BeestonMick 263 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Glasshouse Street was the place I started proper clubbing at "The Room At The Top", I can't remember the name of the pub it was above though. There was also a clinic for anti-social diseases in Glasshouse Street which I never got to visit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 White Hart? It was either called that then or it's called that now I think. When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about the VD Clinic! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Well Lizzie, I didn't know a lady would know of such a place. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Glasshouse Street was the place I started proper clubbing at "The Room At The Top", I can't remember the name of the pub it was above though. There was also a clinic for anti-social diseases in Glasshouse Street which I never got to visit. i did.......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Detty bugger. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I only knew where it was FLY !! I went to that 'Room at the Top' club too Mick. It had those ultraviolet lights that showed up dandruff, and in my case it made a crown I had on a tooth look a very different colour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I know Lizzie. I used to cross the road when I walked past. LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BeestonMick 263 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Yes, it was the White Hart. Quite a few of us ROF apprentices used to go there and the DJ, a black guy called Charlie Brown of all things, was a mate of one of them. It was a proper soul club. Do you remember the stabbings that went on there? It was a rough place I seem to remember. If someone asked you what car you drove and you said "I have an NSU", like I had, you'd get whisked off to the special clinic Not an anti-social disease!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I went there too. Yes the ultraviolet lights and the black curtains at the Windows. Charlie Brown also DJ 'd at The Beachcomber. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Charlie Brown......a legend Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 According to PTP, the former White Hart became "Owd Boots" in 1982, and is now a cafe. This is when it was Owd Boots. Foresters Arms on the left is now called New Foresters. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 #1. They were Perth House and Amberley House (or so I'm told!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I think I've mentioned this before in the annals but Glasshouse Street was once under road repair. It was students' 'Rag Week' and they phoned the police to say students were in disguise digging up the road, then 'phoned the road repairers and told them they were going to be raided by students disguised as policemen. I don't know what happened as a result. Do you still get a 'Rag Week'? They used to put out a magazine to mark the event but I don't recall its title. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Was it Ragmag. I remember sitting in the Toreador one Saturday afternoon at Rag Week, and several people were opening collection tins and paying for drinks in pennies, half pennies and three penny bits. I suppose that's one way of supplementing their grants. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 The Nottingham University student magazine was called 'Chickerah' and sometimes just, 'Chick'. #14 Must have been that thievin' lot from Nottingham Trent (my alma mater). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Chickerah, that's it. I believe the students concerned were Art students, they bought me an espresso so I turned a blind eye. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Big thread on Chick here.... http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11994 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,728 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I did my first DJ ing at the Room at the Top above the White Hart.. Would be Summer 1968 I think. We were just starting out using a pair of hacked about decks out of dansettes plonked in a chipboard box. We used Dave Cartwright's BEL guitar amp. For full range music it sounded horrible. We originally called ourselves Emfotheque. Cheesy eh? Came from EMF, as in electro motive force. Soon changed to The Magic Roundabout Disc Show. We didn't do much st the place but we learned and soon moved on to the 360 etc. I was djing the Hart one night when a bloke was shot outside the pub round the corner. Col. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I was working on Victoria centre early seventies, if we were working on Glasshouse street we used to shout to the ladies visiting the clinic and ask them how their day was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 i did.......... GNR Benjamin? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Now then ..... we don't want TOO MUCH INFORMATION! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Only our lot can remember a clap clinic with fondness! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 #6 Lizzie. The ultra violet lights would show your bra through your blouse if it was white. I found out the hard way. Lol Mind You, It was funny! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 And if you're drowning those puppies I'll have the one with the pink nose Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 BW. Underwear; Dandruff, Crowns, Dentures!!!! If there was such an expression as "Losing Your Street Cred" in those days, most of us would have lost it one way or another under the UV lighting. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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