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I’m about to cheer on Oxford in the Boat Race. The captain of the crew, Tobias Schroder, is a Mapperley Park neighbour of ours!
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I remember, at the age of ten or eleven, a couple of us hired a rowing boat at the Trent embankment and rowed up to the toll bridge and back. Our parents didn’t seem too worried about us doing it and there was no problem with hiring. How times have changed!
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Well not a very good day so far, could not sleep, dog tried went to bed 10 00pm woke about 2 00am wide awake with aching legs so up i got did a bit of excise. Trouble then I am so wide awake what do I do, so here I am at this silly time reading/posting on nottstalgia. Had to cancel my holiday yesterday as my mobility is getting a lot worse and as we were going on a river cruise I thought it was easyer to cancel than fall off the side of the boat.
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I have always gone to Bilborough Library, never been to the one in Nottingham city. My Dad used to take me there when he went and we were all encouraged to read. My dad had a lot of books, can remember reading Three Men & A Boat amongst others. We also had a lot of the classics like Black Beauty (which I didn’t like), Moby Dick and after a teacher at primary school (Miss Walton) read The Lion, Witch & The Wardrobe my Dad got us the full set. I go to the Bilborough Library now to borrow books, I have a kindle but it isn’t the same reading a book on that. I also attend a book club
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started my club life with the dungeon where great acts like steam packet( long john, rod stewart, Julie driscoll) lead me to see Jimmy Cliff ,..Jimmmy James and the great Jimmy Hendrix at the beachcomber. Friday and Sunday nights were spent in the Brit, Boat and the Union clubs at Trent bridge. We all use to gather outside Saxones and get the bus down Arkwright street, past Selectadisc .The pigalle, colemans, flying horse,bodega and many more places would take mer down the nostalgic route...i then left nottingham for a student life in Manchester where i worked some of the best clubs in England
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Went to Highfields Lido many times,l leaned to row a boat and play tennis there at the courts on University Blvd.
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Story of my life. Missed the boat again. Oh for a decent pork pie.
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Take care PP. You need to exercise a little slower and gentler now you are of a certain age. All the best Miduck it will soon be spring and you can get out on the reservoir in your little boat with your fishing rod , and dream of catching that big one. x
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Like many English children born and raised here in the uk I was sent to Sunday School, sang a hymns at morning school assembly and was taught to say prayers at night. I would say I was C of E if asked but I am 100% atheist having made that decision years ago. Religion has no place in my life at all. I love hearing Hymns but it’s not often I do. I like church architecture and visit churches quite frequently but would never attend a service. I’m happy to live and let live, enjoy your faith if that floats your boat but it’s all bunkum to me. I don’t mind Christmas but it’s getting together with f
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anyone remember the boat club, imperial hotel or the yorker mansfield rd? i used to go to them all, signs of a misspent youth.
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Just thinking of the days when I used to play wag from school and go down to the boatyard. There used to be a ferry service from there across the Trent especially for the yacht club members. I loved doing that little job. I remember one day, whilst showing off a little, I jumped off the boat to tie it up....missed my footing and went straight in the water. It was about a mile walk home, dripping wet through.. There was also a café there where some weeknights, someone would bring along their Dansette record player, others would bring their records and a good night was had by everyone. I remembe
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Skye Boat song and All for Maries wedding were two that drove me crackers... Linden Lea 175 bpm, andante con moto and Love me Tender much slower at 100 bpm... Impressed now aint yer... Heh, I looked it up...
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Ailments, Aches & Pains. (Let's hear them here)
colly0410 replied to FLY2's topic in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
Thanks Beekay, Brew, Catfan, DJ 360, Carni, MargieH & LizzieM..... LizzieM, I remembered to drink 3 glasses of water today, 2'nd session went OK. Got yabbering to some very friendly people, we're all in the same boat so to speak. Nurse said "you're 10% of the way through your treatment now" I never thought of it like that, it'll be 15% tomorrow... -
Hi all old punks out there. Did any of you go to the Sandpiper in the lacemarket ? I remember seeing Stiff Little Fingers (while standing next to John Peel shortly after Forest had knocked Liverpool out of the European cup as a lot people pointed out to him), also saw The Dammned & the UK Subs there. It was a wonderful sweaty little venue. Also saw The Rezillos there the night that they had performed "Top Of The Pops" on, surprise surprise, Top Of The Pops ! I remember the place being attacked by National Front neanderthals but the bouncers giving them a good kicking. I remember seeing the
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just read 'Chicken Town' a book based on Some Chicken, rekindled my interest, so I googled the name and came across this thread, my first punk gig was at the Sandpiper when Sham 69 played with Some Chicken in support, really got me into punk, went back to the Sandpiper many times and the Retford Porter (Slaughter) House, I even started a punk band, Verbal Warning, with Dave Smith who I worked with, a few years later, missing the boat entirely and not being able to play very well at all didn't get very far. I started up the band again in 2005 with a new line-up and we're still gigging and
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Lovely CT...........So many memories along there........... Thursday half day Dates.....early 60s. Playing Cricket with my sons......with tree as a wicket.......70s AND 80S Rowing down the river with the Girl of the moment.....60S Fishing with Uncles John and Jack..........50S Playing music on Portable record player with my mate 'Columbo'' 1960 Walking along there with Mam and Dad 50s Catching a Trolley bus....and a football bus........50s and 60s Walking hand in hand after summer time Pictures with a girl who was singing (loudly) songs from sound of mu
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I've got a portable fridge with dual power like that. We used to use it on a boat. I lent it to a friend for his foreign holiday and it was returned filled with bottles of wine!
