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Having looked back at this thread and seen the post I made just over a year ago I am amazed how fast the year has gone. I have memories of the Broad Oak. The first was something I mentioned in another thread, about when I was taken there in my push chair and sat outside on the grass. That would have been about 1953. In the 1960s it was a place for a bit of under age drinking and socialising with friends. Last year I was working in Nottingham for a couple of days and I suggested to some friends that we go there for a meal. The response was a no as they said that these days it is noisy and
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Married and living with parents
trevorthegasman replied to Cliff Ton's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Here's a slightly different slant,my Grandad and Grandma lived next day to us in Atlas Terrace 25 & 27. in 1955 my grandma at the ripe old age of 55 had a blackout as she was lighting the gas oven and as they had no safety device on that oven sadly she died Bonfire night 1955, so I always remember(along with becoming a gasfitter). So the point is my Grandad moved in with us and slept in the same bedroom as me till I left home in 1965 and moved with my wife of now 50 years to Alexandra Park in a lovely 1st floor flat,I moved into that flat Goose Fair Thurs 1965 and my wife moved in 30t -
Save it up for bonfire night.
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The smell of bonfire night which was always in the air the next morning.........
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I'll tell you what really pees me off......Fizzing Christmas starting on bonfire night for Fecks sake!!!
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Ban bonfires - flora a fauna is more important!
barclaycon replied to BeestonMick's topic in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
I live in a suburban area in probably the most polluted city in England and yet people still insist on burning rubbish and garden waste. Despite the fact that we have blue bins and green bins that are collected every week. It seems that our Romanian and Polish friends have a culture of burning rubbish in their back gardens. I've complained several times to neighbours that we don't burn rubbish as a general rule and that the smoke they are generating is getting in peoples' washing on the line and into peoples' houses. The number of times I've opened my window or patio door to be greeted by -
Ban bonfires - flora a fauna is more important!
plantfit replied to BeestonMick's topic in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
I think it's because of the time of year , Hedgehogs are looking round for somewhere to snuggle down for the winter,and garden rubbish piles seem a good place for them,unfortunatley it's the time of the year when we humans tidy the garden up for winter ie: burning all the rubbish using bonfire night/nights as a good excuse to have a fire, I agree we should be on the lookout for any wildlife that could be using our gardens and outhouse buildings to over winter Rog -
Ban bonfires - flora a fauna is more important!
DJ360 replied to BeestonMick's topic in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
Whilst not in any way wishing to underplay the plight of the Hedgehog, I doubt that bonfires are a significant issue. Just not often enough and bonfires are far less common now than they were. Where I live, we haven't had a bonfire for years, yet the hedgehogs have continued to decrease in numbers. They were regulars in my garden, but not seen one for maybe 10 years. Used to see them wandering up the hedges, with little ones in tow.. but not for ages. Something else is afoot. Col -
I only 'high five' children when they have done something good (but I also say 'well done'). Don't think I ever use the word 'guys' for either male or female. The only Guy I refer to is the one that goes on a bonfire or one of my grandsons who is called Guy. I only VERY occasionally do 'group hugs' and never refer to the toilet as the bathroom. But there again, I'm old! I suppose now the world has got smaller, lots more things go into the mix... In 50 years or so, perhaps everyone will speak the same and do the same things? Pleased I won't be around to see it - I like individuality.
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Guest replied to MrGunjMan_'s topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Eileen, that would be the only bonfire I would seriously inhale!! -
The summer's have always been the same, hot days and rainy days, you only remember the nice days when you were young because that's when you went out and did things, if it rained you stayed in played games and then forgot about it afterwards..................Summer is definitely coming to an end, I did notice that the other day, no smells of BBQ's, then I had to put a cardi on, and the nights are drawing in too cos I had to put the lamps on earlier.................In a few weeks time we will get the smell of Autumn and the Goose Fair, then Hallowean, Bonfire Night and the next thing the shops
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And then of course there was 'Bonfire Night' when we had to start wearing a jumper.
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#1 Yes I remember the sand banks. My grandfather used to take me there with bucket and spade when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It was lots of fun. Next to the sand quarry area was a field where we used to look for signs of rabbits. Happy, sunny days! Then we would walk up into Strelley village and look at the Church and walk around what I thought was a little park but it was the grave yard. Lots of lovely flowers. I did not like it in the Church as the roof inside seemed very high and dark. Not pleasant! In later years I went up Sandy Lane (as we called it) with friends to collect wood fr
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Knew Brian and his elder Brother Paul(Smith) lived at the top of the crescent Does anybody remember the big bonfires that used to be built for bonfire night on the wasteland at New Bridge, all that wood just seemed to materialise out of nowhere.
