireworks we'd find off the street and pretend to have our own bonfire night. Those where the days.
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I've been reading the posts on this topic and can't believe how fortunate you all were. I could envisage, as a child, peering through the window as I levered myself up the window sill and watching you all eating your food. I'd lick my lips and realise that if I wanted food then I'd have to go to the park. There, I'd compete with the pigeons for the scraps that were thrown down by bird lovers. I'm sat at my computer with tears rolling down my cheeks as I read Compo's post (#122) about him losing his legs. I had a younger brother, aged three, who disappeared one Bonfire Night and was neve found.
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Did the apple tree last week and I told it. "no apples next year & it will be bonfire time".
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In a way, im quite happy summer has gone.. I love autumn and winter! So many things happen in winter as apposed to the summer (Bonfire night, Halloween, Christmas...) My birthday is in a few days, but like every year, im more excited about Halloween! Anyone else prefer winter and/or have a favorite 'winter holiday' or a favorite thing about the colder months? Mine has got to be the fact i get to use my beautiful fire and i can snuggle with my daughter under a blanket!
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Jacky Pownall Second Hand Shop
Michael Booth replied to Compo's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
I've been following this thread regarding Jacky Pownall and was surprised that nobody mentioned the place he had on Meadow Lane. It was on the right hand side as you approached Sneinton Hermitage. I can remember going to a bonfire there when I was a kid. I also remember eating hot chestnuts for the first time and thinking how horrible they were. It must have been on a different night to our own bonfire which we had on wasteland on the corner of Moreland Street and Freeth Street. I've mentioned this on a past thread. When I was a teenager I used to go to the Locarno, sometimes at night and some
