Minutiae - Bulwell Common and more
In this case I'm thinking of Bulwell Common and the finer details of how it has changed in my lifetime.
I drive past it pretty much everytime I'm home in Nottingham, but my how it has changed. The area from the Bestwood Estate End and as far as the Golf Club has always, in my lifetime, been pretty much a grassed area for Football and general recreation but there were no trees back in the 1950s. Now it seems to be lined with Birch trees and barricaded by large lumps of rock, no doubt
Ellisdon's, the joke manufacturers, used to sell the necessary kit for making exploding cigarettes. Basically what looked like a single toy pistol cap, tightly rolled up. You just pushed one into the end of a cigarette and waited for it to explode. Not very powerful thankfully. Much later I came across a different type.. Chinese manufacture I think.. Just a very tiny triangle of cardboard which was also pushed into the end of a cig. There was an outbreak of them when I workerd as a mechan