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60's groups and Nottingham Venues
DJ360 replied to Ashley's topic in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.
Welcome Steve. I too, like Lizzie, spent a lot of time at the Boat Clubs and the Beachcomber. I never saw Roxy Music, because I'd left Nottm before they 'broke', but I was at school with Rick (Rik) Kenton, who played bass with them for a while. -
60's groups and Nottingham Venues
LizzieM replied to Ashley's topic in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.
Welcome SteveP! I spent a lot of time at The Dungeon, Beachcomber and Boat Clubs. Too much time really, I should have been at home revising for exams but n’er mind, I did OK anyway. My younger brother saw Black Sabbath at Arnold High School Youth Club in the late 60s, before they became big. It’s amazing to think how these performers who really make it big-time just start out in little local venues, the Jaybirds being a prime example! -
60's groups and Nottingham Venues
SteveP replied to Ashley's topic in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.
Also saw ground hogs at Nottm uni plus Roxy Music,T Rex,Sha Na Na Black Sabbath at tha Albert Hall,pretty sure Mott the Hoople wrecked the dressing rooms and that was that!. Don’t forget the boat club,saw some great bands there,one of the best was a band called Wild Turkey. A bit further afield,the great live band ever SAHB at the demons fort and AC/DC,Ian Dury and the blockheads at Derby Assembly Rooms. Fantastic nights -
These tax avoidance schemes don't normally bother me, if they are legal and people don't like it... change the law. Most of those mentioned will cheerfully admit and even boast of the clever ways they come up with to avoid tax. Vestey (Dewhurst Butchers) did the same years ago (they paid £10) so it's not exactly a new phenomenon. It does rather grate though when those who have pontificated against the practice turn hypocrite and take full advantage of the loophole. As for the pile of garbage they came out with by way of explanation, let's just say that I'm putting them in the
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I wonder if any remembers any of Zoot Money's bands playing at the Boat? The ones I'm interested in hearing about for a biography are the short-lived 1967/8 psychedelic band , Dantalian's Chariot who dressed all in while and had a super light show, and then in the early 70s ELLIS, where Steve Ellis was the singer. His Big Roll Band played there and at the Brit quite a few times in the early 60s. He also played there in January 1980 but under his own name, probably playing R&B again. Any memories gratefully received!
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So many of those guys are still around and still entertaining people. I think they can be more relaxed as they have nothing to prove. Somewhere back up thread there's a big list of bands which played the 'Boat'. I saw a lot of them. Also some of them such as the Clockwork Toys, Carl's Fables and Sons and Lovers and Pete and Billy Cambell and the Mighty Sparrows were local. We had them at the 360 Club too. And then there were the likes of 'Tiny Davis Souls A Go Go', who IIRC were from Sheffield, or was that Mickey's Monkeys?.. and the Mike Stuart Span. I think we also had all
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Bruce, I saw Zoot and his Big Roll Band at the Dungeon but not at the Boat Club. Two years ago we went to see him at The Jazz Cafe in Sandbanks, Dorset. He was there again this July, it’s a local venue for him as he’s from Bournemouth, but disappointingly we weren’t down there at the time this year. The evening two years ago was brilliant, a wonderful relaxed event during which we had a 3 course meal, a far cry from being crammed into the Dungeon in the mid 60s. I had quite a long chat with Zoot during the evening and he clearly remembers playing at the Dungeon and the Boat Club. A lov
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Look what I found. This is just a few of the many groups who have played the boat! over the years :D Just look at some of these names! :o To see other decades see WHOS PLAYED @ THE BOAT 1962 - 2003 Money couldn't buy such a line-up today. Together on a small stage in the corner of a Trentside rowing club, three giants of the British rock and blues scene - Gary Moore, Peter Green and Eric Clapton. The year was 1970, the date Sunday, July 5, the band was called Skid Row and the venue was the Nottingham Boat Club. Around 250 people were packed into the band room, the atmosphere was hot,
