Mess 618 Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 It gets better. Elizabethan restaurant in colour! Just found this http://wayneburrowsnc.wordpress.com/lost-city/#jp-carousel-410 http://wayneburrowsnc.wordpress.com/lost-city/ There's some brilliant ads for Nottingham shops from the 60's on this site. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Mess posted this in the "Co-op" thread but it is so good and wide-ranging that I think it deserves a thread on its own, so I've separated it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 618 Posted February 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 http://wayneburrowsnc.wordpress.com/lost-city/#jp-carousel-702 3 Bedroom house in The Park for £5900! Happy days. Zoopla estimates 6 Lincoln Circus The Park at £255K. Good investment if you had the money in the 1960s. I didn't. I paid £5K for my first house in Long Eaton in 1974. Zoopla reckons it's worth about £100K now. The Estate Agents old saying Location, location, location springs to mind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 618 Posted February 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 http://wayneburrowsnc.wordpress.com/lost-city/#jp-carousel-687 The Grosvenor Mansfield Rd. The Berni upstairs was my first experience of "fine dining" lol My dad played dominos at The Grosvenor on Friday nights in the 50s, It was my local in the late 60s. I well remember standing in the courtyard one hot summers night in 1968 with a pint of warm Home Ales bitter in one hand and a Players No 6 fag in the other whilst the smell of grilled steak wafted out the upstairs windows and "Lady Willpower" by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap blared out the jukebox downstairs. I wasn't 18 until August but hell, how cool was I? Answer: not very, but I didn't know that then. A few years back my daughter's boyfriend at the time said he'd discovered an amazing pub not far from Trent Uni. I thought he was referring to The Peach Tree (now Langtry's) or even The Spread Eagle (gone now I think) but no, he was referring to The Grosvenor. I must call in next time I'm passing. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 The Grosvenor was the first place I took a young lady for a meal, would be mid 60's. First place I drank wine to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Bernis were great,,,then got greedy.Side salad became an extra,and the selection of cheeses!...oh there was a selection,but you were only allowed one of them. Then the Savoy opened and that was the Grosvenors monopoly gone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Had many a 5 course meal at the Savoy on Mansfield Rd, great value for money, it was too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Savoy was always duck in orange sauce for me Re 'Bernie Inns' From the sites Mess posted... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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