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We live halfway up a hill so If I hang out of my bedroom window ; I get a free view of the W-ton firework display, usually held on the "West Park". we are not too bothered about "B-Night" anymore, compared with my memories of the night from my childhood and the garden bonfire parties we held for our own children, done in the old fashioned way, there is no comparison. Tonight we will turn the television sound up and hope it drowns the bangs and booms out that are going on around us. Must be gerrin ode? Just had a look on line and this year the event is held at W-ton Race Cou
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#26. The Amesbury Circus version of the chant, when out progging (collecting firewood for the bonfire). Bonfire night, the stars are bright, Three little angels dressed in white. One with a bayonet one with a gun, One with a bull-et up his bum.
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Street bonfires, oh yes. We had one on Tiisington Rd Forest Fields in the early fiftie's. Cobbled street, used to melt the tar in between. Potatoes, slightly burnt, bonfire toffee, squibs, penny bangers, roman candles, lovely jubbly. And that reminds me, Jubblies were great too, lasted ages. Happy Days!
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What is Bonfire Night, when you actually stop to think about it? The celebration of the activities of a bunch of terrorists and would-be regicides. Fair enough, James I wasn't much use as a king, allegedly suffered from overpowering BO, forced people into purchasing baronetcies in order to fund his own excesses and was labelled the wisest fool in Christendom but why we have to put defenceless pets and farm animals through the terror of explosions for weeks on end to 'celebrate' such a bunch of losers eludes me.
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I firmly believe that the annual Bonfire Night fiasco is on it;s way out, at least I sincerely hope so. This beats Christmas as a blown out of all proportion commercial exploitation fest. Most yobs nowaday's prefer to waste their money on fags, wacky bacca & dope ! Not waste on fireworks. The price nowaday's is getting out of their reach, thank god.
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# 9. I actually think that might work getting our dog used to the banging (which incidentally was going on tonight, 2 weeks before Bonfire Night, morons!) just played a few minutes of it while he sat on the sofa with us. He showed a little bit of nervousness but didn't panic. I'll keep trying it. Thanks RR.
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My first poem Bonfire Night 1964 K It’s Bonfire night the excitement grows The dark night creeps up over Annesley Rows We started collecting way back in September Our wood for the fire on the Fifth of November A branch form an Oak tree a Larch and a Birch Tarpaulin and tyres, a roof from a stable, A Gorse bush some plywood and next doors old table Don’t stack it early for someone to light You know what happened last Mischievous night Old clothes, string
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Ok silly question but years ago when we were kids, how did mum cook jacket spuds in the coals ? I'm sure we didn't use foil to wrap them in but can't remember. Did they just put them in the coals and dust off the ash when done ? I know we used to do them at bonfire night but for the life of me cannot remember how. When done in foil they always seem to be soft and steamed and not crispy crunchy skins.
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With bonfire night upon us, if you have cats or dogs this could get them used to fireworks .... blimey!
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#60 the paper shop on the corner of Lake St was Parkers. The sweet shop on Peveril St was Godwards. Johnny Parker and Beryl Godward were in our gang. Weeks before bonfire night we would raid the Gadd St mob for their bonfire rubbish. All the streets were cobbled and no one had a car. Opposite to Godwards sweet shop there was an air raid shelter with derelict houses behind.
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By far the best way to bake spuds is to put them, unwrapped, into a glowing wood fire. Let the fire burn down to a large pile of glowing embers and place the spuds into the red-hot ash. Put some more wood on and let it burn down. When it has burnt down, roughly half to three quarters of an hour, the spuds should be blackened on the outside and soft in the centre. Test them with a skewer before biting into them. The charcoal squeaks as you bite into it - yummy! Use thick skinned potatoes such as Arran Vicotry or Cara for this cooking method. With bonfire night coming up, now is a good time t
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I was looking in the loft recently for a lovely print I'd got of the Flying Scotsman steam train in LNER livery. I was intending getting it framed by the brilliant chap on Mapperley Top. Id searched high and low , then painfully remembered that when I left my ex and took the bare minimum, she had a ceremonial bonfire on the garden. Oh well !
