denshaw 2,871 Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 It's like waiting for Christmas. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 The police station Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted December 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 Just doing my regular check on this thread - has he spilled the ruddy beans yet? Maybe someone could count the most mentioned place? Winner gets a sandpaper anorak. Right - just off for a pint 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 When you've counted let us know? Looks like some areas Nottingham need to up there game & make some noise. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Maybe someone could count the most mentioned place? Winner gets a sandpaper anorak. Right - just off for a pint But then what we all think it was it might add up to the place you thought it was originally, and wasn't, and we still wouldn't know the roughest place, according to your nephew. Bleddy 'ell. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 #84 donkey hill, I ass ya,that dennis hehaw hehaw hehaw to have more sense Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Andy, have you taken your medication today ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Yes, and yours Catfan,I need it, that alke br might come on . 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted January 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 St Annes 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Not somewhere like Wollaton, West Bridgeford or Ravenshead is it? Got to be Woodthorpe... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Oy! - I was born there. Very respectable I am - just like Billy Bennett "Almost a gentleman!" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Broad Marsh, Narrow Marsh and the Meadows were known as the the worst slums in Europe up until the war, I remember my dad telling me stories about these places when I was a child growing up in Hucknall in the 50's..........He once walked down there with his dad as a lad in the 1920's , they were selling a bed to a poor family and they were accompanied by 6 coppers for their safety..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Oy! - I was born there. Very respectable I am - just like Billy Bennett "Almost a gentleman!" Only almost a gentleman !!!!........I know people who live in Woodthorpe, I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.....................Anyway, who the devil is Billy Bennett ?........Wouldn't be that comedian by any chance, from Glasgow, who died back in the 1940's ?........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yes Blondie - well Googled ! Or did you know already? I had a boss many years ago who would frequently burst out in a recitation of a few lines from Billy Bennett. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Don't know what Woodthorpe is like now, but it was a lovely place when I was growing up there. I'm really ashamed to say that when we were children, we believed that Arnold was not a nice place to go, and to a lesser extent, Sherwood. Mapperley was considered to be OK. I think I must have been a bit of a snob, I'm sad to say. BUT I'M NOT ANYMORE. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 My late wife used to think Netherfield was pretty bad. I'd already moved out to Gedling by the time I met her, but growing up there it never seemed bad to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 I've just remembered..... seeing as someone mentioned donkeys in a previous post. there used to be a donkey living in the front garden of one of the really big posh houses on Woodthorpe Drive in the late fifties. I was jealous cos I would have loved to own one. Don't think it was there for very long. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nah! Somebody from Netherfield probably probably pinched it. ;-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 #117 It was on holiday from Skegness Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Is that really true, Bubblewrap, or is it just your idea? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 I never knew the donkeys in Skeggy - I only knew the donkeys from Chapel- St - Leonard's where we went on holiday from 1946 - 1954. I used to pretend to help the donkey boy when I was about 9 or 10. Sad or what! Even sadder .... Get the violins out .... I've never been outside of the British Isles. People didn't really go abroad when I was young, then when they started to, we couldn't afford it. Now I just can't be bothered. I know this is nothing to do with the roughest areas of Nottingham so I'll shut up now! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 #120 Just my sense of humor 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 St Annes You all must have blinked and missed it. This must be THE roughest area FINALLY revealed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 You all must have blinked and missed it. This must be THE roughest area FINALLY revealed. Nah.... we'd just gi'n up waiting. Nowt we didn't already know anyway; even the rats go round in pairs up there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 #121theres nowt wrong with chapel and I love this country,nem mind what people say margieh ,our area was a bit rough but all areas holidayed at skeggy mablethorpe and the like 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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