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[carni 10,094]

We used to do the same. We would sit on the Kerb in Gedling and collect the Car Reg numbers in our little books. I had forgotton all about it until Lizzie said in #67. I remember learning the names of all the cars that past us by, and could recognise them by the mascot or badge on the bonnet.

Another one of those games that didn't cost a penny.

I can still name more cars from the 1950s than todays models.

We used to find fun in anything, I can't imagine seeing a group of children, sitting on the pavement today taking car numbers. As Melissa says "It could be against the law these days"!

[TBI 2,351]

Me and my mate used to sit on the entrance gates to the Embankment, collecting car numbers as they went through. We used to be in competition as to who could get the most, the loser buying the suckers. He was always winning, until I found out the crafty sod was making half of his up.

[benjamin1945 16,165]

Sorry TBI but i knew you always had the cash mate,

[TBI 2,351]

Yeah, but remember I got my own back and snitched to yer mam.

[Cliff Ton 10,470]

I use to collect car reg numbers. I thought I was the only person that did that

Count me in there as well.

Me and my mate used to sit on the entrance gates to the Embankment, collecting car numbers as they went through.

I used to sit, with various people, at the foot of this old oak tree near the entrance to Clifton Estate, collecting car numbers. That road is now a bit bigger (it's the newly-enlarged A453)

And you can also see the house where we lived.

[TBI 2,351]

Cliff, I think that tree would be close to where the bus-stop is now?

[Guest]

Nice photo Cliff,not living in uk any longer,i get sentimental looking at pictures from the past,or seeing Keoghs pub now- memories from that whole area come flooding back.

[Cliff Ton 10,470]

Cliff, I think that tree would be close to where the bus-stop is now?

Yes, I agree. The tree was just down (closer to Nottm) from the bus stop.

[TBI 2,351]

Apparently, when the Clifton estate was first being built in the late forties, the only bus for the new residents was the South Notts from Loughborough to Nottingham and back. It only stopped at the one place, the oak tree, and everyone had to walk from there.

[Cliff Ton 10,470]

True, my mum and dad used that bus. But in those early days the houses didn't extend much beyond what you can see in the photo, so there wasn't anyone who had a long walk. And right up to his later days, my dad always referred to those services as the "main road buses".

By the time the estate had expanded, the City Transport / South Notts / WBUDC buses were running up Farnborough Road and Southchurch Drive.

And very soon, of course, the residents will have the delights of the tram to amuse them.