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I always loved Goose fair & bonfire night better than Christmas, used to watch all the rides arriving along Radford Boulevard, then Monday, Tuesay, rape night Wednesday we would just hang around the rides getting moved on upto no good, Thursday for the opening with school (Sidney Pearson Hill) go again Thursday night & Friday afternoon when the school closed for goose fair, Friday night my sister would have to take me with one of her skinhead boyfriends, we would just hang around the rockets until he'd found someone to beat up, Saturday me Mam would take me & me brother the only ti
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Hi,Ayupmeducks. I remember Jennifer Agar. Got in touch with her on Friends Reunited a couple of years ago.I also remember the Lady Bay Cleaners but unfortunately not your mum. It's interesting you mention Mr Agar worked at Wollaton Colliery because I now live in Wollaton not far from where the colliery used to stand. I remember too going to the post office on bonfire night for fireworks. Also remember Mrs Pitts shop and Perrins the chemist across the road.
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old netherfield
zigzag replied to Doggieb's topic in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum
I thought the first post in this thread was great - really took me back to a very happy child hood in Cowlick, and then the follow ups with all the memories. I was born and lived on First Ave until mid 1960s. So sad to hear about Steve Maloney. Something that puzzling me....when I lived there the address was OLD Cowlick not just Cowlick as it is now.I wonder what happened to the "OLD"? Nipper - I recall the name from cricket on the rec, I was a lot younger than the rest of you and was always long stop. The shops were Mrs Deans and Parkinsons near church and the Allsops and ?? down Vale ro -
A bag of bonfire toffee and into the Gaumont.. I was easily pleased.
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Does he make bonfire toffee Dave?..used to love that.
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old netherfield
nippergrant replied to Doggieb's topic in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum
Hi Pait...I remember sledging down mile run but not sure where death run is. We to sledge down the path just over iron bridge colwick on the right that went up thru the woods to Oke dale rd at the top. Now that was very fast and twisty all the way down and you lucky to make all the way. As for bonfire night we all collected rubbish from any ware we could get it tree from the woods, old mattress, furniture nobody wanted, tyres, any other bonfire we could raid and made the biggest bonfire we could. We built our bonfire on the allotments at the end of the gardens were I was born and lived on vale -
Think I've written before here about wrapping a lump of plasticine around the base of a penny banger. Lighting it and when fizzing drop into the fish pond at the Memo gardens. Accompanying explosion underwater was sufficient to stun the goldfish, Said fishies would then float to the top allowing us to collect them in jam jars to take home. Remember raking through the still hot ashes of the bonfire the next morning looking for potatoes that had dropped in and never been recovered. Might be encased in half an inch of charcoal all round. But if big enough the centres were magnificent.
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Bonfire night was one of the highlights of my childhood. We lived on Goodall Street, Hyson Green and our bonfire was in the middle of the street. The week before we would collect all the stuff for burning which would include old settees and armchairs! The stuff was piled up on the pavement in front of number 13 and we had to guard it from the Brown Street gang who would try and get some of it. We had a huge bonfire on the night and would sit on the old settees and chairs until it was time to put them on the fire. (Health and Safety would have a field day today) All the street would
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Though I tell a white lie Fly...until last year ( recession) there was a bonfire helicopter.. €2000 fine!
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Country life suits me,the village is a mile down the road; I think it is the peace and quiet that is the key- and the privacy, you can blast John Mayall/have a smelly bonfire/and a good row!!...all unnoticed.
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On the corners of Cheltenham Street, opposite Steads, was Falconbridge's shop and on the other a store that used to sell penny drinks - big deal for me when I was a little lad - coloured water mainly. A couple of houses along was Charlie Rigley, the local milkman. He used to ladle the milk into grandma's jug. I remember one bonfire night, the fire was in the middle of the street, young chaps fetched a large container of old sump oil to pour on the fire before it was lit. When the fire was blazing away, people used to keep feeling the temperature of their windows. At the top of the street was P
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I did find out from an engineers answer to the same question a little earlier, his opinion to the question was banks and banks of HV SCR's. I'd hate to be around when just one of them failed, would make bonfire night look like a small BBQ...LOL SCR's were used for speed control of both Boulby's DC winding motors, both operated on 6000V DC. I see there are HV DC brushless motors available, but only low HP at the present time. I can see where the problem of synchronizing one countries frequency to another would be a problem, not quite as easy as bringing an alternator up to speed and syncing i
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Looking at the photograph in #4 I remember that the annual bonfire events was held in this area. I also remember some deep pits, I assume these were the remnants of the ack ack emplacement?
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