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Thanks for the welcome Michael. Pity I didn't know about this site years ago, but never mind I've found it now. i will very much enjoy reading all the posts and subjects. Who knows, I may even find someone who remembers me. I was brought up on Churchfield Lane. i did Google the post code a couple of years ago and the house where I lived has been extended. I intend to drive round there when i come up in a few weeks time just to have a look. I also intend to drive down Knighton Avenue and round the bottom part and up Radford Grove Lane. The reason is that on V.E. day night there was a huge bo
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I walk some mornings, but most of my steps are just doing everyday stuff. My house is on 4 levels, so lots of stairs. The day I had my bonfire, I did 16,191 steps.
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Have a laugh with me TBI, these 5 streets were always a bit of a 'No Mans Land' but i do remember in the local elections it was Sneinton councillors who came canvassing. Len Pilsworth & Dickie Ashworth with blue streamers & Mrs Hyatt with red! Another conundrum was which school to go to Sneinton Boulevard or London Rd./Trent Bridge, I think it was about 60/40 in favour of Trent Bridge, brother Len & I went to "Boulo" while Sisters Eve & Sheila went London Rd.(infants) then Trent Bridge. Take care Michael you're trespassing if you claim that triangular bit of land, thats the '
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Have you got any idea when the photo (#90) was taken, Cliff Ton?. On your photo (#90, near top, right) you can see the triangular wasteland area I refered to in my reply to BilboroughShirley (#84) where we had the bonfire. The two areas of land above the railway line, near the bottom, was a scrapyard on Holme Street that was owned by Billy Watts. He lived in a house opposite his scrapyard.
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Mint imperials were nice- loose from the jar.. teacakes- merry maids from Watmoughs or the sweet shop next to the stamp shop on Wollaton st.bonfire toffee or nut brittle!!! Yum!!
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Much as I was loathe to comment further on this wonderful web page of Mikes due to the overbearing attitude of one of the moderators,a photo by Merthyr of Blue Bell Hill brought back a flood of happy childhood memories I had to comment further. The photo must have been taken from a room above a sweet and ice-cream shop. At the end of the war in about 1945,I bought my very first bar of Cadbury`s chocolate for 6 pence (a lot of cash in those days) together with a mandatory coupon. Next door on the corner of Crown St. and Blue Bell Hill was an off licence. Up the hill next door was `The H
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old netherfield
Piat replied to Doggieb's topic in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum
My brother pointed me in the direction of this website. I went to St Johns C of E on Vale Road, Colwick from 1953 to 1959 and then to Carlton le Willows. I distinctly remember the day planes collided, we were in the playground of the then St Johns school and watched bits of planes coming down. We used to live on Trent Hills Farm, next door to RAF Syreston, so I was always interested in planes. The area of scatter of the debris was quite large, bits dropped between a couple of houses on Vale Rd and the Coop somewhere near the top of Douglas Avenue across the railway line behind the school. Rumo- 171 replies
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Micheal, the bonfire toffee from whatmoughs was out of this world. You had to watch yer teeth- or you'd be paying a visit to "Mrs Mengle"of Clarendon St!!
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Born two days before bonfire night. Always got fireworks for me birthday. No wonder I'm so messed up! :-) Average in school, never at the top, never hit bottom. Late developer, I was. :-)) Have a really happy birthday Benjamin.
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Margie, thanks for putting me right about the Ovaltiney song. Something else to do with air raid shelters. Bonfire Night was not allowed during the war but the first one after the war saw an enormous Bonfire in the middle of the road just up from my house. Celebrations went on long after my bedtime but I was eventually tucked in. I went out the next morning to find the bonfire still smouldering and several kids saying that there was going to be another bonfire that night if we could find enough stuff to put on it. Then someone had an idea. All the folks round about brought out the wooden
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Roughest area in Nottingham?
WilliamsonMeadows replied to PeverilPeril's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
I moved to West Bridgford when I was around 5 or 6 (my old dear wanted me to go to a good school). However, after a few years we had to move back to the Meadows although I continued going to school in Bridgford. Due to the reputation of the Meadows I had mates that never wanted, or were allowed, to venture over the bridge to visit. I personally never found the Meadows that bad myself. But I guess it depends on what experiences you had when you were younger as to whether things shocked you. I thought nothing of local kids kicking in our garden fence every year to make a bonfire on the grass ar
