Robbie 39 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 This is for you Margie 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,610 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Clever stuff, Robbie! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,172 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Margie,your face is familiar,how long have you lived Ely way? I worked the area alot late 70s and 80s,used to stay at the 'Lamb' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Beautiful photo of you and your Grandma Margie, You have certainly kept those lovely "Big Soft Eyes" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,610 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Thanks Carni - the eyes are supposed to be the 'window to the soul' aren't they. That must mean I'm a big softie (True, actually) 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,610 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Benjamin, we moved to Cottenham, a village near Ely in 1976 but we didn't go to Ely that often, as Cambridge was nearer. For the last 4 years we've lived in a village nearer to Ely so we go there more often than Cambridge now. Ely is nicer anyway, as Cambridge is too crowded and parking is very expensive. Ely's parking is free! So it's unlikely our paths ever crossed but who knows.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,172 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Lovely part of the country Margie,i used to canvass independant grocery stores ,Mace,Spar,Wavy line amongst others for the VG organisation,plus Security for Budgens,as well as staying in Ely another favourite place to stay was Downham Market. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,610 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Benjamin, East Anglia is OK I suppose, but I still yearn for hills and woods/forests. I always said I'd like to move back to Nottingham when we retired but I think what I'm probably wanting is just to go back in time! Anyway, we're needed here with the grandchildren for the next few years and we have lots of good friends where we live. I think I'll just have to be contented with holidays in the Midlands and North of England.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,172 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 IVE also lived in Norfolk and Cambs,............but theres no place like home is there Margie. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 I agree Margie- move back to Nottm in a pre 80's time warp!! That type of thought underpins what i 've been thinking a lot lately- i tend to live in the past because i'm not making new memories. I have had some great jobs and earnt really good money- giving most of it to Armitage Shanks!! But hey ho! begs the question-- is it a young persons world? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,610 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Ian, I certainly wouldn't like to be a young person in today's world! I think there's too much pressure on them in many cases.... Now a time-warp.... that sounds nice,although I'd want to take people I know back with me! And that wouldn't really work would it... I'm rambling now, so I'll shut up.... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 As a young person in today's world. You are completely right Margie. So much pressure from so many different sources. I'd love to have grown up in the 60s... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 It was indeed a great time to be a youngster, Melissa, but don't believe it was always a piece of cake. Life could be very, very tough then too. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,610 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 And Melissa, if you'd grown up in the 60s, just think how old you'd be now! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 MargieH re #98, My wife is exactly the same, she hates her photo being taken as she says it shows all her wrinkles ! I tell her she's still beautiful to me, wrinkles or not, but it doesn't make any difference. As for being stuck in a time warp, I feel like that over Nottm, I've been left just over 26 years so in my main memory I think of Nottm as it was prior and up till then, but when I return I'm hit with this partly alien place, crowded with people I don't know, humming with traffic and one way streets, I get lost on, and the city seems to have lost that special something, but maybe it's just me. Don't get me wrong I love Nottm and always will, it is my birthplace and we have considered coming back to finish our days, but just don't think i could fit in anymore, like my memories still feel of it all. Bit hard to explain. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,610 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Banjo, my thoughts almost exactly. But I have been left there even longer - we stopped coming up to Nottingham regularly when my elderly parents finally moved to live with us in East Anglia in 1981. We have visited Nottingham a few times since, to visit friends or just drop in as we were passing through but it certainly did feel different (of course). But to all the others who read this, I still want to come over to meet some of you sometime this year! 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Me to Margie: the regulars i see on this site are wonderful people and when i have a laugh with catfan it restores my faith in human nature!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Think I speak for everyone when I say we'd love to see you both at a meetup too! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Not been up long. Had a busy day so far, washed & dried the breakfast pots. Just put a small coat hook rail on the bedroom wall. Thats me for today ! Had a warning to pack up & rest, so I am ! Mrs Catfan is balancing precariously on a ladder chopping the Ivy back whats grown all up the side of the garage. Well she planted the bleddy stuff ! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 I think you summarized it pretty well, Banjo. I'm pretty sure most of us old ex-pats are living in a time warp re, Nottingham. We have some great memories, but they are of a place that no longer exists as we knew it in the fifties or sixties. Some folks say, "you can never go back." I think there is a lot of truth in that 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Same for me. I still think of Nottingham as I left it in 1966. I only went 70miles away, but due to having no transport and children on the scene quickly, we didn't visit home very much in the early years. In the meantime, whole areas from my family past were flattened from Mansfield Road To St Anneswell Rd. When we finally had a car and started to visit again more often,in the mid 70s It was like visiting an unknown City in places. Some buildings that were demolished actually disappeared in my memory as well. That is until I found Nottstalgia and started seeing the photo's and reading about them in peoples posts, bringing it all back to me. I couldn't get over the area of the Victoria Station and Hotel. All gone. But I am grateful for what is still there to bring back my Nottingham memories. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Has the Vic hotel gone??? Hard to imagine. The firm I apprenticed with did a lot of work there. Got to know it pretty well. What replaced it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted April 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 No loppylugs the Victoria Hotel is still there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Thanks, Dave. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Folks (just a brief one) when i visit Nottm, i always look above the ground floor at buildings. Shopfitters tear things down- but first and second floor of shops etc.. remain the same. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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