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Nice to see you posting again Ashley, I always enjoyed reading your posts.
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Nice to see you are still around Ashley, even if you hadn't posted as frequently as you used to. Someone who was a regular poster on this site a long time before I joined.
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Just remembered about Ashley's post! I'm going over this week to see if he is there! :D as lots has happened since 2010. I forgot all about your message about Ken Smith. thanks for that, I'll post on here how I get on lol
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Ashley Re: #11 As a member of Chard Street Kerbstone Bumpers and a pupil at Egypt Road Primary I well recall sneeking into the gasworks on Radford Road along with other gang members and climbing the framework of one of the gasometers and running around the top making one hell of a din. Crazy. And the water in the seals was b.... filthy. I also remember going down there with an old pram to buy coke. There was an old 'Puffing Billy down there if I recall correctly. PS. I also recall scrumping pears from your back garden. Would that be correct?
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What was this school (or schools) ?
parmitage replied to Cliff Ton's topic in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions
Yes Manvers was for boys and Pierepoint the girls. I was at Manvers for a short time in the 50s before moving to Trent Bridge and I lived on Handel Street and Ashley Street and walked to school. Best wishes Peter -
We were fortunate that my dad had a car even in the mid forties. He worked for the Ministry of Food and needed transport for his work, I think. This meant that we were able to have trips out on summer Sundays to places like Dovedale, Matlock Bath, Newstead Abbey, Chatsworth and occasionally Skegness. After about 1950, we went to Worksop most Sundays to visit my Grandma who was in a Nursing Home called Ashley Grove. Sometimes, if it was good weather, we'd stop off near Ollerton on the way, where we had a picnic and I could have a run around in the bracken with our dog. Sounds a bit boring
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I have bought my Granddaughter some Jacks and a Harmonica for a giggle from the sale in Laura Ashley. I couldn't resist it. Christmas wouldn't be the same without us all showing our skills on the Harmonica. I'll try and get first go. Good job Elf and Safety wont see us passing it round! Not quite Snobs but Jacks are better than nothing. She probably won't be bothered but I'm pretty sure us oldies will have a game and get her interested. Can't wait.Yahoo.
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Well done Ashley. How many olduns are going to die this winter because of selective environmental hysteria. Impose green taxes and save the planet.
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A gent Ashley!
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#60. Ashley. So who's paying for this little "shindig" then ?
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I was given a pedometer from the physio at the local hospital following a triple by-pass at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary earlier this year, I didn't use it at first, but reading this forum has done the trick and I am now a convert. As Babs and Ashley know, my walking was a little laboured at the Skegness Rockers Reunion this year. Now I am walking better I have decided to start using it. Yesterday I did 4100, not very much, but about half of it included carrying a telescope and tripod in a force seven wind, (it's the bird migration season up here in Shetland).
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Claremont Bilateral/secondary modern
SPIKEISLAND9 replied to Craig Strongman's topic in Claremont Bilateral/Secondary Modern
Ard Dunby #23 Good post mate. A nasty cane that of Barnett`s. His office and vicinity always smelt of TCP to me. In later years I realised he was probably on the brandy. Sammy Salter`s pocket antics were widely observed, but I thought he was an excellent English and History teacher. Many of the others you mention were there during my time. Ashley #36 Yep! In our day it wasn`t used for any education, just school meals. Very plain and basic but y` didn`t leave ote in them days! Occasionally, salad cream was available, (`own brand` stuff by school meals svc.) It came in ex-`steri -
Ashley was mentioning Satanic Majesties Request from 1967 some Bump ago,after the track sing this all together there is a 30 second instrumental track,which is a weird clanging musical affair. If you possess a vinyl copy..pop it on your turntable at 33/rpm place stylus on said track and slightly speed up lp with one finger..out of your speakers," we wish you a merry Xmas...." Years ago I bought a fan- club stones single called cosmic Christmas and this was on it!!
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That sounds expensive for a kids day out, Ashley.
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Old Roads around Basford
FLY2 replied to Ashley's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
Ashley, can you tell me the full title, then I can look in Vernon Rd or Bulwell Libraries. I tried PMing you, but the system says NO. -
Old Roads around Basford
Cliff Ton replied to Ashley's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
Going back to Ashley's original thread, this might be helpful for anyone who knows Basford today. This is the area around Church Street and Valley Road in the 1870s. The cemetery on the right is still there, although no longer in use. St Leodegarius church is still there, next to the old bridge over the railway. The ring road approximately follows the line of Fairfax Street which is below the gas holders. -
Well said Ashley,..........nice to know i'm not the only one. lol.
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I remember the district well I lived on Cambridge St...the children's home I always knew it as Hartley road home I used to go to school the of the owner the son was Ashley Evens I was in touch with him once on friends reunited...I remember getting sweets from broken broke jars from Barnett's factory left just inside the door...for the kids to take...I think lol...the boys brigade was the 25th I was a member the club was the Dame Agnes Mellers boys club play football many time on the 5 aside pitch at the back the first flood lite in the country I remember the baths with a plaque to Tommy Blowe
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#52 ashley...................with ref' to ach,ach, sites, in the fifties we played in/on some concrete bunkers adjacent to Henry whipple/Padstow school, which i'm sure would have been used as a 'Battery',and the school football pitch was known as the 'camp pitch' indicating a POW or 'Army' site.Ive never read or heard any direct info on this,wonder if anyone can come up with an old map?........it was actualy sited between the top of Gainsford cres.and a famous Copse called 'Bendigoes' ring,after the famous bare knuckle fighter.
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See you at the Ship, Ashley.
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Sorry to read you have hurt yourself Ashley. Hope your leg is better in time for your trip to Skeg Ashley.
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Ouch! Hope your knee/foot gets better soon, Ashley.
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Nominate Rowland Emett for the next £20 note
The Engineer replied to The Engineer's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Just looked on the Bank of England website. The public can only nominate (it's not an election by poll). There's an advisory panel who will create a shortlist based on the contribution made by each nominee and the Governor of the Bank of England will choose the winner. There's some stiff competition already including: Augustus Pugin Alec Issigonis Alexander McQueen Alfred Hitchcock Beatrix Potter Capability Brown Charles Rennie MacIntosh Charlie Chaplin Clarice Cliff Colin Chapman David Lean Francis Bacon Frederick Henry Royce Gerry Anderson Isambard Kingdom Brunel John Cons -
Walking the old railway lines after closure.
Bilbraborn replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Compo got that book for my birthday a couple of years ago. Ashley, we walked the Thomas North railway also. I have done a lot of research into the railway and the mines it served. Very interesting topic. -
Ashley #143: There was a café on Ilkeston road that fitted the description you give of "the downstairs and kitchen of terraced houses on main roads". In 1974 or perhaps '75, I approached the owner of the Café ( I think it was called "The Shangri La" and asked if she would sell the illuminated sign. She wanted a small noticeboard for the wall outside, so in exchange for making one for her, she gave me the sign. I set it up in my bathroom, where it was the main source of lighting for many years afterwards.
