Karlton 582 Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 Did Trumans have the longest bar in nottingham? And wasn't it once said you needed the lonsdale belt to go in the grosvenor pub Arnold? a bit of a rough house. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 1970 Rear of the Talbot Inn, Nottingham Road, Mansfield. Shipstones PH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 http://www.nottinghampost.com/orders-local/story-27488000-detail/story.html Another nail in the coffin for your local. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Watch this space Lizzie....will keep you informed as I get to know more. http://www.nottinghampost.com/Nottingham-s-Mr-McDonald-s-lovin-wants-open/story-27708352-detail/story.htmlConfirmed Lizzie that it is a new McDonalds. 😦 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,514 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 In a few years time all the McDonalds will be turned into care homes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Never been in a McDonalds in my life And we even have three in Loughborough Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 In a few years time all the McDonalds will be turned into care homes. Or all care homes will be turned into McDonalds. At the moment they are both a growth industry; which one will run out of customers first? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Tastes change McDonalds could go the same way as Woolworth's or Blockbusters. We all get old if we live long enough. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Or all care homes will be turned into McDonalds. At the moment they are both a growth industry; which one will run out of customers first? McDonalds cater mainly for youngsters, a relatively limited age-group. The older generation is becoming an ever increasingly larger percentage of total population, so it's MaccyD's without a doubt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 # 101 If you mean the Grove in Daybrook Square then the answer is yes. My mothers uncle was 'pot-man' in there many years ago, he whacked a chap who then hit his head on the fireplace fender killing him. The uncle was charged with murder but was found not guilty. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 1990 we were looking a round Phoenix for a house. We nipped into a McDonalds in Sun City, a retirement community for the over 55's. Everyone in there was old, including the staff, everyone had an ice cream cone (the cheapest thing on the menu) and the bus boy was well into his 80's. Never forgotten that Maccy D's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Just for interest's sake I went into the first McDonalds to open in Soviet Union. It still smells the same as every other MaccyDs everywhere. Horrible overcooked oil smell. However, a great place to have a pee if you needed one. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Aaah, the McPee. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,326 Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 On ‎3‎/‎22‎/‎2015 at 7:45 AM, TBI said: Was the location of the Black Horse (pic 24) ever determined? Whilst looking for something else came across this  It says that it was at the corner of Hempshill Lane and Coventry Rd Bulwell and demolished in the 1950's Picture source Eddie Dexter   1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 161 Coventry road still there in 1953 Â 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoffrey Dennis 124 Posted February 12, 2019 Report Share Posted February 12, 2019 When I was in my twenties,apart from holding down a full time job on Colwick Industrial Estate,I also worked part time at the Laughing Cavalier in Bestwood Park. My route from Hucknall took me under the railway bridge on Hucknall Road at the end of Bulwell Golf Course.On starting work at the pub I was riding a solo Francis Barnett motor bike which obviously fitted under the railway bridge easily. I later graduated to a motor bike combination and when I approached the bridge on that for the first time I had a sudden fear that me, the bike and the side car were too wide to fit through and slowed down to walking pace. Irrational I know but the fear was very real at the time. One evening later on I was on my way to work at the pub and passed a solitary car parked on my side of Arnold Road with the Green Barrel sited on the other side.Hanging off the car was an old fashioned paraffin lamp, the likes of which you would see around holes in the road.As I approached the the parked car on my way home on an otherwise empty road I saw a car in the distance coming towards me. When I was about 100 yds away the oncoming car hit the parked car ,veered across the road and disappeared down an embankment.Fearing the worse ,I parked the bike and made my way to the spot at which the car had vanished, looked down and crawling towards me on his hands and knees was the obviously inebriated driver. The noise of the crash had awakened several neighbours who were converging on the scene. Realising the driver was in safe hands and knowing I had been drinking i opted for a swift getaway. Years later I was relating the story to a sister in law who told me the runaway car had come to a stop embedded in her parents garden wall.I under stand neither of the pubs are around anymore but have happy memories of my time at the the Cavalier.  1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,874 Posted February 12, 2019 Report Share Posted February 12, 2019 I used to go in the Cavalier early seventies, think the Landlord was Stan, Hilda and Vic worked behind the bar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoffrey Dennis 124 Posted February 12, 2019 Report Share Posted February 12, 2019 The Landlord of the Cavalier was an ex fairgound boxer called Barry Leanord who despite the air of menace that always seemed to surround him I liked and got on well with He was the Landlord of the Black Swan , which had a Boxing Ring on the premises, before he was given the Cavalier.I got on alright with the locals but kept my head down when ever any of Barry`s barrow boy mates visited with particular respect for their wives.One of the barrow boys arrived one evening with a pot cast on his leg but still managed to fall out with somebody and kick him down the pub steps.Barry insisted I accompany him on nights out visiting local pubs He drove between the pubs and on one occasion his bonnet blew up totally obscuring his vision.Not panicking,Barry indicated, drew the car smoothly to a halt,.got out slammed down his bonnet, winked and set off again One of Barry`s fellow Landlords had put a relation in charge while he went on his holidays. The relative put too much waste back into the mild and ruined a significant amount of beer. I was sent down into the cellar, tapped and spiled a new barrel of mild, ran some of good mild into a stainless steel bucket, poured some of the bad mild in, stirred the mixture, tasted it, put the suction pipe in and told Barry to start filling glasses . By the end of the night and having tasted every bucket I was well on the way but all the bad mild had gone Needless to say I was far too gone to drive and slept it off on one of the bar sofas. .   1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoffrey Dennis 124 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 Sorry to hear that. As a Time Line, the song There coming to take me away, had been released, which Barry insisted on bellowing down my ear every time I met him. That song came out in 1966 and I would have left in 1968 when I got married.I never had reason to revisit the Cavalier but did hear that there had been problems resulting in Barry having to move out. Did the boxers actually fight each other or were they exhibition bouts and did they throw down challenges to the spectators? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoffrey Dennis 124 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 You are quite right Ian, there is a cult of people who are over reactionary and over sensitive.I was watching a news programme on the T V this week and a pair of ladies black shoes appeared. The design on the front of the shoe consisted of a pair of eyes and two red lips and my initial thoughts were how cute they looked. Boy how wrong was I, as a lady guest was at pains to point out. Apparently the motif was yet another insidious attempt to denigrate coloured people.Absolute rubbish. Did that  lady that day not reaiise that all she was doing was stoking the fires of racism.What would have been said had the shoes been white ? Not a lot I think. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,187 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 Apparently the shoe designer, singer Katie Perry  - no I've never heard of her either, did a whole range of similar shoes in various colours including both black and white. I think people are just going out of their way to look for offence these days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoffrey Dennis 124 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 I have heard of Katie Perry, nuna nuna ,but wouldn`t know her if I fell over her. You are right, a lot of "offensive" items are so trivial, they become inconsequential but on a slow news day are often given the publicity they do not deserve. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,629 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 She's a singer/song writer, was married to that cretin Russel Brand  Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,187 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 Well apparently she considers herself a shoe designer now including the offensive black shoe. Nobody seems to be offended by the similar white, red or yellow shoes yet! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,310 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 2 hours ago, philmayfield said:  I think people are just going out of their way to look for offence these days. Bring back Robertson's marmalade!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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